Madeleine Mccannan Research Papers

Her child had been shot dead as she ran for her life. Luckily for her, the bullet didn’t go through the baby’s body. When she stopped where we stood, she sat on the ground and removed her child. It was a girl, and her eyes were still open, with an interrupted innocent smile on her

Best selling author, Michelle McNamara, wrote some of the greatest crime novels of our time, but few people knew about her secret life. Michelle had her own private drug den filled with a variety of prescription and illegal drugs.

“America’s Unknown Child” has been an unsolved and mysterious case for over 60 years of a young boy who was murdered and found inside of a cardboard box in the woods. Many detectives and investigators searched for any records and ran DNA analysis of the boy that could indicate who he was and where he came from. After over 60 years of conducted research and long investigations, there is only one possible solution to the tragic murder of this boy.

Over the years our country, Malaysia has been bombarded with abundance of missing children/ children abduction cases. A statistic released by police of Malaysia, stated that a total of 3223 children below 18 went missing between 2008 and April last year (2012). Of this figure, only about 1000 cases were solved.

Leanne Tiernan, a 16-year-old girl had been reported missing on November 26, 2000 in Leeds, West Yorkshire while she was walking back home after a day of Christmas shopping with her friend. Tiernan had taken a short cut home after a trip into the city and after departing ways with her friend, she was never heard from again. Police were desperate to locate the whereabouts of Tiernan as more than 1000 properties were searched, a 3 mile stretch of a canal was drained and garbage collections were stopped. Things were looking grim for the investigators as their only leads came from witnesses that said they saw a man walking his dog several times near the area where Tiernan had disappeared from. It wasn’t until nine months later, on August

In the year 2010, 26-year-old Kenzie Houk was found murdered in her bed. Kenzie was shot in her head. Kenzie was also eight months pregnant when she was murdered (nydailynews.com). The person who found the body was her 4-year-old daughter. When the police officers arrived at the scene, they searched to see if anybody broke into the house. The police officers were unable to find any force entry. The police officers even thought it was a possibility that Kenzie ex-boyfriend could of committed the murder, but they were unable to connect him to the murder. Eventually, the police officers found out that the murderer was none other then the 11-year-old Jordan Anthony Brown.

Hanneli ‘Hannah’ Pik-Goslar was much like other Jewish children in Germany in the 1930’s, she was shunned, not allowed to go to the movies or ice skate, and was forced to attend a special school. Most of Germany was segregated against the Jewish and against her family. Hannah was born in Germany in 1928 to Ruth Klee and Hans Goslar, by the time she’s 5 years old she and her parents are already on the run from Nazi’s. When she’s 12 her sister Gabi was born. She is already friends with Anne when she hears they’ve fled to Switzerland. This is not true as they have just started their two year hiding period in the Secret Annex. In 1942 Hannah’s mom dies in childbirth with a stillborn baby. While her dad managed to get passport, they were still arrested

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

Alex Sutherland age 13 months was found dead in his pushchair in front of a blazing gas fire his body charred and burned, he Had been dead for at least three days till he got found. He had faeces on his hands, legs and buggy, had severe nappy rash and had bruising on his head and body. His mother, Tracey Sutherland, 39, was later admitted neglect and was jailed for 27 months. Pauline Newman, the city council’s director of Children’s Services, said it was clear ‘there were areas where we could have done better’

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

In Jaycee’s situation, when she was kidnapped the media got involved and the family pleaded for their daughter back. But, after a long period of time hope was given up. Society comes together in the beginning of any accident, but as time goes on and the act is not fresh on people’s minds people forget. People forget that there are missing children. People forget that the mother of this child is still looking.

Two nine-year-old girls are abducted from a bus stop. Both are found dead in a drainage ditch the next day, disposed of less than 100 yards away. The press refers to the victims as “fallen little angels,” and the investigators do not conduct an investigation into the victims’ family histories, focusing instead on a possible serial

They are persons in your life that when you meet them, you wish to be with them forever, and that's what I used to feel with my big friend Fabiola Lizeth Bonilla. She was a really proud Honduran girl. Proud of their food and culture and lived there for 17 years, then she moved to the United States of America and got in love with the country. Fabiola was an amazing person, she didn't like to see someone sad, and if I'm not wrong, her favorite hobby was to make all her friends happy.

Eighteen-year-old American swimmer Katie Ledecky was just doing what she always does when she takes to the pool, she gave it her all; but giving her all lead to some extraordinary results at the FINA World Championships in Kazan, Russia this weekend. Ledecky walked away from the competition with five gold medals, a world record, and created a new thing, the “Ledecky Slam.”

The word “missing child” often calls to mind of tragic and frightening incident as it was always reported in the national news. Stories about missing children, especially those abducted, have always tugged at the heartstrings of all Malaysians. A total of 5996 children went missing from homes since 2004. Although most of them were found, 1904 still remain missing (Pakiam, 2007). Lately, all the Malaysians are in shock over the death of Nurin Jazlin Jazimin and had recalled the tragic that happened on Ang May Hong two decades ago that was once sent a shockwave throughout the country. The whole nation has now been brought together to face this issue with a more serious attitude. According to the Datuk Seri Mohamed Nazri Aziz, parents who