Tilikum is one of the largest orca whales in captivity has been nothing but confined ever since he was two years old. Now weighing 12,500 pounds and reaching a staggering 22 feet he has been in business for almost over thirty years. Before he was taken to a marine park he was kept in a holding tank made of cement for almost a year. This young orca whale was left with nothing to do but swim in circles. Then one day he was taken to Sealand in British Columbia, Canada where he would be confined yet
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Citation: Estate of Sinthasomphone v. City of Milwaukee, 838 F.Supp. 1320 (1993) Facts: Konerak Sinthasomphone, a 14 year old Laotian male, voluntarily went to Jeffrey Dahmer’s apartment where he allowed Dahmer to take nude photographs of him. Dahmer drugged Konerak and poured diluted hydrochloric acid into a small hole he drilled into Konerak’s head while he was unconscious. Dahmer left the apartment and Konerak was able to find his way outside. Two female’s witnessed Konerak run into the street
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Orcas are kept in captivity their whole life. They are captured with big nets and bombs that are thrown into the water to make the parents abandon their young and allow the capturing of the baby orcas easier. when orcas are young around 2 or 3 years old they are taken from their mother’s side. Orcas should not be kept in captivity because their life expectancy decreases, they are treated poorly and leads them to becoming more aggressive. Instead of supporting orca captivity people should stop attending
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Albert DeSalvo was a serial offender. He was in and out of trouble his whole life, starting at an early age. He was born in September 1931. He died at age 42. He was killed in prison after being sentenced for life. In a short period between June 1962 and January 1964, a series of grisly murders took place in Boston. All the victims were women who had been strangled. The "Boston Strangler" has been held accountable for around 11 of 13 murders of female victims. Albert DeSalvo was the one who got charged
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was another highly anticipated Shamu show displaying the training and talents of the biggest killer whale in captivity in SeaWorld’s history, Tilikum. What Brancheau and Seaworld did not know was that this day would infamously impact the “brand name” that Tilikum had begun for SeaWorld and that this event would trigger the movement to end killer whale captivity. The Birth Of A Murderer In 1983, a huge killer whale that would be known as Tilikum was caught in Iceland. After being captured in Iceland
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scalping her and dismembered Dawn while breaking many bones throughout her body before he eventually drowned her. Many think this was an act of frustration because he was not receiving fish when correctly doing his behaviors. Dawn was known as a trainer that followed the rules making sure everyone was doing things right. After this accident SeaWorld pinned it on Dawn saying it was a “training error” and she did not follow all the correct rules. Following her death, Tilikum was kept in a tiny cage
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I for myself would have to say that the defendant is guilty for the murder of his father because of two major things that I could point out in the court case reading. One of them is what happened approximately two weeks before the murder, and the other is what happened directly after the murder. If what the others reported is true, like Donald Winchester, John Shelton, Richard Maury, Kate Wood, and Charles Soneath then I stand strong with my statement. What Winchester said that happened about two
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the FBI if the federal kidnapping statute had been violated.” On May 21, 1981 Atlanta officially asked the FBI for help in solving these murders. (FBI 2014). To this point, the bodies of the victims were found in wooded areas, but in April 1981, the killer changed his MO: The bodies were now being dumped in the Chattahoochee River. (Biography 2015) A big break come in the case on May 22, 1981, when an FBI agent, an Atlanta police officers and two cadets were on a stakeout under a bridge, they heard
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Christopher Marlowe: 007 On May 30th, 1593, in South-East London, Christopher Marlowe, a 29 year-old, well-known playwright (and sometimes spy) was viciously stabbed to death. The details surrounding this murder are shrouded with talk of espionage, heresy, and power (picture: James Bond, Elizabethan Theatre style). It is well-known that Christopher Marlowe was a government spy under Sir Francis Walsingham and that two witnesses to his death were also spies under the same man (with the murderer himself
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The release of “Blackfish,” a documentary about SeaWorld trainer Dawn Brancheau’s death by a killer whale, aroused an overflow of opinions on whether or not circuses and zoos should close. The non-supporters of zoos and circuses, like Pilar Clark, argue that people shouldn’t attend a place where animals are “made to perform for the enjoyment of humans.” Whit Honea, a father of two, takes the side of Clark when he says he “would love for every zoo and aquarium to focus its entertainment value in education
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