Memories Of Murder

Before the Miranda Rights were established, police forces often used violence to encourage a confession from the suspect ("History of Miranda Rights"). That is

Serial murder is one of the most baffling crimes that occur in the U.S. and all over the world. Knight (2006) defines serial murder as the killing of three or more people over a period of more than 30 days, with a significant cooling-off period. The cooling off period may be weeks, months or even years long. Researchers have proposed various psychological, biological and sociological theories that offer a partial understanding of the nature of serial murder. Some propose that the basis for criminal behavior is a predisposition to violence as well as a mix between environment, personality traits and biological factors. Serial killers are predominantly male. Only 3 percent of serial murders are committed by women (U.S. News and World Report,

In the video “The Confessions” presented by Frontline, a murder of a women that was committed by one man, quickly resulted into a false gang murder-rape scene committed by eight men. The victim, Michelle Bosko, was seen to be raped and killed in her apartment in Norfolk, Virginia. From the video, it has been proven that seven out of the eight men that confessed were innocent, but somehow they all received an unequal punishment. Because the innocent men admitted to a murder that they didn’t commit out of fear, they were all sentenced to some time in prison. The head detective, Glenn Ford, intimidated the men so much that they either were convinced that they were at the crime scene or they told him every detail that he wanted to hear.

The National Geographic film, A Portrait of a Killer, examines the types of stress that living beings can endure, and how it can thus affect the rest of their bodies. Severe chronic stress can lead even lead to the destruction of brain cells. Dr. Robert Sapolsky is a neurobiologist of Stanford University who has been researching stress for over thirty years. In order to study stress and its implications upon nonhumans, he went to Africa to study baboons. This species has only three hours of stress caused by eating, and the rest of their daily routine is consumed by about nine hours of free time. Much like Western society, baboons socially stress out one another, as they have social hierarchies to regulate how them interact with one another.

The documentary, Stress, Portrait of a Killer, examined how stress is known to kill, yet humans still believe they are invincible. Dr. Robert Sapolsky studied primates in Africa in order to learn about what effects stress has on the body. Interestingly, he found that the baboons who were considered to have a higher rank actually had lower stress hormones in their blood. Conversely, the baboons who were considered to be low rankers actually had elevated stress hormones, increased heart rate, and a higher blood pressure—all of which lead to deteriorating health. Furthermore, the documentary uncovered that weigh and weight distribution is directly related to stress which is unfortunate because the more weight you gain, the more you stress! More

He was taken to an interrogation room of the Detroit Police. There he was vigorously questioned. Once questioned about the murder, he claimed that he was not involved in the murder. At first, the interrogator didn’t believe him, as one set of fingerprints on the body were identical to his. But Alex insisted he had nothing to do with the killing, so he was asked to complete a polygraph test to prove his innocence.

As the video evidently shows, the overall case was fabricated with the use of psychological tactics that broke some fundamental aspects of ethics. Getting one to confess to a crime is never easy, hence borne the numerous methods introduced and followed by almost all law enforcement officers to “read” possible suspects during interrogations. Further, with the right assembly of personal/background information, the combination of circumstances/techniques, and psychological manipulation can even make the most hardened suspect to confess (“How Police Interrogation works”). To add on, there was a time when “physical abuse” toward the possible suspects during interrogations and the confession obtained thereafter was accepted in court (“How Police Interrogation works”); Not only is this a misuse of authoritative power, but also unethical—inflicting mental /or physical pain upon the individual to confess almost seems extreme.

Throughout this case, many pieces of evidence came up “missing” and many other people who should have been suspects went without being questioned at all. For example, a problem arose at a local Bojangles, the same night of the murders. The manager working at the time called the police, reporting that a black man had stumbled into the restaurant. He was bleeding and mumbling the manger said, and instead of a report being filed, the working officer found it would be much more convenient for her if she just

After a group consisting of twenty-five teenagers including the five young men attacked pedestrians in Central Park, the boys were detained for unlawful assembly by New York City police officers. Because the boys were detained around the same time the jogger was found, a different detective told the station to hold them, as if they were accountable for the crime. The police changed their demeanors immediately, becoming more furious with the boys when their statements did not include the woman. Their goal was then to break them down to a state of despair so they would start to look for a way out, resulting in yelling in their faces, poking their chests, targeting them without their parents, threatening time served, giving false information on evidence, and making them cry. After fourteen to thirty hours in custody, the

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Two young boys- Darian Johnson and Michael Brown were on their way home from stealing Cigarillos from their local market. they were illegally jaywalking when this police officer, Officer Darren Wilson passed by in his patrol car. “Get the f--- on the sidewalk” The two boys stayed mute, when suddenly the unknown police officer at the time backed up his car. As the car came to a brisk stop, he opened it suddenly and quickly. The door bounced back and closed. The young officer continued to stay in the car but used his hands to his advantage and began wrapping his hands around Brown’s neck. Darian Johnson described it as a ‘tug of war” Brown tried his best to escape, not once did his hands entered the car of Darren Wilson. Wilson fired his gun

The aching weights of guilt haunt the pride of many significant characters in Arthur Miller 's play “The Crucible”. Characters throughout that play change significantly as a result of the deaths of a bountiful of key figures. A correlation can also be made between the facts that a lot of the people that were feeling guilty in this play were the ones that were more sensible. Guilt comes within the hearts of many characters in the play and has a drastic impact on the entire Salem community, along with the occurrences in the time period of the play. Reverend John Hale, John Proctor, and Giles Corey were three characters that possessed this guilty conscience about what they had done.

Creeping around the shadowy house, the predator found its prey waking to strange sounds. The victim lay facedown, with a sweating forehead pressed fearfully into the pillow, silently praying the noises would just go away. Suddenly the victim found himself straddled and pinned to the bed. He was unable to scream for help due to the pressure of the handle of a pick-axe against his throat, preventing any breath from escaping, much less any sound. The victim struggled beneath the weight of the assailant. The scant light from the sodium-arc street light outside cast a peculiar silhouette on the walls of the darkened room, projecting an image that looked oddly like that of a cowboy saddled upon

When they did discover the murder the Number of intentionally inflicted deaths where a total of eight which where all believed to be white women. The final show that was part of my Measurement Procedure was Murder choose me. In this episode the victim was a younger mother to be. In this cased the dectivees took the same method used in the first case my identifying all the victims closest to the person while also identifying the victims that wanted to cause her harm. In this case only two people were interviewed which narrowed down the killer or killers the two interviewed them.

His relaxed attitude, sense of humor, and easy lies about the murder are easy for him to persuade the police into believing that he did not commit any