SERIAL KILLER MIND

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 10 A 46 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   Victimology The victims included reporters at the Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News and e-mail accounts at the Philadelphia Phillies baseball team.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 9 B 46 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   Outcome Police interviews during the investigation revealed the following: Caleb’s mother was being abused by her boyfriend. She identified four separate times he had shoved her around. The boyfriend admitted he had roughed her up several times and that he had an anger problem. The boyfriend was a registered sex offender. He had failed to report his address in November of that year and was put on probation. This information was reported in the newspaper article on Caleb’s murder.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 9 B 46 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   Investigation Jackson began stalking Saldana in early 1982, the year he illegally returned to the United States. He took several cross-country bus trips in this single- minded quest. He initially went to New York City, where he tried to contact Saldana’s relatives and business associates, pretending to be an agent with a script for her.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 9 A 46 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   In all instances, they must be evaluated for both content and stylistic characteristics. An advantage of a letter threat is that it provides law enforcement with valuable documentary evidence for further comparison to other letters and for other forensic tests customarily conducted in the crime lab. The Mad Bomber case (Chapter Seven) and the Unabomber case (Chapter One) are illustrative of this type of threat.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 E46 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N CASE STUDY: 317.02: TRANSITIONAL CHILD SEX RING Background and Victimology From December 1977 to December 1978, Boston was in the spotlight regarding a male youth prostitution ring. Earlier that year, the investigation of a solo child sex ring had led an assistant district attorney and police to un- cover a second generation of rings.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 D46 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   : ANGER RAPE, GLOBAL This category is reserved for offenders who appear to be globally angry at the world. This is a high-expressive-aggression assault with no evidence of sadism and no evidence that the offender is focally angry with women.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 C46 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   CASE STUDY: 313.03.02: POWER-REASSURANCE RAPE, ADOLESCENT Background and Victimology Jim’s criminal record started in 1973 at the age of twenty-three. His first offense was an attempted rape of an eighteen-year-old woman. The same year, he committed a second, similar offense against a seventeen-year-old woman.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 B46 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   Four age brackets are identified under each group: adult, adolescent, child, and elder. One of each group will be described with a case study. Classification of sexual assault and rape as opportunistic, sexualization (power-reassurance or entitlement), pervasive anger, or sadistic uses, as the determining criterion, the amount of aggression involved.

  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 7 B 46 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N The buyer had obtained a policy insuring the dwelling for $171,000, the contents for $85,000, and $24,000 for additional living expenses in case of fire.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 7 A 46 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   The use of drugs or alcohol usually is not found with the youngest of- fenders but does occur with older ones. A history of police contact for nuisance offenses is prevalent with the excitement-motivated offender. The older the offender is, the longer the record.  

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 I 46 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   A third type of victim is the one who is killed due to association with tar- gets of the group. An example is the 1988 stabbing death of twenty-four- year-old Scott Vollmer by a skinhead, Michael Elrod. Vollmer had brought a black friend to a party when Elrod began shouting racial slurs.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 H 46 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION CASE STUDY: 135: ELDER FEMALE SEXUAL HOMICIDE Case Contributed by Kevin Faherty Between June 14, 1962, and January 4, 1964, thirteen single women in the Boston area were victims of a brutal death by strangulation. The question lingers today as to whether it was the work of one serial killer or several killers.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 G 46 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION Crime Scene Indicators Frequently Noted. There are often multiple crime scenes involved with this type of sexual homicide: place of initial encounter, torture and death scene, and body disposal site. The very nature of this crime, sadism expressed through torture, necessitates a secluded or solitary place for the prolonged period of time the offender spends with the victim. This captivity may range from a few hours to as long as six weeks.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 F 46 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   A pseudo-hostage situation is when a person is held but there are no threats directed toward the victim and no substantive demands are made on a third party. The following is an example of a pseudo-hostage situation: a husband pulls a gun on his wife during a domestic quarrel. She then leaves the house and summons the police. Upon their arrival, the police learn the couple’s son is still in the house. When he is contacted, the husband tells the police he is angry at his wife and they should leave him alone. Because he makes no demands on the police and does not threaten the child, this is a pseudo-hostage situation.

    Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 E 46 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   Franklin was connected to many of the cities within the time period that the murders occurred by hotel receipts under aliases in his handwriting, weapons being bought or sold, appearances of a car similar to his near the crime scenes, or descriptions that fit him. In addition, he linked himself circumstantially to several of the offenses through his own admission of familiarity with the actual crime scenes.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 D 46 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   Wesbecker had killed seven people and wounded twelve others. He obviously intended to kill all who crossed his path and was intent on revenge, seeking out those in authority in the company where he worked. The offender came to the scene with multiple weapons and an abundance of ammunition. His shots were intended to be lethal, as demonstrated by the death toll and the fact that of the twelve surviving victims, five were critically wounded. Wesbecker was very mission oriented, with no escape plan.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 C 46 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION CASE STUDY: 122.01: SPONTANEOUS DOMESTIC HOMICIDE Background On May 5, 1990, Martha Ann Johnson was convicted of first-degree murder for the smothering deaths of three of her four children. In a videotaped confession, Johnson, who weighs close to 300 pounds, admitted smothering Jenny Ann Wright and James Taylor by rolling on top of them as they slept. Martha said her motive was to bring her estranged husband home. Each of the homicides, which occurred between 1977 and 1982, was committed within ten days of having an argument with her former husband, Earl Bowen. She received the death penalty in 1990 and remains on death row.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 B 46 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   The shotgun had been rigged in such a way to make it look as if Mark had reached across the driver’s side and grabbed the barrel, pulling it toward himself. The coat hanger, hooked on the trigger and anchored on the other side by the vest caught in the passenger door, had pulled the trigger. Mark had taken the shot point-blank in the chest.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 66 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   Victimology One of the casualties of the mob’s leadership transition was Daniel Greene. Born to Irish American parents in 1929, he was place in an orphanage as a young child when his father either left or died. Greene was schooled in a tough Italian neighborhood that spawned a lifelong hatred of the people who would play a central role in his life.