Leaving the bodies for last we walked down the drive to take a look. Several rifles and shotguns were leaned carefully again the big oak. Two handguns and some knives were on the grass in front of them. Four people dangled from a branch of the tree close enough to each other to bump like a weird wind chime. A young couple and the other twice their age at a guess from the gray hair and styles of dress. They were probably parents and a married son or daughter with their spouse. Other than being hung there were no injuries apparent on any of the four. From the condition of the bodies they had been dead about a day. We hadn’t found the little girl or her body. How do you get four adults to allow themselves to be hung? You hold a knife …show more content…
Mostly sporting guns all were clean and loaded and I stacked them near the house. A search of the house revealed a few undamaged cans of food and rounds of ammunition scattered amongst the debris. A set of keys lying near the overturned sofa fit the ignition of the F250 in the driveway. It started right up when the key was turned and had over half a tank of gas. The guns all went onto the floor of the passenger’s side. This place gave me the willies. I waited in the woods near the road but upwind of the bodies. The truck and loader arrived almost two hours later. After Mike dug the holes Neal and I took turns going up in the bucket to cut a body loose so it dropped into the bucket. The bodies had bloated in the heat and I vomited what was left of my breakfast after cutting the first one down. Lengths of pine from the shed marked the graves in the front yard. Since the truck and loader were here we stopped to get the corn picker. The Collie was thrilled to have visitors twice in one day once he realized it was me. Mike had the tractor running in no time so we hitched up the corn picker. Neal wasn’t happy about the long slow drive to the farms but after I told him it was property of the north farm he was more than willing. Mike headed for home while the Collie and I followed the tractor in the F250. We still need a …show more content…
By mid morning all the ripe veggies were at the upper farm for six people to start slicing. I was in charge of keeping all the knives sharp. The dehydrators were full right up to dark both days. The amount of seeds collected grew by leaps and bounds. At the end of each day the seeds were split up three ways and each farm would finish laying out the seeds for drying at home. The lower farm had several seasons worth of seeds hidden in a few spots in places that should survive any mishaps to the buildings. That was the first secret we had from the other two farms. Uncle Ted and Mike were at the north farm checking the new tractor and the corn picker. Ted said the machine would pick two rows at a time and rough strip the ears of their coverings before depositing them in a following wagon. The discarded shucks and silk would be plowed under the following year. Mike was quizzed about using the picker with horse power once the gas runs out. After some though he admitted he could probably get the machine to pick ears but doubted they would get
The knife that served as the murder weapon was sourced from the kitchen. Their bodies, which were burnt quite badly, were found in their bedroom, which was upstairs. This crime scene was uncovered by fire officers who responded to a 000 call by a neighbor at approximately 3:34am, after Jeffrey had told him his parents and his brother were dead. At this point, Jeffrey creates his alibi that his brother Christopher is responsible for the murder of their parents and setting the bodies on fire, but it was he who murdered
The second victim was David Spears, age forty-three. On June 1, 1990 Spears’s body was found on the side of a highway in Citrus County, Florida. He was found with no clothes on except a baseball cap and had died of six bullet wounds to the torso. The third victim was Charles Carskaddon, age forty. His body was found on June 6, 1990 in Pasco County, Florida. He was shot several times in the chest which lead to his death. The fourth victim was Troy Burress, age fifty. He was reported missing on July 31, 1990 and on August 4, 1990 police officers found his body in a wooded area along a road in Marion County, Florida. Cause of death was being shot twice. The fifth victim was Charles ‘Dick’ Humphreys, age fifty-six. His car was found in Suwannee
Growing up in a small town you would never expect for a family to get murdered. Many people have the perception that in a small-town things, never happen. Well I’m sure that’s what Herbert and Bonnie Clutter thought to until the night of their death. Herbert and Bonnie Clutter lived in Holcomb, Kansas with their two kids Nancy and Kenyon on their family farm. The Clutter family was very respected within the community and in Garden City. Herbert was also a very respected employer. The Clutter family lived a very disciplined but still enjoyable and well provided for.
“Death's Acre” tells about the career of a forensic hero, Dr. Bill Bass, creator of the famous "Body Farm" at the University of Tennessee-the world's only research facility devoted to studying human decomposition. He tells about his life and how he became an anthropoligist. He tells about the Lindbergh kidnapping and murder, explores the mystery of a headless corpse whose identity surprised police.
In a small town in Kansas a family of four were murdered for no apparent reason.
Corn soon became the crop of choice to Iowa farmers. They found that it was more resistant to disease than the other crops they were growing, such as barley, oats, wheat, and apples. With this newfound “wonder crop”, Iowans found that farming had become the ideal way of life. Working on the farm involved all of the members of the family, which brought them together and made them stronger through hardships and great opportunities.
Without the assistance of generous community members, the cemetery would not have been possible. “Pap” Taylor, a longtime citizen, gave the first acre of land, which inspired another outstanding citizen, namely “Uncle Bob” Wilson, to donate a second acre of land for burial p...
