Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 5
Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 5
A
STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES
SECOND
EDITION
HOMICIDE CLASSIFICATION BY VICTIMS, TYPE, AND
STYLE
The FBI Academy’s Behavioral Science Unit
at Quantico, Virginia, began contributing to the literature on the
classification of homicide with the Hazelwood and Douglas (1980) publication on
typing lust murderers. The classifying of homicides by number of victims, type,
and style was published by Douglas, Ressler, Burgess, and Hartman in 1986. A
single homicide is defined as one victim and one homicidal event. A double homicide
is defined as two victims who are killed at one time in one location. The January
27, 2001, murder of Dartmouth College professors Half and Suzanne Zantop by
teenage classmates James Parker and Robert Tulloch is an example of a double
homicide. This case was solved by investigators who traced the knives to
Parker, who bought them online. A triple homicide is defined as three victims
who are killed at one time in one location. Any single-event, single-location homicide
involving four or more victims is classified as mass murder.

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