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  • Mary Gedge And Mrs Boynton
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    Comparative Study of Murder Mysteries; Agatha Christie and Sheila Radley The novels Death of a Maiden and Appointment with Death, written by Sheila Radley and Agatha Christie, are murder mysteries describing a betrayal of trust. While both are similar in this way, it is the differences between the two novels that make the similarities remarkable. By comparing the victims, the killers, and the investigators, the differences in the novels are revealed. The victims in the novels, Mary Gedge and Mrs...
  • Zodiac's Other Victims Cherri Jo
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    In the late sixties and early seventies, California was haunted by dozens of unsolved murders. The offender remains unknown to this day. The murderer, who referred to himself as "the Zodiac", made contact with the police and area newspapers throughout his reign of terror through a series of menacing notes. Although the police were never able to apprehend Zodiac, they were able to gather information about him via the letters. Zodiac boasted of killing up to forty victims, however, police estimate...
  • Hannibal Lecter Murder Two Guards In Order
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    English Coursework Compare and Contrast the two main protagonists, Hannibal Lecter in Silence Of The Lambs and Hannibal with Patrick Bateman in American Psycho During the course of this essay I aim to explain, analyse and interpret the fundamental, moral and philosophical differences in two seemingly similar characters. The main focus concentrates on three events. In Silence O.T. L, Hannibal Lecter, a former psychiatrist turned convicted mass murderer, is used by the FBI to assist in the apprehe...
  • Relation To Euthanasia
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    In relation to the topic of euthanasia, I believe that the main moral issue lies within 2 separate questions. Does someone have the right to choose when to die? Does this person have the right to seek assistance in committing suicide from a practicing medical professional? Proponents of euthanasia usually take a stance where death is inevitable, so imminent, and the pain that will precede death so unbearable, that the only morally appropriate response is to end the life of the person by active m...
  • Twenty Percent Of The Murder Victims
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    Homicide Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow I. Intro A. Background information B. Thesis statement II. Major Homicide Areas A. Geographical regions B. Cities C. Area of cities. Murders and Victims A. Murders 1. Race 2. Sex 3. Age B. Victims 1. Race 2. Sex 3. Age C. Murder to Victim Relationship 1. Relatives 2. Acquaintances 3. Strangers IV. Reasons 1. Murders associated with drugs 2. Murders associated with gangs 3. Murders associated with family 4. Murders associated with a crime V. Clearance Rate ...
  • Victim Of The Death Penalty
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    Do we have the right to kill, even in the name of justice? Many people have strong pro and con feelings on this subject, discussed and argued about only second to abortion. Putting another human being to death is a hard thing to think about until you realize the horrible things one person can do to another without drastic punishment as a determent. ' The death penalty is a warning, just like a lighthouse throwing light beams out to sea. We hear about shipwrecks, but do not hear about the ships t...
  • Hands Of The Boston Strangler
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    The Boston Strangler was probably the most notorious criminal that Boston, Massachusetts has ever known. But who was the Boston Strangler? Was he Albert De Salvo, the person who confessed and went to jail for these crimes? Is he someone that took his secret to the grave and let an innocent man take the blame for his crime? Or is he still walking the streets of Boston, or even the streets of another city? We may never know for sure because based on all the evidence I've read, in my opinion Albert...
  • Case Of A Serial Murderer
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    The criminal homicide rate for the United States is currently at its lowest rate during the last forty years (6.3 per 100,000 people in 1998: Bureau of Justice Statistics); yet according to the media and entertainment fields, homicide is reaching epidemic proportions. Unfortunately these fields tend to exploit the concept of homicide in American society, rather than attempting to understand and control it. No where is this more prevalent than in the study of a small subset of criminal homicide r...
  • Douglas Calls Resendez
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    CONTENTS: Terror Near the Tracks Manhunt Suspicious Angel Surrender Incarceration Sentenced to Death Bibliography The Author By the Same Author Home Angel Maturino Resendez: The Railroad Killer by Joe GeringerTerror Near the Tracks One of the more romantic elements of American folklore has been the criss-crossing rail system of this country - steel rails carrying Americans to new territories across desert and mountain, through wheat fields and over great rivers. Carl Sandburg has flavored the mi...
  • Wargrave The Number Of Murders
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    Two policeman, Sir Thomas Legge and Inspector Maine, discuss the perplexing Indian Island case. They have reconstructed much of what happened on Indian Island from diaries kept by various guests. It is clear to them that the murderer was not Blore, Lombard, or Vera. When they arrived, the police found the chair Vera kicked away to hang herself mysteriously set upright against the wall. We learn that Isaac Morris, who hired Lombard and Blore and bought the island in the name of U.N. Owen, died of...
  • Jeffrey Dahmer
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    Jeffrey Dahmer, was born in Bath, in Ohio, where he had an obsession with death that started early in his childhood. Jeff used to take dead animals and skin them, use chemicals on them to remove all the flesh, leaving the bones. He also cut off a dog's head and put it on a stick, leaving it in the woods. By the time he was 16, he had already become an alcoholic. Fellow classmates described him as an unusual guy, who was always trying to get attention. At the age of 18, his parents divorced, neit...
  • Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer
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    The Motives of Jeffrey Dahmer Its a beautiful day. The sun is out and the birds are chirping. Breakfast is ready and the kids are actually cooperating with their morning rituals preparing for school. You sit down at the kitchen table with a steaming cup of coffee, breathing in serenity, as you begin to indulge yourself into the morning paper. And thats when it happens. HOUSE OF HORRORS UNCOVERED WITH THE ARREST OF LOCAL CANNIBAL KILLER, is what the headline read. To the cynics, this would not cr...
  • Chikatilo's Blood Type
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    Andrei Chikatilo One of the most gruesome serial killers of all time was Andrei Chikatilo. He was born on October 16, 1936 in Yablochnoye, a Ukrainian farming village. One of his clearest memories of his youth was that of his mother telling him his older brother had been stolen and eaten by neighbors during a great famine. This thought remained with him always and he later disclosed he often imagined the torturous ending his brother must have had. At the start of World War II, his father was sen...
  • Sources D And E
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    From source A you can learn that the murder of all the victims and Polly Nicholls were very alike because the injuries sustained were similar as 'extraordinary violence' was used in all of the murders. This suggests that the murders were carried out by the same person and by someone who is described as a 'demented being' because nobody in the right mind would have killed the victims with such horrific violence. Also the victims had been very poor so there was no motive for the murders which sugg...
  • Convicted Murder
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    A Time for Every Purpose Many have heard the story of the homeless man who was struck by a car and lodged in the windshield. The driver of the vehicle, Chante Japan Mallard, was twenty-seven at the time of the accident. She was also under the influence of marijuana, ecstasy, and alcohol when she struck the homeless man on her way home in the early morning of October 26, 2001. After she hit the poor, helpless, homeless man, she did not do what most people would have done. Instead of taking him to...

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