Monday, August 24, 2009
7 Unknown Facts About the Black Dahlia Murder
All of you, who believe that the murder of the Black Dahlia, a.k.a. Elizabeth Short, is still unsolved, please raise your hand. How many of you know who shot Lincoln? And finally, how many know who killed John Kennedy?
These three unrelated, yet notorious murders have gained a following of cynics and conspiracy theorists. All right, two of them have international implications while the third, The Black Dahlia, is most known in the U.S. because it's about sensationalism at its most grand. There have been many mystery books written on the subject.
Folklore has propelled The Black Dahlia to the status of Jack the Ripper and Lizzie Borden. But here are some interesting notes about the murder. Since he hasn't been tried in court, we can't convict now and most likely will never prosecute. And now that he is dead, it may continue as more than legend but a part of history. Here are some interesting facts:
The victim had blue eyes and brunette colored hair and was from Massachusetts, not California.
Elizabeth Short wasn't just murdered, but dissected and mutilated by having her mouth cut wide on both sides by someone with detailed knowledge of anatomy
The body was discovered in a vacant lot by a woman and her daughter.
She was not murdered at the scene; her body was placed there. Police believed that the murder took place in a home on Franklin Ave. in Los Angeles.
Reporter Will Fowler and photographer Felix Paegel were the first to arrive on the scene before the police!
The secretary of Dr. George Hodel, the alleged murderer, was writing a manuscript about him when she died suddenly and the manuscript disappeared.
The killer taunted police with a series of written notes after the murder took place.
The reason the killer was never charged or indicted for the crime, even though the police had known who he was shortly after the crime took place, had more to do with blackmail and corruption as much as anything else. The physician who was in charge of the public health in Los Angeles County was Dr. George Hodel. Venereal disease was not only dangerous in the late 40's and early 50's but a taboo that few people would even talk about it. Dr. Hodel treated some members of the police department and the judiciary who contracted venereal disease. They feared he would go public with their names if he was indicted.
Shortly after the murders, and there were more than one, Dr. Hodel was involved in a sensational incest trial involving his 14 year old daughter. He was acquitted of the charges on Christmas Eve and left for the country where he remained for many years.
His daughter gave birth to a girl that was immediately given up for adoption to a black restroom attendant in Reno, Nevada. Dr. Hodel maintained a distant contact with the new parent, keeping tract of his offspring as she struggled in this dual world.
The author began writing at a young age and first published articles in sporting and finance magazines. The recent release of his first full biographical novel has created a buzz in Hollywood for the film rights. If you want to know more about this bizarre story and see photos of the alleged killer visit http://www.onedayshelldarken.com
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There Are Only 2 Unsolved Murders? Never to Fear - Hercule Poirot Is Here
Hercule Poirot: The Mystery of The Blue Train - 3 Stars (Good)
The Mystery of The Blue train finds Hercule Poirot (David Suchet) boarding the train for the Riviera, the Mediterranean coastal region from Marseilles in France to La Spezia in Italy, noted for its beauty and climate, and the site of many resorts.
Katherine Grey (Georgina Rylance), a young English woman who has recently inherited a fortune, is also on board the trip to Nice.
She meets Ruth Kettering (Jamie Murray), an American heiress with marital problems and the owner of a world-famous ruby. Kettering is accompanied by her husband, her lover and her maid.
Rufus Van Aldin (Elliott Gould of MASH fame) is Kettering's father. He thinks both his daughter's husband and her lover are scoundrels. Added to the cast are some of the young woman's money-grubbing distant relatives.
What happens is hardly surprising. Ruth Kettering is brutally murdered in her compartment and her ruby is stolen. Poirot, of course, sorts this mess out and finds the killer.
There are reports that Agatha Christie felt this book, which became a made-for-television movie, was not her best work. I felt The Mystery of The Blue Train was no better or worse than many of her other works, the majority of which I consider good.
Hercule Poirot: Death in the Clouds - 2 Stars (Average)
Death in the Clouds is the first film adaptation of Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot series that I consider an average effort.
