Maddie Fynn: A Case Study

Cassandra C. Cassandra was 17 when she was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma and refused treatment. The hospital told DCF that the mother was being irresponsible because the mother didn’t force her daughter to do chemotherapy when the hospital told her about it. The DCF responded by taking Cassandra and putting her in a foster home until she had a court date to determine if she was going back into her mother’s custody. At the hearing, the court ruled that she could go back to her mother’s house if she agreed to undergo chemotherapy while she was underage. After two days of the chemo she ran away from her house for several days to avoid going to chemotherapy. She came home because the media were making everyone think that her mom had killed her, when in reality Cassandra was staying at someone’s home. She was forced to take chemotherapy a week after she came back and after the treatment she “woke up in the recovery room with a port surgically placed in my chest” (Cassandra). During all of this time Cassandra was guarded 24/7, until she involuntarily went to chemotherapy,

Caylee Anthony’s murder was not a random act, but rather an exact plan that was put into place leading up to and after her death. When she disappeared in July 2008, Caylee Anthony was two years old and her mother, Casey Anthony, was an outgoing twenty-two year old. Due to Casey’s frequent partying and drinking, she claimed the identity of Caylee’s father was unknown, but he may have died in a car crash before Caylee’s birth. While the father of Caylee is unclear, Casey’s grandparents, George and Cindy Anthony, were highly involved in Caylee 's life. In Orlando, Florida, the Anthony family carried on their lives as normal until July 2008 when Cindy called 911 reporting ‘“I found out my granddaughter has been taken, she has been missing for a month’” (Escherich). On that hot summer day, the Anthony household was changed forever. Immediately, Casey Anthony was questioned for not reporting Caylee’s disappearance for over a

What was believed to be a kidnapping of 6-year-old, JonBenet Ramsey, ended up to be the discovery of her dead body by her father in the basement, after multiple hours of searching in Ramsey's house (Saferstein, 2015.) A major issue with the case was that the house was not sealed off, and multiple people, including their pastor, were able to go to and from with no complications (Saferstein, 2015.) In defense of the police team, in the beginning, they had believed it to be a kidnapping with a note and all, and in the end, it turned out to be a murder. Of course the media's eyes immediately turned to the parents but one of the theories is, "The current theory stands that an intruder, with possible paedophilic motives, was responsible for her death, and while this has become a widely accepted working theory, there are several pieces of evidence that simply don’t add up" (Team, 2016.) The ransom note was 2 and a half pages long, her body was found in the basement of the families home, the cause of death showed strangulation and a blow to the head an hour or so before, and also pineapple that she had eaten recently with a bowl that led to her brother's fingerprints were all clues that didn't add up (Team, 2016.)

Christine Jessop was a nine year old girl who after bring dropped off by the school bus at her home in Queensville decided to ride her bike to the park nearby to meet with her friends. After stopping to buy some gum at the local store she was last seen walking her bike up her driveway by her friend Kim Warren. She did not keep her appointment with her friend at the park, and would never be seen alive again (Anderson & Anderson, 2009). This small town instantly became involved in the search for the missing girl, but with very little evidence to go on time passed, and hope began to diminish for the safe return home of Jessop. On New Year’s Eve 1984, eighty-nine days after Jessop went missing, her body was found badly decomposed in a bush by Fred Patterson fifty-five kilometers from Queensville. An autopsy would later revival that she was raped and mutilated (Anderson & Anderson, 2009). The police still did not have a suspect in the case nor did they have any leads, but now that her body was found the police and the small town were the topic of media, increasing pressure

On the way home they were stopped by a mask man holding a gun. While Jacob’s brother and friend were released, Jacob was to remain with the man. The two other boys ran home, no arrest was ever made and Jacob was never seen again. Investigators learned soon after that unbeknownst to the community, sex offenders had been living in halfway houses around the neighborhood. Not many years after this event Stephanie Schmidt, a 19 year old college student was raped and murdered by a coworker whom she had no idea was a registered sex offender (“Parents For Megan’s Law”). Her family contributed to laws that would make communities more aware of sexual predators.

granddaughter had been missing for thirty-one days. Despite the jury’s ruling, there are too many

The Casey Anthony trial outraged the media and public when Casey Anthony was found not guilty on two counts of child neglect and murder. Casey Antony was put on trial on May 24th 2011 for the death of her daughter Caylee Anthony. From the beginning of the case all the facts seem to point to Casey Anthony, such as her lack of concern of her daughter’s whereabouts. Cindy Anthony made a call to law enforcement after picking up her car from a tow yard, which Cindy claimed reeked like human remains. The same car that Casey Anthony had abandoned in a parking lot after Caylee had been missing for about a month (Casey Anthony Biography, 2015). Caylee’s mother who failed to call police when her daughter went missing is a red flag.

