Laci Peterson

Laci Peterson, a 27-year-old wife who was eight months pregnant, disappeared on December 24, 2002. When the body of the California woman and her unborn child were found four months later, her husband, Scott, was charged with two counts of murder. Detective Craig Grogan gave a sworn statement that he had probable cause to believe Mr. Peterson committed two counts of the crime of 187 Penal Code, homicide, on or about December 23 or 24 of 2002, in the county of Stanislaus. April 17, 2003 the Judge of the Superior Court in Stanislaus County, California issued a warrant for the arrest of Scott Lee Peterson. The court found that the District Attorney’s office did, in fact, have probable cause to bring Scott Peterson in. The Judge specifically

Scott Lee Peterson was once married to Lacy Peterson in California. They were expecting their first child together when Laci disappeared on December 24th, 2002, Laci was 8 months pregnant. Scott was not immediately named a suspect in Laci’s disappearance. Scott told detectives that he was out fishing that morning 90 miles from their Modesto home. The detectives were thrown off by how calm Scott was and Scott’s lack of questioning within the first few weeks of Laci being gone.

Christmas Eve of 2002, husband, Scott Peterson calls in his wife’s disappearance. His wife, Laci, was eight months pregnant. Four months after the disappearance, the remains of Laci and Conner were found a day apart washed up on the shore of Point Isabel State Park. The bodies were found a day apart. Scott was convicted of the murder of his wife and his unborn baby, but I am convinced that Scott should be walking the streets a free man. I believe he did not murder his expecting wife—his actions were justified by his shock, he was simply enjoying his last month of “non-daddy” freedom, and I think Scott was framed by Laci.

      Fifteen hundred miles away, in Portland, Oregon Brandon Roses ten is found guilty of murdering his five-year-old sister because he claimed that she was annoying him. Later investigators found out that Brandon’s father had told him that killing his sister was “OK”, because he was too young to be put in jail. Another investigation is currently under way (Edmonds). In Austin, Texas, two young men Efrain Perez and Raul Villareal were both seventeen in June of 1993. As part of Villareal’s gang initiation, the boys spent the evening in an open field drinking and fighting among

Pinned to card was a gold Correction Officer's Badge. After the investigation it was revealed that the badge was issued to a May Elaine Williams.

On January 16, 1991, respondent litigant, Jose Trinidad Loza, shot four individuals from the group of his better half, Dorothy Jackson. The casualties were shot in the head at short proximity while they dozed in their home in Middletown, Ohio. Loza shot Jackson's mom, Georgia Davis; her brother, Gary Mullins; and her two sisters, Cheryl (Mullins) Senteno and Jerri Luanna Jackson. Mullins passed on very quickly from his injury; Davis and Senteno survived a few hours before kicking the bucket. Jerri Jackson, six months pregnant at the season of the shooting, kicked the bucket on January 31, 1991.

The victim's name is Diane Marie Dalton Schofield, (Born Nov. 1, 1953), murdered July 4, 1975 in Des Moines, Iowa. Case # 1975-24048. Diane was a 21 year old mother of a five year old daughter, Shawna. Diane was bound, strangled, placed in the trunk of her car which was then driven to Warren’s Steakhouse. The motive was not believed to be robbery as her purse and jewelry were untouched.

Paul and Karla then raped her, as each videotaped the other. While this cruel act was taking place, Tammy choked on her own vomit and was declared dead on Christmas Eve. Her death was later ruled an accident . The following victim was 14-year-old Leslie Mahaffy from Burlington. Paul forcefully kidnapped her two weeks before his wedding in 1991, where she was raped and tortured for two days before she died of strangulation. The third and final victim was Kristen French, who was 15 when she was raped and recorded by Paul and Karla. Karla testified in court that she was forced to help Paul with “the threat of revealing her role in Tammy’s death” hanging over her head. According to Homolka, during those years, Paul regularly beat her, and one day after the extreme abuse she suffered, Karla went to the hospital. After her release from the hospital, she informed the police of his actions. Paul was then caught and charged with 43 accounts of sex-related offences (including his rapings as the Scarborough rapist and for the murders of Leslie Mahaffy and Kristen

Convicted rapist Phillip Craig Garrido was born in California on April 5, 1951. Phillip Kidnap 11 year old Jaycee Dugard on June 10, 1991, outside of her home in South Lake Tahoe in California. He kept her captive for 18 years, would constantly rape her. During these years, Garrido raped dugard repeatedly, fed her countless lies and impregnated her twice, Jaycee had two daughters with Garrido, giving birth to them at the ages of 14 and 17.

