True Crime Stories

This case is interesting in the fact that I am unsure completely what the motive was in the murders. Prosecutors do not always know what a motive is but they know that juries want to know “the why” and are more likely to convict if they can understand why the murder occurred. Defense attorneys more often than not, have a completely different motive or reason, that is if they admit that their client was responsible. If they do not admit their client is responsible for the crime they will often place the blame elsewhere. The defense will also tend to “jump around” which is not necessarily a bad strategy since their goal is simply create “reasonable doubt” while the prosecution has to “prove” their case. In this case the prosecutors claimed that Cheyanne Jessie murdered her father, Mark Weekly and her six year old daughter, Meredith Jessie, to preserve her relationship with her boyfriend, Matthew Munroe. The defense would claim that Munroe was the actual murderer and that Cheyann...

Here are a few secrets for the readers that will sometimes tell you my feelings of a case before you ever get past the title. While many of my blog titles are the names of the perpetrator(s), but when there is a lot of confusion or several perpetrators I will often have the victim's name in the title. Also, if you pay attention to the title as well as throughout the blog in how I refer to the crime you can often get a glimpse of how I consider the outcome of the case. For example, this one says “murder” and I will refer to this crime as one, that can often be a clue that I believe the people accused are in fact guilty. On the other hand, if you see the word “death” in the title or I often refer to the crime as such that is an indication that either I suspect it was not a murder at all, or that I believe the accused person is either not guilty or that the trial in some way was not fair or complete. As you can see by this title I do not seem to have those reservations. ...

I have talked often this month about how I am going through my list to compose my blogs. I started doing it because I found so many cases that I really should blog about but when the day came I just was not in the mood for "that story" or whatever the case was.  I am not going to lie and say I have done everyone of them, as I have skipped some for no other reason than the same old stand by... I just simply was not feeling it.  I have also said in the past that cases of serial killers are not high on my list of favorites.  This would be why there are yet cases about Gacy, Gein, Berkowitz or even Ted Bundy.  Maybe one day! So, when I got to the next name on my list I was less than thrilled to start the research. My list simply said "Oscar Bolin-serial-Fla."  I was thinking "Great, another serial killer case" but I told myself to get it done, continue watching my televisions shows while I did, do a few after that and then sit here and put them all together ...

This case is one in which shows that maybe my strategy of going through my list of names one by one is not necessarily the best way to go.  Prior to taking on this new way I would start my day going through the list of names until I came across one that really struck me.  I felt, and sometimes still feel, like I write about the cases best when my mood of the day allows me to be intrigued by the story.  I have openly admitted that "serial killers" is not really "my thing" which some find odd considering they are so prominent when discussing true crime.  I think the reasons they do not interest me as much is because so many victims get "lost" in the story of the killer and the element of "surprise" is kind of lost in these cases too.  What I mean is that as you go through the story of most serial killers you will find that they almost all had a "rough" childhood or at least faced legal trouble or strange behavior early in life.  Then you ...