Crime Classification Manual Part I Chapter 5 21
Crime Classification Manual Part I Chapter 5 21
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STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES
SECOND
EDITION
John E. Douglas,
Ann W. Burgess, Allen G. Burgess, and Robert K. Ressler, Editors
Once
an assessment of the missing person is completed and the appropriate law
enforcement responses have been made, if the person, juvenile or adult, has not
been located, then a report should be forwarded to VICAP for inclusion in the
database. In 1985, Detective David Reichert of the King County, Washington,
Sheriff’s Office and a member of the Green River Task Force said that once the
offender’s victim selection preferences were identified, the task force paid
particular attention to other missing persons with the same characteristics.
The task force assembled as much information as possible about missing persons,
including individual medical information, dental charts, and X-rays. When victims
of the Green River Killer were discovered, their remains were typically little
more than skeletons. However, task force preparation paid off, and recovered
remains were compared with missing person reports, with identification achieved
in only a day or two.

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