SERIAL KILLER MIND

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 G 14 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION 133: SEXUAL HOMICIDE, MIXED A crime scene may reflect aspects of both organized and disorganized characteristics for the following reasons: More than one offender may be involved; therefore, differing behavioral patterns will be manifested. The attack may begin as a well-ordered, planned assault, but it deteriorates as unanticipated events occur, for example, an inability to control the victim.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 G 13 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   It was discovered he had previous contacts with Jenny, talking to her several nights before the attack. He was living a few blocks away from her, with a sixteen-year-old girlfriend. He had left home to make it on his own. He had drifted around, was unemployed, and a high school dropout. Roger pleaded guilty.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 G 12 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   Several neighbors of the victim (and suspect) called police to report that a person who closely resembled the sketch lived in their neighborhood. Further investigation revealed this subject exactly matched the profile. The police again consulted the ISU for interrogation techniques to be used with this subject. As a result, seventeen-year-old Joseph Rogers confessed and then reenacted the crime for investigators. 

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 G 11 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION Investigation As a result of numerous interviews by the local police, a sketch was prepared and placed on local television and newspapers. In conjunction with this, the FBI Investigative Support Unit (ISU) at Quantico, Virginia, provided an offender profile for the police to narrow the growing list of suspects. The offender was profiled as living in the same area as the victim. He would be known as a troublemaker who liked knives and had previous contact with the police, although not necessarily any arrests.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 G 10 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   A more bizarre forensic finding noted with this case (yet routinely observed with the disorganized sexual killer) was the presence of deep post- mortem cuts on the victim’s wrists and forearms. There were also several “hesitation” cuts to these same areas—cuts that were almost exploratory in nature reflecting the offender’s curiosity. They were not part of the sexual assault.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 G 9 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   The focused blunt-force trauma, or depersonalization, often exhibited by disorganized offenders was present in this case. Jenny’s face had been badly beaten with numerous cuts, abrasions, and contusions about the mouth and cheekbone areas. There was a lack of defensive wounds, another common forensic finding of this type of offense, since the victim is most often blitzed, with little chance to fight back. Restraints were not used, as is typical of the disorganized offender, for the same reasons defensive wounds are usually absent. A large amount of semen was found within the vaginal cavity; no semen was found elsewhere.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 G 8 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION Forensic Findings The autopsy revealed Jenny had died of strangulation. It was initially thought to be ligature strangulation by something large, for example, her blue jeans. The offender later described using his arm from behind to strangle her.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 G 7 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   The body was left at the scene with little or no effort to conceal it. The crime scene portrayed the randomness and sloppiness characteristic of a disorganized offender. There was a high probability that footprints and other physical evidence had been left, but much of it was probably obliterated by a heavy rainfall before the body was discovered.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 G 6 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   This crime scene was typical of the disorganized offender. The assault site, death scene, and body recovery site were all the same location. The weapon was one of opportunity: his fists to initially gain control and his arm to strangle the victim. The attack was a blitz style in which the offender struck Jenny with enough force to render her unconscious immediately.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 G 5 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   Jenny’s shirt and bra were in place, but the body was nude from the waist down except for the socks. Some of the clothing was scattered along the creek bank, and her blue jeans and panties were found in the creek. The blue jeans were slit by a sharp instrument from the bottom cuff to just above both knees.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 G 4 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   The body was found approximately ten feet down the creek bank path from the fence opening and ten feet down the embankment. A small tree had prevented it from falling completely down the embankment. The embankment was quite steep, almost ninety degrees, and approximately thirty feet from path to creek.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 G 3 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   Crime Scene Indicators The next day, Jenny’s body was discovered by her uncle who was searching the area along with police and neighbors. The body was approximately halfway down a steep creek bank behind the electrical store. The creek had dense, high weeds and trees lining both banks. Although it was fenced off, there was a hole in the fence near the electrical supply store that neighbor- hood youths used when traveling to the adjacent residential area from local businesses.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 G 2 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION This type of offender does not want a victim who will jeopardize his control of the situation. Her risk was situational: it was elevated because she crossed the path of the offender, giving him the opportunity to satisfy his need to rape and kill.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 G 1 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   Jenny fit the victimology common to the disorganized sexual offender. She was a victim of opportunity, preyed on because her physical disability made her vulnerable and easy to get alone. This factor, plus her age, made her less of a threat to the inadequate type of person the disorganized offender usually is. 

