Videotape: A Gruesome Crime Of The Texas Highway Killer

A very popular debate goes on between people on whether or not capital punishment should exist or not. “A Death in Texas” was wrote by Steve Earle, and the main subject is capital punishment. The death penalty should not be allowed, and should not even exist, because it’s murder itself, people can change, and we don’t have the right to take another human beings life.

The setting of this novel is based in a very fatally dangerous neighborhood. Often times, the narrator and main character Mann, describes the true setting of his surroundings. “They kill people where I live. They shoot ‘em dead for no real reason” (Flake, Page 1). Mann has struggled through not only his brother’s death, but his relatives and close friends as well. His neighborhood is unexpected in killings and shootings. “A boy walks out of his house and goes to the store for milk and Bang! He’s dead.” (Flake, Page 78) The description of Mann’s neighborhood is very pertinent compared to today’s society. This novel relates to society because there are dangerous cities in America like Chicago, Detroit, Memphis, and everyday news articles get published about killings, shootings and stabbings. The audiences are into movies that are relevant to what they have already observed, whether it is a personal experience or based on news stories. If this novel gets adapted into a motion picture, it has the ability to spread a positive message to hopefully change people’s outlook on these situations to help towards the cause and fight for a

In the Texas Death Row YouTube video, three men were filmed through their journey living on death row, which include: Will Earl Pondexter Jr., Johnny Raw Johnson, and David Martinez.

It was the mugshot seen everywhere. The case the shook a decade and changed the way the U.S public handles the crimes of celebrities. In 1994, then America’s sweetheart Orenthal Simpson better known as O.J Simpson was arrested and charged with the murders of his estranged wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman. There had never been a phenomenon like this before. It further separated an already divided nation and sparked a conversation on the obsession and idealizing of America’s elite. There have been many depictions of the crime and following court case, but only few correctly capture the essence of the race, celebrity, and power that lied at the center of the case. Ezra Edelman’s OJ: Made in America is one of the better documentaries. Edelman’s OJ: Made in America uses technical codes, specifically music and editing to explore the “Hollywood-esque” magnitude and celebrity of the OJ Simpson murder case and unbiasly connect viewers to the case.

American television viewers have an insatiable appetite for televised violence, and as they become desensitized to violent images they seek out stronger images. The image providers have discovered a novel way to increase the intensity of the violent images -- move away from entertainment violence and show real violence. In the past few years real "life and death" programming has become more commonplace on television, both as news and entertainment programming. Shows like Cops, Real Life Encounters with Wild Animals, and Real Highway Pursuits have begun to appear on our television screens with an incresing regularity. These programs routinely show acts of real violence, caught on home video. Television news directors have adopted the credo "if it bleeds, it leads" to such an extent that it has almost become cliche. The thrill of watching fake violence is waning and being replaced by the drama of watching real violence. And the higher the body count, the more we watch.

The Uniform Crime Reporting program was started in 1929 by the International Association of Chiefs of Police. It is known to be the starting place for people like criminal justice students to find information on crime.

When it comes to paranoia, the human brain is great at creating stories that heighten what we fear, have experienced, and will experience. We like to scare ourselves, bend the truth, create a monster out of truth. That is the same case with what is being told in The Killer in the Backseat stories. What may have one time been true and a common occurrence has been glorified into something much darker that now subconsciously forces people to often check their back seats anywhere they stop, just in case. This story is also known as High Beams due to some important points in the stories that can help ease some of the character's anxiety about their life being in danger.

Video is now being used primarily for capturing important moments in one’s life, including some of the most tragic. Both Jackie Kennedy and Diamond Reynolds lost their significant other at the hands of shooters captured on video. There are many similarities between the killings of John F. Kennedy and Philando Castile. Both Kennedy and Castile were unfairly shot in cars with their girlfriend or wife by his side, but most importantly: both shootings and their aftermath we captured on video. These videos both reveal as much as they conceal and give us different perspectives on the deaths of these men. Abraham Zapruder accidentally captured the shooting of President Kennedy when he was videotaping the passing of the presidential motorcade

Countless tragedies have occurred throughout history, from the enslavement of the Israelites by the Egyptians in ancient times to the modern subjugation of the Shiite Muslims by their Sunni governments. These tragedies range from terrorist attacks with mass casualties to smaller, lesser known atrocities, but all of these events have at least one commonality: in the aftermath of the tragedy, society attempts to find the reason for the tragedy, a motivation for the attack. Thomas Wolfe focuses on a tragedy that people in recent times may not be familiar with: the rampage of a lone gunman as he relentlessly murdered the innocent people of a rural town in North Carolina at the turn of the twentieth century. Unlike most writers, in The Child by

I am FBI Agent John Smith and I have been assigned a case that involves the murder of American Will Rodgers. Rodgers was taken hostage and murdered by a foreign based Al Qaeda affiliated group while attending a conference in Yemen. Al Qaeda announced in a video disseminated to news stations that Rodgers was killed in retaliation for the United States targeting and killing Muslims worldwide. I have identified the killer and his whereabouts in Yemen.

