Essay on The Investigation of William McGuire's Murder

Jaidyn’s body was found on New Year’s Day 1998, in a sleeping bag, weighted down by a crowbar, almost six months after Jaidyn’s disappearance.

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.

This is an attempt to unravel the tangle by an objective and empirical examination of information from crime scene and post mortem examination of the victims. Pre-digested information such as speculative newspaper reports, and statements from witnesses other than those called in a professional capacity have been avoided since theirs is largely subjective testimony that confounds more than it informs.

After further investigation, there were remains enclosed in plastic bags with cinder blocks as weights which were dumped into Lake Shelbyville, which were discovered by a couple fishing. These remains were tested with Karyn Slover’s dental records and indeed these were her remains. Both suspects David Swann and Michael Slover Jr. had alibis, and seemed like the most obvious suspects. Ramsland states that Swann’s alibi was confirmed after showing up on a security camera by an ATM, yet Michael Slover Jr. had no confirmation and was seen being rough with Karyn. A couple years later, in 1998, Police spotted a break of concrete in Michael Slover Sr.’s used car lot named Miracle Motors. A forensic geologist was then brought into the case to see if part of the concrete missing matched the concrete in the plastic bags with Karyn’s remains. The concrete in the bags and in the car that Karyn was driving before she disappeared both matched the concrete missing from Michael Slover Sr.’s lot. Also, the author comments how some cloth found in the lot concrete links to the clothes that Karyn was wearing when she was murdered. This helped police get a search warrant into the Slover’s household, where they discovered one firearm was missing, a .22 caliber handgun like one that was used in the

Normally there is an extreme amount of blood that is found at the scene in most self-inflicted gunshot suicides. Strangely, that afternoon in Fort Marcy Park there was little blood that was found on or around the Vincent Foster’s body. Even more bizarre was Doctor Donald Haut’s coroner report. Dr. Haut is the coroner for Fairfax County, Virginia and the only medical doctor that evaluated Foster’s body. Dr. Haut was quoted in the Fiske report as saying that he observed a large pool of blood around the body at the crime scene. Although Dr. Haut denies that he ever made a statement or was interviewed by a member of Fiske’s investigative team (Balough, 2015). Cory Ashford was one of the Fairfax County Emergency Medical Technicians that was on the scene that day. In fact, Ashford was one of the individuals that put Vincent Foster’s into a body bag at Fort Marcy Park. Cory Ashford told investigators that he did not use gloves nor did he have to wash his hands after putting Foster’s body into the body bag (Balough, 2015). Mr. Ashford was one of four medical technicians that were present at Fort Marcy Park that day and saw Vince Foster’s body. None of the four of them recall seeing a hole in the top or in the back of Foster’s skull but they do recall seeing a puncture wound on the lower right side of Foster’s neck. It was described as a hole approximately the size of a .22 caliber entrance wound. This fact was omitted from all of the reports. (Rodriguez, 1995).

In the Casey Anthony case Jeff Ashton who is a former state attorney in Orange county Florida, and also the first prosecutor in the United States to get a conviction based on DNA decided to use a new Forensic method in the Anthony case. The smell of death would be the allowed as evidence for the first time ever. In the trunk of Anthony’s car was a stained area on the carpet and an odor. Ashton stated that the smell was that of human decomposition. That piece of carpet was removed, sealed and sent to Dr. Vass, a forensic anthropologist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Dr. Voss has been studying human decomposition at the University of Tennessee’s “body farm”.

