The Murder Of Killing One Person's Mother, His Sister And A Family Friend

In Missouri during 1993, Christopher Simmons, a 17-year old, committed capital murder after he instigated two other juveniles (Benjamin and Tessmer) to conspire to kidnap and murder an innocent woman named Shirley Crook. It was never completely determined why exactly Simmons wished to murder Crook, however, he did later admit that Crook was involved in a previous car accident with Simmons. At approximately 2 a.m. on the night of the murder, Simmons and his two friends met up to break into the home of Crook, but Tessmer left before Simmons and Benjamin decided to go through with the heinous crime. Simmons and Benjamin broke into the home of Crook, entered her room, covered her eyes and mouth using duct tape, and bound her hands together. The

In the video “The Confessions” presented by Frontline, a murder of a women that was committed by one man, quickly resulted into a false gang murder-rape scene committed by eight men. The victim, Michelle Bosko, was seen to be raped and killed in her apartment in Norfolk, Virginia. From the video, it has been proven that seven out of the eight men that confessed were innocent, but somehow they all received an unequal punishment. Because the innocent men admitted to a murder that they didn’t commit out of fear, they were all sentenced to some time in prison. The head detective, Glenn Ford, intimidated the men so much that they either were convinced that they were at the crime scene or they told him every detail that he wanted to hear.

When this Central park case was made public, the New York Police Department and District Attorney office’s main focus was to solve the case as quickly as possible. When the five teenagers were found “wilding” in the park the night of the women’s death, the police believed they had found the suspects. The police were so confident of the teenager’s guiltiness, the five boys were interrogated of their involvement in the crime. The police used their authority and persuasion to get the boys to confess and promise them that they would go home if they talked. Through strenuous and intense interrogation, the five boys confessed to the killing and rape of the young women on videotape. These confessions were given even though

Nikki expressed how she was sick of them acting out. The argument escalated into more physical abuse. If only this time nikki knew that this particular fight would end in a bad tragedy. Jas hit her mother with a vase over the head. Investigators say that was thee first sign of blood drawn. As nikki was trying to fight back tas stabbed her. After more fighting Jas starts to choke her mother with a ribbon medallion she won when she was younger. After being hit back jas picks up the knife to stab her mother. After all the verbal and physical abuse the twins dragged her to the bathtub in the master's bedroom. During the interview with jas and tas they state that when they put her into the tub she was still alive. Jas said her mother's last word were “ I hate you. You're going to jail.” Jas told her mother she was sorry. After cleaning up the bloody mess the girl walked to school arriving two hours late. Students said that they act as if it was a normal day. The twins came home and they thought the police may have been there unfortunately they were not. Jas managed to flag down a officer passing through in her neighborhood. She told the officer that someone had killed her mother. She said her and her sister missed the bus but immetimatley start to walk to rockdale high school. They told officers that they made it to every class on time. The officer indicated that it seem as if she tried to put up a fight at the moment she was being killed but there was no sign of forced entry. Officers focus on the boyfriend as the prime suspect. After investigating they soon come to realize he had nothing to do with the murder. During interviews with the twin detective started to notice that they had many injuries bite mark, scratches, and more. Detectives immediately started to focus on them, But the twins were stick to their stories. Since detectives did not have a solid case the was forced to let them go. Haneef

A very significant case in Cook County Courts was the Bridgeport case, known as a “heater” case because of the publicity that surround it, and the racial overtones (Bogira 181). The Bridgeport case involved three white teenagers, Michael Kwidzinski, Jasas, and Caruso that were accused of brutally beating two young black boys who were riding their bikes in the predominantly white neighborhood. The entire summary of the case, in Courtroom 302, was based around the fact that one of the boys, Michael Kwidzinski, was most likely innocent. The question then turns to the boy himself, Michael Kwidzinski; if he was innocent, why did hid then accept a guilty plea bargain?

A young man’s brutal death at the hands of the police is found justified in a court of law due to his “suspicious” appearance: a black hoodie and his hands in his pocket. An elderly woman is fatally shot in her home for her relation to a suspected criminal. A married man with two toddlers is choked to death after a minor traffic stop by an officer who later claimed that his unarmed victim was wielding a gun. These people all have a few commonalities: the color of their skin, their presumed guilt at first sight, and their ultimate unjustified death administered by the law force. These are not uncommon occurrences. Due to the staggeringly disproportionate rate of African-Americans killed by the police, and the underlying rampant racial profiling, police brutality towards blacks in America must be called to light.

On June 9th 1959, a twelve year old girl by the name of Lynne Harper was walking around her neighbourhood until she encountered a young boy from school, Steven Truscott who gave her a bicycle ride home. Once he dropped her off home and went off, she was abducted, two days later her body was found, she had been raped and strangled. By the reason of several witnesses spotting Steven and Lynne together, the Ontario police wrongly convicted him for committing murder. Steven Truscott was a 14 year old boy, who was popular, athletic, he had no behavioral issues and no criminal past. However the Ontario police did not take time to consider the fact that Steven Truscott was just a normal teenage boy, instead they jumped to conclusions and prosecuted