This movie gives us a murder in the sky as a ruthless blackmailer is killed by a poison-tipped dart during a flight full of likely suspects. The victim is Madame Giselle (Jenny Downham) who has a troop of people ready to kill her.
Madame Giselle is privy to too much insider information that could embarrass or destroy the careers of her money targets.
I found this script to be over the top with simply too many suspects and too much meaningless detail. It is the only Hercule Poirot mystery that made me annoyed with the story line. The method of the killing is really hard to believe, and therefore I give this film an average rating.
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Zodiac Killer, An Unsolved Case
America’s most dreaded killer remains elusive even today. It is still not known who this Zodiac Killer was. Though the police suspected it to be Arthur Leigh Allen, there was no concrete evidence to support the claim. Since he has been an enigma to the cops, little is known about his early days and what prompted him to become a serial killer. Till date the case is open and world's top investigators are foxed by the complexity of this case. Allen was the only one who came close to the killer's description. But his DNA doesn't match with any of the samples found at the site of crime. The San Francisco Police Department marked this case closed in April 2004 but has reopened it now.
The Zodiac Killers modus operandi is intriguing, as he wrote letters to media in code language about the killings, sometimes even before hand . In fact, once he even called up the police and accepted responsibility for killing two youngsters in a parking lot. The call was traced to a telephone booth near the Vallejo Police Department. In 1968, the Zodiac killings came to light with the murder of Betty Lou Jensen and David Faraday on December 20, 1968 in California City. He shot them point blank on their head. A neighborhood lady Stella Borges found the bodies and alerted the police. But no leads were found. This was followed by a spate of killings which baffled the cops and made them helpless. No conclusive evidence was found in any of the killings.
In 1969, letters were received by the Vallejo Times-Herald, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the San Francisco Examiner. The letters consisted of one third of a cryptogram with a total of 408 characters which he claimed contained his identity. He demanded they be printed on the front page or he would go on a rampage and kill a dozen people that weekend. Though the threatened murders did not happen, all three parts were eventually published.
The cryptogram was cracked in August 1969 by Donald and Betty Harden. Though the message was unraveled it didn't contain the killer’s identity. According to the excerpts published the letter was as follows:
I LIKE KILLING PEOPLE BECAUSE IT IS SO MUCH FUN IT IS MORE FUN THAN KILLING WILD GAME IN THE FORREST, BECAUSE MAN IS THE MOST DANGEROUS ANAMAL OF ALL TO KILL. SOMETHING GIVES ME THE MOST THRILLING EXPERENCE - IT IS EVEN BETTER THAN GETTING YOUR ROCKS OFF WITH A GIRL THE BEST PART OF IT IS THAT WHEN I DIE I WILL BE REBORN IN PARADICE AND ALL THE GIRLS I HAVE KILLED WILL BECOME MY SLAVES I WILL NOT GIVE YOU MY NAME BECAUSE YOU WILL TRY TO SLOI DOWN OR STOP MY COLLECTING OF SLAVES FOR MY AFTERLIFE EBEORIETEMETHHPITI.
The last 18 characters couldn’t be unraveled.
The killings continued and flummoxed everyone in Bay Area. The Zodiac Killer also dutifully reported every crime to the police. Though fresh evidence could be collected, they could never be matched with anybody. Letters continued to come to media and so did the killings. There were around 49 murders linked to zodiac killer out of which 15 were occult killings in Northern California.
Theories abound in Zodiac Killers case but no conclusive evidence was ever found. Many films were inspired by this and Hollywood had a fascination for making movies and TV serials on zodiac killer. The killer always signed his notes with " = 12, SFPD = 0".
Though police investigated over 2,500 potential suspects, the case is still unsolved. This is one of the greatest unsolved serial killer mysteries of all times in American crime history.
