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Crime is ranked on a scale of 1 (low crime) to 100 (high crime) Lincoln violent crime is 17.0. (The US average is 22.7) Lincoln property crime is 47.5. (The US average is 35.4) YOU SHOULD KNOW. Violent crime is composed of four offenses: murder and nonnegligent manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated assault.

Nebraska voters adopted a prohibitory amendment to the state constitution in 1916, and it took effect in May 1917, two years before the Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution outlawed liquor nationwide. Problems soon emerged. Bootleggers appeared to supply the thirsty with now illegal alcoholic beverages; saloons instead of closing, went underground; and some experimented with home brew. Crime, spurred by these activities, became rampant. An unparalleled wave of robberies, assaults, and homicides occurred in Omaha during the era before the Twenty-first Amendment ended national prohibition and statewide prohibition was voted out in November 1934.

Nebraska newspaperman Will M. Maupin (1863-1948) in 1931 sought to deflect criticism of Omaha by noting that Omaha's record of unsolved homicides was no worse than that of Lincoln. Maupin, then staff correspondent for the Omaha World-Herald, noted on December 31, 1931: 'Omaha is not alone in the matter of 'black records.' Lincoln can come very close to matching Omaha in homicides that have never been solved. The difference is that Omaha's killings have been confined to comparatively recent years, while those of Lincoln stretch over 40 years. Based upon population, Lincoln has had more mysterious homicides in the last 40 years than Omaha. . . .

'It was in December, 1890, that John Sheedy, nationally known gambler and racetrack man, was murdered in his own back yard at Thirteenth and P streets, Lincoln. The identity of the person who slugged Sheedy to death has never been disclosed. Monday McFarland, a Negro, and Mrs. Sheedy, wife of the murdered man, were arrested, charged with the killing. It was charged that Mrs. Sheedy employed McFarland to commit the murder. Separate trials were secured and McFarland was defended by Colonel [J. E.] Philpott [and L. W. Billingsley]. McFarland has confessed the killing, and that he had been induced by Mrs. Sheedy to kill Sheedy, but he was acquitted. Judge [Allen W.] Field, presiding judge, ruled that the confession had been obtained under duress, and refusing [refused] to admit it as evidence. Mrs. Sheedy also was acquitted.' For more information on this celebrated case, see Timothy R. Mahoney's 'The Great Sheedy Murder Trial and the Booster Ethos of the Gilded Age in Lincoln, Nebraska' in the Winter 2001 issue of Nebraska History. The entire article is now online on the Nebraska State Historical Society's website.

Maupin mentioned several more unsolved Lincoln homicides: 'In the summer of 1901 John J. Gillilan, prominent real estate dealer was murdered near his home. Various theories were advanced, the chief one being that he was killed in an attempted holdup, but no clue was ever obtained that led to the arrest and trial of any suspect.' Gillilan was also a former member of the Nebraska Legislature, serving as a member of the state's House of Representatives from 1891 to 1893.

'On January 22, 1921, Adrian Barstow, prominent grain and lumberman, was killed between his garage and his home at 1445 South Twentieth street. The murder was definitely fixed at a few minutes before midnight. Barstow had put his car in the garage and started for the house. The police finally decided that Barstow had surprised a burglar whose identity he knew, and had been killed. The murderer was never located.'

John and Mary Sheedy were principals in one of Lincoln's most sensational murder cases. Ship simulator 2014 free download.

John Joseph Joubert IV (July 2, 1963 – July 17, 1996) was an Americanserial killer convicted of the murders of three boys in Maine and Nebraska. He was executed in Nebraska by electric chair.

Early life[edit]

Joubert was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts, on July 2, 1963. A bright child, he began reading at age 3 and borrowing books from a public library at 5. He was later found to have an IQ of 123, signifying above average intelligence. Joubert's parents divorced when he was 8 years old, and he stayed to live with his mother, whom he greatly resented throughout his life as being excessively controlling. His mother forbade him to see his father, and often stood in the way of his developing connections with his peers who taunted him on the basis of his relatively small build from the time he was in grade school up until high school.

