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Community Outreach V. Murder
In a time when we have an innate fear of the harder to swallow facts, there is a need for those willing to dedicate their lives to these harsher realities. The importance of task forces to handle specific problems is nothing new for the justice system. The hard question we have to ask is what can we do to improve on these processes? The mounting pressure combined with simple human error can lead to missteps that may not allow initial connections to be made or to areas that were not previously explored. A singular task force without interchangeable individuals can lead to overworked and overwhelmed people. But in a world where the people protecting us are overwhelmed and have more than enough to be concerned about, where can we turn to help us find more people dedicated to the safety and justice of others?
By Cheyney Hope Morgan5 years ago in Criminal
Solving the Unsolvable
In my previous article, Community Outreach V. Murder, I had mentioned the importance of communities working with their local and state police departments to assist with the high amounts of unsolved cases throughout America. I had also mentioned the important work of Thomas Hargrove with the Murder Accountability Project (MAP) and how it significantly supports the idea of serial murders being a big connection to many unidentified persons and cold cases. In a quote from Thomas Hargrove’s LinkedIn page, they report that “The Murder Accountability Project has assembled the nation's most complete database of homicides and unsolved homicides, including details about more than 20,000 murders never reported to the FBI. We have also developed an algorithm that can spot unsolved cases with an elevated probability of being the work of uncaught serial killers.” This alone is the start we need to help begin a beautiful symbiosis between the community and the justice system. In this article, I hope to bring light to the true crisis of unreported murders and how they eventually turn into cold cases. Without community assistance or the assistance of people like Thomas Hargrove, we can cast a veil that blinds us to the horrors lurking underneath which can be dangerous or lead to future victims falling into the same pattern as the past victims.
By Cheyney Hope Morgan5 years ago in Criminal
John Christie Was The Killer - But His Evidence Helped Get His Neighbour Executed For The Crime
In 1953, London police entered an apartment at 10, Rillington Place, Notting Hill, London. Notting Hill was not then the desirable neighbourhood it became. Rillington Place was reasonably typical - terraced houses, rented not owned, occupied by multiple families: A working-class and unsophisticated area, but not in the worst part of London: There were worse areas, for sure.
By Andy Killoran5 years ago in Criminal
Love
My Sister This is a plea for any one that is an abusive situation, get away before its to late. I wouldn't wish this pain on my worse enemy and after you read this you know who mine is. My sister has five children that she loves very much, i know this because they are beautiful and healthy kids. She started a really bad relationship around 14 years ago. She hid all the black eyes and bruises very well and when she had my only niece she became very secretive and distant. That was the very first sign of things going down hill for her. Shortly after my oldest nephew was born she moved away about 2 hours into the neighboring state and I didn't see her for the next 2 years. When I did see her she had a new baby she didn't tell us about. Very shortly after he was born she was pregnant again and hid that whole pregnancy as well. Little did I know she was being beaten almost to the point of death. I'm not sure if it was because he kept getting her pregnant as to why she never left him or if she just really loved him or if she was just really scared to say anything to her family, but whatever it was she still didn't leave. So the next 2 years go by and she moves back to our home town now by this time she stayed away from us even though she was very close to us. Then one day my niece says to me we have a baby in the hospital, I said what yeah auntie we got a baby in the hospital! I ask her and she still lie and say no she don't know what she is talking about, eventually she had to tell us. I don't know why I wasn't more involved, I guess it was because she didn't want to tell me what was going on she automatically knew that I would definitely do something about it. Just because a person doesn't tell you out there mouth that they need help doesn't mean they don't. This year my sister had had enough she called the police and told them what was going on, they came to arrest him but they let him right back out the next day despite the fact he is a felon. One day my sister calls me and tells me a lot that has been going on and she is tired of it and wants out. So I tell her about this new job I have working from home and she even starts working for a little while then boom .... silence. I know something is wrong so I alert everyone I haven't heard from her something is wrong. Three days later she calls finally and she didn't sound like herself so I knew it was something then the next day she has the police called because he was over there for 3 days beating her up again in front of the kids he even had a gun. Despite what the police said to me and my dad they let him back out again. This time I told her to pack up and come with me. Now at this point she has filed a restraining order and he was still reaching out to her, he put sugar in her tank, and he just consistently tormented her continually until the early morning of October the 6th, 2020. He forced his way into her mother's house and shot her to death in front of their daughter. My niece was the one who called me and her grandmother for help. That was the worse day of my life and the fact that me, our dad, our brother, and her had dinner that night before, we had a lot of laughs and we enjoyed each other that night we left each other around 9:30pm. I was in the bed about to go to sleep and got a phone call at 1:40am I knew it was something wrong. I never will be the same after something so traumatic. I just hope that if there are any woman in an abusive relationship, please leave it will not get better! Please don't leave alone, the most dangerous part of ending an abusive relationship is the ending part because some men cant let go of that power they had over you. Please Please Please Be Safe!
By Ms Jennise5 years ago in Criminal
Were GlaxoSmithKline Testing Experimental Drugs on Vulnerable Girls? Kendall House Part 2
There was once an out of control psychiatric doctor and consultant working for the NHS. A man who had access to thousands of vulnerable people of all ages and would abuse his privileged position to commit horrible acts of malfeasance. A man who I can only describe as truly evil but most of you will never have heard his name. I’ve been on this case for a few years and it’s time to put pen to paper and tell you about some of what I’ve discovered so far.
By Johnny Vedmore5 years ago in Criminal
The unsolved LaSalle Street triple homicide
On December 1, 1971, a man named John Karnes arrived at 1318 N. LaSalle Street in Indianapolis. Karnes and others became concerned when business partners Bob Gierse and Bob Hinson didn’t show up for work at their microfilm company. The men owned a business called B&B Microfilm Service, also in Indianapolis at 4446 E. 10th Street.
By Marc Hoover5 years ago in Criminal
Consent vs. Coercion
Some things are universal. The world is made up of 195 different countries and approximately 6,900 distinct languages, but people are people anywhere you go and everyone has to function within this society and its various subcultures-- including what "rape culture" entails ("Linguistic Society of America”). The numbers vary from nation to nation, but worldwide an estimated one-in-three women endure physical or sexual assault at least once in their lifetime, with certain regions or groups being more at risk than others (“Facts and Figures”). Given the statistics, at some point in their lives everyone will almost certainly have to deal with the aftermath of sexual assault, whether it be their own or that of someone they know. Therefore, this is a topic with which everyone ought to be familiar. To that end, this essay will cover the culture surrounding rape, including the stigma; how blame is assigned; and the role of gender in this subject, the murkier matters of statutory rape and sexual coercion, some of the current laws relating to rape in the United States, and how the evolution of these laws reflects the existence of rape culture.
By Clara Reinke5 years ago in Criminal
Case Closed: The Claremont Serial Killer
Two decades ago in Claremont, the hub of the western suburbs of Perth, South Australia was rocked with the disappearance of three young women. Just last month on the 24th September 2020 Justice Stephen Hall delivered his long-awaited verdict in the conviction of 51-year-old Bradley Robert Edwards. The former Telstra worker was found guilty for the murders of Jane Rimmer and Ciara Glennon but acquitted of the murder of Sarah Spiers in the Claremont serial killings case, Australia’s longest-running, and most expensive criminal investigation.
By Nicole Gibson5 years ago in Criminal
