With shaking hands Thomas Wilfred began to open the note that mysteriously appeared on his desk. His is briefly distracted by the breeze coming from the window. As a book publisher he was used to reading many sentences but, fear griped him as he reads the words ‘Your time is up Wilfred.’ A sudden flash occurs, and a searing pain hits. A steady stream of blood trickles down his face making everything blurry. Before he blacks out a figure slowly retreats from the room, and something cold is left in his hand…. What events lead to Wilfred being shot in his own office? All signs pointed right back to his con man days with former partner Bill Dover. How many people had they catfished, and how much money had they really taken? Things started with …show more content…
“Yeah the bullet actually ended up in the wall, so until the autopsy is arranged, the cause of death remains unknown” Replied the coroner “Then I’ll call and make the arrangements for the body to be taken to the morgue.” Said Fiona. “Thanks I’ve been pretty backed up on cases lately.” The coroner says exasperated. “No problem” Fiona says ending the conversation. Who would want to kill Thomas Wilfred? Detective Griffin was determined to find out. Fiona had already interviewed people that had worked at the publishing company, like his secretary Mary James, and other employees, and nothing seemed unusual. However, it didn’t take long for her to find suspects linked into his catfish schemes when she got ahold of his cell phone and personal computer. His victims were the obvious people to go after. Carl Mildew was their most recent mark who they managed to get 250,000 dollars from. Digging further into the computer a man by the name of Bill Dover, who he seemed to have a trusting friendship with. Popped up more than once. She would have to look more into that. What’s more Wilfred had managed to find a girl named Amanda Fisher on the same dating sites they had done his schemes on. He wasn’t stupid enough to give her money, but she never asked for …show more content…
“Wilfred was found dead in his office. Does any of this happen to do with you, or Carl Mildew?” Fiona asked “I don’t see why it would if he shot himself with a handgun.” Bill replied quickly, having a little bit of regret show on his face afterwards. “I said nothing about a handgun, so if you do know something I’d suggest you say so now.” Fiona said proudly. Bill Dover laughed at her accusation, “Just because I said that he killed himself with a hand gun? That doesn’t mean anything.” Detective Griffin wasn’t going to give that easily. Plus, she had something that Bill could never dodge, evidence. “Well Mr. Dover it turns out that the bullet used to kill Carl Mildew, was the same one that you used to fire at Thomas Wilfred!” Bill had totally changed his mood to defeat. He couldn’t think of anyway to get out of the situation. So he spilled his beans. Bill Dover had used Mary to get information on Wilfred, and even got her to pretend to be a girl named Amanda Fisher online to catfish him. Once Bill got his information he set up his plan. He hid in the abandoned building that faced his office, and while Mary hid in his office. So when Dover shot him, she would plant the gun in his
In 1976, the entire manifestation was completely planned by a man named James Burke or better known by his alias "Jimmy the Gent". A bookmaker, Martin Krugman, told Burke's associate, Henry Hill, about the money that had been stolen. At the Kennedy Airport the stolen millions was stored in a vault. An employee at the airport, Louis Werner, owed close to $20,000 for his gambling problem and also to, Pete Gruenwald, a former coworker. Earlier, Pete Gruenwald and Louis Werner stole $22,000, without a problem from a previous employer, Lufthansa. The man who helped with all the planning was, Louis Werner. Werner went as far as telling the 'get away cars' where to park, so they could execute the plan perfectly. To get the money to its destination, they used a huge van to transport it, but it interfered with a "crash" car to make sure there was a police chase. Burke has specifically chosen the perfect amount of people to be the "inside gunman" and had one represent the crime family as the outside shooter. Burke ordered a black male, Parne...
Wilfred’s eyes gave away nothing. No emotions at all. Not even how exhausted he should have been. He stepped out of the room before returning with a food cart. “Lord Zaroff, do forgive me for hindering your sleep, but if we don’t stick to the schedule you had intended for today, we won’t have everything ready.”