From a very young age, Joubert began having increasingly violent sadistic fantasies. According to three psychiatric reports prepared on Joubert in 1984, his earliest sadistic fantasies began at around the age of 6. These fantasies revolved around murdering and cannibalizing a neighborhood girl who babysat him. To one psychiatrist, he described having nothing personal against the girl, seeing her as 'just someone to kill.'^[1]

In 1971, Joubert's mother moved them out of their former house into a rundown apartment. At this time, he was considered an outcast at school, and sought to compensate for these feelings of isolation by joining the Cub Scouts. It was around this time that his sadistic and homicidal fantasies progressed to the point where he contemplated murdering strangers on the streets, tying and gagging those who resisted him. In one later psychiatric report, he was described as saying that he derived pleasure from the thought of his victims saying 'if you are going to do it, get it over with.'^[2]

In 1974, Joubert's mother moved his family to Portland, Maine, and got a job as a bookkeeper. Here, his family settled in a two-story home in the middle-class Oakdale neighborhood. While he attended school in Portland, his problems with his peers began to intensify. He confessed at the age of 12 to having homosexual tendencies, and was further teased and ostracized because of it.

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When he was 13, he stabbed a young girl with a pencil and felt sexually stimulated when she cried in pain. The next day, he took a razor blade and slashed another girl as he biked past her. In another incident, he beat and nearly strangled another boy. He relished the power of bullying, and continued to brutally attack his peers and younger children. At around age 16, he throttled an 8-year-old boy named Chris Day, almost killing him. Each offense occurred with gradually higher intensity, and each time Joubert successfully evaded getting caught.

In 1981, he graduated from Cheverus High School in Portland.^[3]

Murders[edit]

On August 22, 1982, 11-year-old Richard 'Ricky' Stetson had gone jogging on the 3.5 mile long Back Cove Trail in Portland, Maine.^[4][5] When he had not returned by dark, his parents called the police. The next day, a motorist saw the boy's body on the side of US I-295. The attacker appeared to have attempted to undress him, and then stabbed and strangled him. A suspect was arrested for the murder, but his teeth did not match a bite mark on Stetson's body, so he was released after a year and a half in custody. No additional leads presented themselves in the case until January 1984.

Danny Joe Eberle, 13 years old, disappeared while delivering the Omaha World-Herald newspaper on Sunday, September 18, 1983, in Bellevue, Nebraska.^[6] His brother, who also delivered papers, had not seen him, but he did remember being followed by a white man in a tan car on previous days. It was found that Eberle had delivered only three of the 70 newspapers on his route. At the address of his fourth delivery, his bicycle was discovered along with the rest of the newspapers. There appeared to be no sign of a struggle. Joubert would later describe how he had approached Eberle, drawn a knife, and covered the boy's mouth with his hand. He instructed Eberle to follow him to his truck and drove him to a gravel road outside the town.

After a three-day search, Eberle's body was discovered in a patch of high grass alongside a gravel road some 4 miles (6 km) from his bicycle. He had been stripped to his underwear, his feet and hands had been bound, and his mouth had been taped with surgical tape. Knife wounds across his body suggested he had been tortured before death. In addition, Joubert had stabbed him nine times. As a kidnapping, the crime came under the jurisdiction of the federal government of the United States, so the FBI was called in.^[7]

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The investigation followed several leads, including a young man who was arrested for molesting two young boys about a week after the crime. He failed a polygraph test and had a false alibi but did not fit the profile the FBI had created for the murderer. He was released because of the lack of evidence. Other known pedophiles in the area were also questioned, but the case went cold due to a scarcity of evidence.

On December 2, 1983 Christopher Walden, age 12, disappeared in Papillion, Nebraska, about 3 miles (5 km) from where Eberle's body had been found.^[8] Witnesses again said they saw a white man in a tan car. Joubert said that he had driven up to Walden as he walked, showed him the sheath of his knife and ordered him into the car. After driving to some railway lines out of town he ordered Walden to strip to his underwear; Walden did so, but then refused to lie down. After a brief struggle Joubert overpowered Walden, and stabbed him; it was later found Walden's throat had been cut so deeply he was nearly decapitated. Walden's body was found two days later, 5 miles (8 km) from town. Although the crimes were similar, there were differences: Walden had not been bound, had been concealed better, and was thought to have been killed immediately after being abducted.

Arrest[edit]

On January 11, 1984, a preschool teacher in the area of the murders called police to say that she had seen a young man driving in the area. There are conflicting stories as to what occurred – whether the car was loitering or just driving around. When the driver saw the teacher writing down his license plate, he stopped and threatened her before fleeing. The car was not tan, but was traced and found to be rented by John Joubert, an enlisted radar technician from Offutt Air Force Base. It turned out that his own car, a tan Nova sedan, was being repaired.

A search warrant was issued, and rope consistent with that used to bind Danny Joe Eberle was found in his barracks room. The FBI found that the unusual rope had been made for the United States military in South Korea. Under interrogation, Joubert claimed he got it from the scoutmaster in the troop in which he was an assistant.

