By, Emersyn Carter-Nathan and Stas Kondratskiy
My view on how a murder case might look-
When studying a number of different real murder cases, there was a pattern to each of the killers way of working. I studied two killers who targeted only opposite genders then one another. Ted Bundy targeted young women around college age which had a large amount to do with his sexual orientation. When studying Jeffery Dahmer, he had a similar way of controling people but because of the sex he was attracted to, he always targeted male victums of all different age ranges.
In my own opinion, these killers main drive towards these groups of people was sex and violent ways to control another person they were attrackted to.
A killer is someone who grew up in what might have been a great loving home or maybe they grew up being very abused. It’s hard to know where a serial killer came from based on who they were as a child but here is a sign that indicated that an individual may turn into a killer one day-
- They killed or hurt animals
A sign that one is to become a killer one day is when they get satisfied by taking the life from smaller living organisms. There is a show on Netflix that recently came out called “Don’t F*** With Cats”. This show really makes the audience think about what kind of person could post horrific videos of killing kittens without having consequences. This show goes on to stalk this person’s social media activity to try and figure out who this guy is that is killing cats like it is nothing. After really going into a long research for this kid, they find him. This group of people on the look for him predict that a human would be his next target because sometimes animals just don’t meet the craving that they are trying to educore.
There are a number of different types of killers and here are just a few to show the differences in motives.
- The Garbriel Fernandez case
Gabriel was — like most kids — a sweet child who liked to be helpful and sought the love of his family. Prior to moving in with his mother, Pearl Fernandez, her boyfriend, Isauro Aguirre, and two siblings in Palmdale, located north of Los Angeles, Gabriel was shuffled between the homes of his relatives. After joining his mother and Aguirre, Gabriel landed at a new school. Shortly after starting there, his teacher, Jennifer Garcia, sensed that things were not okay at home. Garcia, who appears throughout the six-part series, says that a couple weeks after he started in her classroom, Gabriel asked her, “Is it normal for moms to hit their kids?” When she pressed him, Gabriel asked if it was normal to be hit with a belt buckle. “Is it normal for you to bleed?” he asked, according to Garcia. As the school year went on, the abuse Gabriel endured worsened. He began coming to class with patches of hair missing, scabs on his scalp, injured lips from being punched in the face and bruises all over his face after his mother shot him with a BB gun. According to grand jury testimony obtained by the Los Angeles Times, Gabriel’s siblings said he was forced to eat cat litter and was kept locked in a cabinet in his mother’s room. They said Fernandez and Aguirre called him “gay” and punished him for exhibiting feminine qualities, like playing with dolls. After Pearl Fernandez called 911 on May 22, 2013 to report that Gabriel was not breathing, the paramedics who responded found him with broken ribs, a cracked skull and BB pellets stuck in his body. In the documentary, one paramedic who arrived at the scene says Gabriel’s case was the worst she ever encountered in her career. The severe abuse was immediately obvious to first responders. Gabriel was taken to the hospital and later declared brain-dead. He died on May 24, 2013.
- Black Dahlia
On the morning of January 15, 1947, a mother taking her child for a walk in a Los Angeles neighborhood stumbled upon a gruesome sight: the body of a young naked woman sliced clean in half at the waist.
The body was just a few feet from the sidewalk and posed in such a way that the mother reportedly thought it was a mannequin at first glance. Despite the extensive mutilation and cuts on the body, there wasn’t a drop of blood at the scene, indicating that the young woman had been killed elsewhere.
In support of L.A. police, the FBI ran records checks on potential suspects and conducted interviews across the nation. Based on early suspicions that the murderer may have had skills in dissection because the body was so cleanly cut, agents were also asked to check out a group of students at the University of Southern California Medical School. And, in a tantalizing potential break in the case, the Bureau searched for a match to fingerprints found on an anonymous letter that may have been sent to authorities by the killer, but the prints weren’t in FBI files.
The killer was never found and the case was put into the category of cold case files.
- Jessica Ridgeway
Jessica Ridgeway was 10 years old and was walking to her bus stop one day when a 17 year old boy came and picked her up in his car. He parked his jeep where no one could see him and he crossed the street to go get her. No one heard Jessica screaming. She was missing for 5 days when she was found cut up into pieces in the woods and she was so beat up that she was unrecognizable and the police couldn’t capture any evidence as to who killed her. They collected about 700 samples of DNA and still came back with nothing. The boy made a strange comment to his brother about how he was learning in one of his classes how to kill someone and get away with it. A friend of his mom recalled a conversation before Jessica was kidnapped about how her son’s decomposition that his mom had with her son and he practiced restraining someone with zip ties. His girlfriend would tell police that he would stay at her house once a week but he was gone four nights of that week and no one was sure where he was the other three nights of the week. In the weeks before her death the boy went out hunting with his jeep around the neighborhoods and he said his heart would start racing when he saw people. Four months before he tried kidnapping Jessica he tried to kidnap a woman jogging at a lake by shoving a chloroform soaked rag in her face but she was able to fight him off and call the police. He said that he learned from his first try that he needed to find someone smaller. The boy killed Jessica in his own room. He made her change out of her clothes and had her put on her clothes. He then strangled her and then he remembered her limbs and hid them in the pool shed behind his house. Jessica was dead before her mom even called 911. For the next 17 days they searched for her killer. The police connected evidence from Jessica’s backpack to the previous jogger. The boy put her torso in two blak garbage bags 9 miles from her home. The boy’s mom’s friend called the cops on the boy out of suspicion. The boy later on confessed to his mother about killing the young girl.
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