In The Unlikely Event Of A Water Landing

In the fourth chapter of her book, Opening Skinner’s Box, Lauren Slater brings up two young psychologists, their experiments on a theory, and the gruesome murder that brought this theory to mind.

The case study begins for a 911 call for a 40 year old male who was assaulted and thrown from a rooftop and landed in a stairwell below. Upon arrival, the advanced life support crew was greeted by Alaska State Troopers who mentioned that the patient had been moved from the stairwell and placed in the snow for ease of access. EMS personnel immediately began to

People did not care enough to help the girl who was dying. When the killer was caught, he told the police that he “figured nobody would do anything thing to help”(Wainwright 2). People also did not care enough to even talk to the police after the murder. Lieutenant Jacobs said that “there are people over there who saw everything, and there hasn’t been a peep out of them yet” (Wainwright), which shows that people not only don’t care if someone is dying, but they also do not care if what they saw could help the police catch the killer of the woman. What the killer said to the police shows that he knows that this is what most people would do if faced with the same

Like most things for me, I begin with a story. I have intentionally omitted the names of the killers, this is the victims story not theirs. By all account’s Marjorie Hipperson was a striking young woman, in her early twenties working as a nurse in Hollywood, she had a prosperous future ahead of her. She was returning home on a Saturday evening in May of 1957 from her and her fiancée engagement party to prepare for their upcoming trip to Chicago. Marjorie and her soon to be husband planed to travel to his hometown for their wedding. She began that evening to pack for her journey by neatly arranging her clothes on her nightstand. When Marjorie failed to show for work the next morning or answer any phone calls, her fiancée went to apartment to check on her. Upon his arrival at her home, he discovered his would be bride’s naked lifeless body, her nightgown pulled over her shoulders, her pantyhose wrapped around her neck. At twenty-four years of Age Marjorie had been beaten, raped and strangled to death with her own clothing

An emergency call came in at 9:45 am made by Doug Greene who is a neighbor of the victim Anna Garcia claiming that he had not seen Anna Garcia since her normal morning walk at 6:30 am the previous morning and that the dog had been barking for 2 hours, he had also mentioned that Anna Garcia was wearing a sweater when he had seen her the previous morning while experiencing a 92 degree heat wave. Mr.Greene had called Anna’s telephone with no answer, and had also rang the doorbell with no answer. The EMT and local police had arrived to the scene at 9:56 am, needing to break the door down. EMS discovered Anna Garcia laying face down, dead.

In the Chapter “In the Unlikely Event of a Water Landing,” from the book Opening Skinner’s Box, by Lauren Slater. Slater describes a crime scene in which the witnesses didn’t do anything to help a woman that was being stabbed, she also tells us about a few experiments that were conducted in regards to how people would react when help is needed in certain situations, will they report the situation to anyone or just go about their business like nothing is going on. Calling for help or assisting someone in a time of need isn’t always something that people do as an immediate reaction, especially when there’s a crowd of people present.

In the article Gansberg said there were three attacked but there were two and in fact two people called the police. Once the ambulance arrived, Kitty was in the arms of a neighbor and friend Sophia Farrar. Farrar left her apartment to be with Kitty’s side with no idea whether it was safe or not. Lemman’s article did not serve to just criticize Gansberg but also added key details of the murder and witnesses like Joseph Fink and Karl Ross. Fink who worked in the apartment building across from Kitty saw the first attack and after watching Moseley flee, took a nap. Ross who was a friend and neighbor of Kitty’s was drunk that night. He heard the first attack did not help but opened his door a crack during the second attack and saw Moseley stab Kitty. Ross than made a few phone calls one to a friend who told him to stay out of it and then crawled across the roof into a friend’s apartment where he later called the police. The Kitty Genovese case helped to push the creation of 911, in 1964 to call the police in New York you had to use a specific number of each precinct, and your call was not always answered. Kitty’s case also sparked psychologist Bibb Latane and John Darley to create a new realm of research called the bystander

The crime had taken place on the outskirts of Winston Salem, North Carolina on August 10, 1984. Mrs. Sykes was late for work, which was not normal causing Mr. Dawson (former news editor of Sentinel) to go out looking for her. Being that she wasn’t there the police were called by Fred Flagler (papers managing editor) and her husband Mr. Sykes was notified. Around 1:55 pm that day the body of Mrs. Sykes was found a half block from the newspapers. There were stab wounds all over her body and she had also been raped. A pathologist at Chapel Hill said she was stabbed 16 times and the fatal blow consisted of a stab wound that went 5 inches deep piercing her heart.