By: Carlos Cabezas López
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To Die For - The Most Mysterious Unsolved Cases of All Time
Of all the things that befall us in life, nothing quite equals the monumental impact that love and death have on the way we go about our daily lives and the way we view reality. Lives are made and unmade, political situations are fueled and break, and in general the very fabric of reality is changed forever because of these two phenomena.
And it is arguably death that is the stronger of the two in spite of what a lot of hopeless romantics would say. It is perhaps the finality of death that gives it its tremendous emotional and anthropological significance. When someone dies, it is truly the end. That is why everything from cosmetic surgery to horror films are so numerous in our society. These are our ways of sublimating this fascination with the terminal nature or our attempts to parody or delay its inevitability.
Another manifestation of our intense fascination with death and dying would be our glorification or remembrance of unsolved murders. It is one thing that can very easily strip any modicum of normality and stability that you perceive your life to have and makes you reflect on the mystery and swiftness of death. Another thing that gives color to these cases would be the victims. They could either be heroes of their societies or someone who could have been our mothers, fathers, sons or daughters. Either way, the aura of these murders has been amplified so much that they shall be remembered forever:
Oscar Romero: One of the most tragic deaths of this century would definitely have to be that of Oscar Romero. This priest from San Salvador, el Salvador was one of the strongest lobbyists against human rights violations. He was gunned down while saying mass on April 24, 1980 by an as of yet unidentified assailant. Many say the murderers came from Salvadorian death squads trained by the United States but now we may never know for sure.
The Black Dahlia: Edgar Allan Poe would agree with you if you said there was something strangely romantic about the death of a dark and beautiful woman. And the Black Dahlia, aka Elizabeth Short was definitely that. Her beauty, mystique and brutal death were the primary reasons why she remains popular to this day,. Many movie adaptations, books and investigations have been done on this case but it is unlikely that her killer will ever be brought to justice.
Andrew and Abby Borden: One of the grisliest murders ever committed was supposedly done by this couple's underage daughter. Although she was pronounced innocent due to lack of evidence the legend of Lizzie Borden is so powerful that it inspires songs, novels and pop culture to this day.
These are just a few of the many examples of unsolved murders that have puzzled investigators and ordinary folk like us to this day. If you want more examples of these high profile cases, which include the top one unsolved murder case of all time, just visit: http://crunkish.com/top-ten-unsolved-murders
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CSI-NY Game Review
CSI: NY is a great game if only for the fact that it is the perfect vehicle for a hidden object game. After all, what better reason to be searching for hidden objects than if you were a police investigator searching murder scenes for evidence?
CSI: NY is a pretty faithful adaptation of the hit TV series, with the series stars such as detectives Mac Taylor, Stella Bonasera, Don Flack, Dr. Sheldon Hawkes and Adam Ross all featuring heavily in the game.
The feel and atmosphere of the game also captures the essence of the TV series. The scenarios in the game are structured like episodes of a TV series, and what really got me was that each episode started off with a clip of the murder victim being found followed by credits totally like a TV series. And each change of location also incorporates a movie clip of the cityscape of New York, again a faithful adaptation of the series and a very nice touch to the game.
The actual hidden object puzzles in the game are also integrated very well. As detective Taylor or Bonasera, you attend a crime scene and need to search the area for evidence and any plot items that might lead to potential witnesses or suspects.
Other hidden object scenes involve searching the premises of potential suspects and last-known-whereabouts of the victims. There is very little random objects to be found: everything seems to fit nicely into the story. There are even nice touches such as newspaper clippings that when found reveal the history of the victims and further advances the story.
Another thing that makes the hidden puzzle section of the game unique is that each scene starts with you not knowing what items you're meant to be searching for. There is a list of items to be found, but that list emerges very slowly. So for the first minute or so, you're on your own trying to guess which objects could be evidence in each case.
What this game excels in though are the mini-games that are scattered throughout, and there are plenty of them. These are not your typical mini-games such as jigsaws or numerical puzzles, but are actually neatly integrated into the story and theme of the game. You get to swab crime scenes for fingerprints, take photos of the correct evidence, perform facial recognition, calculate the victim's falling trajectory and a whole lot more. It is these unique mini-games that makes CSI: NY really stand out among the other games of this genre and sets the tone you'd expect from a game based on the CSI franchise.
