Essays on Murder

It has been suspected that Jack the Ripper was single and suffered from insomnia. Jack the Ripper, the name given to an unknown man who murdered and cut up several prostitutes in Whitechapel, London, in 1888. The name was used in a letter by someone…

Edgar Allan Poe is most known for his short stories containing the same gothic themes. In most of Poe’s stories all the characters sound alike but in The Cask of Amontillado Montresor is different and has his own voice (Morsberger 336). In the act of…

I have chosen two stories i.e. ‘The Adventure of Speckled Band’ by Arthus Conan Doyle and ‘Sadie When She Died’ by Ed Mc Bain. The Plot of the Stories ‘The Adventure of Speckled Band’ is the eighth story in the collection Adventures of Sherlock Holmes,…

Introduction “Our children get turned into little monsters, but who’s to blame?” Could it be the video games? Or maybe even the heavy metal music? What about social media? Michael Moore poses these questions in his documentary, Bowling For Columbine, in which he brought awareness…

Introduction School shootings, gang violence, homocide, and murder; our society is plagued with gun violence and thousands lose their lives everyday. Members of our society criticize and critique their own people for this but also sit back and do nothing about it. Michael Moore, in…

Introduction Bowling For Columbine is a documentary directed by Michael Moore that depicts Americans and their attitudes towards guns, gun laws, and how they think they have a better chance at safety with guns very easily accessible to them at all times. Civilians feel that…

Introduction The United States is a developed nation with no civil war. It is however known for massive killings of people by firearms. Michael Moore, a filmmaker, explores the reason behind the killing of 12 students and one teacher in April 1999 in Columbine High…

In Cold Blood takes place in a small town in Holcomb, Kansas during the year 1959. Truman Capote, the author, writes about a seemingly random cold blooded murdering, which during this time period, was not a very common subject to write about. The book starts…

Clementine Barnabet was a deranged maniac who did very well at making people believe she was innocent. In the early 1900s, this woman Clementine Barnabet, committed many brutal crimes on adults and children with an axe. Over the span of a couple of years Clementine…

This was an era in which two-thirds of murders went unsolved and the average homicide rate as higher than it is now. Bryson writes about many murder cases I thought were very interesting. For example, I found the Sash Weight Murder Case most interesting and…