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You would think Andre Rand would have come to his senses after being sentenced to 25 years to life in prison. However, that was not the case. Rand cast himself as a “scapegoat victim” of a “corrupt” legal system, according to a series of letters he wrote and sent to a newspaper dating back to 1994.(Donnelly) In 1969, Andre Rand convicted his first act as a suspected serial killer, and convicted murderer. This must have set off a trigger in his mind that told him mentally to forever be a kidnapper, killer, and pedophile. Rand did not stop his ways after his 1969 act of crime. Andre Rand was known for being a serial killer, however there was much more about him to be known. The little things, those were the parts of him that were not …show more content…
Alicia Pereira was the first. In 1972, five-year-old Alicia disappeared after her brother left her alone in a hotel lobby. One minute she was playing around, and the next she was gone. Rand was the prime suspect in this case. Although they never proved Andre killed her, little Alicia was never seen again. There isn't much to his next victim. Her name was Audrey Lyn Nerenberg, and she was 18 years old. Just like Alicia, Audrey was never seen again after the day she went missing in 1977. In 1981, Holly Ann Hughes, a seven-year-old girl did not return home after she went with a friend to get candy from a local store. Andre Rand saw Holly at the store, drove by her in his Volkswagen, pulled her in, and drove off. Holly’s parents filled out a Missing Person’s report. Unfortunately, they never got their daughter back. Why did Rand leave her friend? Who knows why. Tiahease Jackson, in 1983, was 11 years old when she went missing. She did not return home after her mother sent her to get groceries. Tiahease was last seen on August 14th, 1983. This was 12 days after Andre was released from a previous prison sentence. Like Alicia, Audrey, and Holly, Tiahease was never seen again. Henry was his oldest victim, at the age of 22. In 1984, Henry Gafforio disappeared. Some say, Henry was “slow.” Not physically slow, but mentally slow. He was last seen with Rand at a local diner. Now this next …show more content…
It all started with his first prison sentence in May of 1969. Rand attempted to kidnap and rape a nine-year-old girl. He was imprisoned for 16 months, and was eligible for parole in 1972. In 1988, Andre Rand was charged with the kidnapping and first degree murder of Jennifer Schweiger. He was sentenced to 25 years to life, and would be eligible for parole in 2008 if no further crimes were committed or if no previous crimes were solved. However, Rand did not obviously care about the whole, “if no further crimes were committed or if no previous crimes were solved” part. In October of 2004, Andre Rand was brought back to trial for the kidnapping and possible murder of Holly Ann Hughes. He pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to another 25 years to life in prison on top of his other 25 years. In 2037, Andre Rand will be eligible for parole at the age of 93. Or, he could die before that. He deserved what he got. Andre Rand, once in for all, was taken in for the brutal, atrocious acts he committed on the people whom he took the lives
The first suspect is Edward “Bennie” Bedwell. Bedwell was a local dishwasher who was questioned at a local motel for three days (Sigona). What supported Bedwell as a suspect is that he actually confessed to the murder (Sigona). There were multiple problems with Bedwell’s confession, however. The first problem with his confession is, “Bedwell couldn’t read or write, so it would be nearly impossible for him to understand what he was confessing to” (Sigona). The second problem with his confession is “After a time, everyone realized Bedwell’s story didn’t add up. There were inconsistencies, including the fact that Bedwell said he was with the girls for a month before they died” (Sigona). Finally, the main problem with his confession is that the girls were dead within four hours of leaving home (Sigona). The other suspect in the case of the murder of Barbara and Patricia Grimes is Max Fleig. Max Fleig was a young man in his teens when the Grimes sisters were murdered (MacGowan). Max offered to take a lie detector test, which he failed (MacGowan). The reason Fleig was released even after failing the test is “The police began to focus on him as a prime suspect until they were told that it was illegal to polygraph someone underage. The police released him, many of the authorities thinking he was their man” (MacGowan). Another example that supports Fleig as a suspect is that he was imprisoned later in his life
The chronological series of events preceding the disappearance of Caylee Anthony, remains unclear as well as what exactly
... Martin Krugman’s body was never found. He was declared deceases. Mark Santangeli, was murdered, he played no part in the heist. Theresa Ferrar’s dismembered body was found near Toms Rivere. No one was charged with her murder. Paolo LiCastri, Manriquez, Robert McMahon and Angelo Sepe’s murders haven’t been solved. Louis Cafora and his wife Joanna’s bodies were never found. Tommy DeSimone’s body was never found. Peter Gruenwald with his wife disappeared into the Witness Protection Program. Bill Fischetti disappeared into the Witness Proctection Program. Frank Menna disappeared into the Witness Protection Prgram. Louis Werner convicted on May 16, 1979; married Janet Barbieri following his release from prison.
