Murder - xoJane

It Happened To Me: My High School Bully Was Murdered

Yvette — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 14:30:00 -0400

For any girl who has a steady bully, wishing death upon that person is a daily/nightly ritual. But when it actually happens, the last thing you feel is relief or happiness.

My Sister Was Murdered With An Assault Weapon, and Better Gun Laws Might Have Stopped It From Happening

Lisa Benjamin Goodgame — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 11:00:00 -0400

For me, the Senate's actions yesterday are personal because the weaknesses of our laws made it possible for three criminals to acquire the assault weapon that killed my sister.

It Happened To Me: I Was A Death Penalty Juror

Jean Black — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 18:00:00 -0500

My case involved Jim Fayed, a wealthy gold trader who was accused of the particularly brutal murder-for-hire of his estranged wife Pam in a Los Angeles parking garage.

It Happened To Me Contest Entry: My Roommate And Her Boyfriend Were Victims In An Unsolved Murder

IHTM CONTESTANT — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 10:00:00 -0500

Sometimes I look for new articles or new developments in the case. I scroll through the comments to where people speculate that they were out in the woods, “doing what teenagers do.” As if they got what they deserved. My blood boils.

It Happened To Me Contest Entry: I Met An Alleged Killer On Craigslist

IHTM CONTESTANT — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 13:00:00 -0500

Desperately in need of a sleeker form of transportation, I followed a Craigslist ad titled “BIKE GARAGE SALE” across the San Lorenzo River and into a sickening murder mystery.

It Happened To Me Contest Entry: My Dad Committed Suicide And Then Was Accused Of Being A Pedophile And A Murderer

IHTM CONTESTANT — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 10:00:00 -0500

Local gossip mongers flooded message boards to debate my father’s character. He was a weirdo and a creep, they claimed, always driving around in his van checking out children.

It Happened to Me: My Neighbor Murdered My Building’s Maintenance Man and I Overheard the Whole Thing

Amanda Lauren — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 13:00:00 -0500

I was in my apartment when I heard screaming and gunshots coming from somewhere in my building.

It Happened To Me Contest Entry: I Helped Put The Man Who Sodomized Me In Jail For Murdering Another Woman

IHTM CONTESTANT — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 11:00:00 -0500

The next day, they arrested Paul. They didn’t really care about what happened to me, but they needed Paul’s fingerprints and they couldn’t get a court order for them. His fingerprint ended up matching a bloody fingerprint that was at the scene.

It Happened To Me: I Live In A Murderer's House

Leah Fitzgerald — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 13:00:00 -0500

In the newspaper clippings I would eventually dig up from the library, the reporter refers to his home address: my home address.

When in Doubt, Blame the Victim: The Troubling Media Narrative Around Kasandra Perkins

Claire Glass — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 13:00:00 -0500

Collectively, mainstream media reporting has at once discounted Jovan Belcher's actions on account of his mental state and blamed Perkins for staying out too late -- as though Perkins could have brought her murder on herself.

It Happened to Me: I Write to Murderers

Jessica Katharine Murray — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 15:00:00 -0500

I have written kind words to men who have done awful things: a drug-addicted man who stabbed an elderly couple to death when caught committing a burglary; a man who shot his girlfriend in the face; a man who shot a friend during an argument over a woman.

It Happened To Me: My Disturbed Ex Allegedly Murdered A Senior Citizen

Sandra Miska — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 15:00:00 -0400

The man the French police found wandering the streets of Paris, covered in blood, couldn’t possibly be the same guy I danced with on my 25th birthday, or kissed on New Year’s Eve.

It Happened To Me: My Grandmother Was Murdered

Cathy Delacruz — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 15:00:00 -0400

No one ever made a movie about my grandmother's story. No new laws were signed into effect in South Texas in the 1970s when my grandmother was raped, tortured and murdered.

It Happened To Me: My Parents Adopted a Murderer

Amity Bitzel — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 13:00:00 -0400

In 1984, in the quiet and modestly affluent suburb of Cape St. Clair, Maryland, a 17-year-old boy named Larry Swartz murdered both of his adoptive parents. In 1993, after serving nine years of his 12-year sentence, Larry was released from prison and came to live with us.

It Happened To Me: I Was on the Jury of a Murder Trial

Meghan O — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 11:00:20 -0400

I got to serve jury duty, and all I got was this lingering sense of doubt that sometimes keeps me up at night.

It Happened to Me: My Father Tried to Kill My Whole Family

Angela Hershberger — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 15:00:14 -0500

We went out and had a nice, big, happy family outing (My mom likes to speculate in retrospect that my dad was just gathering witnesses). Coming home exhausted, we all went to bed except my dad, who stayed up and got high.