Scott Erskine . March 27, 1993, Two Boys, Jonathan Sellers

On evening of June 9th 1959 in a small town named Clinton Ontario, a couple of hundred kilometres from London, Ontario, a fourteen year old Steven Truscott gave twelve year old classmate Cheryl ‘Lynne’ Harper a ride home on the crossbars of his bicycle, the pair rode along the Country Road. What occurred after this is still unknown, and is still debated due to the wealth of questionable information from varied sources. Around 11:20pm, Lynne’s father had notified officials of his daughter’s disappearance. Just two days later, Lynne Harper’s body was found in a forested area just next to the County Road. Lynne Harper had been sexually assaulted and strangled to death.

One late night, in 1993 in Missouri, Christopher Simmons; a 17 year old boy along with two of his friends robbed a woman by the name of Mrs.Shirley Crook. They broke into her home and the noise startled her making her get up to see who was in the house. Simmons, who has recently been involved in an accident with her recognized her face. Simmons became upset and scared. The three young men left, but came back later to murder her. The three men tied her up, took Crook to a bridge and threw her off it. They went on to tell people about it; boasting about the crime they had just committed. Christopher Simmons had the idea for his friends to come along because they thought

This case started on July 25, 1984, with the death of a nine year old girl by the name of Dawn Hamilton. The story plays out as follows: Dawn approached two boys and an adult male that were fishing at a pond in a wooded area near Golden Ring Mall in eastern Baltimore, Maryland. Dawn asked the boys to help her find her cousin, they declined the adult male however agreed to help her look. This was the last time anyone

When this Central park case was made public, the New York Police Department and District Attorney office’s main focus was to solve the case as quickly as possible. When the five teenagers were found “wilding” in the park the night of the women’s death, the police believed they had found the suspects. The police were so confident of the teenager’s guiltiness, the five boys were interrogated of their involvement in the crime. The police used their authority and persuasion to get the boys to confess and promise them that they would go home if they talked. Through strenuous and intense interrogation, the five boys confessed to the killing and rape of the young women on videotape. These confessions were given even though

After the arrest, and throughout the trial, the boys were referred to as Child A and Child B. At the end of the whole trial, the judge released the two boy’s names since the nature of the crime was severe and also the public’s reaction to the whole case. They were identified and also came along with descriptive detail about the lives of the two boys and also their backgrounds. The release of the boy’s mug shots shocked the public because of the ages of Thompson and Venables.

In this article, “Who Killed the Jeff Davis 8”, Ethan Brown, the author, attempted to solve the murder case and prove the police authorities to being wrong and being responsible for the murders of the town. The main problem of this article is determining who is responsible for the murders of those eight women everyone’s contradicting stories. In an attempt to figure out what really happened Brown includes factual evidence from interviews and shocking statistics to inform the reader of what’s going on in the article. By providing such information, Brown indulges the audience into the full experience of solving the murder case.

Convicted for the murders of his wife and two kids, thirty-four years ago, Dr. MacDonald still endures the agony of being accused of killing his family. Even after twenty-four years of imprisonment and several unlawful court hearings, additional documentation continues to up hold Dr. MacDonald’s testimony.

In 1979, children and teens seemed to simple vanish. Each child met certain criteria: young, black, and from Atlanta. The first two victims, Edward Smith and Alfred Evans, who were both 14 years old, disappeared four days apart in June. Both of their bodies were found close together in a remote, wooded area of South Atlanta one month later. Nine-year-old Yusuf Bell went missing on October 21st, 1979 and his body was recovered November 8th of the same year. Police did not connect the dots with Bell’s murder because he was fully clothed, found in a remote area, but was strangled to death, unlike Smith and Evans, who were shot with a .22 caliber. Williams’ next alleged victim, 12-year-old Angel Lenair, was also strangled. She was found in an abandoned lot, fully clothed, with child underwear stuffed in her mouth.

On Monday, March 2nd the year was 1998 and at 9:18 a.m. there was a 911 call. Mr. Kennedy said that at his household, outside by the garage, his step daughter, L.H. (the only name the girl is referred to as in the case) was raped. The stepfather of this girl stated to the 911 operator that two teenagers had committed the crime (Cornell).

While describing the crimes that Kip Kinkel and Sam Manzie committed, Quindlen leaves out a mass amount of details pertaining to the multiple murders being committed by these two teens. Quindlen was unsuccessful in mentioning how these crimes were committed or how many people were injured in the process of committing these crimes. After further research I discovered the appalling details of the murdering of Kinkel’s parents. Further exploration also revealed that Kinkel injured 25 students on top of killing two students at Thurston High School. As for Manzie’s misconducts, Quindlen failed to mention most of the ghastly details of the murdering of 11- year old, Eddie Werner.

On the way home they were stopped by a mask man holding a gun. While Jacob’s brother and friend were released, Jacob was to remain with the man. The two other boys ran home, no arrest was ever made and Jacob was never seen again. Investigators learned soon after that unbeknownst to the community, sex offenders had been living in halfway houses around the neighborhood. Not many years after this event Stephanie Schmidt, a 19 year old college student was raped and murdered by a coworker whom she had no idea was a registered sex offender (“Parents For Megan’s Law”). Her family contributed to laws that would make communities more aware of sexual predators.

It all started on Tuesday of March 11, 2003 in a home located in downtown Brownsville. What seemed like a usual Tuesday evening turned into a dark, cold, and gruesome night for the city of Brownsville. “The Rubio Murder House”, apartment and home to a couple who took the lives of 3-year old little girl, 1-year-old baby boy, and 2-month-old infant girl. The children were horrifically and viciously stabbed and decapitated by their mother and father and later put into garbage bags to dispose of the bodies. John Allen Rubio, along with his wife, Angela Camacho, brutally murdered their children because they believe and had illusions that the children were possessed by demons. Despite the Rubio family members having a background of mentally, and

Chris Byers, Michael Moore, and Stevie Branch were the three innocent eight year old boys who were on a bike ride adventure on May 5, 1993 and never returned home again. Family, friends and the entire community were mortified beyond belief. It was unspeakable what happened to the boys. Chris, Michael, and Stevie were found in Robin Hood Hills naked, bound and mutilated. Immediately, rumors began that due to the brutal nature of the crime, it had to be that of satanic doing. On the flip side of the above innocent youngs boys, there are the three very troubled teens that live in the same town. Damien Echols, Jessie Misskelley, and Jason Baldwin. They were three well known teenagers in West Memphis Arkansas. The three teens had definitely made a name for themselves in their home town. There were rumors of

As unfortunate it was that they got thrown in prison the judge only scraped the surface of what happened purely because he assumed likewise that they killed those kids and just like that their reputations were ruined in an

One of the largest mistakes made by those investigating the case was putting information about the case in the newspaper. The investigators called for the parents to ask their children about specific things that related to the case; this gave the children information about the case that they would have not known otherwise