investigation
Whodunnit, and why? All about criminal investigations and the forensic methods used to search for clues and collect evidence to get to the bottom of the crime.
How A Set Of Doppelgangers Changed Prison System Policies
Handcuffs, fingerprinting, and mugshots are the three things that people generally think of when they picture someone being arrested and taken to jail. Fingerprinting is a tool that has solved tens of thousands of crimes, perpetuated the arrest of thousands of offenders, and even exonerated those who were innocent.
By Kassondra O'Hara5 years ago in Criminal
Legal Case Analysis
Introduction This analysis is a legal analysis of four court cases, two having to do with the allowing or disallowing the handling of forensic evidence, and two allowing or disallowing the handling of testimonial evidence. The purpose of this analysis is to give the facts of these cases, describe the rulings, the courts’ rationalizations for these rulings, and how these cases relate to criminal investigations. All of these cases are related in some way to the Fourth and/or Fifth Amendments, and these cases have dealt with the rights and freedoms of Americans. The intent of this analysis is to show an understanding of how varying court cases have affected the laws pertaining to criminal investigations, and how an investigation can be undertaken in a legal manner, so as to not have collected evidence thrown out, and to not violate the rights of the accused.
By Johnny Ringo5 years ago in Criminal
Bad Seeds?
Twenty-seven years after the murder of two-year-old James Bulger, the mention of his murderers’ names still provokes hatred and vitriol in a large section of society. Robert Thompson and Jon Venables were just ten years old when they committed their terrible crime, a fact which undoubtably added to the horror expressed by people as they struggled to come to terms with this most baffling phenomenon – children who kill. The Press brandished the pair ‘monsters’, and ‘evil’, but the psychological wellness, or otherwise, of these two young boys was left virtually unexamined at the time, and the question of ‘why?’ went unasked, and unanswered. Is it possible that abuse or neglect in their own lives could have played some part in altering normal development in these young minds, and could this have rendered them more likely to commit such a dreadful act?
By Sarah Newlyn5 years ago in Criminal
HONOR KILLING
Death is inevitable, we’re all destined to die one day; but for some, death lies in the hands of the ones we call family. Most often being the murder of a female by male family relatives, honor killings are acts of vengeance, usually death, committed by members of a family against a family member due to the belief of the perpetrator that the victim has brought dishonor upon the ménage (the members of the household) . Thus, in order to ‘purify’ the family name and prestige, they selfishly murder their own flesh and blood. It is often also referred to as ‘femicide’ since women represent the highest percentage of fatalities in this practice. Honor killing is especially prevalent in the Southern parts of Asia – Pakistan and India, and the Middle East , where women are at a great social and institutional disadvantage. In these societies this ferocious act is not viewed as murder; rather it is dressed up with a more refined and polished label: ‘honor killing’.
By Hafsa Rehman5 years ago in Criminal
Unsolved - The Tylenol Murders
Americans everywhere, whether they know it or not, have had their everyday life impacted by a single event. Imagine: it’s 1982, the Steve Miller Band is topping charts, E.T is the hottest new film, but those things don’t matter as the entire country’s gaze focuses on Chicago, Illinois. On September 29, the city experienced its first of seven tragic killings. 12-year-old Mary Kellerman woke up experiencing a mild fever and sore throat, not uncommon for this time of year. To resolve the fever, her parents give her a capsule of extra-strength Tylenol, unknowingly sealing her fate. By the time 7:00 am rolled around Mary was pronounced dead.
By Alesia Brooks5 years ago in Criminal
Community Outreach V. Murder
In a time when we have an innate fear of the harder to swallow facts, there is a need for those willing to dedicate their lives to these harsher realities. The importance of task forces to handle specific problems is nothing new for the justice system. The hard question we have to ask is what can we do to improve on these processes? The mounting pressure combined with simple human error can lead to missteps that may not allow initial connections to be made or to areas that were not previously explored. A singular task force without interchangeable individuals can lead to overworked and overwhelmed people. But in a world where the people protecting us are overwhelmed and have more than enough to be concerned about, where can we turn to help us find more people dedicated to the safety and justice of others?