Wrongful convictions occur every day. With a legal system that is at times dependent on eyewitness accounts and hearsay there is room for error. Sometimes these errors of justice are quickly rectified, but at other times the process can be long and drawn out. In the case of the West Memphis three: Damian Echols, Jason Baldwin, and Jessie Misskelley, were teenagers when they were arrested for the murders of three young boys: Chris Byers, Michael Moore, and Stevie Branch. For nearly two decades, although convicted of the crimes, the West Memphis three denied any involvement in the murders. The West Memphis three case is a prime example of how small town misconceptions and rumors can take hold of a criminal case and twist non-existent

It was a terrible crime that took place in downtown Monroeville when a young white woman was murdered at a dry cleaning store. The police couldn’t solve the crime. Six months later there’s a lot of pressure on them to solve it and they couldn’t. Now they targeted Mr. McMillian not because he had a prior crime history, which had never been in trouble before. He was targeted because he was an African American having an affair with a young white woman. During the time of the crime he was with his family and about 20 other people raising money for his sister church, which was 11 mile away. They persisted in prosecuting him over this murder he clearly didn’t commit.

The True American: Murder and Mercy in Texas, discusses the issues on identity, immigration, and nationalism at a precarious time in our countries past. Throughout this moment, two very diverse lives intertwine in an unanticipated way. The first life is Rais Bhuiyan, a Bangladeshi immigrant who left Dhaka for the chance of a better life in the United States. The other is Mark Stroman, a racist white Texan who never got a fair shot from his family, the law, and his education. Their intertwined lives officially began when Stroman’s racial hatred is triggered by the terrorist attack of September 11th. He essentially went on a killing spree, shooting three men because of his prejudice judgement. One of those three men happened to

On October 16th in Mississippi a teenager was burned to death. The suspected person was a 29 year old man named Quinton Tellis. If persecuted he would be faced with life in prison. The verdict was a hung jury. The jury consisted of 6 African Americans and 6 white jurors. The jury had some confusion and after a retry with the poll of votes they couldn’t come up with verdict. The teenager's name was Jessica chambers. She died on December 6th due to the 3rd degree burns all over her body. During the trial eight persons on site testified that she said "Eric set me on fire". There was debates on what she meant to say. The way they found out is that they tracked Quinton's phone records. He had deleted all conversations with her but had been talking

On November 6, 2007, in a sketch the suspect was identified as African American male who age range was about 40 to 45 years. His weight was about 140 to 150 pounds, with short hair. On November 13, 2007, the police were notify by a manager who worked at an apartment complex that man was either unconscious or dead. Police discover that the man was asleep and learned his name was Michael Marshall. Additionally, a police officer notice that the man had an uncanny similarity to the suspect who stole the truth. When other officers came to the scene they were convinced that he was man who commit the act and bought him in for a photo lineup inside police station. Female victim could not positively identify Marshall as the man who stole her truck. Furthermore, the judge refused to suppress the evidence that the witness could not positively identify Marshall even through there wasn’t enough to link him with the

The victims were targeted because they were a wealthy family and the two men planned to steal from the house and run away without harming anyone. But, on the early morning of July 23, 2007 the two men arrived to the Petit family home and as they arrived they found William Petit, father, sleeping on the porch in a couch. One of the men beat Mr. Petit with a baseball that they had found in the yard of the home, after he was beaten the two men took him to the basement of the house and held him at gunpoint. The wife and the two daughters were locked in each of their rooms. The two men found little money inside the home and they were not happy about it, so they threaten Jennifer Hawk-Petit, wife, to get money from the bank after they saw the bank book had an available balance. Mrs. Hawk-Petit withdrew $15,000.00 from her line of credit and she told the bank teller of her circumstances. Then, the bank employee call the police to informed them of the situation. After, the two men and Mrs. Hawk-Petit arrived at the home one of the men, Joshua Komisarjevsky, sexually attacked and strangled the eleven year old,

In 1989, five African and Hispanic-American boys, between the ages of 14 and 16, were “wilding” in New York City’s Central Park, unaware that the events of that evening would change their lives forever. That same evening a female jogger was found beaten, raped and left for dead. She had multiple fractures as well has her eye socket being crushed and having lost over three quarters of her blood. She survived the attack but was unable to recall any of the events of that evening. Within 48 hours of the attack the five African and Hispanic-American boys were arrested and charged with the crime based solely on the confessions obtained by the police. There was no physical evidence tying any of the boys to the crime. Four of the confessions were videotaped and were later used in court to incriminate the boys. The boys described the crime in gruesome detail and the role that each of them played in the crime. After the arrests, the boys all recanted their confessions, and said that the reason that they felt compelled to confess was because they were lead to believe that if they would confess they would be allowed to return home. Despite the lack of evidence and the fact that the boys recanted the confessions persuaded the police officers, the prosecutors of the case, the jurors, and the nation that the boys were guilty and led to their convictions and the boys were sentenced to prison. Thirteen years later a man named Matias Reyes came forward on his own volition and confessed to the

What is most interesting about this story is that it exposes a flawed justice system. The police did a reasonably good job of investigating the murder scene, but right away they focused their attention on two men without solid evidence. The obvious suspect would have been the last person seen alive with the victim, someone who knew the victim and thus could gain access easily to her apartment, and definitely someone who had argued with the victim the night she was murdered (Thornburgh 28). There were many valid clues pointing to other suspects. Instead, the police convinced themselves early on that Ron Williamson was their killer. After five years when they were unable to solve the crime, and with pressure mounting, they pieced together a paper