The Murder Of Cass Loukas

Simon Gittany was a male perpetrator. In almost 4 out of 5 intimate partner homicides the perpetrator was a male (Australian Institute of Criminology 1998).

Henry Lee Lucas, known as the Confession Killer, was an extremely hateful man. He was born In Blacksburg, Virginia on August 23rd, 1936. His death took place in prison on March 12th, 2001. Lucas grew up in a log cabin with his mother, Viola, and his father, Anderson, nicknamed “No Legs” because his legs had become cut off from a freight train. The family was very poor and they could not afford prosthetic legs, which caused the father to slide around on the floor. Viola was a prostitute who made Anderson and Henry watch her. Anderson could not take the torture, so he gave himself pneumonia from lying down in the snow, which he later died of. Henry’s mother took “care” of him throughout his childhood, including dressing him up in girls’ clothing

Evidence found at the crime scene suggests that Amy LaTour was killed last night in her home by her boyfriend Henry Willy. Amy was strangled to death by Henry out of jealousy of her love for her other boyfriend Joe Wonty.

In discussion of the case of serial killer Aileen Wuornos, the attachment and life course theories can be applied. Ms. Wuornos was neglected and abused by her guardians multiple times, which led her to a life of criminal activity. She began with small-scale crimes at an early age and eventually escalated to murder. This paper explores how the attachment theory played a major part in the life (and death) of a serial killer and how many lives could have been saved had Aileen’s circumstances been different. This paper also explains how Aileen Wuornos was a career criminal and how that plays a role in her escalation of crimes.

“Nobody’s ever been arrested for a murder; they have only ever been arrested for not planning it properly” (Terry Hayes). Ray Leetuf may have never been caught, but that is only if he would have planned it better. Ray Leetuf killed Max Powers in cold blood for hate, money and greed. With those motives it looks clear that Ray Leetuf has done it. In every murder case there is a preliminary report, testimony, and hard evidence. There are examples of all of the three in this case.

Many people say the documentation of the murder of the Clutter family is Truman Capote’s best work. It started out as an article for The New Yorker, and evolved into the non-fiction novel; the first of its kind. Capote traveled to Kansas with friend Harper Lee to research the killings. In the course of six years bringing this narrative together, Capote began taking drugs and drinking heavily due to the dark nature of the book. Truman Capote tells the true story of a family murdered in In Cold Blood, through character analysis and symbolism to prove nature is a stronger force than nature in shaping a person’s character.

The Atlanta murders of 1979–1981, sometimes called the Atlanta Child Murders (although several of the purported victims were adults), were a series of murders committed in the American city of Atlanta, Georgia, from the middle of 1979 until May 1981. Over the two-year period, at least 28 African-American children, adolescents and adults were killed. Wayne Williams, an Atlanta native who was 23 years old at the time of the last murder, was arrested for and convicted of two of the adult murders, and sentenced to two consecutive life terms. Police subsequently have attributed a number of the child murders to Williams and closed the cases, although he has not been tried or convicted in any of those cases.

Justin Ross Harris, the Georgia man accused of purposely leaving his 22-month-old son locked inside a hot SUV to die back in June 2014, will return to the public eye after more than a year. Cobb County released records of the toddler's autopsy, but you would fine little new information on the medical examiner's report. They listed hyperthermia as the cause of death.

What would you do if a convicted criminal’s guilt was being questioned? Would you have the urge to let your inner detective shine? If you are one of those people, the perplexity of this murder would be right up your alley. On January 13, 1999, in Baltimore, Maryland, 18-year old high school senior Hae Min Lee mysteriously disappeared after school, leaving her family and friends worried. Weeks later, on February 9, 1999, the innocent young woman’s body was found buried in Leakin Park. Many people, including the whole state of Maryland, pointed fingers at Adnan Syed. Syed comes from a traditional Muslim family, yet he did “American teen-like” things, such as dating and going to

James Patrick Bulger was born on the 16th of March, 1990, to Ralph and Denise Bulger in Kirkby, Merseyside.

No one was ever charged in the murder of rapper Christopher Wallace, aka. Notorious B.I.G. or Biggie Smalls, but I will show how a suspect would be tried if there were such a suspect. But first I would like to point out that this trial would be a media circus. To begin with the suspect could more than likely end up being one or more LAPD officers, a fact that the FBI has suggested in their report on Wallace that was released in 2011 (Federal Bureauof Investigation , n.d.). Then there is the gang aspect, Biggie had ties to the Crips, which he had reportedly hired to murder rival rapper Tupac Shakur, who was himself a Blood, just six months prior to his own murder. Subsequently, since no one has ever been formally charged in this case,I will try to use vague wording when referring to the suspect, and I will refer to him by of name “Mr. Murder Suspect”. I use the masculine only because there were no female suspects.

The Victorian era was when the idea of modern crime became prominent. People were fascinated by Charles Bravo’s murder and many other cases like it. Readers of the paper were engrossed by the details of the court proceedings and made their own assumptions about who the true murderer was. In the book when Ruddick is discussing the possibility of Florence murdering her husband with the tartar emetic, he finds many other examples of wives accidentally killing their husbands with a poison. Ruddick discovered that some women used small doses of poisons to help “cure” their husbands of their alcoholism. The poisonings would cause the husbands to vomit uncontrollably and eventually they might stop their drinking. Though the poisoning of Charles Bravo

This article is about the youngest convicted killers who were relased this week from prison. In 1999 at age 12 and 13, Curtis Fairchild and Catherine Jones murdered their father's fiance. Now more than 16 years later, they are set free. They had also planned to kill their father and a relative. The article also states that there was evidence of abuse on the children and that they claimed they were being sexually abused by the relative they had planned on killing. Even after evidence of abuse was discovered by investigators, none of it was used in their trial when being convicted. The article brings up points which show the implications of what is being read. "There was no trial, there was no testimony.There was no opportunity to present the

The homicide featured in the case of Lisa Harnum and Simon Gittany is intimate-partner homicide (IPH). According to the Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC), IPH are those involving “spouses, ex-spouses, those in current or former de facto relationships, boyfriends, girlfriends, or partners of same-sex relationships”, which occur in the privacy of the home where external social control is extremely restricted (Carcach & James, 1998). On the morning of the 30th July 2011, Harnum was unloaded from the balcony of the couple’s Sydney apartment located in Hyde Park, Sydney, by her partner Simon Gittany (R v. Gittany, 2013). 69 seconds prior to the homicide, security footage captured the moment Gittany grabbed Harnum by the face as she attempted

Lou steals a high-end bike and trades up at a pawn shop for a video camera and a police scanner. His first story is a carjacking story where he was able to get up close footage. Nina, the director of news, was very interested in his footage for the pure graphic nature of it and that it was related to crime. After she buys that footage from him, she gives him advice about what their particular news channel is all about. She tells him that crime in a specific location are of interest to her, not the urban areas but more about the crime that is overflowing into the suburbs. She tells Lou that it would be better if the perpetrators are minority and that the victims are white. She tells him that not necessarily bloody, but definitely graphic material