Celebrated Cases MLA Report• 5 Pages Double Spaced 12 point font• Title Page, Citations Page, and Footnotes• 4 per group 1 page per person two slides

each in power point• Each person responsible for one page

and two slides that will be presented in class

• Group Leader responsible to save to flash drive, “s” drive Celebrated Cases Folder, and portal multiple copies and to write summary page. Each person responsible to enter citation and footnote on their page of MLA Report.

• MLA Report Printed Out and Print Out of Power Point for teacher during presentation

• Dress Business Casual = 10 points• 100 Points – Team Leader = 10 points• Due Fri. Jan. 16, No Lates, 25 Points per

day late penalty

David Berkowitz, Son of Sam Killer

Throughout the years of 1976 to 1977, a series of terrible shootings occurred in New York City. A letter claiming to be from the perpetrator were sent to the NYC Police, and was filled with threats, cries for help, and spelling errors, signed by “Son of Sam”. Eventually, Berkowitz was captured, after being reported to have been loitering in the area, menacingly, shortly before a shooting. After his arrest, he confessed to six of the murders, claiming that he committed the acts because he had been instructed to by his neighbor’s dog, who, or so he claimed, was possessed by a demon.

Mark David Chapman, Lennon's Killer

In October 1980, Mark David Chapman shot five times at John Lennon while he and his wife, Yoko Ono, had stopped to greet fans in front of the Dakota Hotel, where the couple lived. Two of five bullets hit Lennon, one striking the aorta, causing massive bleeding, killing Lennon due to blood loss, before he reached the hospital. Chapman made no attempt at fleeing the scene, and instead took out his copy Catcher in the Rye, one of his greatest obsessions, and read aloud until police arrived. He was then arrested, and charged with second degree murder.

Leona Helmsley, Queen of the Mean

In 1983, the Helmsley Family purchased the Dunnel Hall, a lavish 21 room mansion in Connecticut. The total remodeling bill came to just under eight million dollars. Though the Helmsleys were multibillionaires, being hotel tycoons, they were loathe to pay the costs, instead footing the bill to their hotels as a business expense, avoiding the taxes. Leona was quoted to have said “Only little people pay taxes.” to a maid, when questioned on how much the manor cost. She was eventually charged and convicted of Tax evasion.

Amy Fischer, Long Island Lolita

In 1992, Mary Jo Buttafuoco received a visitor who claimed her husband, Joey Buttafuoco, was having an affair with the girls younger sister. As proof, she brought a shirt from Joey’s auto repair shop. Unwilling to believe her, Buttafuoco asked the girl to leave. She responded by drawing a .25-caliber semiautomatic pistol from her pocket and struck Mary Jo in the head with the weapon. While she was down, the girl shot her in the head, then ran to a car parked outside, driven away by someone else. The girl was Amy Fischer, who had no sister, and was having the affair herself. The trial was highly sensational, the defense portraying her as a confused girl from a broken home; the prosecution painting her as a unstable, and promiscuous girl.

Robert Chambers, Preppie Killer

When Robert Chambers was publicly dumped by Alex Klapp, he snapped. Klapp had left Chambers because she had discovered his affair with 18 year old Jennifer Levin. The next day Levin’s battered corpse was discovered by an elm tree in Central Park, New York on August 26, 1986. The trial was highly sensational, due to the fact that Ted McCarrik, later the archbishop of Washington, paid his bail. During the trial, Levin was portrayed by the defense as a promiscuous woman, who desired rough sex, which led to her death, which can lead to the much lesser charge of manslaughter.

John Hinckley, Attempted Assassination

John Hinckley was a disturbed man. He lived a dull life, once saying that the peak of an average day was lousy food and delicious medication. He had a strong obsession with Jodi Foster, and dreamed of her attention. He began to plot a way to gain it, specifically be attempting to reenact the plot of the movie Taxi Driver, in which Foster played a prostitute. On March 30, 1981, he attempted to assassinate President Ronald Reagan, as he was leaving a Hilton Hotel. The attempt ended in failure. In court he pleaded not guilty by insanity.

Bernard Madoff, Ponzi Schemer

There had been many investigations into the methods of which Bernard Madoff made money, but until December of 2008, nothing had ever been found. His was a Ponzi scheme on a grand level, with over 64.8 billion dollars, the largest ever perpetrated. The scandal was equally large, as there were over 4800 investors being pulled along by Madoff. The charges of this case were very extensive, ranging from Money Laundering to Perjury.