In this case, Beau and Monique Maestas were charged with the murder of six-year-old Kristyanna Bergeron, and the attempted murder of ten-year-old Brittney Bergeron. The charges stemmed out of an incident that occurred after a drug deal gone bad. The children’s mother, Tammy Bergeron, sold drugs to Beau. He was dissatisfied with the drugs, and when Tammy refused to return his money, he retaliated. He and Monique went to Tammy’s home, where her children were alone. They proceeded to beat and stab the children, killing Kristyanna, and severely wounding Brittney. The injuries Brittney sustained left her a paraplegic.
The prosecution’s case in this matter, centered on proving Monique was more involved in the crime than either she or Beau were admitting. Since Beau had already plead guilty to first-degree and attempted murder, both with a deadly weapon, he would likely receive the death penalty. Monique was not admitting her involvement, and Beau was taking full responsibility for the crime. It was, therefore, up to the prosecution to provide evidence Monique had physically participated in the crime. In order to do that, they not only had to prove Monique was present in the trailer, but also that she had stabbed one or both of the children.
Upon questioning, Brittney could not positively identify Monique as the person who stabbed either her or her sister. She did, however, place Monique in the trailer at the time of the stabbings. She identified a photo of Monique as the woman
In The Murder of Helen Jewett, Patricia Cohen uses one of the most trivial murders during the 1800's to illustrate the sexiest society accommodations to the privileged, hypocritical tunneled views toward sexual behavior, and the exploitation of legal codes, use of tabloid journalism, and politics. Taking the fact that woman was made from taking a rib from man was more than biblical knowledge, but incorporated into the male belief that a woman's place is determined by the man. Helen had the proper rearing a maid servant, but how did she fall so far from grace. Judge Weston properly takes credit for rearing her with the proper strictness and education. Was Helen seduced at an early age and introduced to sexual perversions that were more
Romarr Gipson, at the early age of seven, is the youngest boy to have ever been charged with murder. Gipson along with his eight-year-old friend named Elijah Henderson were charged with first-degree murder of the eleven-year-old Ryan Harris. It was later determined after the boys claimed they murdered Harris, that she was found to be murdered and raped by a 37-year-old man named Floyd Durr. Gipson had already shown signs of psychological issues as a young boy. A psychiatrist determined that he had “cognitive disabilities.” The boy did not speak well and would lose his train of thought easily. Gipson’s family received a $2 million settlement from the city of Chicago from a claim that the boy was framed and psychologically damaged. Roughly eight years after the Harris case, Romarr Gipson found himself before a judge yet again. At this point he is fifteen years old, and facing aggravated battery charges. It appears that a child wrongfully accused of rape and murder will forever be traumatized by such an impactful event that it could easily lead to such problems as post-traumatic stress disorder, social and emotional complications, learning disorders, and behavioral problems. I believe that the “Psychological Theory” along with its sub-theories the “Psychodynamic Theory” and “Behavioral Theory,” help define and
The reporter stated there was an incident when Mrs. Sterling sent a 15 year old boy that Briana wanted to go to homecoming with text messages about her breast. The reporter also stated there was an incident when Mrs. Sterling dropped Briana off at a party she was not invited to because the host did not want to deal with her mother. The reporter stated Briana knew the owners of the home and she was not injured or harm while attending the party. The reporter stated Mrs. Sterling has been witnessed grabbing Briana’s hair, yelling, screaming, and threatening to hit her with a belt when she doesn’t perform her gymnastic stunts correctly. Ms. Barbay stated Mr. Sterling comes into the home drunk and Mrs. Sterling will call the children in a room when the parents are about to fight; the children have to stand in the room to watch their parents fight. Per the reporter, during the fight, Mrs. Sterling will have the children call their paternal grandparents for help. The reporter stated Mr. Sterling’s father is best friend with a local judge in the town that sweeps the family’s dysfunction under the rug. Ms. Barbay stated Mr. Sterling’s father has stated in the past that neither one of the parents deserve the
Pre-offense information related to this case includes the relationship the victims had with the offender. If the offender was Brent Smith as is believed then Tracy Smith’s relationship to the offender is that she was Brent Smith’s soon to be ex-wife and the mother of his two children Reagan and Eion. Keeping with the suspected offender Brent Smith, Karen Green’s relationship with the offender was through Tracy’s relationship with him as Karen was Tracy’s former mother-in-law. Karen Green also cared for Tracy and Brent’s children while Tracy was at work as they were living with Karen during the time of the offense. Victim selection occurred based on the interactions the victims had with the offender.
have plenty of evidence linking her to the murder. The jury ended up claiming not guilty of 1st
The crime had taken place on the outskirts of Winston Salem, North Carolina on August 10, 1984. Mrs. Sykes was late for work, which was not normal causing Mr. Dawson (former news editor of Sentinel) to go out looking for her. Being that she wasn’t there the police were called by Fred Flagler (papers managing editor) and her husband Mr. Sykes was notified. Around 1:55 pm that day the body of Mrs. Sykes was found a half block from the newspapers. There were stab wounds all over her body and she had also been raped. A pathologist at Chapel Hill said she was stabbed 16 times and the fatal blow consisted of a stab wound that went 5 inches deep piercing her heart.
