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Ashley Garcia

Josiah Valerio-Miller

Professor Vizcarrondo

CRJ 21

Description

Background

  • Thirty-Six-Year Old
  • Hispanic-American
  • Male
  • Blonde hair
  • Blue eyes
  • 6'1" with muscular build

Childhood

Childhood

  • Oldest of four siblings, two sisters and one brother
  • Family of wealth
  • Graduated EF academy (private boarding school)
  • Lost his mother, age 10
  • Father owns a chain of realty companies
  • Tormented and killed kittens
  • Performed taxidermy

Mother

Mother

  • Dominican
  • Elementary school teacher for a local private school
  • Killed in a car accident, struck by a drunk driver
  • Car was found in a ditch the following day
  • Drunk driver was never found
  • She bled out in the car, slow painful death
  • Had responders discovered the car night of accident, she may have survived

High school - Adult Life

High school - Adult Life

  • After mothers death, father encouraged him to join EF Academys' varsity football team
  • Debate team
  • Apprenticeships with lawfirms during the summer
  • Worked with his father in realty during the school year
  • Recieved masters degree from Harvard University
  • State prosecutor at age 28
  • Wanted to use his access to criminal databases to find his mothers killer

Criminal Event

Criminal Behavior

  • Committed crime once a year
  • Used Citizens App, located car accidents caused by drunk driver
  • Looked into his victims background and surveiled them
  • Setup his kill room prior to kidnapping his victims
  • Old hospital gurney, industrial wrap, surgical tools, power tools
  • Tortured victims, then chopped up the body when finished
  • Dumped bodies into nearby river

Four Victims

Victims

  • No personal relations with victims
  • Only targeted people who caused a car accident with fatalities while drinking under the influence

Practice Victims

Barbara McFadden

Practice Victims

Jamal Whitehead

John Allen

  • First victim
  • 41-years-old
  • Black male
  • served 4 years in prison after accident

  • 27-years-old
  • no wife, no children
  • car accident: had the most fatalities, hispanic family of seven, struck of a cliff and only 1 of 7 people survived.

  • Only female victim
  • 54- years-old
  • married with 3 children
  • car accident: ran a red light and struck a car with a woman and her youngest daught, daughter died.

Bruce Foreman

The "Big Kill"

  • Anthony McKenzie later changed his name to Bruce Foreman after the accident; "fresh start"
  • Married with no children
  • CEO of a big company
  • Had an affair with his secretary
  • Car accident: Killed Josiahs' mother. one rainy evening, he was DUI and speeding, struck Josiahs mothers' car and it did a flip. he fled the scene and didn't even bother to notify the police

Justice System

Justice System

  • Police never arrested Josiahs' mothers' murderer
  • Had license plate number and car model, found car abandoned
  • Had a warrant out for his arrest

Josiah felt as if, the police had failed him and his family

They never found the murderer, case had gotten forgotten about

Society

Society

  • family never steered him away from his deviant behaviour; taxadermy; normalized his behavior
  • football in highschool; source of aggression
  • he appeared to be a White-American; no dominant Hispanic features, felt superior
  • constant praise for his work by family and the justice system; sense of security
  • these contributed to Josiah feeling as if, if he did get caught he would be sentenced with leniency

Rational Choice Theory

Theory

  • States that a criminal factors out all personal and situational factors prior to committing a crime
  • considered his family finding out, being arrested, may not have have properly assessed targets
  • felt as if; if he did get caught after his "big kill" it would be worth it because he would have avenged his mothers death
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