Reverend Dr. Lynda Marie Jordan is a native Bostonian, born in Roxbury Massachusetts. She is the third of less than fifteen women of African descent—to date— that has earned the Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degree in Chemistry, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). After receiving the Ph.D. degree, Dr. Jordan became a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institut Pasteur in Paris France, where she made substantial contributions towards the purification and characterization of key proteins associated with human inflammatory processes. Her pioneering work of identifying both the calcium-dependent and calcium-independent high molecular weight Human Placental Phospholipase A2 (PLA2) isoforms contributed to the groundwork for the advancements

14 year old Steven Truscott gave his classmate Lynne Harper a ride on his bicycle on June 9, 1959. Truscott had dropped her off before they parted ways. Lynne was reported missing later that night, and two days later, her body was found on a nearby farm. She was sexually assaulted and strangled to death. The community was horrified by what happened to this young girl and everyone was determined to find the killer. Immediately, investigators became fixated on Truscott as the prime suspect since he was the last person to see Lynne. They didn’t consider any other suspects, even though there was no physical evidence linking him to the murder. He was arrested 24 hours later, and stood trial as an adult. (Steven Truscott |

On the late evening of June 12th, 1994, a fellow Brentwood neighbor went to investigate why a nearby dog was constantly howling when they discovered the grisly murder scene(Geis & Bienen, 2016). The victims, 35-year-old Nicole Brown Simpson and 25-year-old Ronald Goldman, were violently stabbed to death with a knife in the walkway of Nicole’s home(Geis & Bienen, 2016). Nicole Brown Simpson was the

On the night of April 19th, 1989 in New York City’s Central Park there were a number of assaults and attacks happening. Trisha went out for her routine jog through Central Park. She did not make it home and was found by a police officer in a wooded area beaten almost to death (Innocent Project, 2016). There were about 30 teenagers out that night causing chaos in Central Park. The police had picked up Raymond Santana and many others that night from the streets. Raymond Santana was one of the five young men who later would falsely confess to the assault and rape of Trisha Meilli (Innocence Project, 2016). According to the Innocence Project (2016), Santana also gave a videotaped confession along with four of the other suspects. The other young men were Yusef Salaam, Kevin Richardson, Antron McCray, and Korey Wise. All of these men, including Santana, were convicted of the attacks (Innocence Project, 2016). However, Santana was a juvenile at the time and was sentenced to five to ten years. Then, in 2002 Matias Reyes, confessed to the attack on the Central Park jogger and admitted that he was alone in the act. DNA from Reyes was cross matched with DNA from the rape kit and the hairs found on the victim (Innocence Project, 2016). The five young men’s convictions were then overturned. Santana spent five years in prison for a crime that he falsely confessed

In the Scott & Laci Peterson case, Scott was found guilty of the murder of his wife Laci and unborn son Conner. Laci was eight months pregnant and throughout their marriage, Scott has had numerous affairs. His most recent one was with Amber Frey. 14 days before Laci’s disappearance, Scott had told Frey that this would be his first Christmas without her. On the day of December 24, 2002, Laci was reported missing from her home.

" On July 29, 1994, seven year old Megan Kanka, from Hamilton Township, New Jersey, was walking home after playing at a friends house. She had almost reached her front door when Jesse Timmendequas, 33, a landscaper who had lived across the street for a year invited her over to pet his new puppy ( Richard 1 )." " When Megan followed him inside, he led her to an upstairs bedroom, strangled her unconscious with his belt, raped her and then asphyxiated her to death with a plastic bag. Timmendequas then placed Megan’s body in a tool box, drove it in his pick-up truck to a near-by soccer field and dumped her body in some bushes ( Jerome 1 )." This, and the tragic murder of Amanda Wengert, was how the name was developed. But in my paper I did not discuss the murder and raping of Amanda Wengert.