Criminal description
Type of crime: Abducted, tortured and murdered.
Criminals
Robert Thompson and Jon Venables
Birth: August 23,1982 and August 13,1982.
Location: Liverpool, Merseyside, England.
Method of murder: Beating with bricks, stones, and a piece of metal.
Status:Sentenced to custody until the age of 18.
Reason of the crime: for fun.
How they were caught: CCTV evidence from the New Strand Shopping Centre in Bootle taken on 12 February 1993 showed Thompson and Venables casually observing children, apparently selecting a target.
Description of physical and psychological elements:They were two little boy from Liverpool. Robert was a tall boy that had a very sad chilhood. He also played in the fotball team from his city. He had good marks at school but his clasmates said that he was a little crazy boy.
Jon was also a tall boy. He never seems like a murder. He was a normal boy that had goods marks at school.
Victim: James Patrick Bulger, who was abducted, tortured and murdered.
Birth:16 March 1990
Location: Kirkby, Merseyside, England
Parent’s: Ralph Bulger and Denise Bulger.
Detective
Matt Murdock
Birth: June 16, 1968.
“Traces that we found at crime scenes: sweets, a troll doll, some batteries and a can of blue paint.
How they catch the criminals: we saw the CCTV evidence from the New Strand Shopping Centre, taken on 12 February 1993 showed Thompson and Venables casually observing children, apparently selecting a target.”