Notorious Crimes: A Presentation
Name______
Notorious Crime: ______
Presentation Info
· You may use PowerPoint, KeyNote or Google slides to make your presentation
· Movie Maker, iMove or any other presentation media can be used to make your video presentation
· Please email me a copy of the presentation and video so that I may grade with rubric later.
The presentation must include the following elements:
1. The name and nicknames of the crime.
2. The time-frame
3. A detailed description of the crime and its victims.
4. Describe why this crime is so notorious
5. A description of how the killer/s was/were caught.
6. Background info and or psychological profile of the killers
7. A description of the trial and sentencing.
8. A description of where the killer/s is/are today or if the killer/s is/are not alive, a description of how they died.
9. Any other information that you think will make the report interesting
10. Proper Parenthetical Citation for ALL info on each slide. As well as a Works Cited Slide done is MLA or APA format
11. Use must use at least THREE different reputable sources
On the back of this page, you will find a list of Notorious Crimes. You may wish to do some preliminary research before you choose the one you will be reporting on. Each student/or pair in the class must choose a different serial killer. If two or more want to report on the same serial killer, a name will be drawn from a hat.
Notorious Crimes List
This is a list of some notorious crimes that you may choose from. You are not limited to this list, but you must have the crime approved by your teacher.
You may want to go to http://www.biography.com/notorious/crimefiles.do?catId=259455 http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/index.html
http://crime.about.com/od/history/u/famous.htm to see a more extensive list and additionally info. You might not be able to access these sites from school computers. Remember we are reporting on notorious or infamous crimes. Not serial killers.
Charles Manson
Murder of Abraham Lincoln
Assassination of JFK
Mississippi Burning
Assassination of Martin Luther King
Oklahoma City Bombing
Water Gate
Sid Vicious
The Scarsdale Doctor Murder
Murder of OJ Simpson’s Wife
The Shooting of Stanford White
The Murder of Laci Peterson
Sacco and Vanzetti
Saint Valentine’s Massacre
The Lindberg Baby Kidnapping
The Sparks Steakhouse Rubout – Paul Castellano
Enron
The Mountain Meadows Massacre
Lizzie Borden
The Black Dahlia Murder
The Sam Sheppard Murder Case
Edward Gein
Charles Starkweather
Jeffrey Mac Donald
Disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa
Columbine School shootings
Beltway Snipers
Richard Speck