Crime

  • Remembering MH17

    The world appears to have forgotten and the promises of justice have faded. But I pledged I will remember you until justice is found. I am honoring this pledge. 298 a number that we always will remember 298 lives that have been lost 298 of friends and family members. 298 souls eternally loved 298 ambitions

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  • When I titled this commentary Wise Words from Criminal Minds—I did not actually mean criminal minds, but rather, quotes from the TV show Criminal Minds. The fictional series follows a group of criminal profilers who work for the FBI as members of its Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU). They use behavioural analysis and profiling to help investigate crimes and

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  • Harry Dobkin-Blitz Murderer

    One can imaging that the Blitz must have been a terrifying time in Great Britain, but it also must have been a time where people ceased the opportunity amidst the chaos to do things they usually wouldn’t dare to do for the fear of being caught. Harry Dobkin was one of these folks. Harry Dobkin

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  • On July 22 2011 the thirty-two year-old Anders Behring Breivik, a Norwegian fascist, drove into the city center of Oslo where he placed a car bomb at the government quarter. The bomb went off at 3:25 pm killing eight people and wounding thirty others severely. The office of Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg from the Labor

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  • (originally posted in June 2016) The Netherlands is generally known as a peaceful country with relatively little crime and especially the 2 most Northern provinces Friesland and Groningen, which are both rural areas would not be known for brutal crimes and yet 2 of the most notorious crimes in the country took place there. As

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  • This is probably my most personal blog. I will not mention the names of the people involved, but I don’t think knowing the names is actually relevant. On June 13, 1991 the partially covered body of 18 year old Jessica R was found near a dump in Bergen op Zoom, in the province of Noord

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  • Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, famously known as Bonnie and Clyde, were among the most infamous criminal couples in American history. Their lives of crime during the Great Depression captured the imagination of the public, yet their story ended in a dramatic and violent ambush that marked one of the most famous manhunts in U.S.

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  • On 17 July 2014, all 298 passengers of flight MH17 were killed. Nine years on, and still no one is brought to justice. The contrary is true, some of those responsible, and this includes those who are complacent and are vetoing part of the investigation, and of course, the war in Ukraine. Each passing day

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  • When you think of the cool sounds of Motown one of the first names that comes up in your mind is Marvin Gaye. He made the Soul Music sexy again. Marvin first discovered his musical talent and passion by singing in his father’s church. Unfortunately not every one liked what he was doing, his father Marvin Gay,

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  •   Since the tennis season is at full swing at the moment I thought it only appropriate to have a story about a Wimbledon semi finalist. Vere Thomas “St. Leger” Goold (2 October 1853– 8 September 1909) was an Irish tennis player. He quickly faded from the game and ended his life in prison convicted

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