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Typology: Gwendolyn Graham And Karla Homolka

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Classifcation of Typology For this project I will be looking at 3 different women who were listed as serial killers. The three different women I picked are: Marybeth Tinning, Gwendolyn Graham and Cathy Wood, and finally Karla Homolka. I picked these three cases because I hardly know anything about them and would like to do my own research on them, while in the purpose learning more about them. I strongly feel that all three cases represent different types of typology, and would present on different spicturms of criminal aspects. Threw out this paper I will be looking at their cases, not just listing what they did, but also threw chart mapping be able to decide with the base information on what time of crime it was. After doing so, I will …show more content…
After the death, people were starting to wonder why she would wash the infant’s clothing, packed them away long with the other items she had for the baby. This is something she would do any time after the child had passed away, this lead people to think she was guilty of something.
About two weeks after her baby dying, her son Joseph was taken to the hospital. Once they had taken him to the hospital, he started to go into cardiac arrest and then later he died. Soon after saying goodbye to her son, a month later her daughter Barbara Ann went to the hospital next. As soon as she was taken to the hospital, her mother wanted and did take her daughter home, the next day she passed away. Her daughter would have been the third child to past away within the two month marks. This time instead of doing her ritual after the funeral of her child, she did before the …show more content…
Graham just moved to Michigan from Texas, and Wood was just recently divorced. The two of them became close friends and then moved into being lovers. Before they knew it they would be looking at murder charges, but before we look at the ending let’s look at the starting point. In January of 1987, they entered a room of a woman who had alzheminers disease; Graham went into the room to smother her with a washcloth, while Wood would be her lookout. After she died, it was ruled a natural death, and with that they never did autopsy on the woman. Their reasoning for killing the lady was to help with her tension ALS and to share a secret that would keep them together. After their first murder, they went at it few months later, and more Alpine Manor patients started to die. The patients who were dying were between the ages of 65 all the way to the age of 97. During their murders, both aides still stayed in love with each other. After awhile the couple broke up, this happen when Graham started dating another girl from the Alpine Manor, who was another nursing aid. After they started dating Graham and the aid, packed up and moved back to Texas, were she got a job at a hospital taking care of

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