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Homicide refers to criminal and noncriminal (justifiable) murder. Legal systems make distinctions between killing to prevent a serious felony, a heinous crime, or self-defense, are considered justifiable. Criminal homicide is committed intentionally, or as a result of the commission of another crime, or due to recklessness, emotional outburst, or provocation. In American systems, murder charges require intent, or malice aforethought including, “transferred intent” (one who does not intend to murder, but kills another person due to recklessness endangerment. According to the FBI Child Abduction and Serial Killer Unit, child abduction and serial homicide are the most serious violent crimes in the US. Homicide is the second leading cause of death for persons 15 - 24 years of age and the leading cause of death for African-American and Hispanics in the same age group. For every violent death, there are 100 nonfatal injuries caused by violence. A National Crime Survey Report. Washington, DC: US Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, (NCJ-111456), 1988. In England death resulting from a felony is defined as murder in serious crimes such as robbery or rape. European civil-law places greater emphasis on the conduct and circumstances of the act. Bodily injury and negligence resulting in death are heavily penalized. European codes distinguish between intentional, reckless, negligent, and provoked murders and classifies killers using deadly weapon as murderers. They classify unjustified killings as homicide but specify different penalties depending on the circumstances. Italy mitigates punishment if the killer acted in passion to avenge his honor. Japan's harshest penalties are for the murder of a descendent. Under Islamic law, no distinction is made between civil and criminal law. Murder is a civil infraction. The family of the murdered or their proxy is allowed to kill the murderer or accept compensation, from the killer or their family. Financial compensation and an act of contrition must be made In accidental death. During the 1990s the legal definitions of homicide in the West changed with the new attitudes toward the elderly and the terminally ill. In 1997, physician-assisted suicide was legalized in the State of Oregon (US). In 2000 the Netherlands became the first country to enact a national law providing immunity for physicians assisting with mercy killings. European codes acquit “mercy killing.” "Homicide." Encyclopedia Britannica. 2004. Encyclopedia Britannica Premium Service. 22 Feb. 2004 <http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?eu=41787>. At least 554 Americans died in murder-suicides during the first six months of 2007 with 88.5% involving a firearm, according to the third edition of the Violence Policy Center’s (VPC) study American Roulette: Murder-Suicide in the United States. The VPC estimates that more than 1,100 Americans died in murder-suicides in 2007 from high-profile mass shootings like the April 16, 2007, Virginia Tech massacre to familial shootings claiming the lives of spouses and children. Currently there is no national tracking system for these incidents. The VPC used a national clipping service to collect every reported murder-suicide in the US from January 1, 2007 to June 30, 2007, likely the largest study con murder-suicide. Nine states had 10 or more murder-suicides in the six-month period of the study: Florida (24), Texas (24), California (17), Pennsylvania (14), Arizona (12), Georgia (12), New York (11), North Carolina (10), and Ohio (10). Of the 554 murder-suicide deaths, 234 were suicides and 320 were homicides. Ninety-five percent of murder-suicides were committed by men. Nine murder-suicide events occurred in the US each week during the study. Seventy-three percent of all murder-suicides involved an intimate partner. Of these, 94 percent were females killed by their intimate partners. Forty-five of the homicide victims were less than 18 years of age. Forty-four children and teens were survivors who witnessed some aspect of the murder-suicide. Most murder-suicides occurred in the home (75%).In his 2003 novel Amok, Polish author Krystian Bala, 34 vividly described the torture and murder of a young woman bound behind her back with a noose around her neck. In the western Polish city of Wroclaw, a judge ruled Bala was drawing on his own experience. time.com Daddy From Hell - Before guitarist Rod Poole was knifed, his alleged killer terrorized others. For Gabriel Goillen, night manager of Hollywood's Mel’s Drive-In events of May 13, 2007 still don’t register. Goillen was working the night a young couple, regulars at Mel’s, Angela and Michael Sheridan murdered Rod in the parking lot of Mel’s. Despite the viciousness of the knifing attack, earlier in the evening the Sheridans and their family sat the front and appeared calm and friendly to staff. They had never caused trouble before. Goillen says they were “maybe a little drunk, but nothing more — and certainly not violent.” But there it was on the video. Dennis Rader -- BTK Serial Killer Glenn Taylor and Justin Helzer and Dawn Godman Bobbi Jo Stinnett Murdered by Lisa Montgomery for her Baby Laci Peterson Case Developments Murdered: Lana Clarkson -- Charged: Phil Spector Jon Benét Ramsey. Patsy Ramsey dies of cancer. The Ward Weaver Story: Jan. 9, 2002, at about 8 AM, on a stormy Oregon City morning Ashley Pond, 12, walked towards the school bus stop. She was not seen again. On March 8, 2002, 13-year-old Miranda Diane Gaddis, disappeared after she left her apartment for the school bus at 8 AM. Ashley and Miranda attended the same school, rode the same bus, and were in the same dance class.
