Murder and Homicide

1.         Basically homicide is when one person kills another person.  Murder, however, needs the intent to kill another human.  So both involve the killing of an individual, but the separating factor is if there is any intent to kill or not.  If there is, it is murder; if there is not, it is a homicide.

            From looking around there seem to be several categories for each (murder and homicide), and even more is that they seem to overlap to some extent.  It appears, however, that the three main categories for homicide are justifiable, excusable, and criminal.  Within criminal homicide, there are murder, manslaughter, and negligent homicide.  Murder is also broken down into the first and second degrees, as manslaughter is broken down into voluntary and involuntary manslaughter.  For murder, there are several categories such as felony, capital, vehicular homicide, and justifiable homicide.

2.         I found an article about a Matthew Hinrichsen who was charged with two accounts of first degree murder, two accounts of use of a firearm in a felony, and arson.  All of this was from when he burned down a mobile home with a Victoria "Vickie" Lee and Gabino Alex Vargas inside, who both died as a result.  Vickie was an ex-girlfriend of Matthew and they had reportedly had some trouble in their relationship.  The articles mainly focused on how Vickie was an outstanding citizen who worked hard and diligently to help her community.  She had many friends who spoke well of her and thought that what happened was a tragedy.  Other than that, the information given is mostly in a matter-of-factly manner, giving information on what happened and who all was involved.  Unfortunately, after quite some time searching for an article on what he was actually convicted on, I couldn't find out.  The last date in the online news was on January 21st.

http://www.ktiv.com/story/20314893/2012/12/11/nebraska-man-accused-of-a-double-murer-makes-his-intital-court-appearance-this-afternoon-matthew-hinrichsen

http://www.southwestiowanews.com/council_bluffs/news/former-mo-valley-resident-council-member-killed/article_b1c40666-3319-57b0-b91e-c105d1daa20d.html

http://www.nelighnews.com/news/article_f5b9f414-43cf-11e2-946f-001a4bcf6878.html

http://www.nelighnews.com/news/article_391c1df8-63ed-11e2-94e9-001a4bcf6878.html

3.         Of course murder and homicide are subjects of many different forms of stories.  For instance, one book, Along Came A Spider, deals with an individual, Gary Soneji, who is a psychopathic serial murderer.  He has quite the history of murders and plans to do more despite being targeted by virtually everyone, including the Secret Service.

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13145.Along_Came_a_Spider

            A movie popped into my head for another case about this topic: Se7en.  This story revolves around two homicide detectives trying to catch a serial killer who is murdering his victims in line with the seven deadly sins.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114369/