Serial killers are not new; there have been many accounts of serial killers in past ages and in many different places around the world, so it's not just a part of one unique nation or time period. For example, one of the earliest recorded cases of serial murder was Locusta of Galt of the Roman Empire, who preferred the method of poison and was highly rewarded. But not enough information was recorded about her as to know how many people she killed and the span of years the killings took place. And
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The case of Aileen Wuornos, reportedly America’s first female serial killer, has been a subject of news media since the early 1990s when the bodies of several men were found murdered along the highways of north and central Florida (Pike and Linning, 2018) The first of which, 51-year-old convicted rapist and electronics store owner Richard Mallory, was found in December 1989 in a wooded area after being shot twice in the left lung (Myall, 2018). Construction worker David Spears, 43’s naked body was
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“There’s nothing natural about a lion, or tiger, or killer whale, jumping through a hoop or standing vertically to obtain a food reward.” (“Welcome Progress on captive wildlife” 1). When I was a little girl, I loved to see animals doing tricks. After doing some research, now I know some shows are wrong. Animal captivity is wrong because it’s dangerous for people and for the animals, and it’s not natural. Animals such as orcas should never be in captivity. Having animals in captivity can be dangerous
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Nathan Pullen Maenz English 9 Honors 12/3/2014 John Dillinger John Dillinger was born on June 22, 1903. Throughout his life he committed many dastardly deeds and acts of atrocity. Some believed that the acts against the government were called for. Throughout his life, John Dillinger earned the title “Gangster” by committing crimes, breaking out of jail, and evading government apprehension for his whole life. John grew up in Indianapolis, Indiana. Even during childhood, Dillinger was
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Milat The backpacker murders were a spate of serial killings that took place in New South Wales, Australia, during the 1990s, committed by Ivan Milat. He was born on 27 December 1944 at Guildford, New South Wales, Australia. Ivan Milat was a serial killer that targeted back packers. His way to target people was to offer lifts to people and would offer them to help them in many different ways and would take them to the woods or forest and torture them in different ways and use different type of methods
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Tomas Hannacher 6/18/16 Block 6 Seaworld Under Fire & What It Means For San Diego. Seaworld has been surrounded by media controversy the last several years following an orca activist documentary titled Blackfish. Blackfish, was released in 2013 and originally premiered in the 2013 sundance festival where it picked up traction and attracted Magnolia Pictures and CNN Films who funded Blackfish for a larger audience and screen, where Blackfish flourished and earned over $2 million dollars over two
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Name of the Case: The Estate of Konerak Sinthasomphone v. City of Milwaukee 2. Citation: 838 F. Supp. 1320 3. Date Decided: 1993 4. Facts: In 1991 a fourteen year old Laotian boy was drugged and sexually abused by now infamous Jeffrey Dahmer before escaping, drugged naked and bloody, from Dahmer’s apartment. Once outside a few civilians called police and kept Dahmer from being allowed to take custody of the boy. Police arrived and disregarded fire and ems personnel and stopped the citizens from intervening
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cruel, monstrous and wild the film challenges this way of thinking by portraying orcas as kind, intelligent and caring creatures throughout the documentary. For example, when the film first starts we can see that when capturers had surrounded the “killer whales”, and the calves are taken away. We can observe through archival footage that all the orcas were willing to beach themselves just to stay with newborn calves and through scientific interviews, showing that even when the calves were taken away
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Yes Or No Every person has an opinion on a very difficult topic that has been investigated for a while. Serial has been going over Adnan being guilty or innocent of killing his ex girlfriend Hae. Every episode has been lead to him being guilty or the state making the wrong claims. Sarah Koenig has broken down the case and gone over different aspects on why he could be innocent and why he could be guilty. Adnan despite the discrepancies is guilty of murdering Hae. Here is some counter arguments
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Sometimes I sit and wonder, as well as ask myself the following questions: How different would the world be if evil did not exist? Who is responsible for the world’s evilness? Why do human beings cause tremendous pain to others around them? James Bulger was abducted, as well as brutally murdered in Kirkby, Merseyside, England on February 12, 1993, by two-ten-year-old boys—Robert Thompson and Jon Venables. James was attacked with paint, bricks, stones, and a metal pipe—causing a fractured skull. In
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