Charles Albright was born in Amarillo Texas, an orphan, and adopted by Fred and Delle Albright. His mother was a schoolteacher whose influence eventually allowed Albright to skip two grades in school. As a child, Albright purchased his first gun and killed animals with it and practiced taxidermy with his mother. At just thirteen years old he began stealing and was arrested for the first time. He graduated high school at just fifteen years old and enrolled in pre-med training. He never completed the training and was at sixteen years old caught with weapons and petty cash. He spent a year in jail. After returning to school, however, he stole some things and was expelled from the university. He later married his college girlfriend. He had a daughter with her. Albright was a teacher until he was found to be forging checks. He was also caught stealing …show more content…
He only murdered prostitutes and always removed their eyes and took them with him. He killed the women by shooting. Since he removed the eyes of his victims, he is known as “the Dallas Ripper”. Albright’s fascination with eyes stems from when he was a child. His first victim, Mary Pratt, was found in just a t-shirt and a bra; her eyes had been carefully removed. Due to the bruising on her face, it is thought that Albright beat her before firing a .44 caliber shot into her brain. The second victim, Susan Peterson, was found a month later in the same spot where Pratt had been found and her eyes also surgically removed. The final victim, Shirley Williams, altered Albright’s routines of the first two murders. Wilson was assaulted more severely than the other victims, a condom found by her body, and her eyes violently slashed out of their sockets. Police found the tip of a broken knife by Wilson’s head, suggesting the murderer had been rushed. It was found, after a thorough background search, that Albright was living under forged documents of his father, who had
On the night that Jessop’s body was found, the first snowfall of the season was challenging police to find any evidence related to the case at the scene. The police conducted their search ...
Now that I found a motive to as why David Hill would have killed Molly Wright and she was about to lose their company. David still denied murdering Molly after the information was out about the debt she caused the business. Technicians found blood located in the kitchen and living room Pathologist stated the attack took several minutes, going by the marks and the distance of the blood that indicated the distance. The piece of evidence that was found was from David Wright’s clothes and shoes is the most critical piece of evidence and that was the blood splatter. The blood splatter places David Hill at the scene of the crime at the time of Molly Wright’s murder.
At the age of 24, after being wrongly convicted of arson, Chavis gained international fame. He was sentenced for 34 years in prison and was freed in 1980. In 1988, he became the Vice President of National Council of Churches and in 1993, Chavis became the youngest CEO and executive director of NAACP. However, within sixteen months of joining NAACP, he was forced to resign after using some of NAACP fund to stop a sexual harassment lawsuit against him. In 1997, he joined Nation of Islam and adopted the surname Muhammad. He is also a cofounder of...
It was summer hot and humid July but all was not well for homicide was in the air. Jeremy Ringquist had, after a divorce and begin unemployed, had taken up residence with his parents once again. Thirty-eight years of age Jeremy, was charged with the death of his parents and attempting to hide the bodies in a freezer.
We were presented with many facts that all pointed to Mr. Washburn as the murder. In the house all of the entrances were thoroughly inspected by authorities, and they found no sign of ransacking. “[They] examined all the locking mechanisms, all the doors and windows. In [their] opinion there was no evidence of any forced entry” (P.81). When police looked for fingerprints, “They were all of the Washburn family and the maid” (P.81). There was no trace of an outside party; somebody usually in the Washburn house committed the murder. While in the living room, an officer found a drop of blood. The evidence technician was called the next night to run some tests. “He sprayed the living room carpet with luminol. It is a luminous spray, and when it comes in contact with blood it illuminates” (P.82). To both men’s surprise the whole living room was illuminating. After spraying further the men found a trail from the living room through the kitchen to the garage. In the closet the men found a wet mop, which was tested for blood and also came back positive. Somebody tried to clean his or her bloody mess, and try to save himself. The physical evidence proves the killer was somebody who was familiar to the Washburn household.
Tragically, the butchered upper-torso of Winter’s once-robust body was stumbled upon by his father, who had noticed the absence of his son since Sunday, March 11 (Smith 2002, 25-26). Unsurprisingly, an investigation occurred to obtain the identity and whereabouts of the murderer. When the various pieces of the body are found in differing areas of the town, theory begins to formulate that the murder was conducted by one of the two butchers in town; Adolph Lewy, a Jew, and Gustav Hoffman, a Christian, due to the precision of the cuts made upon Winter’s body (Smith 28).
