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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: The Killer Sausage Maker
To claim one’s innocence after specific and indisputable evidence had surfaced took gall. For convicted murderer Adolph Louis Luetgert, he died in jail maintaining his guiltlessness. The “Mr. Lover,” who charmed concubines while still married and without his second wife’s approval, worked as the head of a sausage making factory.
By Skyler Saunders6 years ago in Criminal
Reason First: The Poisonous Physician
An electric chair took on another sinister figure in New York, this time in the year 1895. The punishment stemmed from a murderer named Robert Buchanan. This doctor had claimed that obvious pinprick pupils would erase any indication that someone had been poisoned.
By Skyler Saunders6 years ago in Criminal
Reason First: Doctor Death’s Unreason
The Hippocratic Oath clearly states that a doctor must abide by the idea that he or she “will abstain from all intentional wrong-doing and harm.” J. Milton Bowers must have overlooked this section. The so-called “ladies’ man” murdered three of his four wives. After serving only four years in prison for his crimes, Dr. Bowers returned to his practice as if nothing ever happened.
By Skyler Saunders6 years ago in Criminal
Reason First: Alferd Packer’s Hunger for Crime
To dine on the human flesh of one’s own kind is one of the most taboo subjects in all of history. Alfred Packer, who never received a charge, saw trial, or faced a conviction based on cannibalism is linked to the morbid practice. By his account, he and five other men started an adventure toward Gunnison, Colorado. A bitter winter storm descended upon their cavalcade. What happened next proved to be rather disturbing.
By Skyler Saunders6 years ago in Criminal
Reason First: Casey and Cora’s Punishment
The bodies of Charles Cora and James P. Casey swung in the San Francisco wind for an hour. Their crimes consisted of murdering United States Marshal William H. Richardson and of gunning down 34-year-old James King on Wednesday May 14, 1856, respectively. King, a failed banker embarked on a second act in life with his Evening Bulletin newspaper.
By Skyler Saunders6 years ago in Criminal
Reason First: An Educated Brute: The John White Webster Story
The teeth have it. And a pelvis and leg, too. John White Webster, professor and lecturer lost his cool with Dr. George Parkman on Tuesday November 23, 1849. With a grapevine trunk, Webster dispatched the Dr. and chopped up his remains. He would then try to burn the corpse completely, failing in the process.
By Skyler Saunders6 years ago in Criminal
Reason First: He Murdered for Infamy
On November 18, 1842, in his cell in New York, he laid in his own blood. The wound came about because of a self-inflicted stab to his heart. His name, John C. Colt. The brother of the famed revolving pistol and rifle creator, Samuel Colt, this man stood as the outcast of the family. Another brother James worked as a lawyer. John C. Colt busied himself with forging documents, stealing, and running around with different, unscrupulous women.
By Skyler Saunders6 years ago in Criminal
Reason First: LeBlanc’s Menace to the Mind
In a case where someone sought a better life in the New World, 31-year-old Antoine Leblanc saw little prospects in America. He found employment tending to hogs and chopping wood for zilch. Disturbed by his circumstances, LeBlanc murdered his employer Judge Samuel Sayre, his wife and a servant of the Morristown, New Jersey home in 1833.
By Skyler Saunders6 years ago in Criminal
Reason First: Bathsheba Spooner’s Plot
In Colonial Massachusetts, Bathsheba Spooner née Ruggles made a name for herself for all the wrong reasons. As the initial woman to be executed after the Declaration of Independence, therefore, she would be the first woman to be put to death in the burgeoning United States of America.
By Skyler Saunders6 years ago in Criminal
Reason First: America’s First ‘Murtherer [sic]‘
At America’s inception theft, graft, rape, and pillaging and other illicitness became ways of life. As folks from Europe avoided creditors, extradition, and persecution, ships like the Mayflower would bring them to the New World. With the unsanitary conditions and poor living spaces, the occupants of such vessels had to fend off constant wetness and disease.
By Skyler Saunders6 years ago in Criminal
Reason First: The Eye Drop Murderer
Can this case be any clearer? Anyone with eyes can see that South Carolinian Lana Sue Clayton is guilty of murder. Her feelings and emotions clouded her thoughts and disrupted her ability to reason. She deliberately placed significant amounts of eye drops, which contain tetrahydrozoline into her husband’s drinking water. This chemical has the power to decrease the size of blood vessels. In large amounts, the tetrahydrozoline could bring down anyone through the gastrointestinal tract and the central nervous system. How did she even come to the point of going against her spouse? She claims that she just wanted to make him ‘uncomfortable.’ To make someone uncomfortable would mean to ask questions, seek counseling, and engage in reasoning. He might have felt pangs of uneasiness but he would still have been alive. That should be enough to keep her behind the wall. Well, how much discomfort should you allow before you commit homicide?
By Skyler Saunders6 years ago in Criminal
