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[criminol]

The Murder of Sister Robin

Roberta Elam, originally from Minnesota, was studying theology in New York. She was a coordinator for adult religious programs and was said to be outspoken on social justice issues. When Roberta was 26, she decided to join the Sisters of Saint Joseph and moved into the house in West Virginia. She was known as Sister Robin and was a postulant nun.

On 13th June 1997 at around 10.30 am, Sister Robin walked to a peaceful hill 100 yards behind the building to pray. At 2 pm, a caretaker walked past the hill and saw Sister Robin's dead body lying there, the bench she had been sitting on was tipped over and her clothes had been pulled, exposing her body.

Sister Robin had been dragged from the bench to a slope and been raped and strangled to death. Nobody had seen anything significant and no clues were found. Although many locals were interviewed no arrests took place.

Theories ranged from local salvage company workers who Sister Robin had argued with and a mysterious, unkept male who a witness described walking in the area. In the months leading up to the murder, four women had been raped and killed similarly in Pennsylvania less than an hour away leading some to believe it was the work of a serial killer. Those women were all strangled with items of clothing but Sister Robin's killer strangled her with his hands.

Sister Robin's murder remains unsolved.

[criminol]

Diane Shawcroft and Jennifer Lueth

Diane Shawcroft, 20-years-old, and Jennifer Lueth, 19-years-old, were best friends who lived together with Diane's older sister, Kristina, in Arizona. On 24th May 1996, the pair left the apartment and went to a local mini-mart, they didn't take many possessions other than cash and arrived at the shop at around 7 pm.

Diane sometimes spelt Diana on other sources, and Jennifer purchased cigarettes and soda drinks and sat on a bench outside. An unidentified man in a blue pickup truck drove up next to the girls and began talking to them after a few minutes both young women got into the truck and were never seen again.

Three months later two bodies were found in a remote desert 100 miles north of Phoenix, the bodies were found to belong to Diane and Jennifer and it was confirmed the friends had been murdered. The area the bodies were dumped in was extremely isolated.

Soon after the discovery of the corpses, Diane and Jennifer's parents made a shrine to their daughters, placing crosses and photographs of the girls at the site. Four years later, on 29th September 2000, police found that the photographs had been removed from their frames. Police believe the killer may have stolen the photos as the location was never released to the public.

No official suspects have ever been made and due to the investigation being ongoing few details have been released to the public. Police believe the killer was very familiar with the area the bodies were found and that he may have hunted or camped there. Investigations into the man in the blue pickup truck have not found any leads but Diane and Jennifer's parents believe the girls probably already knew the man who abducted them and that he may not have been working alone. The man was, at the time, described as 31-33 years old with dark blonde or brown hair, facial hair and scratches on his right arm.

In 2010, a new analysis was done on a strand of hair and fibres collected from the crime scene in the hope that the evidence will one day help identify the killer.

[criminol]

Casey Anthony

Caylee Marie Anthony was an American girl who lived in Florida. Her remains were found in 2008 and no charges were ever made.

Caylee lived with her mother, Casey Anthony, and her grandparents. On 15th July 2008 her grandmother reported Caylee as missing stating she had not seen the child for 31 days and that Casey’s car smelt like a dead body. Casey lied to detectives, telling them a fictitious nanny called Zanny had kidnapped Caylee. Casey was charged with first-degree murder in October and pleaded not guilty.

On 11th December 2008, 2-year-old Caylee’s skeletal remains were found in a blanket and a laundry bag in a wooded area near the Anthony family’s house. Reports found duct tape near the front of the skull and on the mouth of the skull.

The trial of Caylee’s mother, Casey, lasted 6 weeks. It alleged Casey wished to be free from the duties of being a parents and administered chloroform and duct tape to her infant daughter. The defence team claimed Caylee’s grandfather had hidden the body after the child had accidentally drowned. Casey was found innocent of murder and manslaughter but guilty of providing false evidence four times.

Over 400 pieces of evidence were presented at trial. A strand of hair recovered from Casey’s care shown to belong to Caylee showed ‘root-banding,’ a phenomena in which hair roots form a dark band after death. It was also judged that results from an air sampling procedure showed air consistent with a decompositional event and chloroform. Google searches of ‘neck breaking’ and ‘how to make chloroform,’ were also found on a computer Casey had used.

The not guilty verdict caused outrage and claimed the jury misunderstood the meaning of reasonable doubt. The case was referred to as ‘the social media trial of the century.’

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