There are 4 "episodes" in this game, with different characters from the series having starring roles and with each case being unique (as unique as they can be... after a dozen seasons of the various CSI series, every kind of murder becomes pretty cliched).
There is a fair amount of humor and characterization in the game to make it feel like the TV series as well. Scenes such as Adam Ross saying "Umm... Mac? Why do you and Stella always want to do the fingerprinting yourselves? Is there something wrong with my work?" are funny and capture the essence of the show.
Admittedly, the game is pretty linear with very little room for open exploration. Everything occurs in a sequence and could be stifling for gamers more used to the exploration-style adventure games. But CSI: NY stays true to the episodic scene-by-scene storyboarding of a TV show, and is a pretty good adaptation of the franchise. Definitely a game worth playing if you're into the crime scenes theme and want to have a hand in helping stars like Gary Sinise solve crimes.
Rating: 4.0/5.0
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Crime Scene Investigator and How to Get Crime Scene Investigator Jobs
Crime Scene Investigation or CSI as you may know it, because of the television show has become one of the most popular programs on network TV in the last few years. The original show also spawned the programs CSI: Miami and CSI: NY.
Those shows are created and produced by Anthony E. Zuiker. This article isn't about how to create a television show, but I wanted to point out the popularity of a career based on the general public's knowledge about it from television.
When the movie Top Gun was released in 1986, it helped the Navy and Air Force boost their recruitment. CSI has no doubt sparked interest in crime scene investigating and forensic science. Everybody wants to be in a field that is demanding, not just because of the allure but because a career that is being sought after has many benefits.
What does it take to become a crime scene investigator?
A college degree is not required but it can help to move you towards the list of people that will be considered for such a career. If you have a formal education, you'll also need to add other skills to your resume. Photography, computer skills and drafting are all essential in crime scene investigation. Just like the television show CSI, the people involved in gathering evidence also are able to process it and that includes a general knowledge of forensic science.
Some on the job training will be provided by the employer and if you want to extend your knowledge of crime scene investigation, it wouldn't hurt to visit a body shop to see how a car door is removed. This way you gain a better understanding of what goes into collecting evidence.
Some applicants will even ride with police officers or emergency medical technicians (EMT) to get a first hand look at crime and science. Those who spend time in a morgue will no doubt become familiar with what may become a regular scene of the human body.
Why become a crime scene investigator?
Good question!
Do you like science, or do you like gathering evidence to help solve crimes? Does medical curiosity draw you in?
All of those aspects go into crime scene investigation. So you need to ask yourself are you willing to investigate it further. You will be able to learn about other jobs while you are a crime scene investigator. You will work with local law enforcement, hospitals, medical labs and even law offices to present evidence.
Each area listed above uses crime scene investigators. You'll primarily learn to gather evidence and process the crime scene. You will also be working with a team. If you're the type of person who likes working alone, this might not be the best career choice.
Crime scene investigation can really be an exciting career for those that love the type of work described above. If you are interested, I urge you to investigate it further. You can do this by visiting websites that cover CSI in more detail.
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Murder Mystery Party for some Crime-Solving Fun combined with a Birthday Celebration! This unique party idea is also a very popular party theme in October...when everyone is looking for good Halloween party ideas! With the popularity of crime scene investigation shows such as CSI these days, it's no wonder that many people fantasize of becoming forensic scientists themselves. It has been called the CSI effect! However, you can relieve the exciting tasks of forensic scientists through role playing. With role playing, you get to experience more or less the thrill of investigating a crime and the crime scene, without the hitch should you make a wrong move.
Setting up a murder mystery party is a great way to celebrate the birthdays of teens and adults alike. Whether you choose to use it as a theme or one of the events during the celebration, a murder mystery party will surely be a great way to keep your guests entertained - and guests will surely remember the event for the days to come! Just make sure you have challenging crimes for the guests to solve to keep their excitement up all the time.
