Personal Narrative: My Hometown Murder

As the police and the investigators began their search, everything began to get intense. Detectives stated that they found strands of hair that matched Caylee’s hair in Casey’s Car. (Timeline of Casey Anthony Trial, ABC News Internet Ventures). When Casey was released from jail, she was sent right back it for first degree murder ; also she had been telling everyone false information. Everything she had stated was a lie. (Timeline of Casey Anthony Trial, ABC News Internet Ventures).

The next morning, the woman’s car is found on the side of the road in a ditch by a passing driver. He pulls over to investigate, and the woman is found dead and stabbed multiple times. It was a gruesome site. The police are called in and they decide to investigate by asking the locals if they knew anything. When the gas attendant was interviewed, he claimed that he heard about an escaped serial killer on the radio and said that he saw the killer in the backseat of her car crouching down. When he told the woman to come inside he was really trying to warn her that the killer was in the backseat of the car without alerting him.

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.

14 year old Steven Truscott gave his classmate Lynne Harper a ride on his bicycle on June 9, 1959. Truscott had dropped her off before they parted ways. Lynne was reported missing later that night, and two days later, her body was found on a nearby farm. She was sexually assaulted and strangled to death. The community was horrified by what happened to this young girl and everyone was determined to find the killer. Immediately, investigators became fixated on Truscott as the prime suspect since he was the last person to see Lynne. They didn’t consider any other suspects, even though there was no physical evidence linking him to the murder. He was arrested 24 hours later, and stood trial as an adult. (Steven Truscott |

First this case was investigated for a rape and murder.  A 16 year old girl named Kimberly Simon was found on a dirt road in Utica, New York. Nobody really knew how this happened or why  this happened. She was found on September 19, 1985. They found that she was murdered by strangulation (National Registry). There were many reasons to why investigators thought a man named Steven

The article “Murder of Karyn Hearn Slover” by Wikipedia covers the complete case of Karyn Slover’s murder from the time her car was discovered, to her murder trial six years later. Starting from the beginning, Karyn was first believed to be missing when a car belonging to her boyfriend, David Swann, was found empty with the doors open off of westbound I-72 in central Illinois. This occurred on September 27, 1996 and it wasn’t until four days later that Karyn Slover was identified by her dental records as a Jane Doe found in a river. After examining the body, police determined that she was shot six times in the head (cause of death), dismembered, and then placed in bags that were sealed with duct tape and weighed down with concrete blocks. At this time, the case of Karyn Slover was officially declared a murder and a task force was sent to investigate it.

Overview: In the 1990s in Atlanta, Georgia tragedy struck the city as their beloved JonBenet Ramsey, young beauty pageant queen, was kidnapped and murdered. At first police suspected her parents as the murderers, as the ransom not found for her kidnapping was proven to be written on Mrs. Patsy Ramsey’s notepad, Proved by the inventions found on the pad. Nevertheless, after DNA testing both Ramsey parents were proven not guilty of the crime once and for all.

This case was categorized under the criminal law, as the defendant had to go against the Crown. It was April 12, 1991, and William Stillman, 17, was hanging out in the woods with a group of teenagers to drink and take drugs. Later, Stillman was seen leaving the group with Pamela Bischoff, 14. That same night, Stillman returned home with muddy pants from the thighs down and a cut over one of his eyes. After six days, Bischoff’s corpse was found in a river that was in the proximity of where the group of teenagers had been. Forensic showed that her death was caused from a head wound, along with semen in her vagina and human bite mark on her stomach. Stillman, being the prime suspect, was arrested, but was told by his lawyer not to provide any sort of statement or bodily sample. Despite telling this to both the police and Stillman, the police questioned the defendant for extensive hours and took bodily samples without his permission. Several month later, when the DNA results came in that showed connection to the victim, Stillman was arrested once again, and was forced to give bodily samples without consent.

Prosecutors say DNA tests place Simpson's genetic markers on the drops of blood leading away from the bodies. There were also blood samples, similar to Simpson's and the victims, found on O.J.'s Bronco truck. Simpson's blood was also found on his driveway and his foyer. The prosecution says Simpson cut his hand during the murder explaining the trail of blood found in at the murder scene which could have come from only 1 out of 170 million sources of blood, which matched the profile of Simpson. The blood on the socks matched that of Nicole’s and only

How: Donald Smith was the suspect at first because everything matches the crime scene. But then he later said that he has a identical twin and his name is Ronald Smith. Ronald Smith later then got tested for his fingerprints and were matched with the one at the crime scene and he admitted to his crime. Case 4: Who: The victim was a 78 year old Lucille Johnson and the suspect was John

HOW: There were fingerprints on the LEGO blocks at Johnson’s home. It turns out that the fingerprints belonged to one of Sansing’s children who was with him at the time of the murder, linking him to it.

In 2007, Steven Hayes and Joshua Komisarjevsy committed a violent crime in Connecticut. These two men killed a mother and her two children. Ms. Hawke-Petit, the mother, was raped and strangled to death by Mr. Hayes and Mr. Komisarjevsy. The two men also restrained and raped her two young daughters. The daughters were raped, and then killed by smoke inhalation when Mr. Hayes and Mr. Komisarjevsy set the family’s home on fire. While the assault of his family was going on, Dr. William Petit was beaten and restrained by the two men. The state of Connecticut pressed a number of charges against the pair of criminals. Mr. Hayes was convicted of raping and strangling Ms. Hawke-Petit and killing the daughters, who died of smoke

Early the next morning of December 8th, the lifeless body of Debbie Carter was found strangled in her small apartment. The murder of Debbie Carter flipped this small, rural, bible-belt, town on its head. People were outraged, overwhelmed, and stunned that such a thing could happen in this town to a young, beautiful girl whom everyone had known. This gruesome act put enormous pressure on local law enforcement to find the atrocious criminal. Finger prints, hair, and blood spatter was carefully collected from the scene.

November 2001, I was arrested as I was leaving my job. I am now being linked to the killings of 48 women, I say I killed 61 to 71. After about 20 years of running, I was finally caught. I committed most of these between1982 and 1983, although I think I remember one last kill around 1985. Like above states, I would kill them and drip them near the Green River in Washington. This earned me the name “The Green River Killer.” Even if I were innocent, I would probably still be referred to as

In my opinion, Sarah was a victim of her life circumstances. Sarah’s mother left her to fend for herself in the world without any protection from her father or anybody who genuinely did not care for her. I also believe if Sarah was given the right mentors she would have never gotten into that situation where she trusted the neighborhood pimp to be a friend to her, she did not