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Dennis Nilsen was born on November 23, 1945 in Fraserburgh, Scotland. When his mother got remarried, she left him lonely and withdrawn, which resulted in him living with his grandfather. When he was 6 years old, his grandfather died unexpectedly and the sight of his dead grandfather’s corpse, led to his behavioral psychopathology. Aware of his homosexual desires, he denied any sexual encounters as an adolescent and enlisted into the Army Catering Corps, at the age of 16, which resulted in him not finishing high school or going to college. Because of his homosexual desires, he never married a woman or a male and he never have children. He never told anyone about his desires so he was never tested for any diseases or mental illnesses, until later …show more content…
in his life after he was arrested for his crimes.
The skills that he learned in the Army, resulted in his 5-year killing spree. He left the army in 1972 and enrolled in the police department, where he started to be fascinated with morgue visits and autopsied bodies. Dennis Nilsen’s first encounter with the police was in 1973. David Painter claimed that Nilsen was taking pictures of him while he slept. He was so angry, that he was required hospitalization because of their confrontation. Nilsen was brought in for questioning, but was never charged for the incident. In 1975, he claimed to be in a relationship with David Gallichan, but Gallichan said that he never had any relationship with him, even though it went on for 2 years. After Gallichan left, Nilsen started a downward spiral, which led to alcoholism. Nilsen became disturbed with his sexual encounters. It seemed to reinforce his loneliness when they were over. He met his first victim in a pub on December 29, 1978, and invited him home. The next morning, a desire overcame him and it prevented him from letting the man leave. He strangled him with a tie. He then drowned him in a bucket of water. He …show more content…
took the corpse to the bathroom to wash it off and then he placed it in his bed again. He then remarked that he found the corpse beautiful. Unsuccessfully, he tried to have sex with the dead corpse but failed. He then spent the night sleeping next to the dead man. He finally hid the corpse under his floorboards for seven months. He removed the corpse from the floor boards and burned the remains in his back garden. Nilsen met his second victim, Canadian tourist Kenneth Ockendon, at a pub on December 3, 1979. A day of sightseeing and drinking, ended at Nilsen's apartment. Nilsen again turned to his fears of abandonment and strangled Ockenden to death with an electrical cable. He did the same thing with this victim as he did with his first victim. He cleaned up the corpse as before, and shared a bed with him. He took photos, engaged in sex and then disposed the corpses under his floor boards. He would remove the corpse time after time and would engage in conversation because he would think that he was still alive and could he what he would say and he thought he could respond to him, even though he was dead. As time goes by, he would meet homosexual men at bars and take them back to his apartment. He repeated his kills and how he would perform them but as time went by, his kills got more disturbing and he would chop their body parts up into pieces and flush them down the toilet and put the blood in bags and flush that down the toilet as well. Sometimes when his crimes weren’t completed and the police got involved, he would lie and he was never charged. When he was arrested, he provided disturbing details about his killing spree. He admitted to killing 16 men. He admitted to the attempted murder of seven others men and told the police that he lied to them before when they asked him. He didn’t show any remorse during the arrest or the trial and seemed eager to assist the police with gathering evidence against him. He took them to his house where he killed the victims and showed him the garden and where he put the remains of the bodies. After the confession, Nilsen was held at Brixton Prison pending trial. While being imprisoned there, he wrote over fifty notebooks of his memories to help the prosecution. He fired his lawyer, but then rehired him and then fired him again, when it was almost his trial time. Nilsen’s trial was on October 24, 1983.
