'The 11: 05 Murders By Brian O' Hare

Columbine by Dave Cullen tells the events that unfolded on April 20th, 1999. That day, two boys, self-proclaimed rebels, armed themselves and proceeded to murder the same students they had walked the halls with for four years. As the stories of Dylan, Eric, and the victims of this tragic day came to light, many falsehoods also arose. Unfortunately, the myths and truths about Columbine still linger with us today. Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold left a lasting impression on the world; but left behind the truth as to why they really did it. This leaves us to wonder what really happened on that fateful day.

The novel focuses on a set of major characters that have committed murders in the past. Christie shows how these characters carry their burden of guilt and how they deal with it. Despite being a mystery novel, this novel explores more than just a mysterious murder case. The narrator enters the mind of each of the characters. Every one of them seems innocent in their own minds, despite having committed murders in the past. By the end of this story, one of these ten characters will have committed another series of murder and the victims are the other nine characters.

Female police officers have been saddled with a stigma ever since they were finally allowed to join their fellow male officers on the force in the 1970’s. It is said that when a female officer is being harsh, she is often called anything other than firm. However, when a male officer is harsh, he is considered firm and just being a man. Female police officers are dubbed incapable of being able to perform their duties equivalent or superior to a male officer simply because she is

Dennis Lynn Rader was born on March 9, 1945 in Pittsburgh, Kansas. His mother, Dorothea Mae Cook, and father, William Elvin Rader, had three sons in addition to Dennis. In 1975, he married Paula Dietz, and they had one son and one daughter. Throughout his childhood, Dennis displayed signs of what he would become later in life. In reports, as well as his own confession, he tortured animals and had a fetish with women 's underwear. Dennis, also known as the BTK killer, had at least ten victims throughout his life. He became known as the BTK killer because of his modus operandi: bind, torture, kill. Dennis worked alone, and all of his murders occurred in and around Wichita, Kansas (Blanco).

“But policewoman’s presence was still not wholly welcome, they were there because chiefs succumbed to pressure from outside reform groups, not because male administrators or officers saw any need for them. Policewomen’s allies remained other male and female social workers, progressives, clubwomen, and other reformers.” (Miller, 1999)

Not more than two years ago, I listened to three minority female officers conversing on the difficulties of being a female officer. Though women have been accepted into police force, it has been a very slow and difficult process. What follows is a brief chronology of their struggle to become assimilated into and become an important part NYC’s “finest” – the N.Y.P.D.

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.

In “The Victims” by Sharon Olds it describes a divorce through the eyes of the parents’ children. The first section is shown through past tense as the speaker is a child and the last section is shown in present tense with the speaker already being an adult trying to make sense of past events. The word “it” in the first two lines carries a tremendous weight, hinting at the ever so present abuse and mistreatment, but remaining non-specific. The first part generates a negative tone toward the father who is referred to as malicious by the mother who “took it” from him “in silence” until she eventually “kicked him out.” Through the entirety of the poem the children are taught to hate their father. Who taught them? Their mother showed them that their father was a villain and were taught to have no sympathy for him but “to hate you and take it” and so they did so. Although the poem never directly states what the father did to receive the family’s hated, the speaker gives examples as to why he is hated.

Most new recruits come into the law profession as idealistic young men and women with the goal of changing the world. These views soon begin to change as the job becomes more and more consuming and they accommodate the job parameters that are placed upon them. As discussed in the book, more and more situations begin to be viewed as bullshit and the more people they encounter are viewed as assholes. The average person is not exposed to the situations and people that law enforcement must deal with daily, and have a difficult time understanding the stress that is placed on officers. The perception the officers have of the world begin to changes due to the everyday encounters they experience. This leads officers to begin to withdrawal from society and loved ones, ending with a cycle of depression and isolation. They begin to place more of their attention on the job and forget about anything and everyone outside of that. This, to most agencies, is overlooked due to the fact that the

Suspense is an important trait in many works of fiction. In David Montrose’s novel The Crime on Cote Des Neiges, he uses narration, digression and secondary characters to create suspense throughout the novel.

Reading, this week and last week about The Freedom Summers Murders by Don Mitchell I have determined to write my blog about my book. Because the book is nonfiction, it educates me about how racism can provoke people to commit homicide.

Yates has successfully told such a tragic story without copious amounts of exaggeration or dramatization, all whilst written in a chronological manner. The lives of Ian Huntley, the killer, and Maxine Carr, his fiancé who provided him with an alibi, are told throughout the entire book. Their lives were described leading up to, during and after the murders - this is also the case for Holly Wells’ and Jessica Chapman and their families. In particular, the lives of Huntley and Carr before the murders were of a specific focus in this book. As the reader, this is beneficial as it successfully paints a picture of what these two individuals were like.

Born James Clayton Vaughn, Jr. on April 13, 1950. An American serial killer who was motivated to kill due to his hatred towards African Americans and Jews. He was the second of four siblings, he was physically and psychologically abused by both parents. James Clayton Vaughn Jr, was an average student in school and the highest grade he got to was tenth grade. Born in Mobile, Alabama to a poor family, changed his name to Joseph Paul Franklin in order to be accepted into National Socialist White People’s Party and the Ku Klux Klan. He chose the name Joseph in honor of Paul Joseph Goebbels who was the Nazi Propaganda minister under Adolf Hitler. Joseph Paul Franklin was convicted of multiple murders, along with being given the life sentence six times as well as the death sentence. He is also known as the “Racist Killer”. Targeted blacks and Jews in a cross country killing spree between 1977-1980, and when he was put to death in Missouri he was the first execution in nearly three years.

Dennis Lehane writes satisfyingly complex and disturbingly violent crime fiction that often crosses into thriller territory. These are not, however, cheap thrills. Even in their goriest moments, his books are grounded in rich, real-life detail. Lehane knows Boston and its denizens, and he captures the city’s subcultures beautifully -- from the hushed refinement of the old-money suburbs to the grittiness of tacky motels and bail-bond agencies. He has a unique way of presenting his mysteries with an edge-of-the-seat feeling, yet his descriptive methods brings one into his neighborhoods and gives one the feeling that they lived there their entire life.

“In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.” - Ernest Hemingway.