Jazmon Sims
Serial killers can kill while their on the job, and innocent people are killed everyday. The case about Joseph Dewey Akin and Robert J. Price is very interesting but it’s not really fair, because Akin should’ve been locked up if he had been killing people for over a decade. When he finally went to jail he should’ve got more than 15 years. A serial killer is a person that murders 3 or more people in short period of time. It is said that serial killers suffer from some form of antisocial personality disorder. Serial killer entered the popular vernacular in large part do to the widely publicized crimes of Ted Bundy and David Burkowitz in the years of 1970.
The reason why I want to do my writing on unsolved murders is because I think that it’s interesting and I want to learn more about it. There are many people in the United States who have died, yet have not been avenged for their unsolved murders. I know for a fact that we have a lot of unsolved murders that are under investigation for years and still remain to be solved. In my writing, my main focus is about a serial killer named Joseph Dewey Akin and a victim named Robert J. Price.
Joseph Dewey Akin was a Nurse at Copper Greene Hospital in Birmingham, Alabama. He was only 35 years old and for over a decade, investigators suspected him of over 100 deaths in 20 different facilities in which he worked (Code Blue Junkie). He had been suspected of causing many Code Blue medical emergencies in Alabama; he also participated in crimes surrounding hospitals around the metro Atlanta area. When he was working in Georgia, the emergencies at one hospital were unusually high. He was arrested for giving Robert J. Price an overdose of lidocaine. Akin did not go to jail for that case because the Price family was billed for the lidocaine. “Another retrial was scheduled for March 1998, but two months before it was to begin; he had pleaded guilty to manslaughter and was given 15 years in prison”.
Joseph Dewey’s victim Robert J. Price was a 32 year old Quadriplegic who was killed in 1992 from an overdose of lidocaine. His assigned nurse, named Marion Albright, had gone out for lunch. Upon returning, she saw Joseph Dewey Akin walking out of her patient’s room. When she was trying to go and check on Price, Akin was trying to prevent her from doing so. When she finally went in, she saw Price laying there and immediately called for help. When the emergency team came, they found a blocked ventilation tube that was stopping him from breathing. The bill that the Price family had received for the lidocaine was a false bill. So the case of Joseph Dewey Akin continued for 6 years and he was never arrested for Price’s death.
Lidocaine was first called xylocaine. Nils Lofgren invented it and tested the first anesthesia on him in 1943. In 1948 it was used on other people. The elimination half-life lidocaine is approximately 1.5-2 hours in most patients. It alters depolarization in neurons, by blocking the fast voltage gated sodium channels in the cell membrane. Lidocaine has been shown to relieve postherpetic neuralgia in some patients. But it is not enough study evidence to recommend it as a first line treatment.
I wish it was something to do that could stop people from wanting to kill other people. I would like to know what a serial killer thinks about when they feel that it’s a time to kill someone. I wonder if they think that the whole world is after them or if their jealous and want someone else to feel their pain. And innocent people shouldn’t have to die because of someone else’s illness. Most serial killer’s are bipolar and schizophrenic, schizophrenic people here voices and will attack anything in their way.