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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 Self-Broken Wings of Murderer Robert Franklin Stroud
If you’re a murderous criminal locked behind bars and one of your consumers of patent medicines and caged birds was none other than FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, you must’ve made an impact. Now, in the case of Robert Franklin “The Birdman of Alcatraz” Stroud, this dastardly waste of human life could have found achievement in the field of ornithology.
By Skyler Saunders6 years ago in Criminal
Reason First: Why did Dentist Dr. Arthur Warren Waite Commit Murder?
In his selection for his last meal before being electrocuted in Sing Sing, did Dr. Arthur Warren Waite request some typhoid, pneumonia and diphtheria? Did he ask for an arsenic soufflé for dessert? While there are no records of whether Waite asked for such arrangements, it is clear that he used such substances to dispatch his mother-in-law and father-in-law. As a prosperous dentist before his murderous ways, Dr. Waite had become familiar with various bacteria and chemicals.
By Skyler Saunders6 years ago in Criminal
Reason First: The Tale of Murderous Crooked Cop Charles Becker
A dedicated woman can still hold out and show support for a corrupt cop…even in his death. Charles Becker received a sentence of the death penalty, won an appeal, and then the state rejected that appeal and Becker rode the lightning in Sing Sing.
By Skyler Saunders6 years ago in Criminal
Reason First: Thomas Jennings and the Power of Fingerprints Forensics
Like a dramatic scene from a play, Chicago is regarded as the first city in the United States to recognize the practice and convict a man based on fingerprints as evidence. The night of the murder of Clarence B. Hiller would shake anyone to the core. A weird sound aroused Hiller and his wife from their slumber. In a struggle, Hiller and the anonymous figure tumbled down the staircase like two dogs wrestling.
By Skyler Saunders6 years ago in Criminal
Reason First: Chester Gillette and the Murder in the Adirondacks
On Big Moose Lake, in 1906, the water rocked the boat in a steady motion. Two young people who had become smitten with each other but had their own demons enjoyed each other’s company. Chester Gillette looked at the comely Grace Brown and smiled. It appears as if the two had fallen in the most profound and sincere kind of love. He carried with him a tennis racket. He withdrew the tennis racket and whacked her in the face in the head with it like an axeman chopping at a tree. Grace lost consciousness and fell overboard. Under the assumed name Carl Graham, Gillette journeyed back to the shore with supreme confidence.
By Skyler Saunders6 years ago in Criminal
Reason First: The Story of Selfless Murderer Albert T. Patrick
Greed did not drive Albert T. Patrick to commit murder. Greed is about producing and creating more and possessing ambition to always want more...morally and legally. With the aid of Charles F. Jones, Patrick defrauded and murdered cotton, land, and railroad tycoon William Marsh Rice.
By Skyler Saunders6 years ago in Criminal
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