There are a lot of things you can do to decorate the place and make the scene look more like a murder really happened there. You can ask someone to lie down on the floor and trace his or her outline with a chalk. This way you get an outline of a full-sized human body on the floor -- just imagine the reaction of your guests when they arrive! You can also leave actual footprints, fingerprints and riddles around, or anything you can think of that will give your guests hours of fun while searching for clues. If you got a huge space, you can use multiple areas, each one having a different case to crack. This will add to the delight of your guests as they form teams and beat one another in solving the mystery case.
To make the experience more realistic, you may also set up a laboratory, complete with items commonly found in a police investigations lab, like microscopes, test tubes and different colored fake chemicals. This is where they can collate all the clues they have gathered, compare notes and get the surprise of their lives as they slowly get to uncover the perpetrator of the unsolved crime. If you are a regular viewer of shows such as CSI, you can even make your favorite episode as the inspiration for your murder mystery party. Of course, you might want to downplay the case a little bit, especially if most of your guests are kids. You don't want them spending a lot of effort on something that is virtually impossible for them to be able to solve.
When it comes to food, you can have cakes custom made to fit perfectly within your murder mystery party. You can order a cake in the shape of a police badge, or finger foods like cookies in the shape of footprints or thumbprints. But make sure that you also include foods that little kids will surely enjoy -- goodies that are normally found in regular children's parties. Since most of your guests will be running around trying to solve the crime, you should also have lots of bottled soda or water should they become thirsty. You can be as imaginative as you want to be when it comes to the food, balloons, backdrop, giveaways and others.
Your guests may not be real life crime and crime scene investigators, but they will definitely have the same thrill. A murder mystery party is an exciting way to let your guests relieve their dreams of becoming one of those CSI characters.
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CSI - The Crime Scene Investigation
In this day and age, we constantly find ourselves mysteriously seeking and always attempting to learn the investigative aspects of the Law Enforcement profession. When involved in any investigation, the goal at the evidence-collection phase is to find, collect and preserve all physical evidence that might serve to recreate the scene of the incident and to identify the perpetrator in a manner that will render a guilty verdict in court.
There are many types of evidence that can be collected from any one incident location. If you like CSI-Miami, CSI-New York, CSI-Las Vegas, Forensic Files, The next 48 Hours, or any of the other television episodes about crime scene investigation, this is a good time to research it. Evidence is collected, and subsequently forwarded to the forensics lab to be processed for identification of suspects.
The news media will often promote the attention of a case solved or arrest made towards the lead investigator...but when its time for trial and all the pertinent information resulting from the investigation is transpired...It's always the testimony resulting from the on-scene investigation that places all the pieces of the incident location and the crime that was committed together.
The efforts of the on-scene investigators can never go unrecognized. Their duties essentially involves the collection and safeguarding of the evidence, the recorded and photographed reconstruction of the incident location, and all the hard work of the lead investigator that wins cases every time.
Right now, it's probably an excellent idea to research and learn everything there is to know about how to conduct a crime scene investigation.
My professional career experience has been in the field of Law Enforcement, as I have served as a police officer for twenty-five years...14-plus years as a Crime Scene Investigator. My ultimate goal is to provide information about conducting a crime scene investigation back to the general public in the form of e-Books.
I am offering my 21-page e-Book, "How To Conduct a Basic Crime Scene Investigation", that details the step-by-step process of crime scene investigation, and keeps the reader in-tune with everything a crime scene investigator should know about a crime scene, from the moment the investigator is notified, until the case is solved!
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Crime Scene Investigation: Understanding The CSI Effect
Crime Scene Investigation: Understanding The CSI Effect
By David A Webb
Programs such as Forensic files, Law and Order, CSI, CSI Miami etc may be hugely popular and thoroughly entertaining but they have created what is know in academic and professional circles as the 'CSI effect'
According to Max Houck, director of the Forensic Science Initiative, a program that develops research and professional training for forensic scientists, "The CSI effect is basically the perception of the near-infallibility of forensic science in response to the TV show,"
The main distortion between fictional portrayals and the application of forensic science in the real world is 'time frame'. It can take several weeks, sometimes months to get results back from the lab, however, in the fictional world of forensic science and crime scene investigation, results invariabaly come back straight away.