By Cheyney Hope Morgan5 years ago in Criminal
Solving the Unsolvable
In my previous article, Community Outreach V. Murder, I had mentioned the importance of communities working with their local and state police departments to assist with the high amounts of unsolved cases throughout America. I had also mentioned the important work of Thomas Hargrove with the Murder Accountability Project (MAP) and how it significantly supports the idea of serial murders being a big connection to many unidentified persons and cold cases. In a quote from Thomas Hargrove’s LinkedIn page, they report that “The Murder Accountability Project has assembled the nation's most complete database of homicides and unsolved homicides, including details about more than 20,000 murders never reported to the FBI. We have also developed an algorithm that can spot unsolved cases with an elevated probability of being the work of uncaught serial killers.” This alone is the start we need to help begin a beautiful symbiosis between the community and the justice system. In this article, I hope to bring light to the true crisis of unreported murders and how they eventually turn into cold cases. Without community assistance or the assistance of people like Thomas Hargrove, we can cast a veil that blinds us to the horrors lurking underneath which can be dangerous or lead to future victims falling into the same pattern as the past victims.
By Cheyney Hope Morgan5 years ago in Criminal
John Christie Was The Killer - But His Evidence Helped Get His Neighbour Executed For The Crime
In 1953, London police entered an apartment at 10, Rillington Place, Notting Hill, London. Notting Hill was not then the desirable neighbourhood it became. Rillington Place was reasonably typical - terraced houses, rented not owned, occupied by multiple families: A working-class and unsophisticated area, but not in the worst part of London: There were worse areas, for sure.
By Andy Killoran5 years ago in Criminal
Love
My Sister This is a plea for any one that is an abusive situation, get away before its to late. I wouldn't wish this pain on my worse enemy and after you read this you know who mine is. My sister has five children that she loves very much, i know this because they are beautiful and healthy kids. She started a really bad relationship around 14 years ago. She hid all the black eyes and bruises very well and when she had my only niece she became very secretive and distant. That was the very first sign of things going down hill for her. Shortly after my oldest nephew was born she moved away about 2 hours into the neighboring state and I didn't see her for the next 2 years. When I did see her she had a new baby she didn't tell us about. Very shortly after he was born she was pregnant again and hid that whole pregnancy as well. Little did I know she was being beaten almost to the point of death. I'm not sure if it was because he kept getting her pregnant as to why she never left him or if she just really loved him or if she was just really scared to say anything to her family, but whatever it was she still didn't leave. So the next 2 years go by and she moves back to our home town now by this time she stayed away from us even though she was very close to us. Then one day my niece says to me we have a baby in the hospital, I said what yeah auntie we got a baby in the hospital! I ask her and she still lie and say no she don't know what she is talking about, eventually she had to tell us. I don't know why I wasn't more involved, I guess it was because she didn't want to tell me what was going on she automatically knew that I would definitely do something about it. Just because a person doesn't tell you out there mouth that they need help doesn't mean they don't. This year my sister had had enough she called the police and told them what was going on, they came to arrest him but they let him right back out the next day despite the fact he is a felon. One day my sister calls me and tells me a lot that has been going on and she is tired of it and wants out. So I tell her about this new job I have working from home and she even starts working for a little while then boom .... silence. I know something is wrong so I alert everyone I haven't heard from her something is wrong. Three days later she calls finally and she didn't sound like herself so I knew it was something then the next day she has the police called because he was over there for 3 days beating her up again in front of the kids he even had a gun. Despite what the police said to me and my dad they let him back out again. This time I told her to pack up and come with me. Now at this point she has filed a restraining order and he was still reaching out to her, he put sugar in her tank, and he just consistently tormented her continually until the early morning of October the 6th, 2020. He forced his way into her mother's house and shot her to death in front of their daughter. My niece was the one who called me and her grandmother for help. That was the worse day of my life and the fact that me, our dad, our brother, and her had dinner that night before, we had a lot of laughs and we enjoyed each other that night we left each other around 9:30pm. I was in the bed about to go to sleep and got a phone call at 1:40am I knew it was something wrong. I never will be the same after something so traumatic. I just hope that if there are any woman in an abusive relationship, please leave it will not get better! Please don't leave alone, the most dangerous part of ending an abusive relationship is the ending part because some men cant let go of that power they had over you. Please Please Please Be Safe!
By Ms Jennise5 years ago in Criminal