Real crime or true story is a recently denomination term used to refer to nonfictional acting of actual crimes, usually murders. There has been little methodical study of the genre; critics and scholars offer contradictory theories about true-crime literature. Although the term and the popularity of the genre are relatively new, factual accounts of crimes are not. True-crime accounts date back as far as the 18th century, and such writers as Edmund Pearson, William Roughead, and Jonathan Goodman described the exploits of criminals earlier in the twentieth century. Critics agree that Truman Capote 's In Cold Blood gave birth to the genre (Fathers fall 1990). Called a nonfiction novel, the book was a not factual account of the murder of a Kansas family in which Capote focused on the killers not the victims, as was the norm previously. In attempting to explain why the killers acted as they did, Capote 's work and Steve Carell, Channing Tatum and Mark Ruffalo work could be considered classics of the genre. This essay takes its print to compare and contrast the two crime based movies by looking into their content and setting to bringing out their similarities and differences. It also outlines some of the benefits of such genres is society.

In the riveting documentary Audrie & Daisy, husband and wife director team Bonnie Cohen and Jon Shenk retrace the events leading up to the harrowing sexual assaults of three teenaged girls; Audrie Pott, Daisy Coleman, and Paige Parkhurst, and expose the agonizing after effects and exploitation of the assaults. Subsequent interviews with family members, friends and law enforcement officials give important details about the aftermath of the events, and introduce viewers to possibly the biggest villain of all, Sherriff Darren White of Maryville, Missouri. Throughout the documentary White appears smug while he states that “as County Sheriff, “the buck stops here” (Darren White), and when asked about the crimes committed by Maryville’s football star, he rebuts with “was there a crime?” (Darren White) As the film moves through the twists and turns of the cases, the settings, conflicts, and tragedies are enhanced by the use of montage, long and subjective shots, close-ups and personal sketches that submerge the audience into the victim’s point of view. At the conclusion of the film, the viewer is left to decide what constitutes sexual assault and rape, and if society and law enforcement are to blame for the today’s ‘rape culture’ acceptance and the continued victimization of young girls. It also reveals how much can be hidden from parents, and how disconnected parents become from their children in a social media world.

One day, Billy Bronco was strolling through the forest, when he spotted a monkey. Billy prayed that someday, he could do one thing, accept neigh when oncomers would go into the forest, when the monkey spotted him. Then the monkey said,

If I were to remake the 1974 version of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, I would update it to have current technology. I would update the movie so people had cell phones; I would have social media play a big part in the movie; I would also put in updated vehicles and machinery. With these changes to the movie I feel like it would help the movie become more modern.

Criminology is a subject that attracts the general public by the masses, a fascination that can be seen from reality TV shows such as “Cops” to fiction works of “Law and Order”, and to other spectrum of non-fiction such as NPR’s “Serial” outlining the murder of Hei Min Li in the 90’s and Truman Capote’s “In Cold Blood.” These examinations of non-fiction amass such a cult following for a reason, and it’s because it makes a good story. A story that would otherwise be boring were it not for the selection and elimination of certain facts to wind a tale that keeps the attention of the listener or reader, the same methods and techniques used by those in the legal system to bend the outcome and conviction to what they would like it to be. Just as a lawyer utilizes the necessary tools to lead the jury and judge to the conclusion that erases any essence of reasonable doubt, so does Capote with his particular structure, object motifs, and character buildup. Hickman suggests that Capote is such an individual that he enjoys the shock value an individual may have when witnessing an event, or in the case of his nonfiction novel, he may revel in the shock a reader has when discovering the horrors that occurred in the little town of Holcomb, Kansas .(Hickman,465). However such upset cannot be created without jarring evidence and a lack of distraction, a guiding hand lent by a lawyer or in story teller to lead the reader to erase any reasonable doubt that the murderer is defendants are