Unsolved Murder Case Summary

The detective genre is recognizable by the mystery that it represents or establishes. Every word of a fiction novel is chosen with a purpose, and that purpose on a detective novel is to create suspense. The excerpts from The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler, Murder Is My Business by Lynette Prucha, and Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley, create an atmosphere of suspense and mystery. Even though they all fit into this category, there are some differences that make each novel unique. The imagery that the authors offer in the excerpts helps the reader to distinguish the similarities and the differences.

When you see the shows such as Homicide Hunter or Killer Instincts many times my mom and I try to figure out who is the murder. Most of the time my prediction is right because of the details my mom misses, and putting together all the clues. From then on I realised I had a gift, even if it was I was just watching television show. That is what sparked my interest the criminal justice area. I have contemplated the career choices that would best fit my interest leaving me with Homicide Detective and Criminologist. While both careers deal with criminal justice they differ greatly in the type of work environment, pay, skills/education.

This is a picture of what victimology is. It is also sometimes a best case scenario, a dream too good to be true for many areas in the USA. CSI and other shows demonstrate how this process might work under the most ideal of conditions with the most highly trained and most capable of

December 11, 1978, Robert Piest was reported missing by his mother. He was last seen meeting John Wayne Gacy for a potential job. On December 21 they searched Gacy's house finding bodies hidden under the house,garage and later found more in the Des Plaines River. The young men were lured by false jobs and were sexualy assulted and later strangled and buried. Over 33 bodies of missing boys were found in Gacy's house. Gacy is not the only one in the world who has taken the life of many innocent people. Over the many years bodies have been found mutilated and sexualy assulted. These bodies have been the subject of one hostility and violence, a killer. Serial killer have been around for very long but the secret to their wrong doing is only being opened in recent years. The advancement in technology has opened opportunities to find the cause for these awful killings.Serial killers are created from birth but proceed to rise mental illness, brain injury and child abuse corrupt their mind and life pushing them to kill.

In 1995 a police detective received a call that there was a skeleton found in the back of the casey's gas station in Dewitt Iowa. The police detectives said they found a bag of bones in a square of cement peaking above the surface. They reported that the bag smelled of acid and of cleaning chemicals. When they opened the bag they found a bag of bags that were smashed into small pieces. They call in a murder detective to try to re enact this murder. The detective said this was a murder that looked like a Jeffrey Dahmer murder.

Early the next morning of December 8th, the lifeless body of Debbie Carter was found strangled in her small apartment. The murder of Debbie Carter flipped this small, rural, bible-belt, town on its head. People were outraged, overwhelmed, and stunned that such a thing could happen in this town to a young, beautiful girl whom everyone had known. This gruesome act put enormous pressure on local law enforcement to find the atrocious criminal. Finger prints, hair, and blood spatter was carefully collected from the scene.

     The brutal murder of 6-year-old JonBenet Ramsey on Christmas night in 1996 shocked America to its core. Just as the Lindbergh baby kidnapping and murder seven decades earlier had seared the nation’s consciousness, this murder – of a beautiful and talented child in a wealthy Boulder, Colorado home --renewed every parent’s worst nightmare. It has been nearly three years since this violent crime occurred and no one has been brought to justice.

Watching the morning news, Dr. Andrew O’Brian drank the last of his coffee and whispered, “It is going to be another hot, muggy day, thanks to the warm rain we had last night.” Sitting straight up in his chair as the TV reporter got his attention when she introduced the detective, who said, “Early yesterday afternoon, police found an elderly couple viciously murdered in their home on Olive Ave. We have no other details at this time. If anyone has any information to help solve this case, please call the department.”

It was 1990 in Goldsboro, North Carolina where the killer recognized as the “Night Stalker” roamed the neighbourhoods, viciously attacking and murdering several elderly women. One of who had been assaulted in March through a violent rape and almost murdered if it wasn’t for her daughter’s early arrival. Authorities had then found materials in the house that were mistakenly left behind by the perpetrator, which had the intention to be used to burn down the residence and victim in an attempt to conceal any possible chance of identification of the suspect. Three months later, the same crime had been committed along with the following death of her husband. This house was then engulfed in flames by the perpetrator in attempt to cover the crime, however fire/rescue personnel managed to swiftly haul the bodies out from the house to test for any possible biological evidence. By comparing the vaginal swabs from both the criminal offences, it

The tragic case of two-year-old Caylee Anthony reveals the devastating consequences that murders can have on victims and their families. Caylee was an innocent toddler that lived with her mother, Casey Anthony and her maternal grandmothers, Cindy and George. On July 15, 2008 a call to 911 was sent in by Caylee’s grandmother Cindy, reporting that she hasn’t seen Caylee in 31 days and that the toddler’s mother’s car smelled like a dead body has been inside it. The toddler’s mother gave varied explanations on where her daughter was located but then admitted she hasn’t seen her in weeks. She told police that she left Caylee at her nanny’s apartment and when she returned, they were both missing. Detectives found discrepancies in a signed statement

In the case of the nineteen year-old boy accused of murdering his father, the defendant was found not guilty. After a six-day trial and much deliberation, the jury reached a verdict of not guilty. The boy was found not guilty because of problems with the testimony of an old man, questions about the the testimony of an old woman, and discrepancy regarding the stab wound of the victim.

There is a really cool new thing in the town, called the murder mystery weekend. You can book a weekend to take part in the game or just to watch how the other wanna-be detectives are going to solve the mystery. Over the whole weekend you are going to get more and more information. You can also sleep and eat there. It is a very cool idea and really good for young people cause they love it to solve a mystery.

The book Alibi for a Corpse was written by Elizabeth Lemarchand an author of many other suspenseful and entertaining books. Alibi for a Corpse was published September 1st, 1985 by Ulverscroft. This book consist of fifteen chapters and a total of 190 pages. First off there is a skeleton found in a car by some meddling kids in rural England. Looks like this will be a case for Inspector Pollard and Sergeant Toye.

A teen by the name of Mary Sullivina, was found raped and dead after a recently arrival in her new home town of Boston. The attacker had raped an approxam. Eleven women before her and had got away with it, until, DNA came into play. This case was ruled a cold case, the town had a funding for reviewing cold cases. Due to this funding, the DNA that was collected from the scene--found on the victims body and a blanket located near the body-- was compared to a nephew of a suspect, the DNA showed a similar allies with the nephew, which indicated a man by the name of Albert DeSalvo was charged with the rape and murder of Mary Sullivan . The man was sentences to life in prison and years later he was stabbed to death by inmates. Thanks to the discovery of DNA Marys case--and many other individuals who have not had justice--have been solved.

Developments in the analysis of bacteria and connecting criminals through crime scene evidence is growing. Numerous methods and tools are used for criminal identification but unfortunately, there are limitations to how accurate it can be in identifying the perpetrator. Pubic hair samples were donated by two volunteers that were almost a duplicate of microbe populations. (Rosen, M. 2015) Tridico’s explanation for this was that the two volunteers had sex. (Rosen, 2015) According to Rosen, M. (2015), “Two of the study’s participants had, in fact, had sex 18 hours before snipping off strands of their hair for Tridico’s analysis. Their bacteria apparently mingled so much, she says, that their microbial medleys became indistinguishable…Tridico thinks