Some of them have been made into movies, some have been written into books and the rest are still covered by the press today. The 9 murders that shocked the USA !!!
Elizabeth Short: “Black Dahlia”
The 22-year-old American Elizabeth Short was the tragic victim of a barbaric murder that would become world news: taking the nickname “Black Dahlia”, Short would be cut in two and severely mutilated in an alley in Los Angeles on January 15, 1947.
The case is still open and investigations are continuing into one of the most controversial cases in forensic history, despite the 66 years that have passed.
Lizzie Borden
Young Lizzie Borden was arrested and tried for the murder of her mother and father, who were found murdered in their home with repeated blows from a butcher knife. The young woman was inside the house with the maid and was considered suspicious from the beginning. The jurors acquitted her and her trial is considered the first to attract huge interest from the media and the public.
Andrea Yates
It was in 1999 that Andrea Yates, a resident of Houston, Texas and a married mother of four, suffered a nervous breakdown: after making numerous suicide attempts, she was admitted to a psychiatric hospital in the summer. In November 2000, she gave birth to her fifth child, despite the severe psychotic disorder she suffered from.
On June 20, 2001, she drowned her 5 children in the bathtub. The court sentenced her in 2002 to life in prison, despite allegations she was paranoid. In 2006, however, the court of appeals would accept her allegations about her mental condition and transfer her to a psychiatric institution.
Amy Fisher
In May 1992, Mary Jo Buttafuoco, opening the door of her home, inadvertently opened a rift in one of the most prominent crimes of modern times. The unfortunate woman saw on her doorstep a teenage girl, she was not 16 years old, who pulled out her revolver and shot her in the head. The reason for Amy Fisher being the mistress of her husband Joey Buttafuoco.
The would-be juvenile killer claimed the shooting was an accident, that the gun fired unintentionally at her. Knowing that Joey had turned against her, she claimed that he was the one who had given her the revolver and that they had been having an extramarital affair for a year. She was eventually sentenced to 15 years in prison and her accomplice ate for 6 months because he supplied her with a pistol.
JonBenét Ramsey
6-year-old JonBenét Ramsey was a famous little girl, known for her participation in children’s beauty. She was found dead in the basement of her home in 1996. She had been strangled. At first the police turned against her parents, but it turned out that they were innocent. To this day, the little girl’s murder remains unsolved.
Richard Speck
Richard Speck caught the attention of the Americans during the summer of 1966, after the murder of eight female students living together on the south side of Chicago. Before he was responsible for other acts of violence. The murder was followed by a manhunt and he was arrested two days later. He spent the rest of his life in prison until he died of a heart attack in 1991 at the age of 49.
Charles Manson
He has gone down in history as one of the biggest and most ruthless serial killers. His trial began on June 15, 1970. The decision, in fact, is unprecedented in American court records. He was sentenced to life in prison for the heinous murder of seven people, but he did not touch a single hair of their hair.
The abduction and death of little Charles Lindbergh
It is the story of the abduction of the little son of the famous aviator Charles Lindbergh who was abducted from his crib, around 9 pm, on March 3, 1932. A note was found in the house in which the kidnapper demanded a ransom of fifty thousand dollars for his release. of the small child. The family asked Dr. John Condon to negotiate with the kidnapper.
After a meeting, he informed him that the baby was in a boat in New York Harbor. Neither the boat nor the baby was found during the search. On May 12, the baby’s body was accidentally discovered in a forest near Lindbergh’s home. Authorities discovered the money from the abduction at Bruno Richard Hauptmann’s home.
OJ Simpson
OJ Simpson was one of the top players in NFL-American football when he starred in the most acclaimed athlete trial of all time. Simpson had divorced his wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, when he was accused of killing herself and her boyfriend Ronald Goldman, who were found dead in a pool of blood.
After a trial that lasted almost four months, he was acquitted by the criminal court in a storm of reactions. The athlete had married Nicole, but the couple divorced in 1992. It was June 11, 1994 when they watched their daughter fight in Los Angeles.
