The victims, Montgomery, Stuchenko and Maas were known to live on the line of poverty, drug addicts who worked in the sex trade to feed their addictions (Canada Press, 2014). The fourth and final victim, Leslie, he met on an online platform for adolescents to chat (Blatchford 2, 2014). Leslie was partially blind and struggled with mental illness, being diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder and bipolar disorder prior to meeting Legebokoff online (Canada Press, 2014). These women can be considered part of the marginalized population, living at-risk lives and this lead them to meeting Legebokoff.
Legebokoff began his trial by pleading not guilty to the murders of the four women (Blatchford, 2014a). He claimed that the first three victims,
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According to Legebokoff, he and Leslie had consensual sex, and then while in his truck, she went “crazy” and injured herself with a pipe wrench and a knife (Canada Press, 2014). Texts messages between the two confirmed that earlier in the day Leslie told Legebokoff that she had no intention of doing anything sexual with him (Blatchford, 2014a). Also, it was later found that Leslie could have only delivered one of the injuries to herself, either the knife injury or the wrench injury, but not both. At this point Legebokoff changed his claim of never hitting her, to “put[ting] her out of her misery” by impaling her in the head with the wrench (Blatchford, 2014a). Legebokoff was convicted of four counts of first-degree murder (The Canadian Press, 2014). Which classifies him as a serial killer because there were more than three victims.
Homicide is considered to be of the sexual nature if it includes at one of six aspects outlined by FBI (Chan et al., 2011). One aspect states the “victim’s attire or lack of attire… exposure of the sexual parts of the victim’s body” both of these aspects were satisfied, two of Legebokoff’s victims were found with there pants around their ankles or not properly on their body, therefore his crimes can be deemed sexual (Chan et al., 2011). To attempt to explain why this small town boy turned into this
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The work of, Hervey Cleckley provided an exhaustive amount of clinical reports regarding Psychopathy. Cleckely published The Mask of Sanity, in which he provided a framework of what he thought to be the significant qualities a psychopath possesses. From his research, 16 principles for the diagnosis of a psychopath were derived,
On 1997 four men were convicted of the rape and murder of Michelle Basko. The four men were Joe Dick, Daniel Williams, Eric Wilson, and Derek Tice. Detective Robert Ford believed that the four U.S. navy men were all guilty of the crime. One of the victim’s friend claimed that Daniel Williams, was Michelle Basko’s murderer. Based on the information provided by Basko’s friend, Ford suspected that William was guilty. With that, the series of harsh interrogations led by detective Robert Ford began. Detective Ford began his interrogatories with a label that Williams is the suspect. The psychological abuse he used, led Williams to make a false confession. After closing the case, the DNA results did not match the one in the crime scene. Instead of releasing Williams, it was believed that Joe
The Murderers Are Among Us, directed by Wolfe Gang Staudte, is the first postwar film. The film takes place in Berlin right after the war. Susan Wallner, a young women who has returned from a concentration camp, goes to her old apartment to find Hans Mertens living there. Hans took up there after returning home from war and finding out his house was destroyed. Hans would not leave, even after Susan returned home. Later on in the film we find out Hans was a former surgeon but can no longer deal with human suffering because of his traumatic experience in war. We find out about this traumatic experience when Ferdinand Bruckner comes into the film. Bruckner, Hans’ former captain, was responsible for killing hundreds
Murder at the Margin is a murder mystery involving various economic concepts. The story takes place in Cinnamon Bay Plantation on the Virgin Island of St. John. It is about Professor Henry Spearman, an economist from Harvard. Spearman organizes an investigation of his own using economic laws to solve the case.
For my book report, I have read and evaluated Dr. Hales book titled Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of Psychopaths Among Us, published by The Guilford Press. The purpose of the book was to bring awareness to psychopaths that live among us and will be describe in farther details in the paper. I will evaluated the purpose, strengths, weakness of the book and include a summarized portion for others to understand.
