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The Murder of Franklin Bradshaw

I have vowed to try to get better about getting back into my blog so yesterday I researched a few cases so that I could sit down and put them together today. It was actually more difficult than I thought it would be. I went back to my list that I have made, as I always do, and started going through the cases until one “caught” me. It took me a while and in fact one of the cases that I researched was not on my list but from a book I recently read because I was frustrated that nothing was really grabbing my attention. I do not want to say that the murder of Franklin Bradshaw was one of the least shocking things about this case but I cannot say that it was the most shocking either. While of course I did find information about the murder, as well as personality traits associated with Franklin, the “sensational” part really lies with what happened after the murder. A question of law also comes into play. David Berkowitz is better known as The Son of Sam. Berkowitz...