The morning of Tuesday, July, 20th, 1964, the next door neighbor Cathleen Goebbels saw all the lights on at the Thompson house. That's not normal, she thought, so she went to check it out. When she knocked on the door, no one answered. The car was there so she decided to try the door. It was unlocked. ‘’That's unusual,’’ she said out loud. She called their names but no one answered so she walked around the house and there on the kitchen floor were Jack and Marles, dead. Jack and Marles were Cathleen's next door neighbors for years. They always seemed so happy; they were the nicest people in town. Who would do such a thing, she thought. As she thought about who would do such a thing she also remembered Anthony was home, but as she …show more content…
The gun was in the police’s hands now. Two days later the results came back, but still no Anthony. That was because his prints were on the gun. He was the one who killed his parents. As soon as Cathleen found out she went to find him. He couldn't have gotten too far on foot. There were woods just a short walk away, even shorter if running. As she packed some stuff she would need she set out to find him, but had no luck. Two days after she left but she came back empty handed, but she didn't talk or attempt to look for him again. But the police still looked for him. On the 26th of July they found him dead. He had fallen and hit his head and died immediately. They thought it was just an accident but when trying to see if there were more clues to be found, they found prints on his shirt as if he had been pushed to his death. Three days later the prints came back. They were Cathleen Goebbel’s. The next door neighbor had killed Anthony Thompson. “Cathleen Goebbel had a husband and two children. Anna and Mark were both married …show more content…
Cathleen proceeded to tell the detective she “loved Jack, she wanted the wife gone, but when she saw Jack was gone too she knew whoever did it was going to pay. “He was the love of my life, ” she proceeded. “I didn't mean to, I didn’t. He was just there and I pushed him his head was bleeding so i left i thought he was still alive”. “We know why Cathleen killed the son but why did the son kill the parents”said officer O’Malley, “lets head back to the house” he added. Back at the thompson house they discovered in anthony’s room a piece of paper that had this on
It is said that Charles wanted to go hunting with Caril’s stepfather. In the house was Caril’s stepfather, Marion, Carils mom, Velda and their two year old child, Betty Jean. Carils mom, Velda told Charles to stay away from her daughter and that resulted in an argument. Charles left and called Marion Barletts work place from a pay phone and said that Marion would be out for a while due to illness.
“And so it happened that in the daylight hours of that Wednesday morning, Alvin Dewey, breakfasting at the coffee shop of a Topeka hotel, read, on the first page of the Kansas City Star, a headline he had long awaited: ‘Die on Rope for Bloody Crime.’ The story, written by an associated press reporter, began: ‘Richard Eugene Hickock and Perry Edward Smith, parteners in crime, died on that gallows at the state penetentary early today for one of the bloodiest murders in Kansas criminal annals. Hickock, 33 years old, died first,at 12:41 A.M.; Smith died at 1:19...’” (Capote 337). Though this quote is fairly long, I chose it because it shows justice being served to the brutal murderers, Dick Hickock and Perry Smith.
Johnny's brother and mother were impacted a lot by Johnny’s murder. During the court case Johnny’s brother Randy Allen had the following to say “I pray that Cyntoia will never be free into society again.” He told this to the court and along with this quote his mother also said the following "I do not know Cyntoia Brown, and I do not hate Cyntoia. I just hate the act that she did.” Johnny’s mother was more kind than her son was in the court trial.
Richard Raymond Tuite was seen running around town about the time Stephanie was murdered. Tuite was knocking on neighbors doors. He was asking for a woman named Tracy. Wearing a red sweatshirt, they wouldn’t notice any blood spots with the naked eye. After the police questioned and dismissed him they confiscated his red sweatshirt just in case.
In 1982 in Chicago there was the murder of Marilyn green and jerry Hillary that happened in a swimming pool. That night 2 young men snuck into a pool to get a swim; one of the victims got out of a pool and a well-known person Anthony porter came behind him with a gun. Porter asked him to give him money but The young man replied I don't have any money; porter with a friend by his side reached in his pocket and pulled 2 dollars out of his pocket and said I'm letting you go easy. Then the victims friend came out of the other lower side of the pool and heard gun shots out loud. There were six other witness who were there; three at the bleachers and one on the diving board.
One fateful Night, murder occurred in Ellis Household. Paul Dudden, the unhappy guest wanting to take over the Ellis house and force Amy Ellis to marry him. Paul Dudden’s death was unexpected but it was a murder. Only one person out of the 6 suspects could have done it. Wilfred hope killed Paul Dudden hoping to settle the dispute once and for all.
The grandmother took cat naps and woke up every few minutes with her own snoring. Outside of Toomsboro she woke up and recalled an old plantation that she had visited in this neighborhood once when she was a young lady” (O’Connor 45). In Toomsboro, the grandmother initiates the chain of events that will soon lead to the family’s demise. Here, she makes the false realization that the plantation she visited was in Georgia, when really, it was in Tennessee. “Just as she said it, a horrible thought came to her.
She went missing down the street by that tree. It was a white mustang that kidnapped her. We don't know much since it was during dinner.” Well I went by the tree and didn’t find anything.
The couple had just returned to their apartment to have dinner after visiting their daughter, Quintana, in the hospital. Quintana had been unconscious for days and was suffering from pneumonia and septic shock. Didion recalls that she was mixing the salad for dinner when she noticed her husband stop mid-sentence and slump over. Within an hour of calling the paramedics, John was pronounced dead (p. 22). Within an hour, her husband had gone from living and breathing in his living room recliner, to a death certificate marked 10:18 p.m.
I’m writing a book on the murder of the Clutter family and had been following the tracks of the killers, Perry and Dick, from even before they arrived in that innocent town,” he explained politely and he neared the door. “Oh, and don’t worry. I won’t use your real name. Good life, Mr.Bell.”
Ruth whispered to her daughter that burglars broke in and tied her up. The neighbors looked for Ruth’s husband and found him faced down bleeding on the pillow. The police then investigated the crime scene and saw that Ruth had no injuries and no bruises to be found. The detectives then found in Ruth’s husband tools having blood. Then Ruth blamed her insurance businessmen named Judd Gray and the police then tracked him down, and he said that Ruth asked him to bring poisoned whiskey, he blamed it all on her.
He attempted to escape by hopping over a fence located in the courtyard of the jail but was shot at and killed period soon after this happened the townspeople figured out the truth. Bob Ewell was the culprit
“This is the story of two boys living in Baltimore with similar histories and an identical name: Wes Moore. One of us is free and has experienced things that he never even knew to dream about as a kid. The other will spend everyday until his death behind bars for an armed robbery that left a police officer and father of five dead. The chilling truth is that his story could have been mine. The tragedy is that my story could have been his.”
The story opens with Mrs. Wright imprisoned for strangling her husband. A group, the mostly composed of men, travel to the Wright house in the hopes that they find incriminating evidence against Mrs. Wright. Instead, the two women of the group discover evidence of Mr. Wright’s abuse of his wife. Through the women’s unique perspective, the reader glimpses the reality of the situation and realizes that, though it seemed unreasonable at the time, Mrs. Wright had carefully calculated her actions. When asked about the Wrights, one of the women, Mrs. Hale, replies “I don’t think a place would be a cheerful for John Wright’s being in it” (“A Jury of Her Peers” 7).
After she was killed, her parents had begun to wonder where Betty went. The police