guilty

Don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time; a look into all aspects of a guilty verdict from the burden of proof to conviction to the judge’s sentence and more.

"I Don't Like Mondays"
America has a history of school shootings dating all the way back to 1764 in which the schoolmaster of a settlers' log schoolhouse and ten students were killed during Pontiac's Rebellion. The ones that most likely come to mind are those with the highest body counts, which include the ones committed at Virginia Tech (the highest one to date with thirty-three deaths), Columbine High School, and Sandy Hook Elementary School. As shocking as those were, many people might be unfamiliar with the first-ever school shooting committed by a female. She may not have had the highest body count, but she managed to carry it all out without having to step foot onto the property. Brenda Ann Spencer told those around her that she wanted to do something big to get on TV, and she got her wish.
By Cat the Autist5 years ago in Criminal
True Crime
Charlotte Pollis was born 7/4/1965, Independence Day in North America. It certainly did not turn out to be a freedom filled life for Charlotte Pollis by any stretch of the imagination because she came up missing on March 12, 1994, from her home in the small town of Girard, Ohio merely four months before her 29th birthday. She just disappeared. It was almost as if she’d never existed. I guess for people who do things like, “make people disappear,” they would love for you to forget that Charlotte Pollis existed. That makes getting away with her disappearance, and unsolved murder that much easier for them to get away with. I know that I am calling this an unsolved murder. This is something that the Girard Police have never done to date because they continue to feel that it lacks the evidence to even call it more than a missing person’s case. I on the other hand, out of respect for Charlotte and her family, want to call this case exactly what it is. I want to be realistic, and honest about this case in particular because, it appears to involve some improprieties with that very police department, but it also involves a trend during an earlier time frame in this country when men got away with murdering their spouses and no one did anything about it. Women had at one time been considered to be property of their husbands and what went on in a home, stayed there in many cases. Being abused, and beaten by spouses has gone unreported, underreported, unchecked and unprosecuted for years and years in this country. There are cold cases that have started to be solved involving spouses in recent years that are just now being prosecuted today.
By DEEJAY 5 years ago in Criminal
The Crime of the Century in Christchurch, New Zealand. First Place in True Crime Challenge.
When a gruesome murder took place in the quiet, conservative town of Christchurch, New Zealand in the summer of 1954, it sent shockwaves through the nation, garnering international headlines. The victim, 45-year-old Honora Parker, was bludgeoned to death in broad daylight with a brick in a nylon. The assailants? Her 16-year-old daughter Pauline Parker, and Pauline’s closest friend, 15-year-old Juliet Hulme.
By Dana Maxwell5 years ago in Criminal
The Greyhound Bus Cannibal
On July 30, 2008, just after midnight, Greyhound bus 1170 departed on a 24-hour journey to British Columbia. The bus contained many passengers, including Tim Mclean.
By Emma Comeaux5 years ago in Criminal
Looking Into His Angel Eyes Part 1
There is an ABBA song with the words „don’t look too deep into his angel eyes”. Well, unfortunately, women looked into this killer’s angel eyes and as a result, they were murdered.
By Rasma Raisters5 years ago in Criminal
How is a Monster Made?
On an unusually cool summer night, my friends and I gathered around the room on tan cotton couches and initiated a discussion. One of them was a counselor at a prison and mentioned a case that he had been involved with that garnered a lot of attention.
By RJ5 years ago in Criminal
Born Evil?
What Happened to Martin Brown? On May 25th, 1968, a child's dead body was found in a derelict house by a group of boys, who notified the authorities. The boys were followed back into the building by two little girls, who had to be shooed out by police. They noticed no outward signs of trauma and an empty bottle of pills lying near the body during their investigation. The boy's death was deemed accidental.
By A. Grace5 years ago in Criminal
Sweet But Psycho
TikTok has become almost everyone's favorite form of entertainment during quarantine. The platform has catchy dances and unique challenges but this one seems to be a bit creepy. The song "Sweet But Psycho" by Ava Max has gained some traction on the friendly platform in 2020, pretty girls would make videos to this song and gain popularity but this one TikTok account decided to make the meaning of the song, literal.
By Tania Hill5 years ago in Criminal
1973
At 63 years of age, I have read about many crimes through the years. However, to this day, there is one crime that still lingers in my memory, haunting me since the impressionable age of fourteen.
