Author: Serene

The Yorkshire Ripper

Peter Sutcliffe, aka, The Yorkshire Ripper, is a patient at Broadmoor Mental Hospital.

He claimed that God had told hime to rid the world of prostitutes.

Here are the victims of his attacks:

http://murderpedia.org/male.S/s/sutcliffe-peter-victims.htm

As you’ll see, there are a few he didn’t manage to kill. All of these women suffered mental illnesses and never had the same life after their attack like Travy Browne who suffered terrible agrophoebia after her attack. One, Marilyn Moore, even returned as a prostitute after she was nearly murdered. Why weren’t these women looked after when they were nearly murdered by a notorious killer?
Was it because of their working class background and social class?

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What should have been done with the money spent on Madeline McCan?

http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/a1795511-To-think-the-Met-spending-5-million-on-Maddie-McCann-is-unfair-on-others-who-have-missing-children

A discussion taking place on mumsnet about the finances given towards the investigation of Madeline McCan.

Main points raised are that the money spent on Madeline should be used on other children who have recently disappeared and have a bigger chance of being found.

Also, the coverage of her disappearance has shadowed all other child abductions.

Race, Social Classand Crime: Madeline McCan and Elizabeth Ogungbayibi

Madeline McCan

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Facts of the case:

  • Went missing: 3rd May 2007, aged 3 in Portugal while on holiday.
  • Madeline and her brother and sister were given a dose of Calpol by their parents, Kate and Gerry McCan, before they left them on their own for the night
  • Kate and Gerry went to a Tapas bar around the corner from their holiday apartment. They sent a friend to check on the children who came back, agreeing the kids were okay.
  • Kate and Gerry got back around 21:45 but didn’t realise madeline had vanished until 22:00.
  • When called, detectives told Kate and Gerry to not alert media, however, they didn’t.
  • Madeline’s disappearance was front page headlines for weeks.
  • Millions of pounds has been spent on the investigation of Madeline McCan.
  • British detectives allegedly asked for the parents not to be investigated and protected them from criticism.
  • Many know who she is and the case.

Elizabeth Ogungbayibi

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Facts of the case:

  • went missing: 26th September 2006 (a few months before Madeline), aged 5 in the North West.
  • It is believed her father took her when she was staying with him in Bradford.
  • No national appeal for her safe return.
  • Police ‘know’ who took her, still isn’t found.
  • Not many people know who she is or the details surrounding her disappearance.

These two girls went missing months between them and yet the investigations into their disappearance are quite different.

  1. Pictures – take a look how the picture released to help find Madeline is a clear, bright picture showing all her face. Furthermore, there have been numerous pictures released to the media to help find her. However, the only picture of Elizabeth released is this blurry, blown up mug shot.
  2. Finance – Madeline’s middle class parents set up a fund which isn’t actually a registered charity, to help fund the investigation for Madeline. Kate published a book about looking for her daughter and they are constantly in the spotlight. Millions of pounds has been spent on looking for Madeline and yet nothing has been concluded. There has been no appeals or funds set up for Elizabeth and little money has been spent on the investigation. Even when the police have a good idea of who her kidnapper was, no one knows where this young girl is.
  3. Class – Madeline comes from a middle-class, white back ground whereas Elizabeth is from a working class, black background.
  4. Parents – Kate and Gerry McCan have been held as suspects in many occasions although one detective in Portugal said that British police demanded that Kate and Gerry were not to be investigated, even with a lot of evidence that suggests they could be connected to the murder of their daughter. On the other hand, Elizabeth’s father has straight up been suspected of her disappearance and he will almost certainly receive the blame if found.
  5. Geography – Madeline went missing in a tourist area of Portugal but comes from Leicestershire, not far from Manchester where Elizabeth comes from.

Social Class and Crime: The Long Island Serial Killer

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Island_serial_killer

This is another interesting yet very recent serial killer.

In 2010, a young prostitute ran away from her client and driver after an argument amd went missing. After searching for her, police came across a body on the Ocean Parkway, near the area she was last seen.

At first they believed this was the body of the missing girl but then another body was found. Six more were found on that same Parkway,  all of which were prostitutes who had an advert up on Craigslist.

What makes you wary is that these girls weren’t being searched for by police until their bodies were found. More dead prostitutes were found along the Parkway in the next year and one hasn’t even been identified, she is simply another “Jane Doe”; alike one of Jack The Ripper’s victims.

The fact that these women are prostitutes and police seem to refuse to spare any resources on making sure they are safe is very sad and disgusting. But this happened a lot: men pick up a woman of the nigjt as they are easy to lure into a closed, monotonous environment where they kill them and police don’t spend that much time on them.

This could also be the reason for a killer’s victimology; the Long Island killer knew that these prostitutes won’t be missed and so that’s who he, or she, chooses to kill. Theu can easily conceal the crime as police are not going to spend a whole lot of time looking for a missing, lower class sex worker.

The gap in social class makes the “lowest of the low” seem outcasted and even when a young girl has gone missing, it is not worth anyones time as her career holds some kind of taboo and disease; almost as if she brought it on herself.