Orion Krause Murder Case

| “Never accuse a friend of a crime if you only have a feeling he did it.” Pg. 54

Simon Gittany was a male perpetrator. In almost 4 out of 5 intimate partner homicides the perpetrator was a male (Australian Institute of Criminology 1998).

On April 28, 2004, after closing on his dream house, William McGuire was brutally murdered. His body was severed into three pieces, placed into three matching Kenneth Cole suitcases and then dumped in the Chesapeake Bay. The investigation of his murder would span three years, involve two different investigative teams and end in the conviction of his wife, Melanie McGuire, based on circumstantial evidence (Glatt, 2008).

Henry Lee Lucas, known as the Confession Killer, was an extremely hateful man. He was born In Blacksburg, Virginia on August 23rd, 1936. His death took place in prison on March 12th, 2001. Lucas grew up in a log cabin with his mother, Viola, and his father, Anderson, nicknamed “No Legs” because his legs had become cut off from a freight train. The family was very poor and they could not afford prosthetic legs, which caused the father to slide around on the floor. Viola was a prostitute who made Anderson and Henry watch her. Anderson could not take the torture, so he gave himself pneumonia from lying down in the snow, which he later died of. Henry’s mother took “care” of him throughout his childhood, including dressing him up in girls’ clothing

Today we are discussing whether if Steve Harmon should be held guilty or not guilty. I, the defender, says that he is not. We’ve all experienced being accused of doing something we didn’t actually do but Steve’s situation is just more extreme than most of ours. It’s not everyday when we get told a friend is being accused of felony murder. I will be using O’brien’s closing statement along with other quotes to prove to you, that Steve Harmon is not guilty.

On Saturday, December 1, 1900, a man named John Hossack was killed in his sleep with a hatchet by his wife, Margaret Hossack. The story told by Margaret was that she had heard what sounded like two boards banging together and by that time the attacker had fled and she didn’t catch a glimpse of him. The next thing she saw was her extremely wounded husband, John, who had a five-inch cut into his head and a fractured skull. A doctor, who came and examined John, and said there was no hope and John died the next morning. As an investigation started, a burglary was thought of as the first motive but the idea flawed because nothing was stolen so the idea was quickly abandoned. In the 4 days between the murder and the funeral, the police talked to

However, the narrator stated that“ I looked at one of K.’s works, that something was permeating my very flesh… surely K. had not been looking at me with hatred or resentment” (page). This proves that the friendship that they developed gave the narrator a reason to convince himself that he wasn’t responsible for K.’s death.

Australian career criminal and convicted armed robber Stephen Asling, 56, has been convicted of the murder of respected underworld figure, Graham ‘The Munster’ Kinniburgh by the Victorian Supreme Court after more than a decade (Fox Koob 2017). In 2003, Asling and his accomplice, Terrence Blewitt, ambushed and gunned down Kinniburgh, 62, outside his home in Melbourne. The murder was by a contract with late underworld kingpin Carl Williams, who wanted Kinniburgh dead due to his tie-in with the Moran clan. Williams detested the Moran’s after he was shot and wounded during a dispute and it lead to a rivalry during the Melbourne gangland war (Deery & Murphy 2017). Asling and Blewitt was offered $150,000 to execute Lewis Moran however if they were

In Nashville on September 8, 2016 a man has been found guilty for robbery and shooting of a drug dealer. According to the WSMV website, the man by the name of, Montrez E. Duncan, “was convicted for committing Hobbs Act Robbery, Robbery and carrying, and brandishing and discharging a firearm during a crime of violence. A trial done in September 26, 2016, it was stated that Duncan and a few suspects followed the person home. They then entered the home, tied him up and threatened to kill him. The robbers stole some cocaine and cash from the victim and forced him to contact others to take more cash and drugs from them. When they felt the victim was of no value to them, they attempted to set him and the vehicle on fire. The victim was able

“His testimony was responsible for the execution of some 35 persons, but, as the frenzy subsided, inconsistencies were discovered in his story.”

Hey, Cory, I researched and found an article about a man named Harold J. Stewart, a 42-year-old high school dropout, who defended himself in a murder case in Prince George's County, whereas he was accused of beating a sleeping man to death with a baseball bat. (Casteneda, 2008) Stewart’s pro se trial only lasted three days; where is the fairness in this prosecution? The jury only deliberated for about an hour. It seems like Stewart never had a chance; considering, at the most, it takes at least more than a day even to hear evidence in a murder trial. It was faith because the jurors found Stewart not guilty of first-degree murder and not guilty of second-degree murder. (Casteneda, 2008) You know there is a saying a man who represents himself

To refresh the memory and hopefully make things a bit more clear about the crime that Sidney Gleason had originally committed and been sentenced for, a brief summary is provided for the reader. At the age of 24, Sidney J. Gleason of Great Bend, Kansas, was found guilty of capital murder on February 21, 2014. He was found guilty of first degree murder as well, when he and his cousin Thompson shot and killed Mikiala “Miki” Martinez and her boyfriend Darren Wornkey. The charges against the defendant, Gleason, were capital murder, murder of the first degree, aggravated kidnapping, attempted murder, aggravated robbery and possession of an illegal weapon, more specifically a firearm or handgun. Though the evidence seemed to be more than substantial,

was stabbed five or six times, and then hanged on a hook in the Grand Jury room.” This shows

In the book In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, the Clutter family is murdered with apparently no motive and the killers leave almost no evidence. In order to figure out who the killers are, the KBI, or Kansas Bureau of Investigations, follows an order of operations. First, they look for physical evidence at the scene of the crime; then they talk to people who knew the Clutters and/or lived near them at the time of the murders; next, they take tips called in by various citizens; and finally, they systematically track down and interview anyone who had ever been employed by the Clutter family. By doing all these things, the KBI tracked down the killers and apprehended them in the end.

and was "the son of a friendly local bus conductor" (Schaffner, 19). George was only sixteen when