Crime
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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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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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In 1978, Rodney Alcala appeared on The Dating Game. In this popular TV show where three eligible bachelors competed for a date with a bachelorette. The show was full of innuendo, and the host introduced Alcala as a “successful photographer who got his start when his father found him in the darkroom at age 13,…
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When I heard the title of the movie “Changeling” I thought Clint Eastwood deviated from his usual genres of Westerns and gritty dramas, and thought he was going to direct a Sci-fi movie but I could not have been further from the truth. Although the story sounded so incredible it was true. It is like…
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You just never know what goes around in someone’s mind or behind closed doors. You may look at someone in admiration because he appears to be such a good and wholesome human being, but deep inside lurks a monster. John List was an outwardly normal and successful father. A Sunday school teacher and Boy Scout…
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Talk shows used to be entertaining but they have turned into a bench marking tool the bring out the worst in society when you look at some titles of the Jerry Springer or Jeremy Kyle show It’s no wonder that it would come to the stage where someone would get killed. Jonathan Schmitz was 24…
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Some people say that TV has a bad influence on especially younger people.Juan Catalan will wholeheartedly disagree with that. Juan Catalan was 24 when he was wrongly charged with gunning down 16-year-old Martha Puebla on her doorstep outside her home in Los Angeles.Martha had earlier testified in a gang-related murder case ,involving Catalan’s gangster, and…
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I know all these W’s in the title would nearly make you dizzy , unfortunately there are more to come. What happens if you are arrested and brought to jail and it is claimed you were there before and you know you weren’t but there is an eye witness placing you there. This happened to…
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This is a very personal blog for me.Not because I was personally involved in it, because I wasn’t, but because it really touched me emotionally. Although I am don’t suffer from depression myself that is really what the song is about,depression and the effects it has especially on teenagers and young adolescents. I first heard…
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