All tagged insanity defense
Just before midnight on July 22, 1991, two Miluwakee police officers spotted a man running down the street with one handcuff on, yelling for their help. The handcuffed man, Tracey Edwards, explained how a man named Jeffrey Dahmer threatened to kill him. What police would find in Dahmer’s apartment would make him one of the most infamous serial killers of all time.
After suffering through years of emotional and physical abuse, Lorena Bobbitt cut off the penis of her sleeping husband, John Wayne Bobbitt in their Manassas, Virginia home. The media firestorm which would follow would make Lorena Bobbitt a pop culture icon, often ignoring the truth of the reality she was living.
Steven Stayner escaped his captor and returned home to his family in March of 1980. 19 years later his older brother Cary Stayner was arrested in connection with the murder of a young woman named Joie Armstrong in Yosemite Park.
Jake Notman, 27, had stabbed, strangled and ran over Lauren Bloomer after eating a cannabis brownie at their home in Bingley Avenue on November 20 last year.
During a trial at Stafford Crown Court the court heard Ms Bloomer, who was a 25-year-old university student, had "recorded her own murder" on a mobile phone after searching for advice for the "bad weed trip" suffered by Notman.
Sarah Halimi was a Jewish, 65-year-old, former kindergarten director, who in April 2017 was beaten, then thrown to her death from her flat in north-east Paris.
