Scott Peterson's Disappearance At San Quentin State Prison In California

Finally, after years of preparation, jurors listened to 4 weeks of testimony and evidence from pathologists, investigators, and witnesses. On September 06, 2012, the panel of 12 jurors found Drew Peterson guilty of first-degree murder of Kathleen Savio and was subsequently sentenced to 38 years in prison (FindLaw,

Josh Powell was a person of interest in the disappearance of his wife Susan Powell in 2009; despite of disappearance Josh was never charged. Josh at that point in time had custody of two boys Charlie and Braden. Josh’s father Steven Powell also lived with josh and the two boys. (Comb, 2012) On December 7th, 2009 Josh and Susan failed to drop the kids off at daycare in Utah and Susan herself failed to show up to work that morning.

The trial, the People of the State of California vs. Scott Peterson, began in June 2004 and was followed closely by the media. The lead prosecutor was Rick Diastase, and Garages led Peterson's defense. Frey, who is the most hotly anticipated witness of the trial, did not know Peterson was married when she began a relationship with

Recently, I foucused on the famous podcast serial that a teenager, Hae Min Lee was killed in January, 1999. Hae’s ex-boyfriend Adnan Syed, the convicted murder has gone in the jail suffering the life sentences for about fifteen years. As the new investigation started, more and more factual evidences and testimonies testified that Adnan was still the most potential murder for Hae’s case. The motive for Adnan murder Hae was Hae broke up with Adnan.

A look at the evidence of the murder case proves

One piece of circumstantial evidence the prosecutors had to support this was that a Richard Patterson, the man that was to marry one of Kuklinski’s daughters, said that he had unknowingly helped Kuklinski move a corpse to be buried near where the family went horseback riding. This likely victim was Deppner who had been killed in his apartment a weekend earlier. With this information, detectives searched for blood in the apartment and found it underneath the cleaned carpet. Patterson also claimed that he saw Tupperware in Deppner’s apartment that he had seen before at Richard Kuklinski’s home which leads to believe that Kuklinski delivered food to Depner and that’s when he might have killed him. The prosecution also called Barbara Deppner to the stand and she knew about the two victims being hidden in hotels, and she said that her ex-husband told her that Kuklinski wanted to kill Smith.

Some reason could be that the police or detectives has investigated many crimes and has find out who did the crime. The jury might think that the detective is always right and all the evidence that he find will always and certainly lead to the correct suspect. However, in this case the detective found the wrong evidence. This detective from the story was named Ken Thompson. He also made a mistake in a previous case.

Scott Peterson was convicted of the murder of Laci Peterson and her unborn son, Conner Peterson. He has been on death row for over a decade as he tries to get his conviction appealed. Peterson and his family maintain his innocence, even participating in a docu-series titled, The Murder of Laci Peterson. This has caused quite a stir among viewers who now say they have doubts about his guilt. Could Scott Peterson been wrongfully imprisoned for so long because of circumstances he had no control over?

Have you ever thought if a criminal could be falsely accused? Perhaps you would think the judges or police would have good evidence to contradict the criminal. Well there 's a law, guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, which means that the accused is the only logical person who could have done the crime even if hard evidence is lacking. On January 13, 1999 Hae Min Lee a senior at Woodlawn high school had disappeared. she was suppose to pick up her cousin after school but never showed up.

She decided to hitchhike and her body was found three hours later. Investigators assumed that her case was unrelated and left it unsolved. She did not fit the profile of the other victims because she was not a prostitute. Detectives later found out that she was in fact a victim of the Green River Killer (Rule, 2004). Another victim, Patricia, who was a prostitute, was found on June 13, 1982.

Over 300 years ago, more than 100 citizens of the colony of Massachusetts were accused of the crime of witchcraft, and many executed. Although this era in history, known as the Salem Witch Trials, lasted only mere months, its impact on the American criminal justice system has lasted until present day. Although both the trials in Salem and modern America are based on a similar justice system, there are vast differences, specifically in the rights of the defense, most notable in the separation of Church and State, the standards of evidence, and the presumption of innocence until proven guilty. The modern American criminal justice system, in comparison to that of the time of the Salem Witch Trials, has changed drastically. No longer is the rule of law based on

His fingerprints were found on a map that was in the glove compartment of the victim's car. The map had the defendant's fingerprints on it, which suggested that he had handled the map at some point. This was used as evidence that he had been in the car around the time of the murder; However it just tells you that he touched a map that was in her car, they were in a relationship so they would have been physically intimate with each other. The presence of his fingerprints on the map found in the victim's car was used as evidence against him at his trial. The serial podcast goes through each one of these outcomes and Sarah Koenig shows that the evidence that they put into the trial should not have been admissible.

Laci Peterson was reported missing on December 24, 2004 by her stepfather, from her home in Modesto California. Her husband , Scott Peterson was suspicious from the beginning in the eyes of the public. Not only did he seem nonchalant and uncaring about his wife’s disappearance, but he refused to publicly ask people to help search for his missing wife. This gave him a horrible reputation in the media and brought light to his strange behavior throughout the case. His lack of cooperation with the police didn’t help , in fact Scott refused to take a polygraph, and according to police seemed uninterested in the investigation.

Lastly, O.J. Simpson’s only alibi for the time of the murders was he was at home sleeping. There were no witnesses who could confirm his

In this case the only obstacle the prosecutors had was prove that Caylee Anthony was murdered by her own mother, they had to prove beyond reasonable doubt to the jury that she was behind her daughter’s death. Most of the evidence that was presented was in fact pointed to Casey Anthony as the person who was fully liable for her daughter