He was charged with six counts of murder and two charges of attempted murder. He pleaded not guilty to all charges.The prosecution relied on the interview notes that were from his arrest. It took over four hours to read the notes to the jury. While the interview notes were being read, so were the testimonies of 3 victims. Nilsen's defense introduced evidence of their sexual encounters with Nilsen, which harmed his case to set him free. Physical evidence included photographs of the murder scenes, the chopping board that was used to dissect the victims, and the cooking pot used to boil the skulls, feet and
hands. The case relied on a few psychiatrists. Psychiatrist, MacKeith described Nilsen's troubled childhood. He told them about his inability to express feelings, and the result of the separation that it caused his mental function from physical behavior. It affected his sense of his identity, and he was known as “impaired”. As intense cross-examination was happening by the prosecution, MacKeith was forced to retract his judgment about Nilsen’s responsibility. The second psychiatrist, Gallwey, diagnosed Nilsen as suffering from a "false self syndrome", which is characterized by outbreaks of schizoid disturbances. It made him incapable of planning things out. The judge had to overthink the psychiatrist's diagnosis of Nilsen’s behavior. Towards the end of the trial, the judge said that due to all of the psychiatric tests, his behavior was abnormal in the court. The jury retired on November 3, 1983 so they were unable to reach a verdict for his crimes. The next day, the jury finally reached a verdict and the judge agreed to accept a majority verdict. At 4:25 p.m., they reached a verdict of guilty on all six counts of murder. The judge sentenced Dennis Nilsen to life in prison, without eligibility for parole for at least 25 years of imprisonment. Dennis Nilsen is still alive today. He is currently at HMP Full Sutton in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.
He lied to Clarence’s defense attorney to get Clarence before the Grand Jury and then lied to the Grand Jury to get a murder indictment. He then lied to keep Clarence from getting bail. The last lie that the DA told was to prevent the defense from even getting access, as required by law, to any of the state’s evidence. The medical evidence that would have cleared Clarence was “lost." The original exhibits in Clarence’s two trials were "stolen." The medical examiner "forgot" the results of the dead girl 's autopsy, "mislaid" his notes and "threw out" the samples he had taken from her body (Gores, 1991). Texas Ranger John Styles terrorized witnesses whose testimony would have supported Clarence’s innocence, then coached the rest into telling outright lies. Styles also reversed the polygraph test supporting Clarence’s
In November 2004, Scott Peterson was found guilty and charged with two counts of murder for the death of his 8-month pregnant wife Laci Peterson, and prenatal son Conner Peterson. It was not until one month later, the jury had recommended Scott Peterson to be sentenced to death by lethal injection. Before his conviction, there was no substantial evidence submitted during the trial that linked Peterson directly to the death of his wife and their unborn child. In fact, the only physical evidence presented to the court was a single strand of Laci Peterson’s hair attached to a pair of Scott’s pliers. The evidence was deemed circumstantial on the basis that it did not deliberately constitute as the murder weapon. The pliers were not found alongside
While he was in the gang he dropped out of school. In the gang he got in a lot of trouble. He got arrested for the first time in 1957 after a gang fight. From then on he got arrested a lot in 1958 he was Convicted of burglary and given probation. In 1959 arrested for the first time as an adult for unlawful assembly in a raid at a gambling location.
Giving way to the parties and the fun associated with college kids, Caputo failed out of college and realized what he really wanted to be was a Marine. He joined the Marines and went through a lot of officer training until he eventually reached what would be known as his final rank of Lieutenant. Introduced to the Vietnam War in 1965 as a Platoon leader, Caputo walked into the war a little scared but with a lot of determination. Caputo started the war with a lot of field work including jungle expeditions and shooting escapades, and eventually was sent to keep track of the everyday deaths occurring during the war and all the paperwork associated with such a job. Later he was put back in charge of a platoon which eventually lead to his downfall following an unethical order he gave his men that resulted in the killing of a couple Vietnamese pedestrians believed to be part of the Viet Cong.
...lice or lawyers used their integrity. The police skirted around the law and use evidence that the witnesses said was not correct. They had a description of the suspect that did not match Bloodsworth but, they went after him as well. They also used eyewitness testimony that could have been contaminated.
Not too long after he was arrested for theft, he was arrested for assault and armed robbery. The judge sent him to a juvenile detention center. In 1948, he was released and then he joined the Air Force. Even in the military, he managed to cause trouble. He was sent to the military prison for assault many times.
