Facts: On November 29, 1994, twelve year old Melissa Middleton was murdered by Daniel Andrew Linton in San Jacinto, California. On November 29, Melissa was sick and stayed home from school. She was instructed by her mom, Linda, to stay in bed and take her medicine. Linda called to check up on her at noon, but Melissa did not answer the phone. Linda just thought that Melissa might have been sleeping. When Linda got home from work that day in the afternoon she unlocked the front door and called for her daughter but received no response. Linda went into Melissa’s room but she was not in there. Everything in the home seemed normal, Linda went into the master bedroom and she saw Melissa sitting…
The police were later claimed by observers to have made several critical mistakes in the investigation, such as not sealing off the crime scene and allowing friends and family in and out of the house once a kidnapping was…
got sick soon after Jonathan left, so she sent her children away to live with close neighbors…
I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973," Susie Salmon tells us in the second sentence of The Lovely Bones. She shows us who did it—a neighbor everyone thinks is weird—and describes the horrible scene, a brutal assault and dismemberment in an underground hideout in a bleak winter cornfield. Sebold's triumph is in making Susie's voice so immediately compelling that we don't want to let her go, even after she's dead. We want to know what happens next. So does Susie.…
arrived at the house the first responding officer told them to look for anything suspicious. Their…
had to raise her younger siblings due to her father’s untimely passing. Melissa had to deal with a…
“We were going to move out of town when we grew up. This wasn’t supposed to happen. He wasn’t supposed to die. He was supposed to be safe with the Royals.” Laura, 15, said in tears…
parents Lou and Dena Walters. She was the middle of three children, with an older sister and a…
Furthermore, Joan finds her family but Leah is estranged from her mother and her mother’s side of the family ‘They were all the family Leah had, but…
July 8, 1982, I murdered my first victim. Her name was Wendy Lee Coffield. She was only 16, just a runaway, probably dropped out of school. I strangled it with it’s own clothes. I dumped the body in the Green River. Like my favored outdoor sexual spots, these were some of the locations I also dumped these objects, what I like to refer to these outcast women as. Also in the Green River was the body of Debra Lynn Bonner, 23, Marcia Faye Chapman, 31, Cynthia Jean Hinds, 17, Opal Charmaine Mills, 16, Tracy Winston, 19.…
was home sick. Her Mom encouraged her to stay and work hard for her dream, it all…
As the case progressed the body of a little boy was found buried in a shallow grave wrapped in a blanket. It was the body of baby Colton. Even now writing about the situation is upsetting to me because I can’t imagine someone hurting a defenseless child.…
A:: My sister had initially felt an overwhelming feeling of great loss. My grandparents were shocked and I remember my friends calling my house phone to see if I had heard of the terrible news.…
had to carry on working the family farm by herself. With the death of his…
Keon had just left Kondawni’s house and said he was coming back in an hour or so. That hour turned into several. His friend, Dre, ran down the block yelling, “Keon just got popped”. As they ran towards Linwood Avenue, the street was decorated in yellow tape, blue and red lights, women in their pajamas, and tears running down the cheeks of everyone in attendance. A sight that covered the streets of Baltimore night and day. Baltimore has made me come to terms of how grandmothers will outlive their kids and how flashing, blue pole cameras will distinguish the level of crime in the neighborhood in which you are in. What will change my perspective of Baltimore streets? Will Baltimore, Maryland be “Bodymore, Murderland”…