“William Henry Furman, a twenty-six-year-old black man with a sixth grade education, was not what most people called a “bad” man,” (Herda 7). Furman was just laid off of his job and was struggling to find work. But there was none. Every job did not pay enough, or was a short term job. Eventually, depressed, hungry, and broke, Furman turned to breaking and entering and to petty thievery by means of survival. Furman was caught a few times and was given a light sentence. He was also examined by a psychiatrist and was determined to be mentally impaired, but not enough to go to a mental institution. But on August 11, 1967, Furman went to rob the house of twenty-nine-year-old William Joseph Micke, Jr. with his wife and five young children. When searching through the house, Furman made too much noise, which alerted Micke. Furman heard Micke walking down the stairs and pulled out his gun that he used for scaring people away. But Micke kept walking downwards. Not wanting to be caught, Furman tried to run away and tripped over an exposed cord. His gun discharged. The bullet ricocheted to the back door. On the other side, a body fell to the floor. William Joseph Micke Jr. was dead. “The police responded to the call quickly and, within minutes, they had apprehended Furman just down the street from the scene of the crime. The murders weapon was still in his pocket,” (Herda 9). Furman tried to plead guilty by insanity and the psychiatrists described him as legally insane. But then, several days later one of the psychiatrists revised their medical opinion. Because he was not insane, the case would go on. The state of Georgia charged him with murder and issued the death penalty. This was because Georgia state law stated that any form of murder is...
Anyone as brave as Thomas does not sit back and relax to watch one of his injured friends from being trapped outside as it is about to hit night time. An injured person outside of their safe haven almost equals imminent death. Thomas instinctively ran to his injured comrade in order to save him, to only find out that he himself is also trapped outside of the Glades. "For several seconds, Thomas felt like the world had frozen in place. A thick silence followed the thunderous rumble of the Door closing, and a ...
The three key people involved in the case, Golubski, Morehead, and Burdette were never penalized for their actions. Currently, Golubski is now retired, Morehead is a federal prosecutor, and Burdette is still a judge.
In 2003 Ronell Wilson and his friend Jessie Jacobus arranged to sale guns to a buyer. The buyers happen to be two undercover detectives. They arranged to meet in Staten Island to exchange guns for cash. Wilson and his friend did not have guns to sale and the plan was to rob the two gun buyers. When they met the gun buyers Wilson and Jacobus sat in the back of the car right behind the two detectives. At some point Wilson realized that the gun buyers were cops and begin shooting them one by one to avoid going to jail. Wilson used a small handgun to kill both detectives. Wilson killed Detective Rodney J. Andrews and detective James V. Nemorin.
Bill Poole was the original Bowery boy and the leader of the gang. He was notably a boxer coming in at over 6 feet tall and 200 pounds, a firefighter, and a butcher thus giving him the nickname Bill The Butcher. Similar to his gangs anti-immigrant anti-catholic sentiments Poole was a member of the know nothing party that preached the same ideas as Poole and many of the gang as they believed that these immigrants were cheap labor set out to steal their jobs. Though Poole died at the hands of these very same immigrants after a long time dispute with John Morrissey, leader of Dead Rabbits gang. It was a gunman allied with Morrissey who shot him in a saloon. His dying words were “I think I am a goner. If I die, I die a true American; and what grieves me most is, thinking that I’ve been murdered by a set of Irish – by Morrissey in particular.”
