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Don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time; a look into all aspects of a guilty verdict from the burden of proof to conviction to the judge’s sentence and more.
Reason First: Was Wayne Lonergan Found Guilty Because he was Allegedly Gay?
There’s power in the press. The record of what occurs is something that grips nearly everyone in the world. With the case of Wayne Lonergan in 1943, the leak of an interview exacerbated the situation. This is before 24-hour cable news channels, Twitter and Instagram and YouTube and other social media sites and video services. So, this was a major development in Lonergan’s case.
By Skyler Saunders6 years ago in Criminal
"I don't like Monday," says A Lady who killed because she hates Monday, Brenda Ann Spencer
- Brenda was one of the first school shooters in the United States. But why did she do that? Well . she hates Monday. I have been arguing with myself for months about whether there is an opportunity to cover such a case, but in the end I feel that I can cover it in a way that is sensitive to the victims of the crime and who they may have been. They have been influenced by something similar in the current era. That said, it will be difficult for some of you. This is the case for Cleveland Elementary School markswoman Brenda Ann Spencer.
By Odoh Charles6 years ago in Criminal
Reason First: Theodore Edward Coneys Spun a Web of Murder
Before the late Marvel creative minds behind Spider-Man conceived of this figure, there was another spiderman but he existed as no hero. Theodore Edward Coneys , in 1941, was definitely no Anne Frank either who’s fame would rise in the coming years. But he did take on the moniker “The Denver Spider Man of Moncrieff Place” and hid in an attic for nine months.
By Skyler Saunders6 years ago in Criminal
Reason First: Murderer Rainey Bethea Requested to Have Off His Shoes Before His Execution
It took at least fifteen minutes for Rainey Bethea to be strangled to death before a crowd numbering past 15,000. For what reason did Bethea hang from the platform in Owensboro, Kentucky that August 14, 1936 day? Bethea had been charged with rape which brought with it a penalty of hanging. He swung from the scaffold as the last person to be publicly executed in the state of Kentucky.
By Skyler Saunders6 years ago in Criminal
Reason First: Murderer Giuseppe Zangara Just Wanted to Ride ‘Old Sparky’
Capitalism is the political-economic social system of justice. The irony that is inherent in the story of murderer Giuseppe Zangara, a complete collectivist and altruist, is that he attempted to kill one of the most anti-capitalist figures of all time, then President-Elect Franklin D. Roosevelt. Instead of forever silencing the future 32nd president of the United States of America, he inadvertently struck Chicago mayor Tony Cermak in the lung, killing him.
By Skyler Saunders6 years ago in Criminal
Reason First: Trunk Murderess Pleaded for Forgiveness
“Doing the nasty” is a misnomer. The act of sex is a physical and spiritual celebration of values and of life itself. The nasty should be reserved for murderers like Winnie Ruth Judd. This “Tiger Woman” brutally murdered two women out of jealousy.
By Skyler Saunders6 years ago in Criminal
Reason First: Fred Burke and the Tale of the Thug With No Purpose
Coincidentally, Fred Burke’s birth took place on a farm and he was captured by police on another farm years later. Why did the authorities nab Burke? Firstly, Burke’s brush with the law came in 1910 at the age of 17. Upon reentry into the United States after serving in the Army, police arrested him and the judge sentenced him to a one year bid behind bars.
By Skyler Saunders6 years ago in Criminal
Reason First: Henry Colin Campbell and the Case of the Alleged Forgetful Murderer
Amnesia became a point of contention in the trial of Henry Colin Campbell. Actually, judge Clarence E. Case shot down this defense. All of this stemmed from the murder of Mildred Mowry on Saturday February 23, 1929. Police discovered her burnt body with a bullet in her skull along a roadway in Cranford, New Jersey. It took multiple weeks before investigators identified the remains as Mowry’s.
By Skyler Saunders6 years ago in Criminal
Reason First: The Ruthless Ruth Snyder and Judd Gray
The fascination with the cases of murder will forever inspire painters, playewrights, novelists, screenwriters, and non-fiction authors. In a case like Ruth Snyder and Judd Gray, the two culprits would inspire all of these artists and writers to paint the grim picture of a sour marriage and a forbidden tryst.
By Skyler Saunders6 years ago in Criminal
Reason First: Leopold and Loeb and the Power of a Vicious Morality
The power of philosophy is at the basis for all human action. From the most primitive jungle-dweller to the most advanced doctor in the field of physics, they must rely on the tenets of metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics, especially. Nathan Freudenthal Leopold and Richard A. Loeb found no impotence in Nietzsche’s support of the ubermensch.
By Skyler Saunders6 years ago in Criminal
Reason First: The Earned Agony of Nicola Sacco & Bartolomeo Vanzetti
Singer Joan Baez and composer Ennio Morricone recorded a song entitled “Here’s to You” in 1971 commemorating the lives of two of crime history’s most notorious figures, Nicola Sacco & Bartolomeo Vanzetti. The lyrics aren’t much. There exist only four lines. But the repetition of “That agony is your triumph” drives home the idea that these two criminals were somehow folk-heroes.
By Skyler Saunders6 years ago in Criminal