Mrs. Andrea Yates murdered her five young children, aged 6 months to 7 years old. Since the birth of her fourth child she had had serious bouts with depression. She had suicidal tendencies that had earned her multiple stay at a hospital and was diagnosed with postpartum psychosis. She was on and off different anti-depressants and anti-psychotics, mutilated herself, stopped feeding her youngest child and was seeing a couple of psychiatrists. These therapists warned of Mrs. Yates not taking her prescriptions and being left alone with the children. One of her therapist recommended her needing constant supervision alone and definitely with her children. Her mother-in-law had been coming over after Mr. Yates left for work each morning. Her husband said that he was not aware of this and in the weeks leading up to the murders had insisted that the only way to cure his wife of this depression was to give her increasing responsibility for her children. He decided that his mother would come over in the mornings after giving Mrs. Yates an hour to be alone with them. On the morning of June 20, 2001during one of these hours, Mrs. Yates committed her crime.

My name is Kaitlyn Hoopingarner, and I am a senior at West High School. Sioux City, Iowa has been my home for my whole life. At West High, I am involved in multiple activities: varsity wrestling cheer, robotics, and theatre. In addition to my school activities, I also paint, crochet, and play video games. I plan to attend Iowa State University to major in Computer Science. My birthday is July 25th, and Christmas is December 25th; so, my birthday is "Christmas in

The Casey Anthony trial involves the death of her two year old daughter Caylee Anthony. Casey Anthony is accused of killing her daughter. Casey Anthony claims her two-year-old Caylee Anthony is missing On June 9, 2008 in Orange County, Florida. Anthony later tells police she dropped Caylee off at a babysitter's apartment. The name that Casey had given to the police officers was Zenaida Fernandez-Gonzalez. On June 16th 2008 was the last Caylee grandparents saw her alive. Casey didn’t give her parents any details about nothing. Later on in July of 2008 a post from the internet allowed Casey parent to locate the car which had been towed. There was a foul

Watching the Krista Harrison case was really hard for me to do, because I have two little girls of my own. However, the investigators took multiple necessary steps to find Krista’s killer and some steps were ignored. First when the witnesses describe the van to the investigators, there should have been a local search in that particular town and the town closest to it for all people who owns a van that was described to them. The town is not that huge so that could have narrowed down who they were looking for. Furthermore, the investigators did not do a good job of finding the killer of little Tina who had been murdered 8 months earlier, but because there were fibers found on Tina that were similar to those found on Krista opened the eyes to

On November 3, 1998, 8 year old Madison Clifton was reported missing from Jacksonville, Florida. Madison, better known as “Maddie” was once a young, sweet, innocent girl who had her whole life ahead of her. The immediate suspect was a neighbor who had been charged with two separate “sexual battery of a minor” offenses. Though both cases had been dropped in favor of the neighbor, he remained a sex offender under the law and thus a main suspect in the disappearance of young Maddie. With enough evidence, the neighbor was released as a suspect and the search for young Madison continued on. After about a week after Madison went missing, her search came to a tragic ending. Melissa Phillips, the mother of a boy named Joshua Phillips, found her body

Maddie had been feeling anxious and jumpy all week because it was the anniversary of her sister’s death. The anxiety and dark thoughts were increasing in both frequency and intensity.

Beep! Beep! Beep! My alarm went off. “Ugh,” I sighed in grief. Why did it have to be the end of the summer. The the time of year when I had to go back to the place I dreaded most in life, school. Everybody was always picking on me and all. After I got out of my deep thoughts, I went downstairs and ate my breakfast. Then, when I finished eating I went upstairs to do my morning routine. While I was doing my hair in the bathroom, I heard a knock at the door. Who could be knocking at the door this early in the morning, I asked myself. Then when I opened the door, my best friend, Layla embraced me with a warm hug. “Hey! Are you ready for school,” she said ecstatically. Oh I forgot to mention that me and Layla have known each other since 2nd grade, so we always do stuff together, including

Madeleine McCann, a helpless three year old girl, taken from her family’s holiday apartment in Portugal on May 3rd, 2007. It was late that evening, around 10:15, when Kate McCann, Madeleine’s mother, left a dinner with friends to go check on her sleeping children. Kate checked on Madeleine’s twin brothers first and found them fast asleep in their beds, but when she entered Madeleine’s room in was eerily quiet. She didn’t hear the steady breathing of her child or see a small little bump in the bed where Madeleine's small body should have been laying, instead she found jumbled blankets and a little dent from the child’s head in the pillow. Kate frantically rushed back to her husband and the others at the dinner party to inform them of Madeleine’s