Independent Study 2

Content:

I watched 22 hours and 20 minutes of television shows on the Investigation Discovery Channel, watched two videos, and went to part of a trial.

1. Log:

4-25-11

·      6PM- Disappeared: Into the Woods

·      7PM- Disappeared: Game Over

·      8PM- Stalked: Someone’s Watching: Dangerous Games

·      9PM- Stalked: Someone’s Watching: Teenage Obsession

4-26-11

·      6PM- Cuff Me if You Can: Hooker on the Run

·      7PM- I (Almost Got Away With It): Got a Bad Temper

·      8-11:20PM- The New Detectives

4-27-11

·      1-4 PM- Trial (started at 8:30AM)

·      5PM- Dateline on ID: Mystery in Rock Hill Pt. 1

·      6PM- Dateline on ID: Mystery in Rock Hill Pt. 2

·      7PM- Cold Blood: Rotten to the Core

·      11PM- 48 Hours on ID: Killer Next Door

4-28-11

·      1PM- Dateline on ID: Death of a Heartsong

·      2PM- 48 Hours on ID: End of a Dream

·      3PM- 48 Hours on ID: Ghosts of Mississippi

·      5PM- 48 Hours on ID: Justice in the Heartland

·      6PM- 48 Hours on ID: Who Killed the Beauty Queen?

·      7PM- True Crime With Aphrodite Jones: Twist of Faith

2. Posted Evidence:

Trial (April 27 @ 1-4 PM):

I wasn’t there for the beginning because the trial started at 8:30 AM and it had been going on for a week.

·      Murder

·      Man shot with 9mm bullet

·      7 bullets were fired

·      Bullet and bullet fragments found in a car

·      Man found under street light

 Website with the shows' schedule: http://investigation.discovery.com/tv-schedules/daily.html?date=20110425.115

Notes from Cuff Me if You Can: Hooker on the Run (April 26 @ 6PM)-

·      Desiree assisted in a kidnapping

·      Boy got killed

·      Ran away to Mexico for 2 years and learned the language

·      Made money by sleeping with men

·      Men recognized her but not as Desiree but as Esperanza

·      2 men called the police and they recognized her because of her tattoo on her right leg.

Notes from Dateline on ID- Death of a Heartsong (April 28 @ 1PM)-

·      A man was charged for killing his wife

·      In 2006, blood and DNA evidence was found under the wife’s thumbnail that belonged to Bob, the man.

·      A knife was also found, it was Bob’s favorite Tofu knife

·      Before the murder, Bob wanted a divorce

·      Later, evidence was found that Bob didn’t kill his wife and it’s still unknown

Some of the notes I took while watching ID Channel shows

3. LIA:

Literal:

a)    “I, Daisy Barrera, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.”

b)   I completed 30 hours of taking notes on television shows about people who had committed different types of crimes and the process it took to come to a conclusion as to whether a person had committed the crime or not. Some of the cases ended with the suspect not being guilty.

Interpretive:

These shows helped me because they were all different: 48 Hours, Cuff Me if you Can, and Dateline on ID. They showed different points of view: of the criminal, which was on Cuff Me if You Can, and of the victims, witnesses, and attorney, 48 Hours and Dateline on ID. They gave information of who was at the crime scene and what evidence was there. They talked about the DNA and blood found and who it was linked to, but whether any mistakes were made in the process. This helped me because it shows that if something is missed at a crime scene, like in Mystery in Rock Hill Part 1, where a purse found at the crime scene was never tested for evidence and no fingerprints were tested either. It helps me understand that sometimes professionals make mistakes that hurt the case and the people, that’s why the jobs need to be careful and what is evidence and what isn’t. It also helped me because they gave reasons as to why whoever committed a crime did it. For example, in Mystery in Rock Hill Part 1, it explained that Billy, the suspect, had a bad family life because he was once accused for not taking care of his daughters, his house was a mess that his daughters were taken away, and when he did buy a better house, the neighborhood was bad.

Applied:

This helped me answer my EQ because it helped me get an idea of what could be going on in a person’s minds if they committed a murder. Also, it helps me be careful when paying attention to items that could be important evidence, but sometimes is not paid attention to. The people who testified in the trial I went to had every piece of evidence marked with placards and had photographs taken. I heard from the detective who was testifying say that the body found at the crime scene was moved after a coroner approved it and that after it was moved, another piece of evidence was found. A photograph was taken of the evidence, another 9mm bullet. Every piece of evidence was photographed because it was used in court.