Homicide

There are many facets to killing.

It is not wrong to kill in self defense. If someone was trying to kill you, it would not be wrong for you to defend yourself, and cause the attacker's death, if necessary. It is not wrong for people in bona fide armed services to kill in defense of their country. We kill animals for food. Huge multinational corporations kill the inhabitants of third world countries by leaving behind huge deposits of toxic wastes that slowly cripple and kill. That kind of killing is wrong. Innocent people have been executed in states where the death penalty is still used. That kind of killing is wrong. It is wrong for a person to take the life of another person out of anger, hostility, hate, negligence, rage, for profit, etc.

Forensic Examiners do. Typically a forensic pathologist is called in to do an autopsy and perform evaluations as to cause of death, death timelines, toxicology, etc.

Gary Leon Ridgway today admitted to being the Green River Killer, responsible for the deaths of 48 young women in the longest serial murder investigation in U.S. history.

Investigators once pegged the Green River Killer's murderous frenzy as lasting from 1982 to 1984. They now know Ridgway's violent streak started long before that - and continued long after.

In his statement read in court today, Ridgway said he thought the fact that his murder victims were prostitutes might enable him to avoid capture.

"Most of the time I killed them the first time that I met them and I do not have a good memory for their faces," he said.

He said he thought he could "kill as many of them as I wanted without getting caught." He also said he took jewelry and clothes to get rid of evidence.

"I killed most of them in my house hear Military Road and I killed a lot of them in my truck not far from where I picked them up. ... I remember leaving each woman's body in the place where she was found."

A more-than-80-page court document related to the case describes how Ridgway had sex with his dead victims.

"I placed most of the bodies in groups which I call clusters," he said. "I liked to drive by the clusters and think about the women I placed there."

He also said he usually "used a landmark to remember a cluster and the women I placed there," but on occasion abandoned a potential cluster because of a perceived risk associated with the site he chose.

The portion of the prepared statement that dealt with the specific killings began, "I strangled Wendy Lee Coffield to death." It went on to the death of Debra Lynn Bonner, Marcia Faye Chapman, Cynthia Jean Hinds and through the four dozen names -- some still unidentified and listed as "Jane Doe, B-10" or "Jane Doe, B-16."

After Baird read the description of each death - most including the phrase, "I picked her up planning to kill her" - he asked Ridgway whether it was his true statement. Ridgway answered, "Yes, it is."

When all was said and done, he had been convicted of more murders than any serial killer in the nation's history.

In an overflow room outside the courtroom where the proceeding were broadcast on closed circuit TV, most of the 60 people watching sat attentively and quietly until Baird began reading the statement describing the killings.

At that point, some of the victims' family and friends, as well as some reporters, began sobbing.

Ridgway's guilty pleas are part of a deal that will spare him from execution in the King County cases. No deal was cut that might spare him from death penalties in other jurisdictions. Remains of some victims were found outside the county and in Oregon.

Ridgway, 54, of the south Seattle suburb of Auburn, was arrested Nov. 30, 2001, as he left his longtime job as a painter at Kenworth Truck Co. Prosecutors said advances in DNA technology had allowed them to match a saliva sample taken from Ridgway in 1987 with DNA samples taken from the bodies of three of the earliest victims.

Ridgway had been a suspect since 1984, when victim Marie Malvar's boyfriend reported that he last saw her getting into a pickup truck later identified as Ridgway's.

But Ridgway told police he didn't know Malvar. A police investigator in Des Moines, midway between Seattle and Tacoma, who knew Ridgway, cleared him as a suspect. Later that year, Ridgway contacted the King County sheriff's Green River Task Force - ostensibly to offer information about the case - and passed a polygraph test.

Detectives continued to suspect him, however, and in 1987 they searched his house and took the saliva sample that would eventually link him to the killings.

Court documents released at the time of Ridgway's arrest indicated that many of the spots where bodies were found were in or near areas where Ridgway had sex with his second wife. The couple divorced in 1981.

Also disclosed today was that more than a decade before he strangled his first Green River victim, Ridgway, then 17, stabbed and seriously wounded a little boy, who survived.

A first-grader at the time -- 1966 or early 1967 -- the victim now lives in California, a source said. Details of the attack were confirmed by another person involved in the case.

The stabbing came 16 years before Ridgway's murderous frenzy from 1982 to 1984, which targeted women in the Seattle area, mainly runaways and prostitutes. The first victims turned up in the Green River in South King County, giving the killer his name.

There are no set penalties for criminal offenses. While there may be a guideline range, the trial Court has discretion and must consider the history of the offender, the facts and circumstances of the event, and other factors.

According to Wikipedia, that would be Oakland.

A homicide investigation is conducted under the guidelines of the laws of the jurisdiction involved. Ethical determinations are made by the individuals involved in the investigation and would be the choice of that individual how the problem is handled. In other words, only the individual with an ethical problem can decide how to address the problem. If you're referring to an investigation taking place where there are no clearly defined laws governing an investigation, resolving ethical problems involved would be up to the individual and the individual's superiors.

not really. Typically forensic scientists are the ones who actually test evidence and the investigators are the ones who collect and catalog it.

