A hit and run of a young woman led to the unraveling of decades old mystery. On a spring day in 1990 20 year old Tonya Hughes was a victim of a hit and run then died five days later. Her death led to a mystery because she wasn’t who everyone knew her as and either was her husband Clarence Hughes. Tonya left behind a child Michael Hughes. Her husband Clarence Hughes gave the child to Oklahoma state welfare officials. Clarence disappeared because he knew that the truth was about to come out. Clarence Hughes who was actually Franklin Delano Floyd was a federal fugitive from Georgia since 1973. He was caught two months later in Georgia and sent back to prison. A blood test revealed that Floyd was not Michael father. But that didn’t matter because
As I viewed the case of Gary L. Sampson, 41, he can best be described as a man dependent on liquor and cocaine, a miscreant father, and a bank burglar with a long history of brutality. On August 1, 2001, he handed himself over to the Vermont State Police in the wake of escaping from interest for a string of three killings he submitted in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. The individuals who knew Sampson estimated that his homicides were an urgent finale to a pained life. Amid his initial life in New England, he once bound, choked, and beat three elderly ladies in a treat store. He had commandeered autos at knifepoint and was therapeutically analyzed as schizophrenic. In 1977, he wedded a 17-year-old young lady he had impregnated; after two months, he was captured and accused of assault for having "unnatural intercourse with a
On November 3rd in Marksville, Lousisana a 6-year-old boy was shot to death by two marshals. His name was Jeremy Mardis, who is autistic, was shot five times in the head and chest who was sitting in the front seat of Chris Few, the Father, pickup truck. Chris was also struck by the marshal, but was said to be in fair conditions. The two marshals Norris Greenhouse Jr., 23, and Derrick Stafford, 32, were the two officers that shot around 13 to 18 rounds that led to Chris Few with losing his son Jeremy Mardis. This event led to an enormous discovery of problems in this small town of 5,500 residents.
On July 15th, 2008 Caylee Anthony was reported missing by her grandmother after not seeing Caylee for 31 straight days. Casey Anthony had been telling her family that she was busy at work and that Caylee was at daycare or too busy for any time to be seen by her grandparents. This did not raise suspicion until Casey’s parents went to go pick up their daughters car at a tow yard. The car apparently smelled like a decomposing body was in it, or had been in it. Inside the trunk there was a plastic trash bag but there was not a body inside of it.
In 1998, Kamiyah Mobley was kidnapped right after birth from her 16 year old mother. A woman in disguise had come into the room telling her she needed to take the baby and check her temperature for a fever. When she took the baby, doctors and people in the hospital had said they haven’t seen her at all. The grandmother of Kamiyah Mobley immediately called the cops. They put out posters of the baby year after year, with a $250,000 reward if found. 18 years later, she was found. But this young South Carolina woman’s life was turned inside out Friday when the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office and FBI told her that the people she knew as family weren’t, and that Gloria Bolden Williams, the woman she called Mom for the last 18 years,
Just recently, a middle-ages man has been captured by the local police. Harris County Sheriff’s Office, Thomas Gilliland reported to the Houston Chronicle, ‘…that the relationship between Conley and the victims — who ranged in age from 6 to 50 — remains unclear.’ After the discovery, deputies applied capital murder to the bodies of six-children—ages 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, and 13. A David R. Conley was allegedly involved in an upset with the deputies that ended after the accused killer was persuaded to give in to the demands of the Harris County authorities. On a tip, deputies entered the residence to confront the abusive killing. However, according to sources—at a news conference Sunday afternoon—Chief Deputy Rim Cannon announce that the degree of
The city of Atlanta had experienced over a two year period from 1979-1981 of egregious acts of murders committed on more than twenty African American adolescent males. However, Wayne Williams, a native of Atlanta, was the center of law enforcement investigation, which implicated his involvement in at least two of the children murders around that time. Nonetheless, law enforcement linked Wayne Williams to those murders because of detailed evidence found on the victims, which was later discovered that evidence was from Williams apartment (Curriden, 1992). Furthermore, the evidence which was found was a unique fiber from the carpet of Williams apartment and the number of people having this fiber was very small in number (Curriden, 1992)). The fiber evidence was the main part of the case to associate Williams with
On June 6, 2015, two inmates at the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, New York were discovered missing early in the morning during a routine bed check. The inmates were identified as Richard Matt and David Sweat. Both men had been serving sentences for conviction of murder. Through law enforcement investigation, it was found that the two inmates sought out assistance from a female correctional officer at the correctional facility. It has been speculated that one of the inmates was involved in an inappropriate relationship with the correctional officer, identified as Joyce Mitchell. Mitchell provided
On November 21st, 1973 a man named Troy Gregg and his friend Floyd Allen were hitchhiking in Florida, they were picked up by two men, Fred Simmons and Bob Moore. Simmons and Moore’s car broke down, but Simmons bought another vehicle so they could continue onward. Still in Florida the men picked up another hitchhiker named Dennis Weaver, who traveled with the men to Atlanta. A while after dropping Weaver off at his destination the other four men, Gregg, Allen, Simmons, and Moore, stopped at a rest stop. The next morning the bodies of Simmons and Moore were found in a nearby ditch.
