Paper is about the Unabomber

Your objective is to research a criminal murder case concerning an infamous crime committed in the past 50 years. You are expected to use proper research protocol in every way, including writing style and MLA annotation of sources. This project asks you to trace the narrative of a true crime case through four levels of media coverage.

1. a local newspaper or television report

2. a newspaper with national circulation (for example, The New York Times, The

Washington Post, The Los-Angeles Times)

3. a printed or online magazine with national circulation, online blog, or true-crime

novel

4. a national television news broadcast (for example, The CBS Evening News, 360 with

Anderson Cooper, CNN), news magazine documentary program (such as Dateline:

NBC, ABC's Primetime, CBS' 48 Hours Mystery, A&E's American Justice), or made-for-

TV docudrama.

Retrace the presentation of your case through these four outlets. Concentrate your analysis on how specific evidence is found, discussed, analyzed, and displayed as the case shifts representational venues.

Your goal as a writer is not to categorize one source as true and the others as false; treat all with equal suspicion regarding their subjectivity. Your paper should present an analysis of how the "story" of murder influences the presentation of "evidence" and how that narrative may change over time as a case progresses through the stages of a prosecution and against the backdrop of the court of public opinion.

Follow this format when preparing your written report:

Discuss all relevant details/collected evidence of the crime

Explain how the media played a role in the criminal case

Clearly describe the eventual outcome of the case (if it is unsolved, discuss where it is currently).

You should find a minimum of 10 sources and integrate at least seven of those into your final paper.You should include at least one book source. All sources must be credible.