In Paris, Illinois, Karen Spesard, 24, an office assistant married Dyke Rhoads, a landscaper, in 1986. Dyke and Karen Rhoads were found dead July 6, 1986, after an early morning fire engulfed their home. The couple had been stabbed over 50 times. Two men were convicted of the crime: Herb Whitlock, 41, a drug dealer and part-time construction worker; Randy Steidl, 35, a construction worker. Prosecutors claim the motive was a drug deal. Both men claim innocence. In 1999, David Protess a Northwestern University professor assigned students the case to re-investigate. CBS Broadcasting Daniel Pelosi was convicted of second-degree murder in the October 22, 2001 death of Theodore "Ted" Ammon, a millionaire investment banker, and the estranged husband of violent, bizarre, and obsessive Generosa. He was struck in the head more than 30 times with a blunt object as he slept in the bedroom of his East Hampton, Long Island mansion. The War for Ted Ammon's Children. CBS Broadcasting Maria Cruz, a financial analyst disappeared April 13, 2003, Palm Sunday afternoon. After church, she stopped by her office, and then went shopping. The evidence points to Dean Faiello, posing as a doctor. Jurors acquitted eccentric New York millionaire, Robert Durst, for killing Morris Black, a 71-year-old neighbor. Jurors set aside his confession of dismembering the victim, because it was not what they were told to decide. Full Coverage. CNN, Court TV Without A Trace --In September 2001, the headless body of an elderly man washed ashore in Galveston, Texas. Garbage bags containing limbs of the victim were also recovered. A newspaper home delivery address lead arresting officers to Robert Durst, an unkempt transient dressed in drag. Durst, was once a dashing real estate scion whose family fortune was worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Bail was posted the following morning. He is also a "person of interest" in the disappearance of his first wife 20 years earlier. Steve Tauzer a popular Kern County, CA prosecutor was found murdered in his garage on Sept. 15, 2002. Was it revenge, or a dark secret? CBS Broadcasting Gwendolyn Moore and Fred Wilkerson were discovered in two wells. In 1976, Deborah Gardner, a young Peace Corps worker in Tonga was stabbed 22 times by another volunteer, Dennis Priven, who went free, with the help of the US government. Priven lives in New York City. In 1966, Richard Speck, a twenty-four-year-old sailor intruded into a female student nurses dormitory. He systematically murdered eight of the nine students he tied up. A survivor hid under a bed. Denise Noe The Lonely Hearts Killers -- The Lonely-Hearts Honeymoon Killers, Raymond Fernandez and Martha Beck. Their violence and perversity towards others included young children and the elderly. Denise Noe David and Michelle Knotek -- A husband and wife serial killer team in a small SW Washington State community. Science, Intuition, and Hope: The Art of Personality Profiling Also see: Types of serial killers Who the Hell is Winston Moseley? And Why Would Anyone Care? The case is synonymous with “urban apathy.” The victim’s name, Catherine “Kitty” Genovese, still evokes a sense of lonely horror. East on the Jericho Road: The Murder of Paulette Crickmore September 10, 1986, Paulette, 15, was on her way to school when she vanished. Baton Rouge Serial Killer Series by John Philpin The Piggy Palace Murders in Vancouver BC -- Robert Pickton awaiting trial as the investigation continues to turn up evidence. Green River Killings -- New DevelopmentsThe Murder of Ted binion -- Convictions of Sandy Murphy and Rick Tabish are overturned. Suge Knight, gangster cops and police cover-up Investigate the OJ Simpson case to make your own decision on innocence or guilt. Lizzie Borden -- American woman accused of killing her father and her stepmother, in Fall River, Mass with an ax on Aug. 4, 1892. Elizabeth Short -- Black Dahlia - Unsolved - January 15, 1947, 22 year-old Elizabeth's nude body was found severed in a lot. Edmond Safra -- The multi billionaire banker asphyxiated in a locked Monte Carlo penthouse bathroom. Lawrence T. Horn was found guilty on three counts of first-degree murder and one of murder conspiracy by a jury that decided the former