Short Story Of Tamar Boggs

The murder of Leanne Tiernan was a high-profile English child abduction and murder case involving a schoolgirl who was abducted less than one mile from her home on the 26th of November 2000 in Leeds, West Yorkshire and subsequently murdered (Crime Investigation, 2015). On the evening, the 16 year old was on her way home from a Christmas shopping trip with her best friend, Sarah Whitehouse, when she disappeared (Crime Investigation, 2015). The girls had taken a bus into the suburb of Bramley but then parted company near Whitehouse’s home leaving Tiernan to continue alone towards her home (Crime Investigation, 2015). As Leanne Tiernan made her way home alone along an unlit path through an area of wooded wasteland known as Houghley Gill that she frequently used, John Taylor had been

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

Crimes happen all the time. But when it happens to young children who have no way of defending themselves, and hasn’t lived their life to the fullest, it becomes a whole other thing. 
Kids are innocent, and nobody ever wants to see them hurt. That is why it was such a big shock, when the crime of the century was a kidnapping and murder of an infant.

Leanne Tiernan, a 16-year-old girl had been reported missing on November 26, 2000 in Leeds, West Yorkshire while she was walking back home after a day of Christmas shopping with her friend. Tiernan had taken a short cut home after a trip into the city and after departing ways with her friend, she was never heard from again. Police were desperate to locate the whereabouts of Tiernan as more than 1000 properties were searched, a 3 mile stretch of a canal was drained and garbage collections were stopped. Things were looking grim for the investigators as their only leads came from witnesses that said they saw a man walking his dog several times near the area where Tiernan had disappeared from. It wasn’t until nine months later, on August

In July of 1994, a little girl named, Megan Kanka, was raped and strangled. They found her body near her home in Hamilton Township, New Jersey. The story of thing young girl has shocked the nation. The man responsible for this brutal act is named, Jesse Timmendequas. He had been convicted twice prior to this attack.

John Williams was recently incarcerated for the violent murder of three young women. Prior to his arrest, police were on edge because the small town in Arkansas had never experienced anything like that before. Each girl was taken within a week from each other, all while they were out after dark taking a short cut home. Sadly they were all found buried deep in the woods after weeks of searching. The town went into shock; citizens were exhibiting both fear and rage for the loss of the precious girls from their community.

Christine Jessop was a nine year old girl who after bring dropped off by the school bus at her home in Queensville decided to ride her bike to the park nearby to meet with her friends. After stopping to buy some gum at the local store she was last seen walking her bike up her driveway by her friend Kim Warren. She did not keep her appointment with her friend at the park, and would never be seen alive again (Anderson & Anderson, 2009). This small town instantly became involved in the search for the missing girl, but with very little evidence to go on time passed, and hope began to diminish for the safe return home of Jessop. On New Year’s Eve 1984, eighty-nine days after Jessop went missing, her body was found badly decomposed in a bush by Fred Patterson fifty-five kilometers from Queensville. An autopsy would later revival that she was raped and mutilated (Anderson & Anderson, 2009). The police still did not have a suspect in the case nor did they have any leads, but now that her body was found the police and the small town were the topic of media, increasing pressure

On June 9th, 1959, a 14 year old boy named Steven Truscott was seen giving 12 year old Lynne Harper a ride on his bike, not knowing that he would be accused and found guilty of sexually assaulting and strangling her to death. For the next 50 years he would seek justice for being wrongfully imprisoned and finally get it. Steven Truscott was a popular and athletic teenage boy who lived with both his parents and his three siblings in the Ontario town of Clinton. Lynne Harper was a girl who also lived with both of her parents as well as her younger brother, whose life ended shortly.

Marjie Lundstrom, “Kids are Kids- Until They Commit crimes”, demonstrates an article that reveals her biased opinion on how teens that display gruesome crimes should not be punished as adults; this article is the weakest of the four articles shows in the first paragraph. Her explanation and reasoning is not logical at all: gives the reader confusion instead of sorrow or anger. For instance Lundstrom said, “Brazill was 13 and already in trouble for throwing water balloons when he returned to his Lake Worth, Florida, middle school and shot to death an English teacher, who would not let him say good-bye to 2 girls on the final day of classes.”. The quote from the article makes the reader feel no sympathy towards the kid what so ever; instead of including he shot the teacher, it should just say information about the kid and that it is not right for the kid to be given a sentence for an adult and maybe the reader will feel sympathy. There is no credibility at all because she states the sympathy the reader should feel then goes and say foul words, saying the teacher was shot to death, making the

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.

The Casey Anthony trial is considered a symbolic crime because it led to moral panic and also a law being passed. The law is called “Caylee’s Law”, this law enforces reporting children missing in a timely manner. Failure to report children missing in the time set by your state can result in a misdemeanor or a felony and other severe charges. Each state set their own age and time required to report a child missing but it does show that this Casey Anthony case raised awareness and made this a symbolic crime.  Many other stories were very similar to the Casey Anthony case that were made into laws. For example Amber Alert and Code Adam. The time reporting requirements can be found on many websites including the FBI website.  Many were worried that this law can cause many issues like parents panicking when they think their child is missing and making an unnecessary reports which could override reports of children that were actually missing but despite the concerns many states still moved forward with the law. According to Parents Magazine family kidnapping is committed primarily

The shocking revelation has made the death difficult to explain, and the fact that the only known witness to the crime is another young child also makes it hard to investigate. Lewis said “We don’t normally have 5-year-olds as primary witnesses.”

" On July 29, 1994, seven year old Megan Kanka, from Hamilton Township, New Jersey, was walking home after playing at a friends house. She had almost reached her front door when Jesse Timmendequas, 33, a landscaper who had lived across the street for a year invited her over to pet his new puppy ( Richard 1 )." " When Megan followed him inside, he led her to an upstairs bedroom, strangled her unconscious with his belt, raped her and then asphyxiated her to death with a plastic bag. Timmendequas then placed Megan’s body in a tool box, drove it in his pick-up truck to a near-by soccer field and dumped her body in some bushes ( Jerome 1 )." This, and the tragic murder of Amanda Wengert, was how the name was developed. But in my paper I did not discuss the murder and raping of Amanda Wengert.

On November 3, 1998, 8 year old Madison Clifton was reported missing from Jacksonville, Florida. Madison, better known as “Maddie” was once a young, sweet, innocent girl who had her whole life ahead of her. The immediate suspect was a neighbor who had been charged with two separate “sexual battery of a minor” offenses. Though both cases had been dropped in favor of the neighbor, he remained a sex offender under the law and thus a main suspect in the disappearance of young Maddie. With enough evidence, the neighbor was released as a suspect and the search for young Madison continued on. After about a week after Madison went missing, her search came to a tragic ending. Melissa Phillips, the mother of a boy named Joshua Phillips, found her body

My article was about a sixteen year old male who killed four people by choosing to drink and drive. This teen was in court in twenty thirteen, and was pleading that he had affluenza, which caused the accident. During this court process, he was given ten years probation, which means he can not drink during his probation, and must check in with his officer. The Teen was found at a party drinking, so because he had broken his ten year probation deal, he decided to flee. They attempted to look for his mother and him, but he was nowhere to be found. The police officers looked in the family’s million dollar home, and no one was there. His court hearing was about him illegally driving on a restricted license and speeding, lost control, plowed