A cold hearted wife wanting an out from her marriage and entitlement to her husband's life insurance is how Sandra Melgar is portrayed in People’s magazine after she was found guilty of first degree murder. The crime that occurred on December 23, 2012 was a home invasion in which Jaime Melgar was beaten and stabbed thirty times to death, while Sandra Melgar who claimed to have had a seizure during the invasion was tied up and locked in the closet (Helling, 2017). The couple were found by their friends who were coming over for the couple's 32nd wedding anniversary party, and as soon as they entered the home they knew something had happened. In regards to the magazine article, Melgar is depicted as a vicious wife who was the only one to blame …show more content…
for her husband's murder. The article lacks any other evidence or sides to the crime that could have occurred, they also lack to include any other potential suspects. The only type of evidence that they do mention, although brief, is the unidentified blood stains on the couple’s safe, which they quickly brushed off by providing motivations that could have lead Melgar to commit such a crime. The only form of sympathy or humanizing component the article gave towards Melgar were quotes from her daughter that claim her mother’s innocence along with stories of her parents that contradict Melgar’s portrayal as an unloving wife. Through the use of a magazine article, the crime itself is seen as horrendous by utilizing pictures such as Melgar’s mugshot, the home in which the crime took place and a courtroom picture after her conviction.
By having these pictures in place while reading the article the reader will be taken away by the pictures and take a stance on whether or not Melgar is innocent. Of course, by over emphasizing the crime that took place and using non humanizing photographs, the audience is more prone to believe she is guilty due to their lack of prior knowledge of the case. With this in mind the medium was using a social breakdown frame that states a crime occurred due to a family breakdown. According to the article, Melgar wanted a divorce but because she was a religious individual in which her religion disapproved of divorce, her only choice was to kill her husband to be single again. In addition to that, they also made her seem as if she wanted the money that was under her husband's life insurance, a total of $250,000 that of course the article did not fail to include. Through these the social break down frame is portrayed through making it seem as if Melgar was unhappy with her family and wanted an out, so she turned to crime to solve this issue. With the use of this frame the audience was also able to see multiple ‘what ifs’ explanations as to why the crime might have taken place, convincing them more that Melgar is the only one to
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Sherene H. Razack’s article The Murder of Pamela George introduces the idea of colonial violence within a spatialized justice system by exploring the trial of a murder of a native woman who worked as a prostitute.
This one particular story is just crazy, how could you just kill someone with no remorse. On fox 4 news there was a terrible incident that had transpired. The day of June 12 located in the area of Mesquite Texas it was affirmed that two young men were shot and murdered in cold blood during the day around 4:00 pm.The newscast says the victims were selling drugs. The drug deal soon turns into a robbery escalated into a bigger crime a murder.
The first reason why Mildred is a bad wife is because she is self centered because society took out personality. In the story “Fahrenheit 451”, The captain to Montag’s squad, Beatty, states “... Fill them with enough useless information to where they feel like they're thinking, they’ll have a sense of motion without moving.” Mildred is shocked full of this useless information, that she thinks she’s thinking. (i went off subject) Mildred made the quote, “She’s nothing to me!” to Montage(her husband/ main character) over what he saw, or how she looked like. It takes a lot to just live with the fact to watch someone die. But it truly takes someone heartless to not care at all. Society took out personality so people can no longer have hearts. But
Anna Garcia was found lying facedown in the entry to her home at around 9:56 am. The EMT and police were notified by Anna’s neighbor, who called 911 because she wasn’t answering her phone or the door. It was determined that her approximate time of death was 7:00 am. CSI team canvassed the scene and found a syringe, orange liquid (assumed to be orange juice) by her left hand, as well as hair and blood on a fallen table to her left. Several people were persons of interest in this case. They include Anna’s former husband (Alex Garcia), the neighbour that called 911 and was recently involved with her (Doug Greene), her ex-husband’s new wife (Erica Piedmont), and her friend/business partner (Lucy Leffingwell).
Barbra Huttmann’s purpose in writing her story in A Crime of Compassion is to convince people that no matter their beliefs, it is sometimes more humane to let someone die if they are suffering. This was the case with a cancer patient of hers named Mac. She communicates this directly by saying, “Until there is legislation making it a criminal act to code a patient has requested the right to die, we will all of us risk of the same face as Mac” (Huttmann 422).
Upon hearing the term, “The Victorian Woman,” it is likely that one’s mind conjures up an image of a good and virtuous woman whose life revolved around the domestic sphere of the home and family, and who demonstrated a complete devotion to impeccable etiquette as well as to a strong moral system. It is certainly true that during Victorian England the ideal female was invested in her role as a wife and a mother, and demonstrated moral stability and asexuality with an influence that acted as her family’s shield to the intrusions of industrial life. Yet despite the prevalence of such upstanding women in society, needless to say not all women lived up to such a high level of moral aptitude. Thus, we must beg the question, what became of the women who fell far short from such a standard? What became of the women who fell from this pedestal of the ideal Victorian woman, and by way of drunkenness, criminality, or misconduct became the negation of this Victorian ideal of femininity?
