Essays on Murder Page 2

Charles Manson. He and his cult, “ The Family, ” together killed seven people, bloodied and butchered. The people who he and others killed, the Tate and LaBianca households, were affluent and well-off. What could hold made them make such a thing without commiseration or compunction? Read on … … ..MANSON: The Man Himself In…

“The Cask of Amontillado” and “The Tell-Tale Heart” both revolve around revenge and a cruel determination that ultimately leads to death. The narrators, pushed to the brink of insanity, recount their stories from their own perspectives, adding a bone-chilling depth to their crimes and their characters. Motivated by their egos and a troubling fixation with…

Malicious Vengeance: The Ghastly Acts of MurderBoth Edgar Allen Poe’s short story, “The Cast of Amontillado,” and Louise Erdrich’s essay, “Fleur,” have prominent themes about revenge, Poe focused on the act of Revenge, whereas Erdrich focused more on the events leading up to the horrific act. Poe’s short story of revenge discusses how the main…

In The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoevsky introduces Smerdyakov in Book 3 of Part 1. The author reveals the circumstances surrounding the conception of the fourth son of Fyodor Pavovich Karamazov. One late September evening, a drunken Fyodor committed a reprehensible act towards a homeless woman referred to as Stinking Lizaveta. Despite Lizaveta’s unattractive and dirty appearance,…

Hawaii was afire.In 1932 it still remained a territory of the U.S. A., not a state, and its governor was Lawrence McCully Judd, whose father had been a judge and whose grandfather an American missionary. His active and constant concern for the patients in the leper station on Molokai was admirable, but it’s not certain…

I believe that Customer C is responsible for killing Fannin. The primary evidence supporting this theory is that the cash register was rung up to a total of $8.75, which matches the exact amount spent by Customers B, C, and D. This must have occurred before the murder, as evidenced by Ernie’s footsteps leading to…

There are twenty men trapped at the bottom of the sea in a submarine. Help will not arrive for a week. There is only enough oxygen left for about three days, but the oxygen will last five men for a week. What should the captain decide, and how? Five men were picked to live and…

After Kait was shot, her car traveled 719 feet, crossed the median, and came to a rest on the sidewalk east of the intersection of Lomas Blvd. and ArnoStreet. The first officer on the scene (not in uniform–just passing by)observed two vehicles parked on the sidewalk, Kait’s red Ford Tempo and a VW Bug parked…

David Burke: Disgruntled Employee Methacton High School Abstract This paper explores the mental condition of David Burke before and during his committed murder-suicide on US AIR flight 1771 (Magnuson, 2001). Burke massacred 42 people by crashing a plane mid-flight. This is a result of his unstable personality. Even without many clues from his past, David…

It was an average Tuesday evening, December 7, 1993, when a group of commuters on a Long Island Rail Road car came face to face with the sort of terror most people see only on television. Without warning, a Jamaican immigrant named Colin Ferguson pulled out a pistol and started firing at random, killing 6…