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 ...

I promised in my last blog that this would be different than some of the more recent ones I posted. I feel as if lately I have done several cases about women who used arsenic as their murder weapon. The only things that Shonda Johnson has in common with those women is that she was involved in the killing of one of her husbands. Unlike those women it appears Shonda did not think things through and she was quickly apprehended after the murder occurred. Of course many of those previous cases took place decades ago. I would hope that much has changed since then and if Shonda had used arsenic like those women she would not get away with it for as long as those women were able to. But, also one of the biggest things that have changed over the decades is how society looks a women when it comes to them being involved in murders. I am sure there are still some who believe that women are not inherently evil and have issues with sentencing a woman to death, but thankfully that is not ...