Tammy Marquardt : Case Summary

The British doctor, Dr. Harold “Dr. Death” Shipman was a silent killer. The law enforcement and attorneys must have evidence to convict any person in a court of law. Some of the key factors in this case appear to be circumstantial evidence and there was no forensic evidence presented. The first factor is that Harold Shipman was admitted for psychiatric treatment and a drug conviction in 1976 and the General Medical Council was aware of this serious issue. Yet, they allowed him to continue to practice without any documentation being filed, so they say, and no monitoring was implemented for Harold. Dr. Shipman established a pattern in which all of the victims were injected with morphine/heroin as a result of the coroner’s reporting.

In this case, Beau and Monique Maestas were charged with the murder of six-year-old Kristyanna Bergeron, and the attempted murder of ten-year-old Brittney Bergeron. The charges stemmed out of an incident that occurred after a drug deal gone bad. The children’s mother, Tammy Bergeron, sold drugs to Beau. He was dissatisfied with the drugs, and when Tammy refused to return his money, he retaliated. He and Monique went to Tammy’s home, where her children were alone. They proceeded to beat and stab the children, killing Kristyanna, and severely wounding Brittney. The injuries Brittney sustained left her a paraplegic.

Tammy Marquardt was born in Toronto, Ontario. She comes from an Aboriginal and European background, and was raised by her mother. Tammy has suffered sexual abuse from her mother’s boyfriend as a teen, and has left home at the age of 17. Tammy and her boyfriend, Robert Nelson were expecting a child in the summer of 1990, and Tammy was only 19 years old at the time.

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.

Tammy is survived by her mother, Marian Kobialka of New Castle, her husband Freeman "JR" Freshcorn of New Castle, her sons John (Amber) Kobialka of New Castle, James (Melissa) Reid III from New Castle, her brothers William

A man by the name of Darryl Hunt was apprehended at the age of 19. He was charged and convicted of a murder that he did not commit in the year of 1984 in North Carolina. During the trial, the testing of DNA results proved the innocence of Mr. Hunt in 1994, however it took an additional 10 years of legal appeals to free him. The death of Deborah Sykes, a 25 year old copy editor at a local newspaper, whom was sexually assaulted and stabbed to death is what Mr. Hunt was accused of doing. Until this day this crime still touches many including Mr. Hunt.

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

Between June 1980 to March 1981 four babies died at Toronto Children's Hospital. In the cardiac ward 4A and 4B was where is was happening. They were suspicious at first but declared there wasn’t a problem. In January 1981 the first victim that stood out was four-month old Janice Estrella, her autopsy showed high Digoxin level. Digoxin is a controlled drug that increase circulation and slows heart rate. Next victim happened in March of 1981 his name was Kevin Pacsai only twenty-three days old even though his condition wasn’t even life threatening, however the nurse failed to convince the doctors to attend to Kevin Pacsi even though he was struggling the morning of his death. Kevin’s autopsy came back and showed high dosage of Digoxin. After Kevin Pacsai and Janice Estrella died the connor called the police he suspected that there is a killer. Allana Miller also died of Digoxin poison. After Allan miller died they locked up the Digoxin and be administered on emergency situations

The underlying issues in both cases are racial discrimination. For Cheryl Boulden in the affirmative action case the issue is being “an African American woman among the good ol’ boys in Indiana.” She was recruited because of race and her permanent handicap was seen as an asset for a diversity program lacking any. Yet these qualities made her a target of racism. Susan Finn’s ethnic discrimination presents a dilemma of how to deal with a contract physician’s abusive behavior “toward Hispanics and female staff as well as patients” (Reeves, 2006, p. 79). While the issues of racial and gender discrimination is not unusual, the failure of these agencies to address multiple complaints is.

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Tammy had made her way upstairs as she approached his bedroom she had saw the child tangled in its own bed sheets, grasping for air to breath and appeared to be in distress from lack of air. Tammy shocked, tried to free Kenneth but was very unsuccessful. She then tried calling 911 for an ambulance. The 911 operators to preform CPR but Tammy instructed she unstable could not bring herself to calmingly follow the instructions given. Later the ambulance had shown up and had taken Kenneth to the hospital where he was revived and given air. Kenneth had suffered too much brain damage, which lead him to be taken off life support three days later. The relationship between Tammy and Kenneth was a mother and son bond which in their case was stable because even though Rick was abusive she did not let him harm Kenneth where when things got bad she became in contact with the Children’s Aid Society where she was willing to put him into care for three months in order to protect him when she felt their living situation became unbearable. Tammy became a suspect in 1993 when Charles Smith concluded that Kenneth’s death was no accident after preforming a detailed autopsy of the two year-olds body. Tammy became a suspect because she was the only one in relation to Kenneth and she was the only one who had reported the murder and claimed it was an accident.

The outcome for this case is that Guy Turcotte was sentenced to life in prison with 17 years prior to parole on January 15th, 2016. Despite being declared criminally responsible due to his mental illness, the Crown prosecutors were able to proved his guilt over a shadow of a doubt. Being a physician, Turcotte must have tricks in creating mental illness history, however, he finally paid the price for his actions. In an interview with CBC, Mrs. Gaston, the mother of the murdered children and his ex-wife said: "It made me feel hope that this injustice will finally be corrected so it's a step forward for me,". Giving the outcomes of this case, Gaston could now have a piece of mind that her childrens could now rest in peace and Turcotte has to

After the trial, “The Shipman Inquiry” was set up to investigate all the murders that Shipman had claimed (N/A, 2012.) It also concluded that Shipman had killed approximately 250 people between 1971 and 1998 (N/A, 2012.) It also reported serious suspicions that Shipman murdered a 4-year-old-girl early in his medical career (N/A, 2012.) A total of 459 people died while under Shipman’s care, but it is not clear how many of the 459 were victims (N/A,

The case of Tracy Latimer was in fact a tragic story, about a 12 year old girl who was killed by her father. Tracy Latimer lived in Saskatchewan, on a farm with her family. Tracy had cerebral palsy which is an incurable disease; she was confined to a wheelchair for her entire life. Tracy was not able to live the life of an ordinary person. What Tracy could do, was she enjoyed listening to music and spending time with her family.

-Working with Mary, I feel that one barrier that she is facing in regards to her expressing/accepting her sexual orientation and gender identity is fear of being rejected and shamed by her family. Evidence suggests that for LGBTQ young adults, a heightened level of