The investigation of John Wayne Gacy began with the disappearance of Gacy’s last. victim, Rob Peist, in 1978. Due to his character, the police knew that Robert Peist did not run. away from home. Peist had gone missing after talking to Gacy about a construction job and his parents reported it to the police.
On October 3, 1984 nine year old Christine Jessop was abducted from her home in Queensville, Ontario. Her body was found three months later, fifty five kilometers east of her home, raped and stabbed to death (Fennell, 1997).
A Calgary man named Nathan Paul Gervais is accused of murder and he is currently missing. One April 16, the police went to go and check on him, but he was not at his house and investigators have not been able to find him since. Gervais is missing and the police have issued Canada-wide warrants for his arrest. Gervais is twenty-one years old and is accused of killing a person named Lukas Strasser-Hird in November 2013. Nathan Paul Gervais is charged with first-degree murder and was supposed to be under twenty-four hour arrest while awaiting trial. Investigators said that Lukas Strasser-Hird was eighteen years old when he was killed. Strasser-Hird was found outside of a bar with many cuts and stabs. Also, the police believed that he was stomped.
During the Of Mice and Men debate, it considered the following case: George Milton’s decision to shoot Lennie Small was morally justified. Before the trial started, I voted for the motion because I agreed that it was right to kill Lennie. I chose to side with the proposition team because of several reasons. First of all, I placed myself in George’s feet, the killer of Lennie, and thought about what I would’ve done in his situation. I concluded that I would’ve done the same exact thing as he did. George was the only person who truly cared for Lennie and has always stick by his side through thick and thin. He wanted what was best for Lennie and chose the best idea available at the time, which was unfortunately to shoot Lennie in the back of the head. If he didn’t allow Lennie a peaceful death,
Gary Watson shares the true story of the serial killer Robert Harris in his essay “Responsibility and the Limits of Evil”. This inclusive narrative shares of a man who was once a very sensible young boy who found himself on the south tier of Death Row in San Quentin Prison. Through this story, the reader learns first about Robert Harris’s crime and then about his upbringing. Both of which are stories that one could consider hard to read and even consider to be a true story. Those who knew Robert Harris claimed that he was a man that did not care about life. He did not care about himself nor anyone else. Each inmate and deputy, from the prision, who was questioned about
...ta Bank, the disappeared, and the relatives of the disappeared are still being found and identified presently.
Many women hitchhiked to their destinations and no one ever had any concerns. October of 1973, Gale Weys disappeared while hitchhiking from Clearwater to Kamloops. Her body was soon discovered in a ditch on Highway 5. Just a month later, Pamela Darlington vanished while hitchhiking to a local bar and was brutally murdered. Bobby Jack Fowler was a prime suspect of these two homicides, along with the murder of fourteen year old Monica Ingas who was believed to be walking home from school and sixteen year old Colleen MacMillan who had both been killed in 1974 (Missing and Murdered 1). Thirty eight years later, Fowler’s DNA was found on Colleen’s blouse in 2012. He was not imprisoned until 1996. Bobby Jack Fowler died while serving a sixteen year sentence at the Snake River Correctional Institute in 2006 from lung cancer (True Crime Diary
In November of 1980 A young girl, 12 years old, named Christine Weller went missing. She would later prove to be one of Olson's first murder victims. Christine was abducted from her home in Surrey, BC. Her mutilated body ...
Andrew Urdiales killed eight women in a span of eight years. He got two breaks in Illinois by not getting the death penalty. Hopefully in California he is not as lucky.
Police investigators continued to match dental records and other clues to help identify the remaining victims who were found on Gacy’s property. All but nine of the victims were finally identified.
The film Pauls Case is by Lemont Johnson but is written by Willa Cather. Its about Paul, a sensitive high school student, felt very frustrated with his home life and his family's expectations that he would grow up to work in a factory or the steel mills as his father and most of his neighbors did. He was not close to anyone in his family and had no neighborhood or school friends. Instead, he spent his evenings ushering at the symphony hall or backstage at a local theater. Paul dreamed of living the life of the performers he saw. He was without discipline and without direction. He had problems at school and was surly when called before a school committee. Eventually he was pulled out of school and sent to work by his father. He devised a scheme to steal money from his employer and then ran away to New York City where he stayed at the Waldorf Astoria, living for a few days the life of his dreams. When he realized that he would have to return home and accept his punishment he killed himself. Paul felt like his father, his uncaring teachers and classmates weren’t worthy of his company.
This paper is talking about “The Serial Killer,” but focus on Gary Ridgway- “The Green River Serial Killer.” He earned his nickname because the first five victims that he killed were found in the Green River. He was one of the most famous serial killers in the United States. Ridgway raped, chocked, killer and discarded 48 women, including many teenagers as young as 15 years old (Silja J, 2003). In Ridgway’s mind, he even believed that he was helping the police out, as he admitted in one interview with investigators (Silja J, 2003).