True Crime Stories

This blog is much different than most. It is one of those cases in which you cannot tell the story of one crime without telling the story of another. Actually in this case there are at least three crimes involved, all committed at different times. In fact, they were all committed in different decades! Jean-Claude Dominique grew up in Haiti. In the late 1970's a nurse named Eliette, who lived in the states sponsored Jean-Claude with the Immigration Service. Jean-Claude and Eliette would marry in 1980 while Eliette helped pay to put her husband through medical school. They took an apartment in Brooklyn and lived there with their two children, a son (born in 1982) and a daughter (born in 1984) until about 1993 when they moved to Long Island. By then Jean-Claude was an established and well liked doctor and Eliette worked as an intensive care nurse. From the outside, and even from the inside, at least to Eliette, the couple had it all. They had decided to keep ...

In August of 2000 twenty-three year old Amy Giles died in Jacksonville Florida. Amy was the daughter of Jacksonville residents Miriam and Jack Giles. A year and a half later Jack would also die in April of 2002. While I could not definitely determine how Amy had died, Jack's cause of death was a gunshot wound to his head while laying in his bed. Laying next to him was his wife, Miriam. She would tell investigators that Jack had never gotten over the death of their daughter and had suffered from depression. The gun used was said to be one that Jack kept in his nightstand drawer. The gun was found in his hand and it appears that little else was looked at, or collected as would be in a normal crime scene. Jack's death would be ruled a suicide. Miriam apparently stayed in Florida for at least a while because in 2004 she pleaded guilty to charges related to a “counterfeit check scheme.” It does not seem to have been too serious considering she only spent three da...