The CSI effect in action
It would seem that the CSI effect is most visible in the court room, particularly among jurors. Max Houck mentioned above, argues that Prosecutors fear the CSI effect among juries because they may question why everything is not subject to forensic analysis, when in fact not everything has to be. Equally, Defence attorneys are concerned about the CSI effect because jurors may perceive the science of forensics as completely objective and totally accurate, thus ignoring the possibility of human or technical error.
Writing for USA today Richard Willing outlined a number of examples that highlighted the CSI effect in action. These included:
A murder trial where jurors alerted the judge that a bloody coat introduced as evidence had not been tested for DNA. In fact, the tests were not needed because the defendant acknowledged being at the murder scene. The judge stated that TV had taught jurors about DNA tests, but not enough about when to use them.
A murder trial where jurors asked the judge if a cigarette butt found during the crime scene investigation could be tested to see if it could be linked to the defendant. The defence team had ordered the tests but had not introduced them into evidence. Upon doing so, the tests exonerated the defendant, and he was acquitted.
The fact that prosecutors are now being allowed to question potential jurors about their TV-watching habits.
To find out more about the CSI effect and to test your own crime scene investigation skills and knowledge visit:
http://www.all-about-forensic-science.com/csi-effect.html
Having worked as a lecturer in psychology in the UK, I recently moved to sunny Spain with my family, where I now work as a distance learning tutor and research dissertation supervisor.
Since 2000, I've been involved in collaborative research with teams of forensic scientists in the UK, US and Canada.
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5 Tips for Writing Mystery Stories
By Dawn Arkin
Mystery stories are a special type of writing. Fast paced and complex, they are a problem solving person's idea of a great read. Good mysteries keep a reader wondering while solving the crime. Great mysteries keep a reader in the dark until the very end.
Though you can have almost any combination of genre in one, there are certain rules you must follow for the tale to be considered a mystery.
1. Plot - Mysteries are plot-driven tales. They go beyond the standard victim is killed - detective searches for clues - killer is caught plotlines. Good mysteries have all that. Great mysteries have twists, turns and enough red herrings to keep the reader guessing until the moment the killer is revealed. A mystery story's plot must be plausible or the story will fall flat on its covers.
2. Crime - The crime should be introduced as early as possible, preferable in the firs chapter. Not many readers will be willing to read hundreds of pages without a victim. Most would not be willing to read past the first chapter. The crime should be believable, something the reader can see happening.
3. Main Characters - Introduce your detective and villain early on. Your detective is the hero of the story and your reader wants to see him in action from the get go. Your villain can be shown early, but if you want to keep your reader guessing, then keep your villain in the shadows until his unmasking.
4. Take your time - Keep your villain a secret until the last possible moment. If you show the reader who he is too soon, they might lose interest in the rest of the story. Be sure you reveal the clues as your detective uncovers them so your reader has a chance to solve the crime first.
5. Research - Make sure you read up on the type of crime, police procedures, and forensic information to make your story come to life. Also, make sure you know your story's setting inside and out. Nothing ruins a story faster than a writer who doesn't understand their own setting and makes errors the reader can see.
Mystery stories tend to follow more standard rules than other genres. Following those rules will help you write the kind of mystery your readers are looking for, and create the kind of suspenseful storyline that will have your readers turning the page until the very ending.
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Mysteries and Crimes
I am fasinated by any crime related subject. I watch the Crime and Investigation channel like 24/7. I created this blog for people to share my interests. You can feel free to post stories about crimes, what you think about recent crimes etc. I also love solving ficticious crimes, crime riddles and mysteries. So PLEASE send them through. I just can't get enough of them! Can't wait to see what you come up with!