Motown recording engineer hired a man to execute his ex-wife, an overnight nurse, and his severely retarded 8-year-old son. Washington Post Murder at the Palladium -- On Thanksgiving night in 1990, at the Palladium nightclub in Manhattan, bullets hit bouncers; Marcus Peterson, 23, a neighborhood football coach was dead and Jeff Craig, 31, a former NYC police officer, was wheeled away with a bullet in his thigh. Dateline NBC National Center for Injury Prevention and Control -- Since the 1980s, CDC has focused on violence and suicide prevention. CDC's Division of Violence Prevention priorities are youth violence, intimate violence, suicide, and firearm injuries. CDC Blood Wood -- Environmentalists are being murdered, while illegal logging penetrates the world's last great tropical jungle14 years after the martyrdom of Brazilian activist Chico Mendes. Killers of the 20th Century -- Corruption of the political, corporate, capital, or social systems create the conditions killers thrive on. Jeanne Boylan -- Forensic sketch artist who's worked on a variety of high-profile investigations, including the Unabomber case, the Polly Klaas murder, and the Susan Smith case. Profiler - The real-life model for Thomas Harris' serial-killer expert psyches out the OJ, Ramsey and Dahmer cases. Salon Killers want notoriety -- "The reason they are doing this is for their moment of glory," says Marvin Hier, who has studied the subject for the Simon Wiesenthal Center, "when they feel the whole world is stopping to take notice of them." Rising Urban Homicides Raise Officials' Concerns -- The number of homicides in some of the nation's big cities rising in 1999 and the first 5 months of 2000, after 8 years of sharp drops, concern is rising about if the decline in violent crime has finally come to an end. Security Breach: The Murder of Tod McQuaid by Jan McQuaid Anyone You Want Me to Be: A True Story of Sex and Death on the Internet by John Douglas -- Olathe, Kansas, a father of 4 sits in prison convicted on 3 counts of homicide -- 2 capital murders -- and suspected in at least 5 other disappearances. He enticed women with offers of a relationship, job, in his town. Once in Kansas, the women disappeared. Robinson expanded the hunting ground of the sexual predator. A cautionary tale about strangers and false intimacy. Encyclopedia of Women and Crime by Nicole Hahn Rafter This is the first reference work to offer the wealth of material on women and crime to a general audience. More than 200 authoritative contributors from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia examine the subject from the perspectives of offenders, offenses, and theories on offending, victims and victimology, the criminal justice system Punishment and treatment. The World's Most Mysterious Murders by Lionel Fanthrope, Patricia Fanthorpe -- We want to know who did it, and why. Most unsolved murders have no apparent motives -- or too many motives. The murders of Sir Harry Oakes in 1943, one of the richest men in Canada, and Christine Demeter, found dead in a blood-soaked garage in Mississauga in 1973 -- remain unsolved. In fact, history is full of unsolved murders. Who killed King William Rufus, Edward II, and the Princes in the Tower? Jam Master Jay: The Heart of Hip-Hop by David E. Thigpen -- Jam Master Jay gained worldwide acclaim in the early days of rap. As 1/3rd of Run DMC, Jay combined hard-rock with street slamming, until a bullet stopped the music. Featuring interviews with Jay's surviving Run DMC band mates, friends at Def Jam Records, and those who knew him when he was Jason Mizell. Homicide Cases Continued - Page 2 Kari & Associates May 16, 2008 |
For Laci: A Mother's Story of Love, Loss, and Justice -- Sharon opens our hearts to the Laci she loved: the kindergarten artist, the tenth grader who cried on her mother’s lap after her first breakup, the young woman who planned her wedding with joyful enthusiasm and at twenty-seven years old, seven and a half months pregnant, she was a vibrant presence and the nightmare of her loss. Sharon goes far beyond previous accounts including private conversations with the murderer, his mistress, and police investigators to convey how much the world lost when her wonderful daughter was taken.
