The Black Dahlia Essay

Semen samples collected were reanalyzed. Police now had a DNA profile of the killer but they did not have a profile of a known individual to compare it to. They ran the DNA through the Combined DNA Index System (CODIS) but it returned no hits, so the only thing they can conclude was that the killer was not a convicted offender.

After investigations police found someone people who fit the profile that Ray gave to the police. He was a 54 old man living in New York City under the name Raoul.

First of all, Lizzie Borden would have to have a reason to kill her father, but she didn’t. One reason Lizzie Borden is innocent is

Lizzie Borden took an ax and gave her mother forty whacks, when she had saw what she had done she gave her father forty-one. Teachers always say they never thought it would be that kid. Lizzie Borden was accused of killing her father and stepmother out of the hate she had for her stepmother Abby. She was arrested in 1893 and was found not guilty a few days later. Some people think she didn’t murder both of her parents, but I think she did.

Lizzie was said to be seen burning a dress after the murders because she claimed,”The dress was stained with paint”. Biography.com elaborated more on this saying, “During the week between the murders and her arrest, Lizzie burned a dress that she claimed was stained with paint. Prosecutors would later allege that the dress was stained with blood, and that Lizzie had burned the dress in order to cover up her crime”(Biography). Lizzie likely burned the dress because it was the dress she used when murdering her father and step-mother which could have been covered in blood and it would have linked her to the murders. Lizzie attempted to buy poison a day or so before the murders were committed, which was most likely meant for her father and step mother. Encyclopedia.com said on their article about this case, “A few days before the murders, Lizzie bought prussic acid, a poison, saying she needed to kill rats”(Lizzie). Lizzie attempted to buy poison because she most likely wanted to have them die in a less suspicious manner, but she was not successful in buying it ,so she took it into her own hands. Since she tried to buy poison, it shows she had a motive before the murders were committed to kill her parents with

Although the murders were attributed to Albert Henry DeSalvo, who had confessed to them initially, subsequent investigations have suggested

Mrs. Wright is being accused of murdering her husband, and all the evidence points to her, but if you look

Lizzie Borden was a suspect in the murder of the Borden parents which were killed with an ax in August of 1892, they lived in a greenhouse in Maryland in the town called fall river. Although she was not convicted of the murder of Andrew and Sarah Borden. I think lizzie borden killed her parents and this is why.There was many weird things about lizzie borden.Why would she kill her own parents? Her dad was very wealthy and her stepmom was greedy but if her father died she would inherit what would now 7 million dollars and she felt like she owed it to her real mom, who had been “replaced” her stepmom after her mom's random death. She had some weird behaviors before the murders and after. Before her parent's murder, she tried to buy poisonous acids for cleaning the house and they found one of her white dress with inconsistent dark red spots that were hidden in one of her drawers.In this case none was arrested but 2 people including lizzie were tried.Why wasn't Lizzie Borden or anybody else arrested, Lizzie was not arrested because she was just Sunday school teacher, so the court thought that a teacher of Jesus would never do such a thing and, she had a clean record.

Also, the officer who conducted the lineup knew one of the photos was Roberts and he told Marianne that his picture is in there

Jonbenet Ramsey, a six year old beauty queen, was mysteriously murdered, but by whom? Jonbenet’s murderer was never found after twenty years of investigations. She was a beauty pageant queen who was brutally murdered in her home in Boulder, Colorado, on December 25, 1996. Many believed the parents murdered Jonbenet, which is why the case was controversial. In the 1996 controversial court case over Jonbenet Ramsey’s death, the innocent verdict correctly acquitted the family of the murder by evidence which proved the family’s innocence, including DNA that did not belong to anyone in the family, a ransom note found the night of the murder, and signs of a break in to the family’s house.

On January 9th, 1991, Wournos was arrested in a biker bar for an outstanding warrant for a previous car accident she fled. The next day the police located one of Wournos’s former lover, Tyria Moore. Moore, trying to obtain immunity, said she will present information on Wournos. Wournos soon confessed to all seven murders, however she claimed all seven men attempted to rape her and killed them in self-defense (Bankston, Carl).

Description: Nancy was found raped and strangled to death in the bathtub of her apartment. They found a cord and a piece of horse hair in her bedroom at the crime scene. Just the week before her death Fiorenza had come to her house to fix her couch and claimed to not go into the bedroom. But once they linked the fibers from the couch to the bedroom brought in by Fiorenza… they knew that he did and they questioned him and then he admitted to the brutal crime and was put on trial and convicted and was executed.

Jane Gibson, who was an eyewitness of Hall-Mills murder, testified that she saw four people killing a couple around her pig farm the night of the killing (Baughman). She saw a woman with a long coat and a man with bushy hair and a dark mustache (Katz 81). In fact, on October 2nd the police learned that “after the murders Mrs.Hall had sent a coat to Philadelphia to be dyed” (Katz 79). Mrs. Halls’ actions made the investigators more convinced that she is guilty. Lastly, after the murder the eye witness came back later to find “Mrs. Hall whom she described as a woman with white hair, kneeling beside her husband’s corpse and weeping loudly” (Katz 81).

There are many infamous unsolved mysteries throughout time, and some investigations span decades. A few mysteries include D.B. Cooper, Jack the ripper, and the unknown assailant of J.F.K., but none of these mysteries compare to the mystery surrounding the Hagley Woods murder and the conspiracies surrounding it. The case of a woman who met a grisly demise has inspired the locals to persist in figuring out who killed the woman whose body was never claimed.

Elizabeth Short was born July 29, 1924 in Boston, Massachusetts. Elizabeth Short, who is best known as "the Black Dahlia," didn’t have the ideal childhood since her mom left when she was only five. She developed a strong interest in theater and by her teens, she had set her mind on becoming an actress. Sadly her dream would never come true because on January 15, 1947 at the age of 22 Elizabeth Short was brutally murdered in Los Angeles. Elizabeth Short’s body was found, nude and posed, in a vacant lot near Leimert Park by a local female resident. The killer of Elizabeth Short had drained her corpse of blood, cut her body in half and scrubbed it clean of any evidence that could had possibly been used for the case. This case quickly became popular