Skyler Saunders
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Reason First: Leopold and Loeb and the Power of a Vicious Morality
The power of philosophy is at the basis for all human action. From the most primitive jungle-dweller to the most advanced doctor in the field of physics, they must rely on the tenets of metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics, especially. Nathan Freudenthal Leopold and Richard A. Loeb found no impotence in Nietzsche’s support of the ubermensch.
By Skyler Saunders6 years ago in Criminal
Reason First: The Earned Agony of Nicola Sacco & Bartolomeo Vanzetti
Singer Joan Baez and composer Ennio Morricone recorded a song entitled “Here’s to You” in 1971 commemorating the lives of two of crime history’s most notorious figures, Nicola Sacco & Bartolomeo Vanzetti. The lyrics aren’t much. There exist only four lines. But the repetition of “That agony is your triumph” drives home the idea that these two criminals were somehow folk-heroes.
By Skyler Saunders6 years ago in Criminal
Reason First: Demonstrations
If there is to be a United States of America, let it be for the thought behind the videographer who captured the death of George Floyd. Let it be an America that captured the spectacular flight of the Spacex Crew Dragon and Falcon 9 rocket. This juxtaposition of viciousness and man’s grandeur and success paint a portrait of where Americans are in 2020.
By Skyler Saunders6 years ago in The Swamp
Reason First: The Self-Broken Wings of Murderer Robert Franklin Stroud
If you’re a murderous criminal locked behind bars and one of your consumers of patent medicines and caged birds was none other than FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, you must’ve made an impact. Now, in the case of Robert Franklin “The Birdman of Alcatraz” Stroud, this dastardly waste of human life could have found achievement in the field of ornithology.
By Skyler Saunders6 years ago in Criminal
Reason First: Why did Dentist Dr. Arthur Warren Waite Commit Murder?
In his selection for his last meal before being electrocuted in Sing Sing, did Dr. Arthur Warren Waite request some typhoid, pneumonia and diphtheria? Did he ask for an arsenic soufflé for dessert? While there are no records of whether Waite asked for such arrangements, it is clear that he used such substances to dispatch his mother-in-law and father-in-law. As a prosperous dentist before his murderous ways, Dr. Waite had become familiar with various bacteria and chemicals.
By Skyler Saunders6 years ago in Criminal
Reason First: The Tale of Murderous Crooked Cop Charles Becker
A dedicated woman can still hold out and show support for a corrupt cop…even in his death. Charles Becker received a sentence of the death penalty, won an appeal, and then the state rejected that appeal and Becker rode the lightning in Sing Sing.
By Skyler Saunders6 years ago in Criminal
Reason First: Fitzhugh Coyle Goldsborough and the Writer he Murdered
At a clip of 6,000 words a day, David Graham Phillips built up a reputation as a successful novelist dedicated to his art. The writer lived in New York City with his sister. He did not know that his work would lead someone else to consider him a target for murder. On the evening of January 23, 1911, Phillips, dressed in the gentleman’s style completed by a black alpine hat, journeyed to his social club in New York, the Princeton.
By Skyler Saunders6 years ago in Criminal
Reason First: Thomas Jennings and the Power of Fingerprints Forensics
Like a dramatic scene from a play, Chicago is regarded as the first city in the United States to recognize the practice and convict a man based on fingerprints as evidence. The night of the murder of Clarence B. Hiller would shake anyone to the core. A weird sound aroused Hiller and his wife from their slumber. In a struggle, Hiller and the anonymous figure tumbled down the staircase like two dogs wrestling.
By Skyler Saunders6 years ago in Criminal
Dr. Bennett Clark Hyde’s Role as the Accused Murderous Physician
Missouri state law limits the amount of trials to three. This would prove crucial in this case. Dr. Bennett Clark Hyde, in 1910, experienced the cold steel of justice around his wrists for his suspected role in the murders of Colonel Thomas Hunton Swope and Chrisman Swope. Investigators had found traces of strychnine and cyanide in their bodies and alleged that Dr. Hyde had been responsible for poisoning them.
By Skyler Saunders6 years ago in Criminal
Reason First: Chester Gillette and the Murder in the Adirondacks
On Big Moose Lake, in 1906, the water rocked the boat in a steady motion. Two young people who had become smitten with each other but had their own demons enjoyed each other’s company. Chester Gillette looked at the comely Grace Brown and smiled. It appears as if the two had fallen in the most profound and sincere kind of love. He carried with him a tennis racket. He withdrew the tennis racket and whacked her in the face in the head with it like an axeman chopping at a tree. Grace lost consciousness and fell overboard. Under the assumed name Carl Graham, Gillette journeyed back to the shore with supreme confidence.
By Skyler Saunders6 years ago in Criminal
Reason First: The Murderer Could Have Had a Backbone
What does it take for a monster to prey upon a couple mourning their dead son at the Delaware Veterans Memorial Cemetery? In a place of solemnity and reflection, the place became a crime scene when 29-year-old Sheldon Francis opened fire against 86-year-old Paul Marino and his 85-year-old wife, Lidia. In an exchange of gunfire by Francis and Delaware State Police, the gunman fell by a police round.
By Skyler Saunders6 years ago in Criminal
Suburban Fortress
Slick with rain, the street looks like a horizontal asphalt water slide. The cars pass intermittently like the rainfall. Where are these neighbors going? Do they consider the green grass from the manicured lawn? The blades raise up like hands to the sky.
By Skyler Saunders6 years ago in Wander