In this criminal trial, two girls have been arrested and charged with attempted first-degree intentional homicide for trying to kill their friend. On May 31, 2014 12 years old Anissa Weier and Morgan Geyser lure their 12-year-old friend Payton Leutner to the woods and stabbed her 19 times before abandoning her in the woods until a bicyclist found her body. Leutner was quickly sent to the hospital and was lucky to survive. As investigator investigated the case, it was told by both Weier and Geyser that the reason is to appease a fictional paranormal character Slender Man. Both Weier and Geyser are trail for adult court rather than juvenile court and if they were found guilty for convicting to kill their friend they will be facing up to 35-65 years in jail within the adult court. Both Anissa Weier and Morgan Geyser exact charges
There were a total of seventeen crime scenes due to his actions. The parents believe that they unfairly treated this crime because they failed to consider that their son had a mental illness and also failed to prevent such things from happening. The victims killed were George Chen, Cheng Yuan Hong, Weihan Wang, Katherine Breann Cooper, Christopher Ross Michaels-Martinez, and Veronika Elizabeth Weiss.
I then proceeded to enter the residence and noticed a female was visibly upset and was crying. I identified the female as Mrs. Gloria Lipscomb Plato (Victim) and her daughters Marissa Dawn Plato (Victim) and Kara Plato. Mrs. Plato’s face was red and she had a cut on the inside of her bottom lip. Mrs. Plato’s neck and arms were also red. Mrs. Plato stated that
R/s July 3rd-8th Danielle (4) and Josiah (5) were staying in Georgia with Judy and Felicia Wilson. R/s Felicia beat Mariah with an electrical cord and Mariah has scratches on her back and bruised buttock. R/s Danielle (mom) took the child to ER and trying to press charges against Felicia.
REPORTER: The reporter (Gennette) called with concerns for the victims, Leslie, Tapenga, and Teagan. According to the reporter, there was a police report in Leslie’s file from Wisconsin. When Justin Tegelman (Leslie’s brother/special needs/currently 19 years old) was 16 years old, he had six counts of sexual assault (from December 2011-June 2012), while living in Wisconsin. The incidents occurred when Justin was a minor. In the police report, Chad (Justin’s father) caught him doing something to one of his sisters (Tapenga). Chad caught them under the covers, and it didn’t appear that their pants were down. Justin said they (Tapenga) were humping. The reporter said, Chad clapped his hands together to indicate humping and Tapenga said “that’s not what happened”. Justin described it as
Two white college students, Steven Tyler Kummerfield, 20, and Alexander Dennis Ternowetsky, 19, were both charged with first-degree murder. The facts of the case are as follows: On the night of April 17th, 1995, Kummerfield and Ternowetsky met for drinks and agreed to go looking for a prostitute. Kummerfield picked up George and drove her to a spot near the airport, where they forced her into oral sex and proceeded to beat her. The injuries and cause of death were blunt force trauma to the head.
The book Monster, by Walter Dean Myers, tells the tale of two young men being on trial for felony murder. Sixteen year-old Steve Harmon and twenty-two year-old James King are accused of participating in a robbery that caused the death of an innocent man. That innocent man’s name was Aguinaldo Nesbitt, and he owned a drugstore in Harlem. The Prosecutor, Sandra Petrocelli claims that Steve Harmon served as the lookout in the robbery, and also says James King was the one who pulled the trigger on the gun that killed Aguinaldo Nesbitt. Steve Harmon’s Attorney Kathy O’Brien does a great job of making Steve appear as a regular, respectful, smart kid, and seems to have a great interest in film which his teacher George Sawicki points out in his testimony. James King’s attorney, Asa Briggs, tries her very best to make King look innocent, but there isn’t much evidence that doesn’t put him at the crime scene. The state calls two witnesses that are very significant in deciding whether James King is guilty, and why Steve is not, and those witnesses are Richard “Bobo” Evans and Lorelle Henry. And the defense ( Kathy O’Brien) calls George Sawicki to the stand and he preaches about how great of a student and person Steve is, so it makes him look even more innocent to the jury. All of these witnesses make James King look
An Examination of the Anita Knutson Case: An Evidence Based Approach Background On a Friday night in the summer of 2007, 18-year-old Anita Mae Knutson spoke with her sister, Anna, over the phone. Anita was at a friend’s house and was planning to deposit her rent money at the bank as soon as she left. That was the last time anyone talked to Anita. She didn’t show up to work the next day and she didn’t talk to her parents, something that was very out of character for Knutson.
This is case that faces Mary Barnett. The issue in this case is that On January 23, the litigant, Mary Barnett, left Chicago to visit her life partner in San Francisco having left her six-month-old little girl, Alison, unattended in the apartment. Mary Barnett returned home a week later to find that her child had died of dehydration. She called the police and at first, to let them know that she had left her kid with a baby sitter. She later expressed that she had left the child and she didn 't mean to return, and that she knew Alison would die in a day or two. She has been accused of wrongdoing of second-degree murder; purposeful homicide without intention. In the event that she is sentenced, she could face up to eighteen years in prison. This piece of writing tries to give the verdict of the case after critically examining both prosecution and defendant side.