Berkowitz’s shootings appear to be acts out of impulse. Not targeting specific people though his prey of choice were single, young women with long dark hair (Bardsley, 1981). Before one of the violent shootings, witness Cacillia Davis saw a man removing a parking ticket from his yellow Ford Galaxy (Bardsley, 1981). Davis relays this message to NYPD who later determined it was in fact David Berkowitz who she had seen. At the time no suspicion rose from NYPD that Berkowitz was the Son of Sam killer, only that he was an important witness. NYPD eventually contacted Yonkers Police Department in order to track down Berkowitz for questioning. Where surprisingly to New York, Yonkers claimed Berkowitz might be the notorious serial killer they had been
No Heroes, No Villains: The Story of a Murder Trial by Steven Phillips takes the reader behind the scenes of a particular case. This is the story of James Richardson, a black man who was accused of murdering police officer, John Skagen. John Skagen, a white off duty officer, was headed home in the subway system in South Bronx, New York. For reasoning still questionable, he ordered Richardson to get up against the wall with his hands up. While being frisked, Richardson pulled a gun on Skagen and the two exchanged shots. Richardson then escaped the custody of Skagen and headed up the subways stairs firing four shots, two of which hit Skagen in the shoulders. Richardson shouted as he reached the top of the stairs “He’s shooting, a crazy man
A University of San Diego professor whose daughter’s disappearance become a recurring factor in his life, has finally gotten the peace he deserves. After approximately five years of three unsolved murders, assailant David Allen Lucas, was convicted and sentenced to death. Lucas was a carpet cleaner from Spring Valley, CA and was 23 when he first committed a murder, but this was not his first time being convicted. In 1973, at the age of 18 Lucas was incarcerated after being convicted of raping a 21-year-old maid who had worked for a family friend.
This morning October 8th 1965 at about 5:13 am the body of Bob Sheldon was found lying next to the park fountain he was seen to be in a pool of blood. His body had a single stab wound in his back which had pierced his heart, killing him instantly. Supposed eye witnesses say that a small boy who was a member of the "Greaser Gang" attacked and killed Bob and intended to kill the rest of them. Cherry Valance claims that she was walking with Johnny and Ponyboy after the movies when Bob approached them in his car and threatened the two them. Be on the lookout for the two boys with the description of one that has long light-brown hair, green eyes, and is about five feet tall and another has long jet-black hair, large black eyes, and is about four feet six inches. The first one is considered to be Ponyboy and the second one is considered to be Johnny. The two are now on the run they were last seen at a party with Dally. Investigators report that Dally says he has no idea where these two are but he thinks that they are going to Mexico. A woman was taking a walk through the park and discovered the bloody corpse she said “I was hesitant at first because I thought they were watching me, but I gained some courage and called 911” the friends that were their helping Bob bully the 2 said they were there during the homicide, but decided not to call the police because they were drunk and they were scared after seeing him dead. They said, the murderer was a 16 year old boy named Johnny Cade.
On March 13, nearly 3,200 miles from Anchorage, police in Lufkin, Texas, pounced when they spotted Keyes driving 3 mph above the speed limit. Inside his car was an incriminating stash: Rolls of cash in rubber bands. A piece of a gray T-shirt cut out to make a face mask. A highlighted map with routes through California, Arizona and New Mexico. The stolen debit card. And Samantha Koenig's phone. Monique Doll, the lead Anchorage police investigator in the Koenig case, and her partner, Jeff Bell, rushed to Texas to arrest Keyes. He was arrested at a gas station in Texas and was brought back to Alaska on March 13,
A 1965 murder in Los Angeles in the aftermath of the riots with exciting twists and turns, As soon as you think you’ve got it all figured out and you know where your headed the story takes a dynamic leap.
The book Murder in the Bayou: Who Killed the Women Known as the Jeff Davis 8?, written by independent journalist and private investigator Ethan Brown, tells the horrific true story of the bayou town of Jennings, Louisiana located in the heart of the Jefferson Davis parish. During the four year duration between 2005 and 2009, the town of Jennings was on edge after the discovery of the bodies of eight murdered women were found in the filthy canals and swamps. The victims became known as the “Jeff Davis 8.” For years, local law enforcement suspected a serial killer, and solely investigated the murders based on that theory alone. The victims were murdered in varying manors, but when alive they all shared many commonalities and were connected to
Shootings at Kent State University What happened at Kent State University? This is a question that many Americans were asking following the crisis on the Kent campus. In the days preceding May 4, 1970, protests, disruption, and violence erupted on the university grounds. These acts were the students’ reaction to President Nixon’s invasion of Cambodia.