The whole “robbery” was planned by Dick, the drive was planned by Dick, and even the cover up process was his idea. Although he wasn’t the one who pulled the trigger, Dick is equally responsible for the Clutter family murder as Perry. It would take a horrible person to murder a family, but it takes a vial beast to plan, examine, organize, and operate the murder. Dick grew up with loving parents who were no poorer than any other family in the neighborhood. According to both him and his parents, he was a good kid who did well in school and lettered in nine sports. Similar to Perry, he feels cheated in life and is willing to do anything he must to get what he deserves. Along with this, he has zero insight on how to life a normal life. Dick is the type of person to act on his impulses. He 's likes to have a good time and live in the moment. His aspirations are easy money and easy women. With this, he seems to have no ability to weigh the consequences of his actions, and he will do whatever it takes to get his way. This type of momentary reaction is prone to lead a life of “poor decision.” If he’s in need of money, he will write a few bad checks or maybe steal from a store. If this jig wasn’t plentiful enough, he hitches a ride with a stranger to basically rob and kill everyone in the car. Dick was known for being a terrible person as one man stated, “Dick Hickock! Don 't talk to me about
Whitman’s wife was fatally stabbed multiple times in the chest (Governor’s Committee, 1966). After murdering his mother and wife, Whitman journeyed to the 28th floor of the Clocktower with a footlocker containing an arsenal of weapons, 700 rounds of ammunition, and other items (Governor’s Committee, 1966; Dietz, 1986). According to Psychiatrist Park Dietz (1986), Charles J. Whitman is an archetypal example of a “pseudo-commando”. “Pseudo-commandos” are mass murderers who carefully plan their actions and exhibit an obsession with firearms (Dietz, 1986). On the 28th floor, Whitman murdered receptionist Edna Townley with blunt force trauma to the back of the head. Whitman then killed Mark Gabour and Margarite Lamport on stairwell between the 27th and 28th floors of the Clocktower. Whitman then fired down from the Clocktower onto unsuspecting members of the public. During Whitman’s rampage, civilians and police officers returned fire after slowly coming to the realization that there was a sniper (Lavergne,
and theft, but not guilty of aiding the enemy. In August 2013, he was sentenced to 35 years in
“'They asked me at the trial with what and how I killed her. Fools! They thought I killed her with a knife, on the 5th of October. It was not then I killed her, but much earlier. Just as they are all now killing, all, all...'”
A request by the local newspaper to interview Karl before he is released is approved and he is escorted through the clinical white corridors of what he calls the ‘nervous hospital. Karl gives his detailed story of how he murdered his mother and her lover to a trainee journalist from the local newspaper. Karl waits outside the room, the fluorescent lights in the room are turned off and a ...
Richard Strout was married to Mary Ann, who was most likely fed up with his hot temperedness that always seemed to get him into fist fights. She separated from her husband and while they were going through the process of divorce, she began a new relationship with Frank Fowler, killing all hope of reconciling her marriage with Strout. In return Strout became enraged not only in losing his wife, but their sons, who now spent their days with this new man who was taking on the father role in their life. Whether it was his love for his wife and children or pride, it drove him to the only solution he could find, and that was to kill Frank. “Richard Strout shot Frank in front of the boys…Strout came in the front door and shot Frank twice in the chest and once in the face with a 9mm automatic(100).”
Later, the police found Mark?s fingerprints around and inside the car, where he had been talking to the lawyer, and even on the gun. FBI agents and local police all suspected that Mark knew more than he was telling them. Mark hired a lawyer, Reggie Love, to help him get out of the mess he put himself in. A couple newspapers got word of the fingerprints of the boy and they quickly made up stories that Mark was now suspected to be the killer of the lawyer. Mark realized that the best thing to do would be to let the police know where the body was and tell them the truth about everything he knew. The next day, he and Reggie had an appointment with some FBI agents. On the way to his lawyer?s office, Mark ran into a man obviously in the Mafia. He threatened to kill him if he told anyone about what Jerome Clifford had told him. He knew the man wasn?t joking because he was holding a switchblade to his face at the time. By this time, Mark no longer wants to talk to the authorities. Through all this, Mark?s mother was still living at the hospital, worrying about her youngest son, who was still in shock and comatose.
Harry, a policeman patrolling the area, witnessed the incident and went to try to help Tom, but quickly realised that Tom was already dead. This was Harry’s first day back at work following six months recovering from psychiatric illness caused by the distressing nature of his job. As a result of seeing Tom’s injuries Harry has now suffered a return of the psychiatric damage which now appears permanent.