This passage talks about Montag realizing the the deep crevice in his relationship with Mildred. Emphasizing the theme of broken relationships through technology. MIldred being so vastly embraced within her parlor she forgot who her real family is, Montag. Her husband bound by oath, and MIldred left him for imaginary people televised on the walls of the room. Technology has overtaken the once loving and special bond between husband and wife, and Bradbury spends no time seeking the
First, the scene in the image was manipulated through stage-managing, a common practice in photojournalism. While the image of the migrant mother, Florence Thompson, appears to the viewer to be a genuine and unprompted look at the hardship and deprivation of a dejected migrant woman. This, of course, was the reality of Ms. Thompson’s personal situation at the time. But the scene itself was micromanaged to appear in a lucid and vivid form in the image, including editing Ms. Thompson’s older children from the image to create the more poignant scene of a mother holding a small child and using a pose in which the woman is looking out into the distance, with the two children told to lo...
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Belle Gunness is a serial killer responsible for the murders of over forty people throughout her span as a career criminal. Gunness was born in Norway and eventually moved to the United States when she was in her twenties. Before she began her serial killings, she was involved in insurance fraud by intentionally setting buildings on fire. In order to find her victims, she coaxed men into coming to see her at her residence, and would then commit her heinous acts. Gunness is also suspected of murdering her husband for life insurance money, as well as killing her two young children. In addition, she is also responsible for the murders of her second husband, and stepdaughter. After nearly thirty years of fraud and murder, Gunness staged her death
A horrific crime was committed in 2012 in Aurora, Colorado. A 27 year old man by the name of James Holmes walked into a movie theater and brutally shot at the crowd, killing 12 and wounding an astounding 70 people. Holmes had plenty of ammunition to continue his deranged killing spree but luckily his gun jammed and he surrendered and was arrested shortly after. James Holmes appeared in court and tried to justify his actions by saying he has a mental illness and brought forth witness saying he is a sweet and academically gifted child. In the end the jury and judge didn’t believe it, or just didn’t care, and found him guilty which landed him with 3,318 plus years, or one life sentence for every person he had killed. There was massive amounts
In the novel farenheit 451 by ray bradbury mildred is the wife of the main character guy montag. Society has made mildred self-centered robotic and unfeeling.
Watching this tragic documentary left me with a lot of questions. I can relate this documentary to more than one theory that I have learned in class, but I think the best theory that explains what I saw is the Psychological School of Criminology. This documentary is a vivid picture of how a person’s life can devastate them psychologically and turn them into something deplorable. According to the Psychological School of Criminology crime results from inappropriate conditioned behavior or abnormal, inappropriate or dysfunctional mental processes stemming from the personality. Defective or abnormal mental processes have a variety for causes including a diseased mind, inappropriate learning, or inadequate conditioning, usually in early childhood. This theory best fits with the documentary of Aileen: The life and death of a Serial Killer. All the mental or psychological damage was done to her during her childhood. All that made an impact on her to the point where she has no self-respect.
In his culture there is a lack of emotion and love towards anyone or anything in general. People don’t remember why they love each other or why they’re together and do not care for one another. This lack of love and emotion is shown between Montag and Mildred in their relationship. After Montag confronts Mildred about taking the pills she appears to be confused and denies it stating she “never in a billion years” would take a bottle full of pills. The discourse in their relationship may be the main reason she takes pills. She appears to have depression due to the way her marriage has developed and how she lives her life. To cope with her problems she takes a bottle full of pills to try to kill herself. The TVs in the parlor are there to distract her from the pain she truly feels inside, but when the TVs go off and she is in her room she cannot deal with what she's in the mirror. This connects to an article titled Mental Disorders in which a person with depression is described as having “feelings of guilt” and “thoughts of death or suicide”. The feelings of guilt Mildred feels are due to her awareness of the absence of love in her marriage, and inside it tears her apart because she knows that it is not how things are supposed to be with her
According to the W.H.O. Scottish people are more than three times more likely to be murdered than those who live in England and Wales. This is blamed on our excessive use of drugs and alcohol. It has been found that around half of the murders in Scotland are committed by people under the influence of drugs or alcohol. Most of the violence is caused by gangs making an attempt to control the city's drug trade, but a culture of young men carrying knives also plays a huge part. Recently there has been a study into what causes people to commit murder; Scientists have found that a combination