2. Police has charged a second man who is in connection with a double homicide in a parking lot just off of Glenwood Avenue last week. A man by the name of Daekwon Javon Ragland, who is 20 years old, was arrested and charged with two counts of murder, as announced by Police on Thursday, March 17th. Ragland is currently accused of killing a man by the name of Pedro Joel Reyes Diaz, who is 25 years old and from Raleigh, as well as a man by the name of Allan Uriel Rodriguez, who is 25 years old also, and from Wendell. As stated by the police report, the two men were found shot to death in an SUV at about 12:30 a.m. last Thursday in the parking lot of a Panera Bread in the 6200 block of Glenwood Avenue, across from Pleasant Valley Promenade. Additionally, on Tuesday, March 15th, police announced that they had charged Denzel Rashad Dancy with the murders. Dancy, who is 18 years old, remains at large, according to the article. Also, police have not disclosed a possible motive for the killings.
Through the year’s shootings have increased by a significant amount. Individuals are becoming affected on a regular basis and are concerned about there safety. Parents are worried for there youth getting assaulted, sexually violence, tormented, kidnaped, murdered on the other hand, now there ending up to be more stressed for there child getting shot. Guns have been around for hundredths of years, both world wars were succeeded with guns, hence, guns were served to defend its nation through history. In Western society citizens purchase guns for self preservation. Unfortunately, they are utilized in opposing ways, the majority of crimes are involved in gun shootings; this is an essential issue in America. Most agree that gun violence will have
There were some things about her killings that remained consistent and other things that did not. One consistency was that her victims were all vulnerable, white, males, ranging in ages from 40 to 65. She picked her victims in a rather systematic why in that she lured them in by faking car troubles as a means to get the to stop and help her or by picking them up as “johns”. Her method of killing was consistent throughout each murder with the use of the .22 caliber handgun that took each victim’s life. While each victim was shot by the same weapon, the number of times they were shot and the locations in which they were shot all varied. After killing her victims, she would then rob them for their cars, money, and any other possession she could find. If she decided not to take the victim’s vehicles, she would then separate the dead bodies from the vehicles, making it more difficult to be caught by police. Police reported that some bodies were found naked, while others were not. However, she typically left her victims lying in the woods or along the interstate throughout five different counties in
However, Kürten was never suspected for the murder of the girl (Duncan, 2018). Instead, Otto Klein was suspected (Blanco). He was suspected to be the killer because he had gotten into a large fight with the family prior (Blanco). Eventually, the uncle was acquitted thanks to the evidence not being enough (Duncan, 2018). However, Kürten followed the case closely and was sure to gain his sadistic satisfaction of hearing the remarks of locals (Duncan, 2018). Soon after, Kürten began to commit a string of attacks in Düsseldorf by method of strangulation and axe, however these were not well documented (Blanco).
Crime has always been a problem for the city of Detroit: But as of the past decade crime in Detroit has reached an all time high. On September 30, 2008 a man was gunned down as he walked out the church doors of his mother’s funeral. As if this sight wasn’t shocking enough, some of the members that were attending the funeral drew guns and returned fire at the gunmen. The pastor of the church, Rev. Walter Cheeks had this to say: “Next thing I know I look up and then everybody shooting… Uh, I mean it was just, it it it was just… I never seen nothing like it.”(DetroitsGreatVideos). A scene that seems so surreal was very realistic on this day in Detroit. On June 30, 2009 seven summer school students were shot by two masked men, while standing at a public bus stop. Three of the victims were in critical condition. The victims range between the ages 14-17. The inc...
In the quiet New York town of Savona, Eric Smith, age thirteen, intercepted four year old Derrick Robie on his way to a park recreation program and offered to show him a shortcut. Hesitatingly, Derrick set off with Eric. He never made it to the park. That same day the little boy's savagely beaten body was discovered outside the park area (Seifert 98).
The school's undercover narcotics officer, Randy, was killed in the faculty parking lot. A car pulled up, and a black tinted window rolled down. The passenger in the back seat shot him once in the head with a handgun, then the car sped away. Randy was killed instantly, and the people in the car were never caught.
A woman came to the police station and told the officer that someone had tried to kidnap them and that they had written down the license plate number. When the police station ran the plates they found that the car belonged to Jerry Baker. Baker had been charged with multiple sexual assault cases. Baker has been a suspect in many cases in the Highway of Tears murders. He was thought to be involved with the murders of Colleen MacMillen 1969, Pamela Darlington 1973, Gail Ann Weys 1974, and Norma Tashoots 1989. “Is he responsible for four or five (murders) or one? I don’t know,” Leibel said of Baker” (“Unsolved Murders /