1). Forensic Psychology is the application of the theories of psychology to law and the legal system. Issues of violence and its impact on individuals and/or groups delineate the main and central concerns in Forensics within the adult, juvenile, civil, and family domains. Forensic psychologists provide advice to legislators, judges, correctional officers, lawyers, and the police. They are called upon, for example, to serve as an expert witness, diagnose and treat incarcerated and probationed offenders, and screen and evaluate personnel in the law enforcement and judicial systems. Forensics encompasses a wide range of academic orientation. Synonyms for Forensic psychologists include criminal psychologist,

After reviewing the two scenes from an Anatomy of a Murder and the Maryland Rules of Professional Conduct, it’s clear that Biegler and McCarthy behaved unethically; because he disclosed client information without consent and he indirectly imposed what defense Lieutenant Manion should plea. In the first scene, Biegler and McCarthy are discussing Biegler’s first visit with Mr. Manion and whether or not he was going to take the case; McCarthy also proposes Biegler guide Mr.Manion into a defense. In the second scene, Biegler meets with Mr.Manion for the second time and he indirectly guides him into a plea of insanity. In each of these scenes, several Maryland Rules of Professional Conduct were violated such as: Maryland Rule 16-812 (1.6) (a), Maryland Rule 16-812 (1.6) (5) (b), Maryland Rule 16-812 (8.4) (a), and Maryland Rule 16-812 (8.4) (c).

The purpose of this paper is to discuss and analyze the practices conducted by law enforcement during the investigation of the murder of Ashley Smith. The following pages will discuss the crime scene investigation, the evidence collection, the investigative steps following the initial crime scene investigation, the interviews of witnesses and suspects, and other strategies performed by the acting case investigators. Constitutional challenges have surfaced regarding specific pieces of critical evidence and a section of this paper will analyze the admissibility of this evidence. Lastly this case’s law enforcement processes will be contrasted with textbook processes in an effort to determine the validity of the case’s outcome.

excavation site after the weekend, they found more empty purses and wallets. These new wallets were

The torso was cut open like a hunter would for a deer. She was shot with a .22 caliber rifle and mutilations were made after her death. Upon searching the home the authorities finds whole hum bodies/ fragments, wastebasket made of human skin, human skin covering several chairs, skulls on his bedposts, female skulls which some had the tops sawed off, bowls made from human skulls, a corset made from a female torso, leggings made from human leg skin, masks made from the skin of female heads, Mary Hogan’s face mask in a paper bag, Mary Hogan’s skull in a box, Bernice Worden’s entire head in a burlap sack, Bernice Worden’s heart in a plastic bag in front of the potbellied stove, nine vulvae in a shoe box, a young girl’s dress and the vulvas of two females around 15 years old, belt made of female human nipples, four noses, a pair of lips on a window shade drawstring, lampshade made from human facial skin, and fingernails from female fingers. Many people believe that his mother may have been in one of the rooms that was boarded up but this is false she was buried in a proper cemetery. The artifacts were photographed at the state crime lab and the

were the bodies of both Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman. There was a large amount

Nothing is more crucial to any investigation than the actions of the first officers on the scene and the actions they take regarding the preservation of the crime scene, detention of witnesses and an arrest if possible. The immediate objective of the first officers on the scene must be the safety of all parties involved and all else follows

There is no hiding that the film was produced and directed by a white woman, and this is why it could be argued that the film takes on a white savior complex, presenting Indian society as a deviant “other.” Meenakshi Gigi Durham explores this idea in her essay “Scene of the Crime: News discourse of rape in India and the geopolitics of sexual assault.” Following a close study of the media coverage of the rape Durham writes, “like maps, media representations are imbricated with power relations; like maps they use language, visual imagery, and other symbols to represent the world; and like maps, they help to orient us to our surroundings” (Durham 177). Durham makes a connection to Edward Said’s concept of Orientalism, and how Occident and Orient are pitted against eachother, creating this binary relationship where one is seen as more powerful and “better” than the other (Durham 178). This relationship “sustains the material injustices of imperialism and neo-colonialism” (Durham 178).

At midnight on January 1 a call comes in of multiple gunshots fired at 123 ABC Blvd. Officer Black responds to the call and is the first on the scene. Upon his arrival Officer Black notices a white male lying in a pool of blood with multiple gunshots. He notated that the shell casings were of .38 caliber and 9mm. Officer Black secures the crime