Essays on Killing Spree

Abstract

The Columbine High School Massacre was the bloodiest school killing spree in the United States of America ever committed. Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris killed 12 of other students, one professor and injured 24, before committing a suicide (Aronson, 2000). The perpetrators had versatile arsenal of weapons and pipe bombs, which, according to the US Security Service estimates was sufficient to kill 200 people (Kass, 2009). Theorists extensively debated about the motives of their attack. Some argued that the reasons were psychological (Atheide, 2009), while others actively advocated the notion that their attack was a retaliation for bullying and ...

Films have a history that is timeless as the sun. The different genres all have a followership among the millions of film enthusiasm all over the world. The followership is mainly due to the approach in production or the styles that the whole movie portrays. Besides, it could be that the main characters have a specialty in the role. This paper aims its research in comparing the horror in two films namely scream two and wrong turn by focusing its findings on two to three horror elements as depicted by Well and Evans in their respective book as discussed ...

2015 Tyrone shooting The tiny community of Tyrone in Shannon County, Missouri is a close-knit town with most of the inhabitants related to each other. Their town’s population was 50 prior to 26 February 2015; after that day, they lost nine of their inhabitants in a related set of events. Eight were lost to gunshots from a .45 caliber handgun and one to cancer. The events have been documented sequentially based on the case files. The usual trigger that upsets the balance in the mind of a serial killer or a mass murderer is the end of an important relationship. The trigger ...

Introduction

John Wayne Gacy. Jr was one of the most dreaded serial killers in Chicago during the 70s. While most other serial killers of the time worked in isolation, Gacy happened to be a social figure who inculcated a very different picture of himself in public. This paper will cover certain aspects from Gacy from a criminal aspect, such as a brief profile, details of the crime, aspects of the trial, the defense strategy and the final outcome.

Brief Profile

Gacy was born to parents of Danish and Polish heritage in 1942 in Chicago, IL. He was the second child of his parents with two sisters. ...

Explore Dorner's motivation to kill Quan's daughter and the others

In order to find out the motivations that led Dorners' killing spree it important to look at his history and the events that occurred prior to the time of the killings. Christopher Dorner was a decorated US navy veteran, a college graduate and a former Los Angeles police detective. He was respected and lived an upstanding life. In 2005, he joined the Los Angeles police department and became a fully-fledged police officer in 2006 (Kelly). His life began to change in 2007 after he accused that his fellow police officer who was a training officer Teresa Evans had misused her powers by kicking Christopher ...

“Genocide” is the term used to describe a mass destruction of, or within a particular group, based on racial, religious, or ethnic discrimination, with deliberate and systematic motives. The term “Genocide” was coined by Raphael Lemkin, in the year 1944. Lemkin was a lawyer and his book “Axis Rule in Occupied Europe” introduced us to this term for the first time. According to Raphael Lemkin, “Genocide signifies a coordinated plan of different actions aiming at the destruction of essential foundations of the life of national groups, with the aim of annihilating the groups themselves.” However, according to the Convention on the Prevention and ...