On Tuesday October 4th, Andy Walker (16), bleed to death in the sidewalk in an alley. His death was specified at around quarter to 12 a.m. This situation was investigate even more further, and some results came to the officers of the community. After investigating, it is resulted that one of the Royals’ member was stabbed right right below the rib cage. There are ones that witnessed that he was alive for a while after he was stabbed, and died as the time passed. It is unknown who is the criminal in this case, however it is predicted that high chances one of the members of the “other gang” (name unknown), has stabbed the young royal. Angela Samson (19) has contacted the officers for emergency, however the young royal was found to be dead, covered

Another inaccurate crime case in 2013 was the beaten of Maurice Harris, a 57-year-old man. He had been punched in the head with a metal pipe, because of the severity of the beaten doctors had to “put in a breathing tube: they also diagnosed a spinal cord injury”. A week after Harries died. However, his death was not classified as homicide, but as “natural” according to the pathologist examination. The police report clearly impacted to the number of homicides that were reported for 2013 and, as with previous homicides, Harris’s case was never classified properly and criminals were never detained. The Chicago Magazine makes an extensive and exciting investigation to reveal to the public the reality behind these incidents that are not being included

Early the next morning of December 8th, the lifeless body of Debbie Carter was found strangled in her small apartment. The murder of Debbie Carter flipped this small, rural, bible-belt, town on its head. People were outraged, overwhelmed, and stunned that such a thing could happen in this town to a young, beautiful girl whom everyone had known. This gruesome act put enormous pressure on local law enforcement to find the atrocious criminal. Finger prints, hair, and blood spatter was carefully collected from the scene.

Upon D/CPL. Case’s arrival at the crime scene there is no documentation in the crime report that he had contact with the first responder, PFC Malcolm. The first responder should brief the primary investigator as it is the only opportunity for the next in command to obtain initial aspects of the crime scene prior to subsequent information (Technical Working Group on Crime Scene Investigation, 2000). Conversing with first responders is vital to providing information to substantiate investigative considerations and is a priority in any properly sanctioned investigative plan (Technical Working Group on Crime Scene Investigation, 2000). Prior to D/CPL. Case’s arrival, key pieces of evidence had already been collected despite the mild and clear weather conditions; the victim’s jacket and two neoprene skullcaps that had been tied together. D/CPL. Case was not able to conduct a walk-through of the crime scene with the individuals responsible for processing the scene because in the one hour and fifteen minutes it took D/CPL Case to

I never thought that I would be standing here today, looking at this blood bath, knowing that someone who was so close to me could do something like this. I have solved a lot of crimes in my day, I’ve seen things that most people should never see. But this I knew would stick with me for the rest of my life. I had first arrived at the scene of the crime before a one else. I was going to wait for backup, but I knew I had to do this alone. I got out of my patrol car and headed up the front porch steps with my gun drown. The front door was wide open. I walked inside and immediately saw a woman lying face down in her own blood. I stepped over here and continued investigating. I heard a gunshot come from upstairs and I quickly hid behind the stairwell.

Throughout life people face countless decisions; however, making the wrong choice may lead to a catastrophic consequence. As a woman was being brutally stabbed in Kew Gardens near Austin Street, numerous bystanders did not help or act upon calling the police. The choice of the bystanders to not phone the police lead to the death of an innocent woman. Had just one of the thirty-eight people called the police, that innocent woman would still have breath in her lungs. In the article “Thirty-Eight Who Saw Murder Didn’t Call the Police,” Martin Gansberg expresses his anger and disapproval toward those who left a poor woman to die. If the thirty-eight people took immediate action and did not make excuses, the precious life of Catherine Genovese would have been rescued.

It was not even a week afterwards until it was reported police witnessed a man, with a hatchet in hand, hack at his own flesh until he slowly bled to death. Then, as similar report came from just outside of Boise; after a young couple was smashed between a cliff face and a minivan, the body of a local school teacher was found in a pool of her own blood. Some sort of crimson mixture of vomit and blood encircled her lips and it seemed she tried to hang herself with her own intestines, but the incisions she created caused her to bleed out instead, just a few yards away from her minivan. Then came reports from Miami. Then, Chicago. Then, New York. Los Angeles. London. Capetown. Baghdad. Tokyo. Beijing. Hong Kong. Sydney. Singapore. Nairobi. Paris. Rome.