Wayne Bertram Williams is an infamous African-American man convicted of murder and was held responsible for who has been blamed for committing most of the Atlanta Child Murders of 1979 through 1981. Wayne Williams was conceived by his mother, Faye Williams, on May 27 1958. His father’s name was Homer Williams. Wayne Williams was born and raised in Atlanta's Dixie Hills neighborhood of Southwest Atlanta. Both of his parents happened to be teachers. He attended and graduated Fredrick Douglas High School with an honors degree and attended Georgia State University for a year before dropping out. He was fascinated with electronics and attempted several get-rich schemes which cost his parents a lot of money. Growing up, he wanted to be a DJ, so he
Jeffrey Robert MacDonald was a U.S. Army officer and a medical doctor who was convicted in 1979 of murdering his pregnant wife and two daughters in February 1970. The reason why I chose this case is because this murder case is said to be one of America’s most enduring murder mysteries and the main topic of a best-selling book. Not only this, but I also chose this case because it took about 9 years for Macdonald to be finally convicted and the U.S army got involved and made their own investigation because they didn’t believe his story. This meant that this case had many twists and turns, making it a mysterious case that’s very intriguing and wanting to know more about.
Back on October 3, 1974 at approximately 10:45pm two Memphis police officers were on patrol and received a complaint from dispatch to respond to a burglary in progress (Tennessee v. Garner, 1986). Officers Leslie Wright and Elton Hymon took the call and responded to the location in question (Tennessee v. Garner, 1986). After arriving, a neighbor told the two officers she heard glass breaking next door and “they” were breaking into the home (Tennessee v. Garner, 1986). While officer Wright radioed back to dispatch the situation, officer Hymon proceeded to the backyard of the home (Tennessee v. Garner, 1986). Hymon then heard a door slam and seen a person running across the lawn towards a chain link fence, later identified as Edward Garner
On the 1st of October, 1980, Azaria Chamberlain disappeared from her campsite at Ayers Rock. Her parents, Lindy and Michael Chamberlain, claimed that a dingo had taken her. In the months and years that ensued, the Chamberlains faced innuendo fuelled by the media, undeserved public shame and an unfair verdict handed down by a jury who had been confused and persuaded by the police, forensic experts and media outlets. Reliance on circumstantial evidence, conflicting interpretations of forensic evidence, questionable evidence by so-called experts, finding an unbiased jury after a trial by media, over zealous policing, and not all available evidence presented at the trail resulted in the guilty judgment.
It all started in 2008, when Caylee Anthony, a 2year old child went missing. The 2 year old’s mother, Casey Anthony stated to the police that the last time she has seen her daughter was when she dropped her off to the child’s babysitter. (Timeline of Casey Anthony Trial, ABC News Internet Ventures). However, things began to escalate when reporters stated that Casey didn’t report Caylee’s disappearance till a month later. At even that time, it wasn’t Casey who reported Caylee’s death; it was the grandmother, Cynthia Anthony, who was also known in this case at Cindy. (Chuck Hustmyre, Criminal
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.
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.