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 F 99 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   Elaine arrived home a little after 8:00 P.M. Jenny never made it home. Her risk for being targeted as a victim of violent crime was minimal due to her lifestyle, social habits, and residence in a low-crime neighborhood. How ever, her young age and physical limitations elevated this risk factor. Because she was slower than other children, it was easier for an offender to single her out and separate her from a group. Her trusting attitude also may have been a factor elevating her risk level.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 F 98 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   Jenny had a physical problem that often caused her to lag behind the other children. Mentally, Jenny was very bright, with straight A’s in school. Even though she was somewhat of a loner, she was considered friendly and was always quick to help others. Jenny lived with her mother and sister. Her parents had divorced twelve years previous, and although her father lived about twelve blocks away, she had not seen him for a year and a half.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 F 97 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION CASE STUDY: 132: SEXUAL HOMICIDE, DISORGANIZED   Victimology Jennifer Sidal, age twelve, and her sister, Elaine, age fourteen, had decided to quit looking for Jenny’s bicycle, which had been stolen a few hours earlier. It was eight o’clock and already quite dark out, so the two headed for home, Jenny on foot and Elaine on her bike. As Elaine rounded the corner of an electric supplies store, she glanced back and saw Jenny walking slowly, still a block away. 

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 F 96 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   Search Warrant Suggestions The disorganized offender does not concern himself with concealment of bloody clothing, shoes, or other evidentiary items such as victim belongings taken from the crime scene. In addition, souvenirs that serve as remembrances of the event and fuel the fantasy of the act may be found among offender possessions.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 F 95 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   Disorganized behavior may be evident in victim selection, crime scene, and forensics due to youthfulness, drug or alcohol impairment, external stressors (for example, fear of discovery), or lack of criminal sophistication.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 F 94 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   Post offense behavior exhibited may be a change in eating habits and drinking habits (more alcohol consumption) and nervousness. He may also have an inappropriate interest in the crime, for example, by frequently engaging in conversation about it.  

