SERIAL KILLER MIND

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 10 B 04 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N Investigation All of the victim companies fully cooperated with the FBI during the investigation. Ivanov and his partner, twenty-five-year-old Vasili Gorchkov, were arrested in Seattle after traveling to the United States during an investigation by the FBI. Ivanov and Gorchkov, who is awaiting trial on similar charges in Seattle, came to the United States for a what he thought was a job interview with Seattle-based computer security company called Invita. In fact, Invita was an undercover FBI company that allowed investigators to obtain the evidence needed to charge the two Russians.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 10 A 04 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   Computer crimes are divided into four major classifications: the computer as the target of the crime (510), the computer user as the target (520), criminal enterprise (530), and threats via the Internet (540). Criminal enterprise is where the computer is used as a weapon of the crime, or the computer is incidental to the crime. Threats via the Internet include stalking as well as extortion.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 9 B 4 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   The victim’s risk is situational. It is the robber’s perception of the victim that puts the victim at risk. The risk for the robber is dependent on his relationship with the victim and his or her expertise in the crime.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 9 B 04 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   The relationship between the stalker and target is one-way. The target will eventually become aware of the physically present nuisance stalker. Other potential victims are spouses, boyfriends or girlfriends, or anyone viewed as an obstacle coming between the stalker and his target.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 9 A04 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   Threat analysis seeks to assess the genuineness, viability, and potential impending danger of the threat. As with all other investigations, the forensic analyst has priorities that are followed in concert with law enforcement as well as institutional goals and objectives.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 F04 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   A few moments later, as Jane was standing beside her mother’s car, the man approached the car and placed a gun to the mother’s head. Simmons then forced Jane to get into the car, and he got in as a passenger.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 E04 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N : ISOLATED COLLECTOR The isolated collector chooses to have sexual activity with one child at a time. He may be involved with his own child, children of neighbors, nephews, nieces, friends’ children, or children in his care (such as students). He may seek out children not known to him by traveling to another country.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 D04 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   Through- out the assault, he told her to keep swearing, saying he liked to hear it. Eventually he got back into his car and drove off, leaving the victim to walk five miles to the nearest house.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 C4 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   When asked why she waited four months before telling a fellow worker about the assault, the woman testified, “I thought it was in my head that he was doing something wrong.”

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 B4 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   Defining Characteristics Victimology. The victim has a familial or common law relationship with the offender. There is usually a history of prior abuse or conflict with the offender.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 A4 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   Adolescents, defined as individuals thirteen to seventeen years of age who are usually pubescent but whose legal status under laws proscribing sexual conduct varies from state to state and even statute to statute within the same jurisdiction.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 7 B 4 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N The victim kept large amounts of money hidden away in the many boxes she had stacked around the house. Her reputation of being a miser was common knowledge in her neighborhood. Her sisters told investigators that the victim was afraid of fire and consequently never cooked or used candles, did not smoke, and had the heat turned off.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 7 A 4 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   The basic role of an investigator at a fire scene is twofold: to determine the origin of the fire (the site where the fire began) and then to examine the site of origin closely to try to determine what caused a fire to start at or near  that location.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 J 4 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION Victimology Patrolman Hester, age thirty-four, was one month shy of his ten-year anniversary as a Memphis police officer when he was taken hostage. He had worked the North Precinct most of his career. He was hurt once in the line of duty in 1977 when he was attacked by a man in a pool hall.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 I 4 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   Dennis Avery was described as working at various low-paying part-time jobs. “If it was not for some people, they would not have had food on their plates,” said one Kirtland neighbor. The Averys were described as a quiet, shy family that kept to themselves.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 H 4 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   These observations are consistent with the experience of investigators who have anecdotally de- scribed violent offenders of the elderly as younger offenders, assaulting the victims at or close to the victims’ residences, living within close proximity to the crime scene, and generally unknown to the victim.  

  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 F 4 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   Investigation During the initial stages of the investigation, Harvey claimed that he was putting people out of their misery. He described many of the patients as on their deathbed. Many never had any visitors, either because their families had forgotten them or because they had no family. He felt he was releasing these patients from a lonely, pain-filled existence. He hoped someone would do the same for him if he was sick and full of tubes. “I felt I was doing right.”

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 E 4 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   Political. This type of killing is motivated by doctrines or philosophies in opposition to a current position of a government or its representatives. Assassinations such as Robert Kennedy’s are included in this group. Political extremist homicides are classified as 127.01.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 D 4 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   Lying on the floor, Violetta looked downward and saw her daughter’s head emerging and decided to pull her out. She placed one hand across the face, covering the nose, and one hand behind the head. She then held her hand over the baby’s nose and mouth, despite knowing that if she did so, the infant would stop breathing. When asked later why she did this, Violetta responded that she was frightened and did not “know what I was thinking.” Violetta stated that she fainted shortly after the birth, and upon waking, realized the baby was not breathing. Her father was knocking at the door, asking if she was all right. She cleaned up the blood, not wanting him to “be worried.” An hour later, Miguel opened the bathroom door and founded his sister in her weakened post birth state.