The Cases That Haunt Us Post 4

5 comments
- Jon Benet Ramsey entered pageants most of her life
-She was five years old when she was killed
-she was found in the basement of her house
-her parents were suspected of killing her
-she is the youngest victim in the book of haunting cases

4 questions
-why was she killed?
-were they French?
-how big was the house?
-was she tortured?

3 vocab words
-strangulation- to compress or constrict (a duct, intestine, vessel, etc.) so as to prevent circulation or suppress function.
-euphemism-the substitution of a mild, indirect, or vague expression for one thought to be offensive, harsh, or blunt.

2 Literary terms
-"Jon-Benet Ramsey was as cute as a button"---simile
-they were well ofs so they could afford the best lawyers in the world"---hyperbole

1 Overview
A poor, sweet, and innocent child was brutally murdered in the basement of her own house.

the cases that haunt us post 3

5 comments
-Cher jo is reported missing and is found cut up
-her killer sends the polic a message in all caps explainig why and howhe did it
-he warns all the women girls and daughters to stay off the streets because he is stalking them now
-he's doing this to innocen mainly women
- he kills manny more people but they are with guns

4 questions
-what does DOA stand for?
-why does he keep sending letters to the police?
-is he crazy?
was he in the army as a youth?

3 vocabulary words
-cryptogram-a message or writing in code
-semaphore-an apparatus for conveying info
-whimsical-given to whisy or fanciful notions

2 lit terms
THERE ARE NON IN THIS SECTION SORRY

1 overview sentence
an unnamed serial killer sends letters to police and threatens them in the letters

the cases that haunt us post 2

5 comments

~there is a nursery rhyme at the begining of the chapter
-this case was about Lizzie Borden
-her stepmother and father were killed while they slept in the middle of the day
-someone illed them with an axe to the face/head and lizzies was a prime susupect
-she was found not guilty and the crime is still a mysery

4 questions
-who killed them?
-How come Lizzie didn't weep?
-why did she burn the dress?
why would someone make a nursery rhyme out of this horrific crime?

3 vocabulary words
-euphemism-
-precursors
-frugality

2 Literary terms
-therr was nothing much for the police to sink their teeth into"
-but iam always wary of considering this subject iin a vacuum"

1 overview sentence
Lizzie is suspected of killing her parents in 1888 with an axe.