As the defense has so diligently pointed out, it is indeed a sad day in the history of our judicial system when an innocent woman is sent to her death for a crime that she did not commit. I, for one, am not planning on having that momentous occasion take place today, and this is for one simple reason: Justine is guilty. While the defense has done nothing but parade Justine’s friends in front of you saying how much of a “nice person” she is, I, the prosecution, have presented you with cold, hard facts, all of which point to the guilt of the defendant.
...ornographic videos with his lover from jail and two other inmates who helped him make his tape(s). Speck apparently showed no remorse in jail because he is seen and heard on the video tape admitting to the murders saying, "…just wasn't their night" www.mayhem.net/Crime/speck.html).
During Baltovich’s first trial, the testimonies of two witnesses stated that it was Baltovich’s intention to kill his girlfriend “in a jealous rage.”
In order to understand the common traits of female serial killers, one has to know the meaning of what a serial killer is. According to a federal law passed in 1998 by the United States Congress, titled: Protection of Children from Sexual Predator Act of 1998, the definition of serial killings is “a series of three or more killings...having common characteristics such as to suggest the reasonable possibility that the crimes were committed by the same actor or actors” (Seria...
Serial killers commonly attack a single target at a time one on one. There also tends to be no or very little relation between the person being killed and the killer (murder 1). “The nature of this drive has been heavily debated, but there is a consensus on some points (Anderson 1).” Many researchers have noted sexual behavior in the murder.
Ricard, Suzanne, Thompson, Jennie. “Women’s Role in Serial Killing Teams: Reconstructing a Radical Feminist Perspective.” Critical Criminology 17(4): 261-275
The major theme of Andre Dubus’ Killing,s is how far someone would go for the person they love. It is important to note the title of the story is killings and not killers, for the reasoning that the story does not just focus on two deaths or two murderers but rather the death of marriage, friendship, youth, and overall, trust.
...res of the psychopaths and gives the reader various examples of these individuals playing out these characteristics in everyday life. A widely used checklist is provided so the reader can get a wide spanning view of what is accounted for when scoring a psychopath. This form of research is very important within the deceitfulness of this population; it allows the professional to ignore their words and examine their actions. Hare made it clear that it is not uncommon for there to be an emotional and verbal disconnect from their actions. With virtually no emotional functioning psychopaths feel no remorse for the offenses that they commit and it is very important that we work towards using the opportunities we have to study and assist these populations; not only for them but for ourselves.
There are numerous categories and classifications of crimes committed. Some classifications are based on the type of crime committed while some are some are classified by the perpetrator’s motivation in committing the crime. The serial killer behavioral patterns discussed in class are: visionary, mission based, hedonistic and power/control. While Shawcross’ murders centralized around prostitutes and could initially be classified as mission based, I believe that he was a hedonistic lust serial killer. He derived “sexual gratification from killing and who often establish a pattern, such as the manner in which they kill or the types of victims they select, such as prostitutes, children, or the elderly (Hickey 35).” Although evidence wasn’t found that Shawcross sexually penetrated his victims, the mutilation he performed on them had a definite sexual component that escalated in nature as he continued to kill. He bit one woman’s genital area, cut off another’s breasts, sodomized another and with June Stott, cut her from the top of the chest between her br...
Mental illness, today we are surround by a broad array of types of mental illnesses and new discoveries in this field every day. Up till the mid 1800’s there was no speak of personality disorder, in fact there was only two type of mental illness recognized. Those two illnesses as defined by Dr. Sam Vaknin (2010), “”delirium” or “manial”- were depression (melancholy), psychoses, and delusions.” It was later in 1835 when J. C. Pritchard the British Physician working at Bristol Infirmary Hospital published his work titled “Treatise on Insanity and Other Disorder of the Mind” this opened the door to the world of personality disorder. There were many story and changes to his theories and mental illness and it was then when Henry Maudsley in 1885 put theses theories to work and applied to a patient. This form of mental illness has since grown into the many different types of personality disorder that we know today. Like the evolution of the illness itself there has been a significant change in the way this illness is diagnosed and treated.
Analysis of The Hanged Man's Bride, The Trial for Murder and Confession Found in a Prison