Margaret Hossack Trial

	What makes the Fall River murders so confusing is that the motive, the weapon, and the opportunity for such a crime are all absent. They found no money or jewelry missing, not even small amounts of change were taken in the daytime break-in at the Borden home a year earlier. The home had been locked up as usual, the maid Bridget Sullivan-an Irish immigrant, 26, that had been working at the household since 1889-was washing windows, and daughter Lizzie was inside the house reading a magazine. Even if both were involved for some reason in this shocking crime, what became of the blood so conspicuously missing from the bludgeoned corpses?

Sometime around midnight between Sunday, June 9, and Monday, June 10, 1912, a person or persons entered a modest house in Villisca, Iowa; and beat to death with an axe, eight people sleeping in the Moore household, including two adults and six children aged 5 through 12. The killings became known as the “Villisca Axe Murders,” and are easily the most notorious murders in Iowa history as this case still remains unsolved.

Summary of the Case: Shortly after 9 p.m. on 10/23/1984, 21-year-old Christopher Hanson and his 17-year-old girlfriend, Saladena Bishop, were sleeping in Hanson’s truck on Hobart Boulevard in Los Angeles, California, when a man leaning through the open passenger window awakened Bishop. A second man approached the driver’s window and demanded Hanson’s wallet, threatening death. The man then took Hanson’s wallet and stabbed him 10 times. Both men then walked away. Hanson, who had a disorder that prevented his blood from clotting, died at the scene. Police recovered several pieces of a broken knife, a hat and some palm prints. Christopher Hanson’s father, Arthur, who had

In January 1843 a man named Caden Stevens murdered an old man named George Thompson. My great great grandfather investigated this and got nothing. He doesn’t know how the old man was murdered, but he didn’t need to find out because the man plead guilty. The man plead guilty because he could hear the old man’s heartbeat in his head while the cops were talking to him. The man screamed “Why does it not stop!?” referring to the old man’s heartbeat. That’s our first clue if he was close enough to hear the old man’s heartbeat, that must mean the murder was done by hand or knife.

Criminal accusations generally travel seemingly quick especially when it involves one of your own North-West Mounted Police Officers. When the small town of Blaine Lake, Saskatchewan was presented with a murder investigation, rumors began to fly, and the newspapers had details. “SENSATIONAL MURDER CASE IS SUSPECTED. Police closely searching country near Borden ferry For Woman’s Body”(p.150).

Before the trial commenced, Mary was seen as an innocent woman who could, in no way have committed the crimes that were charged against her. The public believed she was wrongly accused because she was a Southern woman who was educated, in the upper class, a devoted mother, and a pious Catholic. Back in this time period, people did not believe that a woman could be a murderer or even involved in a plot to do so. Mary played the role of defenseless innocent woman perfectly during the trial as well. Throughout her trial, Surratt played the role of helpless southern woman who was just trying to provide for and protect her family from harm. However, her attempt to fool the public that there was no way she could have done these heinous crime, failed

You are investigating a murder that has occurred at the 1968 summer Olympics in Mexico. It was the 26th of October, and the Olympic games were coming to an end. That was also the day that a man named Edward Myles who was an American white male, came from Los Angeles to compete in the 800 meter dash was found dead in his hotel room. Edward has already competed in his sport and left with an awarding gold medal. His body was discovered at about 11pm by his roommate Peter Gellos who was a friend of Edwards and was competing in the same field. Edward’s whole body had many visible stabs, and he seemed to have a black eye. Edward’s most prized possession, his medal, was now missing from his nightstand. Prior to his death, Edward was seen downstairs

There are many infamous unsolved mysteries throughout time, and some investigations span decades. A few mysteries include D.B. Cooper, Jack the ripper, and the unknown assailant of J.F.K., but none of these mysteries compare to the mystery surrounding the Hagley Woods murder and the conspiracies surrounding it. The case of a woman who met a grisly demise has inspired the locals to persist in figuring out who killed the woman whose body was never claimed.