While reading the case about Mr.Hossack 's murder i saw the wife, Mrs.Hossack, as innocent at first. The children all claimed that the two did not argue for over a year, so why would she kill him now verses a year ago? When the youngest child, Ivan Hossack, came to the stand and "told his story in a straight, unhesitating manner" it made it easier for me to believe in Mrs. Hossack 's innocence. The child even said that he saw his mother aiding his father when he called out for help. If she had been the one to swing the axe, why would she help him and risk getting in trouble? Most importantly, if he was conscious and talking, why wouldn 't he say who to murderer was? He could have easily identified his wife in the dark after being married for over twenty years, and yet he didn 't identify who had tried to kill him. Dr. Dean first stated that the axe did not hit the speech portion of the brain, so he could have been conscious and yelling out for his wife. Dean later stated that the fatal blow from the axe would have left Mr.Hossack unconscious. The murder weapon had blood on in and apparent hairs stuck to one side; "Prof. John L. Tilton of Simpson college... was unable to say definitely that the hair had been
Richard Kuklinski was a convicted hitman who worked has claimed to have killed at least 200 people over the course of his life. The theory that best describes Kuklinski and his personality is the psychodynamic theory. The psychodynamic theory states that people are affected by their early childhood experiences. Sigmund Freud best described the psychodynamic theory by talking about the 3 parts to a personality; The Id, the ego, and the superego. (Siegel 119). Those combined shape our behavior as humans in a conscious and subconscious way. The Id, is our initial primitive desire for things like food, sex, and love. Those are things we naturally subconsciously and consciously want. Then the ego comes in and takes what we want, then finds a
The detectives were able to track Richard. He refused to reason with them, but they found an opportunistic approach to search him. He was discovered with Dan Meredith’s wallet. They searched his apartment and found his apartment caked in blood. In 1979, they arrested him and tried him in court for six counts of murder. He pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity in an attempt to avoid death sentence, but was overruled. He was sentenced
Two detectives were assigned to the case: Harry Hanson and Finis Brown. [2] When they and the police arrived at the crime scene, it was already swarming with people, gawkers and reporters. The entire situation was out of hand and crowded, everyone trampling all over any hopes for good evidence. [2] One thing they did report finding was a nearby cement block with watery blood on it, tire tracks and a heel print on the ground. There was dew under the body so they knew it had been set there just after 2 a.m. when temperatures dropped to 38 degrees.
... middle of paper ... ... Nobody could even remember seeing the boys together. Despite the lack of evidence, all three teens were found guilty.
July 15, 1999, was an ordinary night for Kristopher Lohrmeyer as he left work at the Colorado City Creamer, a popular ice cream parlor. Kristopher had no idea that his life was about to end. When Michael Brown, 17, Derrick Miller and Andrew (Andy) Medina, 15, approached Kristopher and demanded his money and his car keys. Before the boys knew it shots had been fired and Kristopher was dead. About an hour after the fatal shooting of Kristopher Lohrmeyer, all three men were in custody and telling their version of the night’s events. Michael and Derrick who had run away after the shooting confessed to police and named Andy as the shooter. According to the three boy’s testimony, they had only recently met and needed away to get some quick cash, so they developed a carjacking scheme and headed to Andy’s house to pick up 2 stolen handguns. The three boys were uneducated and had spent most of their time on the streets in search of drugs. The judge ruled that they would be held without bail and there was probable cause to charge them all with first-degree murder (Thrown Away, 2005).
The prosecution says DNA tests place Simpson's genetic markers on the drops of blood leading away from the bodies. There were also blood samples, similar to Simpson's and the victims, found on O.J.'s Bronco truck. Simpson's blood was also found on his driveway and his foyer. The prosecution says Simpson cut his hand during the murder. The defence says Simpson cut his hand when he reached for his phone in his Bronco and later cut his hand on a glass. The main focus of the defence is the contamination of physical evidence.
The officers tampered with evidence and made a false discovery that he was the person and that is how he was convicted (Innocent Project N.D.). Many forensic methods have been implemented in research when looking for evidence, but the methods that are not scientific and have little or nothing to do with science. The result of false evidence by other means leads to false testimony by a forensic analyst. Another issue with forensic errors is that it is a challenge to find a defense expert (Giannelli, 2011).
He later pulverised the bones with a sledge hammer and scattered the bones around the [his grandmother’s] property. The flesh was put into bags and buried in a crawlspace under the house. It wasn't until 3yrs later that police and forensics found the remains.” (Blanco) His second murder was not until 1987.