“This was a place where serial killers let their hair down like Richard Rameraze, who would come back covered in blood and no one got a problem with that”(Crime Scene). This is a quote from the Netflix documentary Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel. Elisa Lam’s death has been a controversial topic since her passing in 2013. This is because of the mystery involving her death but, moreso, how it seemed to have just been brushed off by law enforcement. Elisa Lam was 21 years old when she was found dead at the Cecil Hotel in one of the four water tanks on the roof. When she was found, Lisa was completely naked with the lid of the tank closed. The case was closed on February 19, 2013, just 26 days after Lisa went missing. Lisa’s cause of death was said to …show more content…
How would she lift a 20 pound lid back onto the tank with nothing to stand on? There would have been some distance between the surface of the water and the top of the tank. She might have just been able to touch the lid with her fingertips, but not close enough to place the lid back on by herself. Elisa Lam was murdered and put into the water tank, despite what some might think. The Cecil Hotel was famous for the death and dangerous people living there, so, it isn’t too far-fetched that one of these people could have been staying at the hotel at the same time of Lisa’s death. Although Elisa didn’t take her bipolar medication, it can’t justify how she ended up in the tank by herself. Finally, the fact that there were no ladders on the roof when Lisa died, and the fact that the 20 pound lid was closed, leads many to believe that she was murdered. “The Elisa Lam case was extremely unusual and it raised all kinds of different questions” (Crime
On June 19th of 1990, Robert Baltovich’s girlfriend Elizabeth Bain went missing. Elizabeth told her family that she was going to check the tennis schedules at her school, the University of Toronto Scarborough Campus. She never returned, but her car was eventually recovered. It was found with blood on the backseat, with forensic tests showing that it was Elizabeth’s. With no clear evidence, the “solving” of the case was completely based on eyewitness testimonies, which eventually had Robert arrested for the murder of his girlfriend.
According to a grand jury indictment, the two men gave alcohol to an 18 year old female in August of 2015. The victim got so intoxicated she became helpless; that's when authorities say the two men raped and sexually assaulted her. The teen was found face down, unresponsive later that morning, partially undressed in a grassy area next to a parking lot in Horseheads.
Simone’s body was found half-dressed with her shirt pushed up to around the neck and her shorts were hung off the pelvis with the cords undone. Some of her jewelry and two coins were found next to her body. There was a fireplace and discarded .22-caliber shells were found close by. Simone suffered similar wounds to the previous victims, with multiple stab wounds on her torso.
A horrific murder happened in tiny Skidmore on December of 2004. Lisa Montgomery and Bobbi Jo Stinnett met and found out that they had much in common and became good friends (Nunes 85-86). Surprisingly, Bobbi and Lisa met in an internet chat room. Bobbi was into puppy breeding and she occasionally served as a judge. Lisa lived in Kansas where her close friends were shocked about what she was talking about. Of course, Lisa shrugged it off and she sent an email to Bobbi saying that she wanted to see the puppies (Nunes 85-86). When Lisa met Bobbi Jo she had a fake name which was Darlene Fisher because she didn’t want Bobbi to know her real identity. When Lisa sent Bobbi the email she had a criminal intent on her mind. She was planning to choke Bobbi into unconsciousness and then cut open her womb and steal Bobbi’s unborn baby. When Lisa arrived at the house she threw a rope around Bobbi’s neck and choked her until she was unconscious. That is when Lisa took a knife and started to cut open Bobbi’s stomach. Lisa had to cut through skin, fat, and muscle to get to Bobbi’s uterus. Bobbi’s baby was in eight-month gestation; Lisa cut and tied the baby’s cord. Lisa stole the baby and fled to her house in Kansas. Unfort...
According to news reports, Lambert and Lindsey were involved in bitter divorce battle and subsequent alimony and child support battle which had dragged on for years in the courts in Florida. The parties had three (3) children, ages 16, 18 and 20, who made public appeals and pleaded with the community for information leading to the return of their mother after Kimberly Lindsey went missing from her West Palm Beach Home after a brutal altercation with Dr. Lambert on October 27, 2013. Ms. Lindsey was reported missing after she failed to show up at her job as a Nurse for the West Palm Beach School District. Palm Beach County Sheriff’s office reported that a body was found October 31, 2014 in a sugar cane field in south Florida. After DNA testing, it was reported that the DNA was a match to Kimberley Lindsey (WPBF.com). According to Police this murder was “brutal and premeditated”; the body had been decapitated...
A class trip to Aruba should be an unforgettable experience, something that the students will never forget. However, for class of 2005 at Mountain Brook High School, it will be memorable for all the wrong reasons. Natalee Ann Holloway was both blonde and beautiful. She was also very friendly and well known in her hometown. The class trip was supposed to be the best time of their life for some students, but it was also the end for another. May 29, 2005, seemed like an ordinary day of fun in the sun. “Holloway and a large group of students went to Carlos 'N Charlie's Nightclub in Oranjestad, Aruba,” (Federal Bureau of Investigation). After Carlos 'N Charlie's closed around 1:00 A.M. some students headed back to the Holiday Inn where they were staying, and others gathered at various area bars (Federal Bureau of Investigation). While these bars seemed like a very ordinary and fun place to hangout, predators lurked there.
