Villisca Ax Murder House Research Paper

Would you stay at a hotel you didn’t know that much about? Many people did in 1893 during the World Fair in Chicago (Suddath 1). Lots of people stayed in a hotel known as the “Murder Castle”, thinking it was a regular hotel until they stayed over for one night. Barely anyone made it out because of Henry Howard Holmes the sick and notorious murder. Holmes did not have a pleasant childhood, which led him into the huge crimes he committed and how he died at a young age.

    During the 1893 Columbian Exposition, H.H. Holmes was one of the first serial killers of America. Holmes would lure his victims into his building which he transformed into his “murder castle.” First he would manipulate his victims by coming off as a

Someone ended up purchasing the home and turned it in to the Borden Bed and Breakfast along with a museum. The most requested room in the house to stay in is the room where Abby Borden was murdered and mutilated. Today, thousands of people visit the Borden bed and breakfast yearly to see where these gruesome murders had taken

The National Geographic film, A Portrait of a Killer, examines the types of stress that living beings can endure, and how it can thus affect the rest of their bodies. Severe chronic stress can lead even lead to the destruction of brain cells. Dr. Robert Sapolsky is a neurobiologist of Stanford University who has been researching stress for over thirty years. In order to study stress and its implications upon nonhumans, he went to Africa to study baboons. This species has only three hours of stress caused by eating, and the rest of their daily routine is consumed by about nine hours of free time. Much like Western society, baboons socially stress out one another, as they have social hierarchies to regulate how them interact with one another.

“A serial murder’s compulsion to kill may be likend to an addiction”(Dolan 51). Serial killers have an urge to kill. In most cases they can’t control it. Often times, serial killers have phases in which they follow steps before they kill. This is found in Robert W Dolan’s “The Ritual Phases”. For some killers it is a way of life and they kill multiple times before being caught. In “The Landlady” by Roald Dahl the landlady kills multiple young men. She follows steps which demonstrate that she is a killer. The landlady in the story is a serial killer because she looks kind and charming, is alert for her victims and she keeps her victims as a souvenir as do most serial killers.

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.

America has some of the most infamous serial killers who marked history, serial killers who once didn’t even think to harm any human being. Many people grow up differently from others, some people grow up in a safe environment surrounded with caring people and others grow up in a completely different environment being missed treated by others, therefore are serial killers made or born?

The Villisca Ax Murder was one of most horrific murders that have ever accrued. This was about 97 years ago, so this was before serial killers and some mass murders were part of our daily lives. In a mid-western town called Villisca, Iowa, two adults and all six of there children were brutally murdered in there bedrooms.

Fifth Estate’s 40th episode, “the interrogation room”, essentially analyzes an open murder case that occurred on November the third of 2006; the murder case revolves the shooting and eventual death of a male attending named Mervyn “Mikey” Spence, at a birthday party. The case was investigated over the course of four years in which the Peel Police had made arrests, but through the use of controversial interrogation methods, were redirected to charge and imprison an innocent male named, Eric “Action” Morgan. To further justify his innocence, Morgan reveals his guests to the investigators at his party who were at the time of the shooting, ultimately be his alibi(s). However, after the witnesses being held for several hours, threatened and reprimanded, they recanted their statements and later stated that s/ he

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.

There were two killings sites, one with Tate and her friends, the other a married couple, both had things written on the walls in

Throughout the years of 1972 and 1978 in Cook County, Illinois, there was an American serial killer. His name is John Wayne Gacy, A.K.A, “Killer Clown”, murdering 33 young men and boys. Gacy would first sexually assaulted these men, murder them and then dispose of their bodies. In a grotesque manner, he hid these bodies under his house in the crawlspace while throwing the last three victims in the Des Plaines River. Gacy was an ordinary family man who had a wife and two children, he owned a business and even dressed up as a clown to entertain the neighborhood children, but yet Gacy had a separate life with a disturbing secret. Human beings already have a compulsive want for information so they want to have an understanding for cold-blooded

The Purchase of Mass, spree or serial killer paraphernalia should not be a crime, however, a person that has interest in paraphernalia should be looked down upon for having enthusiasms for such market. I don’t believe it should be a crime unless the seller stole the material and is selling the item on the black market. We live in a capitalistic country and the freedom we get in this country is what makes this country so great. Some people with mental problems may get the motivation to go kill because of the purchase of mass, spree or serial killer paraphernalia, but those are very few in number. We shouldn’t lose our right to a free economic system where we can buy and sell items unless they are not illegal or narcotics.

I was never a "soaps" fan, so my apologies to those who are and can't believe that I only discovered Ali Sweeney a couple years ago when she started making films for Hallmark. Honestly, every film she has made for the Hallmark Channel and the Hallmark Movies & Mysteries Network has been virtual gold for the brand, and the viewers have been ecstatic about her films. I count myself as a definite fan, and every time I interviewed one of her co-stars, I heard such phenomenal things about Ali herself. It had been a desire of mine for some time to chat with her about the Murder, She Baked series, and as proof that dreams do come true, it happened! And here is the gracious and talented Ali herself as she responded to a wide variety of fan questions

True horror story always make readers interesting. Horror stories make readers to more concentrate while they are reading. The book The Amityville Horror by Jay Anson is also based on a murder case that happened inside a house. In the book, Reverend John Nicola makes two claims. With the SEARCHing strategy, I can state the claims are reasonable.