SERIAL KILLER MIND

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 A80 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   Offender Characteristics The offender is a thirty-five-year-old, single, black Muslim male who states he lives in a racist white society. Although charged with multiple offenses, he feels he did not commit the offenses and believes that the five women he was accused of raping worked for him as prostitutes because he was their pimp.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 A79 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N     He took off her pants and under- wear and told her he would cut her if she did not comply. He removed a tampon and threw it in her face. He forced oral sex and then raped her. He robbed the victim and fled the scene.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 A78 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   CASE STUDY: 301.02: SECONDARY FELONY RAPE Victimology A masked offender confronted a twenty-one-year-old white, single female in her residence at 5:30 A.M. He had entered her apartment through an open bathroom window. He put a razor to the victim’s throat, forcing her to the ground and threatening her with the razor.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 A77 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   Search Warrant Suggestions Warrants should be requested for the suspect’s residence and car. Suggested items should include but not be limited to clothing to test for blood hair and fibers, ligatures, newspaper articles related to similar crimes, and any of the victim’s possessions reported stolen.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 A76 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   Investigative Considerations In secondary felony rape, the offender targets the victim and crime scene and has been in the area before. There will be a history of robberies and rapes in the area. In addition, the sexual offense is preferentially motivated.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 A75 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   Common Forensic Findings. In addition to the general forensic evidence, the forensic report indicates that the offender’s primary focus while at the crime scene was the rape, not the robbery. The secondary felony was planned and committed knowing the victim would be present and was carried out after the rape.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 A74 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   Defining Characteristics Victimology. The victim is usually an adult female. Crime Scene Indicators Frequently Noted. Evidence of breaking and entering or robbery is present.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 A73 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   : SECONDARY FELONY RAPE The primary intent of the offender in secondary felony rape is rape with a second felony also planned. The nonsexual assault felony would still occur if an adult female were not present.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 A72 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N Outcome Griffin was sentenced to four to eight years for grand larceny and criminal possession of stolen property. He reportedly rejected an offer of thirty-eight years in state prison in exchange for a guilty plea prior to his triple-sex trial.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 A71 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   He chose the home because it was not well lighted. For his third victim, Griffin told police he raped the woman “with the intention of robbing her for drugs” but that drugs made his desire for sex reach “from the bottom of my feet to the crown of my head.”

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 A70 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   Regarding his second victim, Griffin told police he smoked cocaine before tossing a rock through the window, assaulted the ten-year-old girl, and then struck her in the head with the dumbbell “so she wouldn’t remember what I looked like.”

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 A69 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   He took the four-year-old girl from her bed because “I did not want to leave empty-handed.” He placed her in sheets, put her into his car, touched and sodomized her after she awoke in the car, and then masturbated before leaving her at a stranger’s house.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 A68 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   Investigation With the forensic evidence, police then went back to review the cases and statements from victims. Eventually Griffin told police that he had entered the home of his first victim intending to burglarize it but was alarmed when he heard a barking dog.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 A67 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   This match, which occurred as part of a regular comparison of felon DNA with DNA left at the scenes of crimes, constituted the first cold DNA match in Monroe County since the state database was vastly expanded during 1999.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 A66 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   Forensic Findings Forensics cleared this case. In 2000, Griffin was returned to state prison while on parole from his original 1998 attempted burglary sentence. While in custody, he was arrested after evidence taken from the victims in the three sex crimes was allegedly matched with his DNA in the New York State DNA database of convicted felons.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 A65 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   However, due to rules in effect at that time, he was on work release from the prison system and was program eligible since he was a nonviolent offender and had no history of violent crime (the system did not know at the time of his work release of his abduction and sexual assault on July 31, 1997, before he began his prison sentence for burglary).

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 A64 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   At the time Griffin raped the ten-year-old girl, he was in prison, sentenced of attempted burglary, second degree, a felony.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 A63 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   She told police, “Some person walked behind me and proceeded to grab my throat and held my mouth closed. I was knocked to the ground and molested.”

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 A62 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   On September 1, 1999, Griffin’s third victim, age sixty-seven, was putting groceries in her car in the parking lot of the same community in which he had earlier sexually assaulted the four-year-old girl.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 A61 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   She said, “I was yelling a lot and he told me to be quiet. He put a knife to my throat.” She called 911 when he left.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 A60 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   The man pushed her away from the telephone, pulled off her pants, and sodomized and raped her, before striking her in the head with a five-pound dumbbell.  

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 A59 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   Griffin’s second rape victim, age ten, told police, “I heard a doorbell and a lot of walking around. This man told me I had to go with him because my mother was in trouble.”

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 A58 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   He observed, “She was hiding. She was scared that somebody was going to come and get her. That’s how I knew something was wrong.” The young victim told police that the man who took her smelled like a skunk, wore dark clothing, and had dirty white skin.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 A57 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N     A doughnut deliveryman found the four year old at about 1:30 A.M. wearing only a nightshirt and clutching her underwear in her hands. He thought perhaps she was sleepwalking.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 A56 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   She watched television and fell asleep on the couch. When she was awakened by her husband at about 1:10 A.M., they realized the child was missing and searched the house unsuccessfully for her. They called police after seeing an open rear window with the screen removed.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 A55 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   Victimology Griffin’s first crime, on July 31, 1997, was the abduction and sexual assault of a four-year-old girl taken from her home and found several hours later in a driveway in another town. The mother noted her daughter was in bed asleep.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 A54 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   He had two prior commitments to New York State’s prison system before standing trial for three sex crimes against victims who were four, ten, and sixty- seven years of age.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 A53 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   CASE STUDY: 301.01: PRIMARY FELONY RAPE Case Contributed by Leonard I. Morgenbesser Background Robert Griffin, an African American, was born on November 19, 1972.

    Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 A52 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   Search Warrant Suggestions Warrants should be requested for the suspect’s residence and car. Suggested items should include but not be limited to clothing to test for blood hair and fibers, ligatures, newspaper articles related to similar crimes, and any of the victim’s possessions reported stolen.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 A51 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   Investigative Considerations Investigators should look for similar felonies in the area of the crime. These felonies usually have reported similar items stolen and a similar MO. The sexual offense is situationally motivated.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 A50 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   Common Forensic Findings. See the general forensic evidence collection for sexual assault as described at the start of this chapter.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 A49 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   Crime Scene Indicators Frequently Noted. Evidence of a breaking and entering, burglary, or robbery, such as missing property, is noted in a primary felony rape.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 A48 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N Defining Characteristics Victimology. The victim is usually an adult female. Either the victim is employed at the crime scene or the felony occurred in the victim’s residence.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 A47 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   : PRIMARY FELONY RAPE The intent of primary felony rape is a nonsexual felony such as robbery or breaking and entering. The victim is at the scene of the primary felony and is sexually assaulted as a second offense. If the victim were not present, the felony would still occur.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 A46 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   301: FELONY RAPE Rape committed during the commission of a felony such as breaking and entering or robbery is considered felony rape. The classification is made specific as to whether the rape was primary or secondary in intent.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 A45 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   300: CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE RAPE Criminal enterprise rape involves sexual coercion, abuse, or assault that is committed for material gain.