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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.
Henry Rathbone: The forgotten soldier
On April 14, 1865, an actor named John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln as he watched a play. There have been many movies and books covering the story. You likely studied the details in high school or a college history class. The key players were Lincoln, First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln and Booth. There are several pictures that depict Booth shooting Lincoln to death.
By Marc Hoover6 years ago in Criminal
Reason First: A Letter to the Victims-The Patrick Henry Sherrill Murders
The phrase “going postal” has taken on a wicked history. It means now that someone has either gone crazy or is attempting to do something that is off-kilter or potentially deadly, especially in a workplace.
By Skyler Saunders6 years ago in Criminal
Reason First: American Car Bomb- The Steven Benson Murders
What provoked Stephen Benson to blow up his family in Naples, Florida on Tuesday, July 9, 1985? Was he treading on financial ground that should not have been trespassed? His anger in finding out that his mother, Margaret Benson, the inheritor of The Leaf Tobacco Company fortune (no connection to Benson and Hedges) had cut off his benefits spilled over to uncontrollable rage.
By Skyler Saunders6 years ago in Criminal
Reason First: Downsized- The Vicki Morgan Murder
Sex, murder, and mayhem not only romanticize the streets, as business magnate Shawn “JAY-Z” Carter once remarked, they can seep into the crevices of Studio City, California, as they did on Thursday July 7, 1983.
By Skyler Saunders6 years ago in Criminal
Reason First: Second-Hand Crimes- The Ugly Soul of Charles Welch, Jr.
Bernard Charles Welch, Jr. was the man who never was. Rather than applying himself to a trade or profession, he burglarized homes. As a criminal for the better portion of his adult life, Welch debased himself even more when he murdered heart doctor Dr. Michael Halberstam, 48.
By Skyler Saunders6 years ago in Criminal
Reason First: The Sarai Ribicoff Murder
Two brutes involved themselves in a crime that took the life of a promising reporter named Sarai Ribicoff. Does it matter that they were black? The descriptive nature is the only thing that matters in pointing out the two savages’ race. Otherwise, race doesn’t even exist, only racism.
By Skyler Saunders6 years ago in Criminal
23 Second Video from Lagos Leaves Everyone Confused.
A video is going around the internet, especially Nigerian Twitter. It has a lot of people scratching their heads, it has some people asking God for help when going out in this country, and it has left some just outright angry.
By Jide Okonjo6 years ago in Criminal
Reason First: When the Sins of the Father DON’T Fall on the Son-Woody Harrelson’s Hit Man Dad
Woody Harrelson had the misfortune of being the child of a contract killer. Though his father did not play a significant role in his upbringing, Woody would still be associated with him in later years. The famous actor, once he learned of his father’s placement behind the wall, used his wealth from his screen roles to seek justice for his father.
By Skyler Saunders6 years ago in Criminal
Reason First: Could Reason, Purpose, and Self-Esteem Have Prevented it All?- The Brenda Spencer Murders
Before the ghastly acts at Columbine, Virginia Tech, Sandy Hook, and Stoneman Douglass, among a whole host of others, there was the Grover Cleveland Elementary School shooting in San Diego, California on Monday January 29, 1979. The major difference between the aforementioned examples of scholastic carnage is that the perpetrator wasn’t a pimply faced twentysomething or teenage boy or boys.
By Skyler Saunders6 years ago in Criminal
Reason First: Buddy Jacobson’s Murderous Ways
On the evening of Sunday August 6, 1978, 47-year-old Howard “Buddy” Jacobson brutally carved into Jack Tupper’s face, caved in his head, and shot him eight times. A family by the name of the Carattinis discovered the unrecognizable face of Tupper in a burning wooden crate in a vacant lot.
By Skyler Saunders6 years ago in Criminal
Reason First: Unselfish in His Ways-The Casanova Killer
Some may feel that killers have no regard except for their own. This is an error. The “Casanova Killer” Paul John Knowles slayed at least eighteen people over the course of nearly four months from Florida to Texas and from Alabama to Georgia in 1974. He murdered men, women, and children. Why? He did it out of unselfishness and self-destruction.
By Skyler Saunders6 years ago in Criminal
