Case Study

Case Study. Murder in the Family Blood.

The Johnson’s are a quiet family but on the 27^th of February 2007 the grandma (Josephine) was killed in her kitchen with a fatal cut to her throat with a kitchen knife. Josephine was being sent threatening messages every morning at 7 am but was too scared to confront the man. The messages went on for 3 months and she never had the courage to tell anyone. At the scene police used chromatography to find out it was a red sharpie permanent marker pen; using DNA samples they also found that the murder was part of Josephine’s family. The family was taken into custody and was rigorously questioned, the 5 and 3 year old boys where distraught that their grandma was killed and was put in care till the case was closed. Using more DNA fingerprinting they found that the murder was on Josephine’s son’s side of the family and the little boys where put back in care of their mother. The two sons’s were questioned more and the police searched both houses and found that David the eldest son was the only one who had a red permanent marker pen which matched the finger prints on the notes. After using police methods’ they got David to confess that he killed his mother. After this he got a life sentence for murder and no parole.