Presumed Guilty: What the Jury Never Knew About Laci Peterson's Murder and Why Scott Peterson Should Not Be on Death Row
Kathy the Cannibal by Sandra Lee Katherine Knight, 44, stabbed John Price 37 times, skinned him, cooked his head and served him to his children. Human Monsters: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of the World's Most Vicious Murderers Manx Murders: 150 Years of Island Madness, Mayhem and Manslaughter by Keith Wilkinson --The Isle of Man with a population of 75,000 is an island in the north Irish Sea between England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales. This is a collection of murder cases on the island over the last 150 years. Each murder is described in the context of events on the island.The Count and the Confession: A True Story of Murder by John Taylor Roger de la Burde was a wealthy scientist and art collector, he claimed to be a Polish Count, wore ascots, and bowed to women. But after he was found dead in the library of his Virginia estate, police discovered that de la Burde was such a womanizing swindler that they had no difficulty compiling a list of suspects, including the tobacco company he was suing, his disgruntled business associates, longtime girlfriend, pregnant mistress, and her husband. The woman charged, Beverly Monroe was an educated genteel Southern mother and de la Burde’s lover for 12 years (despite his frequent affairs). She made a bizarre confession under intense police questioning. Was she really guilty, or was she manipulated by the police? Taylor reveals this fascinating case and leaves readers with doubts about de la Burde, Monroe, and the justice system in America. City Confidential: Chattanooga When three visitors to Signal Mountain are murdered in the woods, suspicion falls on Frank Casteel, who liked to threaten trespassers with his shotgun. Includes an interview with Casteel's former mistress, who wore a wire to gather evidence against him. Sex-Related Homicide and Death Investigation: Practical and Clinical Perspectives by Vernon J. Geberth -- Sex-related homicides claim victims from all walks of life. For all homicide cases, detectives must have practical experience in homicide investigation, but to solve sex related murders they must understand behavior patterns and sexuality. Discusses human sexuality and sexual deviance. Analyzes fantasy in sex related homicide and death investigations. Presents the dynamics of the crime scene, physical and trace evidence. Investigative checklists, clinical references, and case examples of sex related deaths. Tender Murderers: Women Who Kill by Trina Robbins, Max Allan Collins The infamous Bonnie Parker, immortalized in the movie Bonnie and Clyde, is only one of a select group of 20 women killers whose stories are told in Tender Murderers. Others include Charlotte Corday, of Marat-Sade fame; Belle Starr, the "Petticoat Terror of the Plains"; and Phoolan Devi, India's "bandit queen," who died as she lived. Trina Robbins, award-winning author and cartoonist, even includes a section on "Women Who Missed," such as Valerie Solanas, founder of the Society for Cutting Up Men and attempted assassin of Andy Warhol, and Amy Fisher, the "Long Island Lolita." From murderous moms and molls to plucky pirates and Appalachian ax-handlers. Photographs are included.
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