Example: Crime scene investigator finds a pair of blood stained pants. - forensic scientists look for fibers on the pants and test the blood.

really there are similar but not exactly the same, but they still work in the same field.

The most important factor in predicting who among them might be next to die could be found within a person's network of friends. In Chicago's most violent neighborhoods, makeshift memorials to the young and dead sprout from street corners like wilting posies. Most often these victims are poor and black, cut down by gun violence that has long gripped America's most hardened communities. Crime in Chicago has been tracked by the Chicago Police Department's Bureau of Records since the beginning of the 20th century. The rate is 15.2 %.

By being in the right place at the right time with the wisdom to know what will help without additional harm, like calling 911 instead of intervening yourself, someone may be able to prevent one or more murders. You can be brave enough to testify as a witness when you have information that may lead to the conviction of a murderer to prevent that person from committing future murders. If you can overcome the social stigma, you can report serious violations of parole known to you because a number of murders are committed by parolees on parole. You can teach any children in your care the importance of caring for other people and not hurting other people.

Unfortunately, all murders can't be stopped; murder is a part of human nature.

2014 is the most current year for which data is available. For that year, the US homicide rate was 4.5 per 100,000 people. This was the lowest rate since 1963.

Often involves the use of police statistics to determine where crime is committed, who committed it, who is victimized, and what are the major dimensions of the criminal act. Patterns of crime are farther examined by the spatial distribution of crime in a city, the social background of offenders and victims, relationships between offenders and victims and the social processes that lead to crime.

Okay, to answer this question, let's break it into two questions: What is a detective, and what is homicide?

A detective, also known as an investigator, is a police officer whose job is to investigate crimes. They often interview witnesses and suspect(s) in order to solve a case (crime).

Homicide is defined as the taking of one life by a member of the same species (homo= same, -cide = to kill). A homicide ranges from one of two justifiable offenses (self-defense or accident), to one of several degrees of criminal homicide, which severity of offense ranges from manslaughter by culpable negligence to capital murder.

So a homicide detective, or homicide investigator, in short, is a police officer who is a member of the Homicide division of a law-enforcement agency, and accordingly, whose job is to investigate homicide cases.

Homicide is punishable by death or life imprisonment in Tennessee. They have declined to limit when the charges can be brought. The individual can be arrested and charged anytime during their life.

A homicide detective's pay varies widely depending what jurisdiction they serve or what agency employs them.

It usually refers to causing the death of another via the unintended consequences of your action.

I can't find it at the moment, but there were somewhere around 17,000 murders in the U.S. last year. Based on that, there are about 46 murders a day on average in the U.S.

All law enforcement detectives are sworn officers of the local agencies they work for. Their pay is set and determined by civil service regulations and with seniority and experience (and perhaps with extra-duty pay) they earn as much as their salary scale permits plus probably, some overtime.

There is no way of answering this question with a specific figure. Homicide detectives are first and foremost sworn law enforcement officers of the local agencies that employ them. The salaries and various pay scales are public record and in addition there usually is a longevity provision built-in to their salary as well. Detectives tend to work long hours on cases and, thus, some have the opportunity to make quite a bit of overtime. Contact your local law enforcement agency for their pay scale.

Depends on the type, Negligent, Murder 1, 2, etc. If you're thinking about committing it, you should get help. The consequences usually far outweigh whatever sick pleasure you would get by offing someone. Think imprisonment, death penalty, so on, not to mention monetary costs. Even OJ can't make a dollar without giving straight to the Goldman family, and he was found innocent in criminal court. So please think twice. Hope this helped, and by the way, the penalty for misspelling homicide is how ever much time it took you to read this answer.

Define necessary. To protect yourself or someone else from a potential life threatening injury. Yes. The first responsibility should be to diffuse the situation without harming anyone. This person had better be armed or himself a deadly weapon to justify the need for deadly force. Until you're in that situation, no one can understand what its like to have to make that decision.

They can be various amounts of time. It usually is from 2-10 years,but can also be in lifetime punishment. Or you can suffer the same result of the one you kill, death.

Plus, why would you want to know? Life is complicated, just don't worry about it and live and honest life.

If you mean vehicular manslaughter Md. Ann. Code Criminal Law Art. § 2-209(b) provides that "A person may not cause the death of another as a result of the person's driving, operating, or controlling a vehicle or vessel in a grossly negligent manner." A person convicted of violating this statute is guilty of a felony and is "subject to imprisonment not exceeding 10 years or a fine not exceeding $5,000, or both." Md. Criminal Law Art. § 2-209(d). Sharon S.

In California it varies depending on what the specific charges are and who the victim is. Murder and other offenses that are punishable by death or life in prison, have no statute of limitations. If the felony can result in over 8 year in prison it is set at 6 years. Less that that they are set at 3 years. Misdemeanors will be set at 1 year unless a minor is involved which makes it 3 years.