Number 5 – Isaac Turnbaugh
In 2002 Declon Lyons was found dead outside the pizza restaurant where he worked with
a gaping bullet wound to the head.
The attack was completely unprovoked and officers were confused to why someone would want to
kill Lyons.
A month after the incident, Declon’s co-worker, Issac Turnbaugh, was taking magic mushrooms
at a party when he admitted to six of his friends that he murdered Declon, as well as
other things including being responsible for the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Following the shocking news, one of his friends told Turnbaugh’s mother who then reportedly
contacted the police.
When the case went to trial in 2004, the jury acquitted Turnbaugh as it turned out that
he was high from smoking pot and taking magic mushrooms.
Many years later in 2011 Issac confessed to the police that he killed his fellow co-worker,
Declon Lyons with his 30-30 Winchester rifle.
However, due to a clause in the Fifth Amendment known as “double jeopardy”, Issac was
totally immune from prosecution because he couldn’t be tried for the same crime twice.
Since Issac has been both tried and cleared from Lyon’s murder, he is essentially a
free man.
Number 4 – Eadweard Muybridge
Eadweard Muybridge was an English photographer most recognised for his pioneering work in
photographic studies of motion.
In 1874, Muybridge was discovered that his wife was having an affair with a drama critic
named Harry Larkyns and he sought to do something about it.
Muybridge travelled to California in order to track down his wife’s lover which he
successfully did.
Upon locating him Muybridge said, “Good evening, Major, my name is Muybridge and here’s
the answer to the letter you sent to my wife”, before shooting Larkyns at point-blank range
through the heart.
Muybridge was subsequently arrested and during his trial in 1875 the jury claimed that Muybridge
was ‘justified’ in murdering Larkyns.
In other words, the famous photographer was acquitted on the grounds of “justifiable
homicide” meaning he got away with the murder scot-free.
Number 3 – Lizzy Borden
The name Lizzy Borden is synonymous with axe murders and many folk rhymes: “Lizzy Borden
took an axe and gave her mother forty whacks.
When she saw what she had done, she gave her father forty-one.”
On the morning of August 4th 1892, Lizzy Borden’s father, Andrew, and step-mother, Abby, were
victims of a brutal hatchet attack and were mutilated in their Fall River Home.
Lizzy Borden was the only suspect in the savage axe murder of her father and step-mother,
however, she was found to be not guilty despite evidence placing her at the scene of the crime.
Lizzy’s answers to police questioning were at times strange and contradictory.
There was various inconsistencies in her alibi on the day of the murders and she also attempted
to buy poison earlier that day.
Moreover, police investigators found two axes and two hatchets in the basement with one
of the hatchets having a broken handle, missing the head.
If evidence wasn’t already suggesting enough, Lizzy was caught burning a dress which prosecutors
later alleged was stained with blood, possibly to cover up her crimes, however, Lizzy explained
that she was burning the dress because it was covered in paint.
Even though evidence strongly suggested that Lizzy committed the murders she was acquitted
of all charges in a verdict that was deliberated in only an hour and a half.
Number 2 – Josef Mengele
Auschwitz’s infamous “Angel of Death”, Josef Mengele, experimented on the camp’s
prisoners, mainly on children.
Mengele would ‘save’ adults and children from the gas chambers only to conduct horrific
experiments on them often without anaesthetic.
He was particularly interested in identical twins, people with different coloured eyes,
dwarfs and people with physical abnormalities.
Some of Mengele’s twisted experiments included removing organs from his victims and amputating
limbs, injecting ink into his victims’ eyeballs, transferring blood from one twin to another
thus causing infection and vivisecting pregnant women as well as the baby.
Mengele even attempted to make conjoined twins by sewing two children together!
After the Second World War ended, Mengele fled to South America where he was free from
arrest and protected from extradition.
He lived until the age of 67.
Number 1 – O.J.
Simpson
Perhaps one of the most famous legal cases in history is that of O.J.
Simpson’s.
In 1994, Simpson’s ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend, Ronald Goldman, were
found murdered having been viciously stabbed to death outside Brown’s condominium in
Los Angeles.
Evidence placed O.J.
Simpson at the scene of the crime with his Bruno Magli shoes and bloodied footprints
matching Simpson’s DNA.
Bloody socks at O.J.
Simpson’s home even tested positive for Nicole and Ronald’s blood.
Simpson’s friend and defence attorney, Robert Kardashian, was seen carrying Simpson’s
garment bag which prosecutor’s speculated may have contained Simpson’s bloody clothes
or even the murder weapon.
By the end of the trial, O.J.
Simpson was found not guilty of the murders and thus was a free man.
Many suspect that evidence such as the bloodstained glove at the scene which didn’t fit was
partly responsible for the overall verdict.
“If it doesn’t fit, you must acquit”, was a famous phrase used by lawyer, Johnny
Cochrane, in order to persuade the jury that Simpson did not murder Nicole and Ronald.
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Simpson killed them?
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