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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: 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
Reason First: Part IV of the Charles Cohen Murder Story
After escaping capture for 18 months, Charles Cohen, in a New Orleans, Louisiana courtroom, stood up and told everyone in attendance that he was a murderer. Though floored, the occupants of the court didn’t pommel him or even heckle him with insults. “In Jesus name” he confessed to the three murders including his parents Dr. Martin and Ethel Cohen in Hockessin, Delaware and Mr. Conrad Lutz in San Francisco, California.
By Skyler Saunders6 years ago in Criminal
Reason First: Part III of the Charles Cohen Murder Story
How many ways can one say that this is an extremely bizarre case? Charlie Cohen ends up in San Francisco, California. He, driving off of the fumes of desperation and depravity after bludgeoning and stabbing his parents to death in their Hockessin, Delaware home, decided to stop. He met a financial executive named Conrad Lutz. A gay man, Lutz wanted to engage in sex acts with Cohen. Cohen led him to believe that he wanted the same thing. His way of squashing any sexual feelings for Lutz consisted of stabbing him to death in the heart with a dagger that he had obtained at a homeless shelter.
By Skyler Saunders6 years ago in Criminal
Reason First: Part II of the Charles Cohen Murder Story
It has been said before...cocaine is a hell of a drug. Now, obtaining it and using it doesn’t mean that every user has or will brutally murder their own parents like Cohen did in Hockessin, Delaware. But this did mean that Charlie Cohen would do just that after the misdeed had been committed. He damn near decapitated his mother upon inflicting so much damage on her with the pocket knife that he used on his father, as well. After knocking both his father and mother, respectively, over the head with a ten pound dumbbell, Cohen started stabbing them both as life escaped from their bodies. Not for a moment did he show any remorse or a compassion or guilt to the very people who loved and cared for him. He reversed the saying to read, “you brought me into this world, and I’ll take you out of it.”
By Skyler Saunders6 years ago in Criminal
Reason First: Killer Charles Cohen Just Wanted Some Chicken
This white boy murdered his parents over thirty years ago in Hockessin, Delaware. The cops let him sit up and enjoy a bucket of fried chicken and a drink of soda. Would the same treatment be given to a person of color? There’s no such thing as white privilege but there is such a thing as racism. Did the cops not see this or did they just want to make Charles Cohen, who is now serving a life sentence in Vaughn Correctional Center in Smyrna, Delaware comfortable and as the article states, not reach out for an attorney? The News Journal has picked up the story again to highlight the wicked details of three murders. Charles Cohen had also murdered a man named Conrad Lutz.
By Skyler Saunders6 years ago in Criminal
Have You Been the Victim of a DUI?
People who have never been arrested for drunk driving often are surprised by the severity of the penalties. They frequently drop their jaws in surprise when they are facing both criminal and civil charges. While both cases deal with the same evidence, the goal and proof used in each case are significantly different.
By Donna Ryan6 years ago in Criminal
Poor Decisions
What do you do when you are forced to live with the poor decisions of other people? I have been contemplating this question for some time now and cannot come up with an acceptable answer. It is especially difficult because I have no recourse for these decisions, and I literally do have to live with them. I am forced to, regardless of the injustice. However, it doesn’t mean I have to like them, and it certainly doesn’t mean I am going to take them lying down.
By Sandy Shiner-Swanson6 years ago in Criminal