In late January 1915, on a cold and dreary night, a self-proclaimed serial killer waltzed right into the district attorney’s office to give his impossible tale of murder. Frederic Mors, a native of Austria, immigrated over to New York in early 1914 to practice medicine had just claimed to be a murderer, and his weapon

Anything could happen to anyone. The 1900’s starts off with the most famous mystery of the most famous killer and the most famous unsolved story of the early 1910’s and 20’s, the New Orleans axe murderer. No one knows how he or she got to New Orleans. Everyone just knows of his or her crime not his or her

One breezy fall afternoon, as fido and I were strolling down an ally. Fido leaped off the leash and rushed over to a pile of garbage behind a old rusty brown shed. I followed after him shocked by what I saw next. There lying in a hole that Fido had dug was a skull, collarbone, and pelvis of a human. I don't know what provoked Fido to dig a hole, he's a moose. I sure glad he did though. My next move was to call the police and explain the crime scene, then I started my work. My good friend Billy Bass said in an article, “Dead man talking”, “when you first start off, you want to look at that crime scene and say, ‘what does this scene tell me?’” The first thing I noticed was all the grass around the hole was dead, and the trash next to the bag seemed fairly fresh. The bones on the other hand looked like they were in fairly good shape. This told me the person who lives here didn't know the bones were there and these bones have been there for a while.

Good morning everyone, my name is Devin, and today I wanted to tell you the gruesome story of the Crawford family murders. On July 1st, 1970, in a quiet suburban neiboorhood of Melbourne, Australia, a man by the name of Elmer Crawford would brutally murder his wife and three children while they slept. According to a news article by Author Andrew Koubaridis, police alleged after bludgeoning his wife unconscious, Elmer Crawford then took a 50-foot electrical cord, crudely fastened with alligator clips, and attached the clips to his wife Therese’s ears, fatally electrocuting her. What happened next was truly disturbing and horrific, as Elmer Crawford then went room by room, one by one murdering his children “with what pathologist believed was a hammer” (Koubaridis,2015).

In the cold December of 1900, an Iowa farmer named John Hossack was found murdered in his bed. Susan Glaspell, a worker for the Des Moines Dailey News at the time, covered the case of his wife Margaret, who was thought to be guilty for his death. In over a dozen newspaper articles, Glaspell discusses the crime, the suspicion, and the eventual decision of Margaret Hossack 's innocence in the murder. Almost fifteen years later, Glaspell would use this case to inspire her one act play Trifles. Names and certain details were changed to fit a more dramatic retelling of the story, but as a whole the story still heavily reflected the Hossack case. The play itself was so successful that Glaspell actually turned it into a short story only a year later and titled that “A Jury of Her Peers.” On the surface, this move seems almost inane, or at least meaningless. What 's the point of forcing a perfectly good play to adapt to a different medium? At worst, it could ruin the entire idea of the story, and at best it would be redundant. However, after reading both the play and short story, the reader can easily pick up on some key differences between them. There are multiple aspects found in “A Jury of Her Peers” that aren 't at all present in Trifles, and the short story is written in such a way that the reader has a very real sense of foreboding that comes from the heavy overtones of loneliness. Glaspell uses the word “lonesome” to describe much of the Wright 's house and lifestyle through

It has been estimated that about 200,000 murders have not been solved since 1960, leaving criminals on the loose. The numerous amounts of murder have left family and friends to mourn the loss of their loved ones with unanswered questions ("Open Cases…"). Who, when, and why are various questions that do not get answered when a murder is not solved. According to National Public Radio, if one is murdered in America, then there is a one in third chance of having the murder identified ("Open Cases…"). Indeed, having these criminals on the loose is very alarming and more criminals need to be captured. The United States of America authorities need to focus more on solving the cases than letting the cases go cold. a

Jack the Ripper was said to be the first serial killer in the modern sense. In the article “The Hunt for Jack the Ripper,” William D. Rubinstein’s main idea is to explain and examined some of the murder victims, and possible suspects for Jack the Ripper. Rubinstein goes into great detail to try and define who the ripper actually was, but this is still an unsolved mystery in history. Rubinstein’s main ideas are the different possibilities for Jack the Ripper; however there was one person in particular that people believed was the Ripper for over twenty years. Another main part of this article was discussing victims of Jack the