Blog #5

1. I think the difference between murder and homicide is that murder is committed with evidence of premeditation, while homicide is committed without the intent to kill or without planning to. Some of the categories of murder is first-degree murder, second-degree murder, and manslaughter. Some of the categories of homicide is manslaughter, non-criminal homicide, and accidental homicide.

2. In 1968, the Robison family was brutally murder while vacationing at their cottage in northern Michigan. The murder included Mr. and Mrs. Robison plus their four children. The bodies was found months later and the man brought in for questioning for the murders committed suicide in 1973. The murder landed on the front page of newspapers everywhere but the murders are still unsloved. It left everyone filled with inquiries and rampant speculation for four decades, leaving locals weary and the rest of us wondering.

http://www.laurajames.com/clews/2008/06/the-robison-family-murders-finally-in-print.html

3. One big media murder was the murder of Elizabeth Short also known as the Black Dahlia. Her murder was consider the most gruesome murder of the 1940s. She moved to LA to seek a career in acting but unfortuanately she never made it to the big screen. She was found with her body cut in half in a vacant lot and the killer has yet to be found to this very day.

http://crime.about.com/od/murder/a/blackdahlia.htm

Another huge media murder took place when a mother of five drowned her kids in the bath tub. After drowning them she nicely covered them up and placed them in her bed together. Andrea sufferred from a metal illness that cause her to swirl out of control. She is now serving a life sentence in prison and will not be eligible for parole until year 2041.

http://crime.about.com/od/current/p/andreayates.htm