Robert K. Ressler, the FBI's head profiler at the time, had immediate access to the information about the two boys in Nebraska and worked up a hypothetical description which matched Joubert in every regard. While he was presenting the case of the two Nebraska boys to a training class at the FBI academy at Quantico, a police officer from Portland, Maine, noted the similarities to a case in his jurisdiction which took place while Joubert lived there prior to joining the Air Force. Bite-mark comparisons proved that Joubert was responsible for the Maine killing in addition to those in Nebraska. Ressler and the Maine investigators came to believe that Joubert joined the military to get away from Maine after the murder of the Stetson boy.^[9]

Further investigation in Maine revealed two crimes between the pencil-stabbing of the 9-year-old girl in 1979 and the murder of Stetson in 1982. In 1980, Ressler's investigation revealed that Joubert had slashed a 9-year-old boy and a male teacher in his mid-20s who both 'had been cut rather badly, and were lucky to be alive.'^[9]

Trials and appeals[edit]

Joubert then confessed to killing the two boys, and on January 12, 1984, he was charged with their murders. After initially pleading not guilty, he changed his plea to guilty. There were several psychiatric evaluations performed on Joubert. One characterised him as having obsessive-compulsive disorder and sadistic tendencies, and suffering from schizoid personality disorder.^[10]:13 He was found to have been not psychotic at the time of the crimes. A panel of three judges sentenced him to death for both counts. Joubert was also sentenced to life imprisonment in Maine (which did not have the death penalty) in 1990 for the murder of Ricky Stetson after Joubert's teeth were found to match the bite mark.^[11]

In 1995, Joubert filed a writ of habeas corpus to the United States federal courts over the death sentences. His lawyers argued that the aggravating factor of 'exceptional depravity' was unconstitutionally vague, and the court agreed. The state of Nebraska appealed to the United States District Court for the District of Nebraska, which overturned the appeal, saying that he had shown sadistic behavior by torturing Eberle and Walden.

Joubert was executed on July 17, 1996, by the state of Nebraska in the electric chair. He was the second person executed in Nebraska since the death penalty was reintroduced in the state in 1973.^[12]

An appeal to the Nebraska Supreme Court over whether the electric chair in Nebraska is a cruel and unusual punishment revealed that during his execution, Joubert suffered a four-inch brain blister on the top of his head and blistering on both sides of his head above his ears.^[13]Download pokemon games for computer.

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References[edit]

Footnotes

1. ^Clendenning, Alan (23 June 1996). 'Trail of violence nears its end'. Murderpedia (reprinting Telegram). Maine Sunday Telegram.
2. ^Pettit, Mark (1990). A Need to Kill. Ballantine Books. ISBN978-0-8041-0785-3.
3. ^Maine authorities want to interview Joubert in NebraskaBangor Daily News, October 19, 1984
4. ^Ramsland, Katherine; McGrain, Patrick N. (2009-12-21). Inside the Minds of Sexual Predators. Praeger, Frederick A. p. 64. ISBN978-0313379604. Retrieved 2014-11-10.
5. ^'Back Cove Trail'. trails.org. Retrieved 2014-11-10.
6. ^'A 13-year-old's dead body turns up - Sep 21, 1983 - HISTORY.com'. HISTORY.com. Retrieved 2018-02-07.
7. ^The Casebook of Forensic DetectionISBN0-471-07650-3 p. 285
8. ^'Kidnapped child's body found'. UPI. Retrieved 2018-02-07.
9. ^ ^abRessler, Robert K. and Tom Shachtman, Whoever Fights Monsters: My Twenty Years Hunting Serial Killers for the FBI. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992. See Chapter 5, 'Death of a Newsboy,' pp. 93-112. ISBN0-312-07883-8
10. ^Ramsland, Katherine. 'John Joubert, Nebraska Boy Snatcher'. Crime Library. TruTv.
11. ^'How serial killer John Joubert's days of slaying kids came to end'. NY Daily News. Retrieved 2018-02-07.
12. ^'Child killer executed in Nebraska'. UPI. Retrieved 2018-02-07.
13. ^Judge details why he thinks electric chair is a cruel penalty

General references

• Ramsland, Katherine. 'John Joubert, Nebraska Boy Snatcher'. truTV Crime Library.
• Nebraska Supreme Court to Hear Electric Chair Challenge from Death Penalty Information Center
• Inmate Details: 35946 -- John Joubert. Nebraska Department of Correctional Services. Retrieved on 2007-08-17.

External links[edit]

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• State v. Joubert: Details of Joubert's 1986 appeal against his convictions

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