By Cindy Calder5 years ago in Criminal
The Case of Stephen McDaniel
I could talk about the manifesto of Christopher Dorner with the handful of people he killed and those he chose not to kill or the evilness of Chris Watts and the horrendous things he did to his very own family, but I feel the most interesting true crime murder to me is the case of Stephen McDaniel. Why do you ask? Simply because of how very close he was to not being caught even going as far as to talk to the local news about his victim, and because of how much of a “normal” person he portrayed himself as until he was questioned by the police where you can watch him have an internal implosion. Let's take it back to the beginning, two law students one by the name of Lauren Giddings and the other by the name of Stephen McDaniel. McDaniel having an infatuation with Lauren starting as friends they would talk to each other sometimes and even in the rarity that they would it was always over schoolwork, and things of that nature. Over the next few months, McDaniels would watch Lauren leave her apartment and record her doing so, and after learning her schedule he stole a master key and would break into her dorm room and go through her things. Lauren coming home after a long day at either work or school she would come into her apartment and notice things moved around saying “I feel like someone's been here”. Maybe if she went with that feeling what's to come would have never happened, but unfortunately, that's not the case. In May 2011 Stephen McDaniels broke into Laurens apartment while she was asleep in bed she noticed and began to scream McDaniels sprang on top of her and held her down in a valiant effort she stretched and screamed but McDaniels got the best of her and suffocated her to death. Three days later her friends came to look for her at her apartment, but McDaniels already cut up her body and disposed of it. In a plan to make him seem innocent he helped them look for her in the apartment when they found nothing they called the police. He went once to the police department and they suspected he did nothing but once the police find the torso and he’s told mid-interview and you can see the “oh I'm caught” look on his face which at the time might be confused for an “oh no my friend died” look. Then after the detectives found swords, guns, and condoms they asked him why he had condoms in his room if during the first line of questioning he said he was “staying celibate till marriage” which he answered “oh I stole them from someone else's apartment” and that gave detectives enough to arrest him on breaking and entering. Now comes my favorite part of the investigation which is the interview done after the torso was found. Enter McDaniels to the investigation room, he processed to morph into a blank face that suggests he doesn't know anything thing about Lauren or her murder. The investigators caught on to his guilty act and proceeded to grill him heavy on what happened and what he was doing at the time. The investigator even goes as far as to compare the murder of Lauren to him taking a cookie out of the cookie jar without permission. This leads to McDaniels going into an ever more state of dissociation and makes the tape ever more interesting to watch. Now anybody who wishes to be a detective and anything of the sort should watch this video, because of what's to come and how McDaniels react to the line of questioning. Every question asked is answered by a monotone “I don't know” or “no” but in the other interviews had by the investigator it suggests that this was the first time he acted like this. The torso found by police made him feel defenseless and it shows in the investigation video but he didn't confess to anything in the whole video, but somehow as humans, we know that he is guilty just by watching the video because as humans we know at heart how we react to things, and in watching the video anyone even an “evil” soul knows that McDaniels knows something he's not telling. The rest of the interview is a soulless monster saying “he doesn't know” what happened, but only a few days ago he was cutting her arms and legs off her torso. Why I find this to be the most interesting is because if they never found the torso they would’ve never caught this boy and all the other body parts were never discovered. Which to me is screaming that he almost got away with it, but as I said before, on camera you can see the moment of fear and terror in his face when he realized he's gonna have to pay for his crime. This is why I find this to be the most interesting case to me personally because of how he acts in the post-interview and how he almost got away with it if he put the torso in a different place. Even if he was just a little better at lying the police would have not suspected anything from him. This was a young man studying to become a lawyer. I find it so fascinating because what if he had time to get older and get better at what he was doing, and it makes me think of all the same kinds of people out there doing the same thing but not getting caught. It's a terrible crime but a really good look into how the mind of a murderer works.
By Jesus Abraham Torres5 years ago in Criminal
The Most Dangerous Woman in the UK Prison System
It is a truth, universally acknowledged, that a serial killer should be creepy, male and have a terrible and abusive childhood. I may have overstated the case. Sure, there's some wiggle room in there for outliers like Bundy, only creepy after the fact, and Eileen Wuornos… but for the most part, the average person's mind will go straight to John Wayne Gacy or Ed Gein.
By Argumentative Penguin5 years ago in Criminal
Tea with Australia's Charles Manson
There didn’t seem to be anything remarkable about the man sitting in front of me, as a new tenant of a council owned flat, he was entitled to a welfare visit to make sure he had access to the right housing Benefit. We wanted to make sure that any new tenants wouldn’t get into arrears with their rent.
By Gillian Lesley Scott5 years ago in Criminal