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 F 93 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   Pre offense circumstances demonstrate minimal situational stress and change in lifestyle. He will be considered odd by those who know him. This offender usually is sloppy and disheveled, with nocturnal habits such as walking aimlessly around his neighborhood.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 F 92 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   Investigative Considerations The disorganized offender usually lives alone or with a parental figure. He lives or works within close proximity to the crime scene. He has a history of inconsistent or poor work performance. He also has a past that demonstrates a lack of interpersonal skills, which may be manifested by involvement in relationships with a partner much younger or much older than he.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 F 91 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   Sexual acts are postmortem and often involve insertion of foreign objects into body orifices (insertional necrophilia). This is often combined with acts of mutilation—for example, slashing, stabbing, and biting of the buttocks and breasts. Since these acts often do not coincide with completed acts of sexual penetration, evidence of semen may be found in the victim’s clothing or (less frequently) wounds.   Most frequently death results from asphyxia, strangulation, blunt force, or the use of a pointed, sharp instrument.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 F 90 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   The blitz style of attack common to this homicide is often manifested by focused blunt trauma to the head and face and lack of defensive wounds. There is a prevalence of attack from behind. Since death is immediate to establish control over the victim, there is minimal use of restraints.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 F 89 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   In addition, sexual assault will probably occur at this time for the same reasons. There may be depersonalization, which entails mutilation to the face and overkill (excessive amount or severity of wounds or injury) to specific body parts. The face, genitals, and breasts are most often targeted for overkill. Body parts may be missing from the scene.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 F 88 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   Common Forensic Findings. The disorganized offender is often socially inept and has strong feelings of inadequacy. These feelings of deficiency will compel him to assault the victim in an ambush, blitz style, that will immediately incapacitate her or him. Injury effected in a disorganized sexual homicide is usually done when the offender feels the least intimidated and the most comfortable with the victim. This will be when the victim is unconscious, dying, or postmortem.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 F 87 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   Another example of the disorganized offender’s personation of his ritualized sexual fantasies is the excessive mutilation of the breasts, genitals, or other areas of sexual association, such as the thighs, abdomen, buttocks, and neck. This overkill is the enactment of his fantasy.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 F 86 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   The body may be positioned or deposited in a way that has special significance to the offender based on his sexually violent fantasies. It may be intended to make a statement or to obscure certain facts about the crime, for example, to disguise postmortem mutilation he is uncomfortable with. This should not be confused with staging, since the offender is generating a per- sonal expression (personation) rather than deliberating trying to confuse the police.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 F 85 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   Staging. Secondary criminal activity may be present, but usually it is more indicative of less sophisticated offender (disorganized offenders are often below average intelligence) than staging to confuse law enforcement.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 F 84 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   There is no set plan of action deterring detection. The weapon is one of opportunity, obtained at the scene and left there. There is little or no effort to remove evidence, such as fingerprints from the scene. The body is left at the death scene, often in the position in which the victim was killed. There is no attempt or minimal attempt to conceal the body.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 F 83 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   The victim location is known since it usually is where he or she was going about usual daily activities when suddenly attacked by surprise. There is evidence of sudden violence to the victim, a blitz style of attack. Depersonalization may be present, as evidenced by the face being covered by a pillow or towels or in a more subtle way, as with the body rolled on the stomach.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 F 82 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   Crime Scene Indicators Frequently Noted. The crime scene of a disorganized sexual homicide reflects the spontaneous, and in some cases symbolic, quality of the killing. It is random and sloppy with great disarray. The death scene and the crime scene are often the same.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 F 81 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   The risk factor of a disorganized sexual homicide victim is situational in the sense that by crossing the path of the offender, her risk is greatly elevated. The victim essentially becomes a casualty because he or she was in the wrong place at the wrong time. The other considerations when assessing victim and offender risk are as detailed in classification 131.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 F 80 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   Defining Characteristics Victimology. The victim of a disorganized offender may be known to the offender since he often selects a victim of opportunity near his residence or employment. The victim is often from his own geographical area because this offender acts impulsively under stress and also because he derives confidence from familiar surroundings to bolster his feelings of social inadequacy. If there are multiple victims of a disorganized offender, the age, sex, and other characteristics will show greater variance due to the more random nature of his selection process.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 F 79 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION 132: SEXUAL HOMICIDE, DISORGANIZED The term disorganized when used in reference to a sexual homicide is based on the same factors that defined organized: victim and crime scene analysis, forensic evaluation, and assessment of the act itself. The unplanned, spontaneous nature of the disorganized perpetrator’s crime is reflected in each of these fac- tors. This “disorganization” may be the result of youthfulness of the offender, lack of criminal sophistication, use of drugs and alcohol, or mental deficiency.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 F 78 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   The ISU agents provided an interrogation strategy that would offer a “face-saving” explanation for Bell. Bell confessed, claiming the “bad Larry Gene Bell did it.”   Outcome Larry Gene Bell was given two death sentences for the murders of the two girls. He was executed on October 4, 1996.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 F 77 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   While this investigation was going on, criminal investigative analysts from the National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime Investigative Support Unit (ISU) had been consulted. They had generated an offender pro- file and some investigative techniques for the local police department. When the offender was identified, he matched almost every offender characteristic listed. Larry Gene Bell was a thirty-six-year-old white male who worked doing electrical house wiring. At the time of the murders, he was living with his mother and father. He had been married for a short time and had lived away from home.