The police officers escorted the seventeen men into cars and took them to the county jail, but on the way they were halted by a group of armed men, which called themselves “Knights of Liberty”. Knights of Liberty took the seventeen men out of the car and tied them to the tree. As Ellsworth reports, “They were wiped on their back and then hot tar and feathers were then applied to the bloodied backs of the seventeen men” (30).
What would you think if you found a body in your neck of the woods that was missing all its legs and arms? They identified two of the murders but over twelve were found and some say this may have been as high as twenty. The murders happened in Cleveland Ohio on a road called Kings Barry Run. “More than 80 years later, the identity of the Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run remains one of Cleveland’s greatest mysteries.” “Some people called it the Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Road’’. Seven men and five women were killed. Two people were identified as Florence G. Polillo and Edward Andrassy. No others were identified. Some think he is still out there wanting to kill more people. Murders took place in 1935-1938 the people were murdered and dismembered.
The bodies have all been found off the road in wooded areas, but approximately a year after the FBI joined the investigation, the killer started dumping the bodies in the Chattahoochee River (Wayne Biography, 2015). It was assumed by investigators that the killer had been following the media reports and learned about the fibers found on the bodies (Case Study, n.d.). Not only were the bodies now being discarded in the river, they were also naked or mostly naked, which revealed the killer tried changing his disposal methods to prevent fibers from being discovered (Case Study, n.d.). But, this actually helped law enforcement, as now they could focus their search on the fourteen bridges for this river (Wayne Biography, 2015). May 22, 1981, police got their first real break in the case (Case Study, n.d.). Early that morning, a police team was staking out one of the bridges and heard a splash in the water (Case Study, n.d.). This resulted in them conducting a traffic stop on Wayne Williams station wagon and questioning him (Case Study, n.d.). Although the circumstances were suspicious, there no evidence of wrongdoing and Williams was free to go (Case Study, n.d.). However, only a couple days later, the police recovered another body from the river only about a mile down stream from
In the writer Steve Pools words “The Kenn incendiaries, it is argued here, were put to death at the scene of their crime to protect and uphold the principle of informing in a rural community whose dysfunctional social relations made the practice a judicial necessity.”(Pool) This “judicial necessity” consisted of taking the condemned men back to the scene of the crime and hanging from a wagon (Pool) a method that instead of quickly breaking the neck would only cause strangulation and a much longer death. While using a person to set an example may seem to be in the interest of the greater good the account of the Kenn hangings shows how the family of the three executed men were forced out of the area and for many years after could not enter town without feeling threatened (Pool). This clearly shows how effective making an example of these three men was for keeping the peace and the general greater
In The Hangman, the narrator and the rest of the city “ceased, and asked no more as the hangman tallied his bloody score”(Ogden 3). No one wants to watch another person get hurt or suffer. The narrator is in a state of self preservation because every time they asked if he was done the Hangman took another man’s life. By the end of the story, the narrator is all alone with the Hangman. The narrator is puzzled as the Hangman explains that “the scaffold was raised for none but you”(Ogden 4). Because the narrator never spoke up, he was the last to die and there was no one there to stand up for him. Many people fear dying alone or before they can do something significant. In this story, the narrator dies alone and knowing that he could have stopped the murders from
But that morning, as the police arrived on Argyle Road — not coincidentally, in minutes — the worst came to pass: the body of a young man was discovered in a driveway just outside a Queen Anne house toward the end of the block. He was lying facedown on a bloody
The hikers never knew the two indigenous people, except for what they wore that night, what booze they drank, and what side they slept on. And those simple details were just enough to make the dead bodies Human: capable of joking, singing, fighting, and eating. So the sudden termination of these lives confused the hikers, for they weren’t sure what they should feel about the death of two strangers. The hikers stared and stared at the bodies, perhaps feeling sadness for the friends, parents, and lovers of these men, but feeling only emptiness for the men themselves. They were just two more anonymous faces, frozen in their final dreams and nothing more than dead.
Clint and Paige Crumply lived on a dairy farm in South Dakota. Clint Managed the farm and Paige worked with the cattle. Paige's Parents and a few others worked there as well. In 2007, Clint made a purchase of dairy cows from James McGregor. When McGregor delivered the cows to the farm, Paige handed him the payment for the cows. A while later, McGregor and clint entered into an oral contract for purchases of twenty-five dairy cows. When the dairy cows where delivered by McGregor's agent, Paige was not there. The agent gave the bill of ladling to Clint, which had both Clint and Paige as the Purchasers. A couple of days later, Clint returned eight cows back to McGregor because the cows where not well. McGregor gave a second bill for the remaining cows. This bill also had Clint and Page referenced as the purchasers. When Clint did not pay the bill, McGregor sued both Clint and Paige. Clint tried to settle the suit by returning the remaining cows, but McGregor did not accept the offer.