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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.
Reason First: Monster Matriarch- The Death Row Granny
Roach, ant poison, and iced tea don’t make for the best cocktail. Yet Velma Margi Barfield thought this would be the perfect drink for her fiancé to imbibe. For her actions, she would become the first woman to die by lethal injection. But not before advocates argued her sentence be commuted because Barfield had recently become a born-again.
By Skyler Saunders5 years ago in Criminal
Story of Diogo Alves
Diogo Alves- Diogo Alves was a Spanish-born Portuguese serial killer. Between 1836 to 1840 Alves killed seventy people. His committed crimes were all around Águas Livres Aqueduct. On February 19, 1841 Alves was sentenced to death and hanged. Alves’ head was separated from his body. His head was placed in a flask so it could be preserved for scientific purposes. His head is at University of Lisbon’s Faculty of Medicine where his head is now a tourist attraction.
By Drake Waggoner5 years ago in Criminal
Reason First: Decisions and Chemicals- The Shoe Fetish Slayer
Childhood trauma and mistreatment seem to cut like blades through the psyches of numerous killers, and Jerry Brudos was no exception. His mother dressed him up as a girl, because she was dissatisfied that he wasn’t born a girl. So by the age of five, Brudos had developed a fetish for women’s shoes.
By Skyler Saunders5 years ago in Criminal
Reason First: The Slayer Orderly- Donald Harvey
Donald Harvey was no Jack Kevorkian, no “Angel of Mercy” helping people choose the time of their death. He murdered people instead of alleviating their pain with measured actions. As an orderly in the hospitals of Cincinnati, Ohio, and London, Kentucky, his methods included suffocating, pulling tubes from oxygen tanks, poisoning his victims with cyanide and arsenic, and overdosing people on insulin and morphine.
By Skyler Saunders5 years ago in Criminal
I Didn’t Know That I Was Friends With a Pedophile
In college, I spent one summer working as a counselor at an overnight camp. I didn’t want to work at the camp — it was in the middle of nowhere in rural New England; I wanted to work at Dunkin Donuts and spend the summer going to the beach with my friends from high school.
By Maggie Lupin5 years ago in Criminal
The Story of Serial Killers
The history of mankind has witnessed cold-blooded crimes which turned the world upside down and drove it down to the world of insanity. Many of these crimes inspired Hollywood to recreate their stories in movies. While one watches these movies, one can barely think someone would commit such atrocities. Whether it is a brain-sickness or something else the people committing these crimes do not hesitate to keep doing these crimes. Here is a list of some of the serial killers that changed history forever.
By Drake Waggoner5 years ago in Criminal
Reason First: Patrick Kearney’s Choice- The Trash Bag Murderer
Patrick Kearney hunted other gay men who could be more imposing than his fragile, 5’5” stature from 1965 to 1977. In total, he murdered over forty men, primarily along the California highways, in what would be known as the “trash bag murders.”
By Skyler Saunders5 years ago in Criminal
Reason First: The Selfless Slayer-The Co-ed Killer
Incarcerated instructor to the blind, with an IQ of 145 (for whatever that's worth), convicted serial killer Edmund Kemper is an ideal inmate in the California Medical Center. We know his conviction for the murder of ten human beings led to his incarceration, and his preference for killing, mutilating, and engaging in post-mortem taboo sex acts with young girls and college women, led to his new name: “The Co-ed Killer." But what turned him into the kind of person who could do such horrible things?
By Skyler Saunders5 years ago in Criminal
A Fraudster, A Torturer, A 'Gaslighter' And A Murderer - This 'Friend' Was Not Who He Seemed
A younger person getting together with an older (and often, more affluent) person and wanting to get their hands on the older person's money is nothing new. We have terms for it, like 'gold-digger'. What makes this story rather more unusual is the sheer, contemptuous and unalloyed greed, coupled to the heartless contempt. It seems that Field's victims meant nothing to him at all.
By Andy Killoran5 years ago in Criminal
Reason First: When Compassion is Omitted- The Boston Strangler Case
Mystery once abounded in the case of the “Boston Strangler” during the early 1960’s. Around the time of the crimes, authorities lacked any physical evidence linking the crime to Albert DeSalvo, the killer they ultimately convicted. He didn’t even fit the name. Monikers like “The Green Man” and “The Measuring Man” applied to him. So, there was still a cloud of uncertainty hanging over a case involving the deaths of thirteen women. Imagine the terror these women faced right before DeSalvo snuffed out their lives. DeSalvo’s level of irrationality must have been high. To not think about anything beyond extinguishing the very lives he held in his hands, made him an animal.
By Skyler Saunders5 years ago in Criminal