The husband was shot first, then the wife, “Mrs. Zazzara had a large T-shaped stab wound below her left breast, Uloth said. Upon closer examination, he added, investigators discovered the horrifying damage to her eyes as well as stab wounds to her neck, cheek, abdomen and pubic areas.” After the Zazzara case the police were now sure that these murders were committed by a disturbed serial killer. However the police were unsuccessful in tracking him down. Meanwhile Ramirez brutally attacked and killed an elderly couple named William and Lillie Doi. During the next couple of months the quantity of his victims increase rapidly and the police were facing pressure to catch this psychopathic killer. Therefor a taskforce of several law-enforcement officers was established for tracking the serial killer and also the FBI stepped in to
A young couple, Joseph and Catherine Maggio, were the axeman’s first victims in nearly a decade, and this was the beginning of another killing spree. In the middle of the night on May 22, 1918, Jake and Andrew Maggio were sleeping in their rooms until Jake heard loud groaning echoing from his neighbor's house, also his brother, Joseph’s house (New Orleans). Then, the two brothers went to go check on their brother, and what caught their eye was a panel removed from the door, which wasn’t removed when they were there for dinner the night before. After they saw the panel removed, they walked cautiously into Joseph’s room and were astonished to find blood everywhere, with
The rape and murder of Anna E. Slesers, a fifty-five-year-old seamstress, on June 14, 1962 marked the initial appearance of the Boston Strangler. An unidentified object was utilized to sexually assault the woman and the victim’s belt from her bathrobe was subsequently used to strangle her. The body of Slesers was discovered by her son in her third-floor apartment. Between the date of the murder of Slesers and August 30, 1962, five additional women between the ages of fifty-five and eighty-five were murdered in comparable circumstances. The second victim, an eighty-five-year-old woman, reportedly
n January 15, 1947, local Los Angeles resident, Betty Bersinger, was walking in Leimert Park with her young daughter. She soon came upon, what she first thought, was a discarded clothing mannequin because the body was so white. However, it turned out to be the body of twenty-two year old aspiring actress Elizabeth Short. Her naked body was found severed at the waist and completely drained of blood. Her face was bruised with gashes cut in the corners of her mouth to create a Glasgow smile, and chunks of flesh were cut from her body. Because of the lack of blood, it was concluded that Short was murdered elsewhere and moved to Leimert Park. Due to her black hair and habit for constantly wearing black clothing, newspapers gave her the nickname “The Black Dahlia.”
Stephen Kings childhood plays a big role in his future career as a writer. Stephen King was brought into the world on September 21, 1947, at the Maine General Hospital in Portland ("Stephen King." ). He was his parents only natural-born child. King had one adopted brother, David who was two years older, and his parents, Donald Edwin King and Ruth P...
Upon reading a little bit into the story the reader finds that the narrator likes the old man or rather doesn’t having anything against him, except for his eye. The pale blue eye was the focus point for his rage he hates but not the old man. How can anyone just hate someone’s eye without being mentally unstable? “I think it was his eye! Yes, it was this! One of his eyes resembled that of a vulture – a...
Ray Bradbury started writing at a young age. When he first started writing, he wrote poems and short stories. His writing from there progressed into books and started publishing them. His childhood and his experiences had a big influence on his stories. Ray Bradbury is a well known science fiction author and wrote many well known stories about his experiences in life; many critics said his books were relevatory.(biography.com)
Charles Bukowski was born in Andernach, Germany, on August 16th, 1920. He was fond of claiming he was born to unmarried parents, but this is not true, as his parents married a month before he was born. His birth name was Heinrich Karl Bukowski, however, when his family moved the United States when Bukowski was three, they began calling him Henry in order to sound more American. Bukowski had a tenuous relationship with his father, whom he would later accuse of beating him throughout his childhood on many occasions. Bukowski was awkward and antisocial as a child, and broke out in a severe case of acne when he was 14, which furthered his social problems. (Bukowski.net) During his early teen years, a friend invited him over to his parents’ wine cellar, and served Charles his first drink. Bukowski would later write that “It was magic, why hadn’t someone told me?” (Poetry foundation)
Chaplin was born April 16, 1889, in London, England. He was born to Charles Chaplin and Hanna Harriette Hill, who both worked as entertainers at The Music Hall. His father was a notorious drinker and abandoned Chaplin, his mother, and his half brother, Sydney, not long after Charlies’s birth. After he left, his mother suffered a mental breakdown and was admitted temporarily to an asylum. Chaplin and his brother had been left behind in the workhouse at Lambeth and stayed there for several weeks before moving to Hanwell School for Orphans and Destitute Children. His father died when he was twelve from alcohol abuse and his mother died in 1928, two years after coming to the United States to live with Chaplin who was successful by that time.His childhood was marked with tragedy.