The death of a parent changes people in a profound way. In the movie Fly Away Home, Amy Alden, a thirteen years old girl loses her mother in a tragic accident that changes her and her whole life greatly. After her mother’s death, she moved from her home to her father’s home in Ontario, Canada. She is very depressed, she sleeps a lot and she doesn’t want to go to school. She also did not connect to her father because she thinks her father is strange. She felt alone and isolated from the world and she does a lot of things for herself that a mother should do to her child. She is now very independent and she lost her innocence now that her mother died. Her life begins to brighten up again when she finds the geese eggs in the wilderness near to
He entered the home of Evelyn Miroth. She was babysitting her infant nephew, David, and her son, Jason. Also in the home was Dan Meredith who was watching the children while Evelyn took a bath. On his way inside, he shot and killed Dan and proceeded to steal his wallet and car keys. He then followed Jason under his mother’s bed to shoot and kill him as well. He also shot and killed David on his way to kill Jason. He then found Evelyn in the bathtub and shot her in the head. He drug her body onto a bed and raped the corpse while drinking blood from cuts he placed on her neck. He then ejaculated an unusual amount of times on her and then stabbed her anus several times. All of her blood was drained into a bucket and he drank all of it. A girl knocked on the door, supposedly on a play date with Jason, and startled Richard. He fled the scene in Dan’s car and left trails of shoe and hand prints to his home. He even took Dan’s body with him to consume later.
The crime scene includes Merediths room were her body was found, the bathroom where blood and someones feces was left in the the toilet, and the one of there other roommates room had been broken into. Prosecutors and detectives have spoken out about this information. Accorrding to crime scene photos and descriptions, between all the rooms that were shared between multiple roommates, there was significant amounts of blood found in each room. In meredith’s room, Rudy Guede’s fingerprints were found everywhere, his fingerprints were even found in Meredith’s blood written on the wall, which he claimed to be trying to understand what Meredith was saying so that he could try to save her. Acrossed the hall in there other roommates room there was an alleged breakin, which Detective Mingnini said there had been a smashed window which was the reason the police were called. Detective Mignini remembered and told the documentary: “ Nothing had been stolen and there was no evidnece that someone climbed the wall (to get to the window)”(Mignini). Mingnini had also said that the breakin looked staged and that he knew it was without investigating. The glass from the window was seen on top of the clothes that had already been rummaged through amd nothing was stolen so what would be the point expecially if the door was open when Amanda had gone back the next morning. Other
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
According to Psychology Today, Jealousy is usually regarded as the emotional reaction to a threat to one’s relationship with a real or imagined romantic rival. In the short story Passing by Nella Larsen, the aforementioned description can be attributed to the story’s main protagonist. Within the story, Irene Redfield develops feelings of jealousy towards her friend Clare Kendry. Although the two women are initially close, the relationship between the two is severed when Irene starts to believe Clare is having an affair with her husband. At the conclusion of the novel, we find Clare Kendry dead by what we can assume to be Irene's hands. One can interpret Irene's murder as a personification of the inherent similarities between Irene and Clare. Not only does
Immediately, a forensics team was called to aid in the investigation and soon the entire apartment was filled with police officers and detectives. Inside the apartment, however, they found nothing: there were no signs of forced entry, no signs of a struggle, and most importantly, no signs of Paulette. The girl's parents (specially her mother) did countless of interviews where they pleaded for their daughter’s safe return: **“She is an angel, she is a beautiful little girl; she never cries, never throws tantrums, she’s the sweetest”**, [Lizette was quoted saying] (https://youtu.be/5_UW_6YRaZI?t=315). In record time, Paulette’s picture was everywhere, with every single news outlet following the case closely: was Paulette kidnapped? Had she perhaps wondered out on her own? Could she be still alive?, an entire nation wondered and for the time Paulette was missing she was what everyone talked about. On the 27th of March, several news crews were allowed into the apartment as Lizette, sitting on her daughter’s bed, recalled what had happened that fateful night: she put her daughter to bed, kissed her goodnight and then she left the room. That night she didn’t hear any weird noises, the dogs didn’t bark and everything seemed fine. It would be nine days, on the 31st of March, until Paulette’s body was found:“The girl was found
Jesse Timmendequas’ convictions stemmed from a 1981 attack on a 5 year old girl, for which he served 9 months. That same year he was convicted for an attempted rape of a 7 year old girl, for which he was sentenced to ten years. After serving only six years, he was free to lure 7 year old Megan into his home where he brutally raped and strangling her with a belt as she bit and fought for life. He knocked her to the floor, hitting her several times in the head. He wrapped her head in plastic shopping bags to prevent her blood from staining the rugs. He then took a toy box and stuffed her inside. Megan’s body was found in a weeded area of a nearby park near a portable toilet.
Part I: “One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest,” stated by Maya Angelou. In other words, this statement is implying that one needs to be willingly optimistic in life in order to obtain virtue throughout life. For example virtues can warrant good karma because the good is being reward. The Ancient Greek term virtues come from the decisions, particularly based on finding the good within one’s self that will naturally form principles. Throughout Greek philosopher Aristotle’s work “Nicomachean Ethics” he explains and focuses on what exactly is virtue.
After they buried her, they knew that there was one room that wasn't opened. So after they decently buried her they went to see upon the room. When they opened the room they was greeted by great amounts of dust. They also explain that the "room decked and furnished as for a bridal: upon the valance curtains of faded rose color, upon the rose-shaded lights, upon the dressing table, upon the delicate array of crystal and the man's toilet things backed with tarnished silver, silver so tarnished that the monogram was obscured." They also saw a man's collar, tie, suit, shoes, and discarded socks. "Then shockingly, laying right there in the bed was the man. For a long while we just stood there, looking down at the profound and fleshless grin. The body had apparently once lain in the attitude of an embrace. What was left of him, rotted beneath what was left of the nightshirt, had become inextricable from the bed in which he lay; and upon him and upon the pillow beside him lay that even coating of the patient and biding dust. Then we noticed that in the second pillow was the indentation of a head. One of us lifted something from it, and leaning forward, that faint and invisible dust dry and acrid in the nostrils, we saw a long strand of iron-gray hair."