In may of 1991, in Lieden, The Netherlands, a woman was found dead with a suspicious wound in her eye. The autopsy repord revealed a ballpoint pen was imbedded in her eye, causing fatal brain damage, and therefore killing her.( Similar to the trick the joker played on a mob member in "The Dark Night"). When this was first investigated, police were puzzelled. Was it a murder, a suicide, or an accident? Further investigation showed that the woman did not use ballpoint pens, and no black ink from the pen was found anywhere in the house. The origonal case was dropped in August of 1992, until more evidence was found surrounding testimony from the womans son JT, who confessed that he killed his mom by shooting a ballpoint pen through her eye. JT was sentenced to 12 years in prison, but appealed his case, and was eventually aquittded. The main reason for his aquitall was that the therapist, broke her proffesional code regarding confidenciality with her patient.
http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdfplus/1558013.pdf
4 comments:
This is really interesting and pretty well written, there is nothing he could have done better.
I thought this post was very interesting. It was a strange story because a woman was killed by a simple ballpoint pen.I liked that Thomas added the similarity between the case and "The Dark Night." I wonder what happened to the son JT since he was acquitted: it would be good to have this added in the post. Otherwise, good job.
This post was extremely interesting and mind blowing. The woman was killed by a simple ball point pen, something we use regularly in our every day lives. It is almost kind of scary to think about. I really enjoyed how Thomas made references to everyday entertainment. I really do not think there is anything to be added to this post, it is very nicely written
The post is great but the city is called Leiden...
Lieden isn't a dutch city.
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