SERIAL KILLER MIND

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 10 A 53 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N     On March 13, 2002, a grand jury in the Northern District of California returned a sixteen-count indictment charging him with computer intrusions, unlawful interception of electronic communications, and witness tampering.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 9 B 53 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   The defendant had a criminal record, which included at least one prior domestic violence case (in which the victim was his “wife” and his prostitute). The victim in that case had a daughter, not believed to be the defendants. That case went to trial, but the defendant was convicted only of a misdemeanor, not the numerous felonies he was indicted on.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 9 A 53 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   One is similar to mass-scale terrorism: it is essentially any threat made to force the evacuation of a movie theater, apartment complex, or other public building. So any phoned bomb threat is a terrorist threat, and threatening just one person with bodily harm is also considered a terrorist threat.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 E53 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   A prosecution witness, a seventeen year old, testified to being introduced into homosexual acts by the first witness, who had told the boys they could make all the money they wanted. “All we had to do was lay there and let them do what they wanted to us,” he said.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 D53 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   Offender Characteristics Steven came from a relatively normal, seemingly unremarkable family. He had an older sister and a younger brother, both of whom appeared to be living normal lives. His father was a strict disciplinarian. His mother was a passive, quiet, religious woman who rarely questioned her emotionally detached husband.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 C53 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   He met his wife while in the military, and they were married a short time later. They were divorced after about three years, and Jim was given custody of their three-year-old child.  

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 B53 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   Four rapist types are hypothesized to possess a high degree of sexual preoccupation. All four types have in common the presence of protracted sexual and rape fantasies that motivate their sexual assaults and influence the way in which their offenses occur.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 7 B 53 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   Defining Characteristics Victimology. Analysis of the targeted property is essential in the determination of the specific motive for extremist arson. The target usually represents the antithesis of the offender’s belief.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 7 A 53 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION Crime Scene Indicators Fire investigators noticed a pattern: all of the fires occurred in a jurisdiction served by the volunteer fire department, were in vacant houses, and were set during nighttime hours. All the houses had electricity and other utilities disconnected.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 I 53 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION A lone offender may also demonstrate control and organization at the crime scene, depending on his or her level of professionalism. However, the number of victims will most likely be limited and the overall offense usually is not committed with the ease of one involving multiple offenders.

    Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 H 53 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   The police commissioner notified women to lock their doors and be wary of all strangers. The police began to investigate sex offenders and violent former mental patients. They were on the lookout for a man who sought older women in order to take out his hatred for his mother.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 G 53 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   Common Forensic Findings. The offender engages in sex prior to death. “The Sexually Sadistic Criminal and His Offenses” (Dietz, Hazelwood, & Warren, 1990) lists the most prevalent sexual acts forced on victims: anal rape, forced fellatio, vaginal rape, and foreign object penetration (in decreasing order). A majority of offenders forced their victims to engage in more than three of these activities.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 F 53 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   A victim’s attitude toward safety is also a fac- tor that can raise or lower his or her risk factor. A naive, overly trusting, or careless stance concerning personal safety can increase one’s chance of being victimized. The second facet of victim risk is in the level of gamble the offender takes to commit the crime. Generally, the victim is at a lower risk level if the crime scene is indoors and at a higher risk level if it is outdoors. The time of day that the crime occurs also contributes to the amount of risk the offender took: an abduction at noon would pose more hazard to the offender than at midnight.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 E 53 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   Defining Characteristics Victimology. Victims of religious ritual may be strangers or acquaintances of the offender. The more likely a victim is included in a delusion, the more likely that victim is closer to the assailant.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 D 53 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   Crime Scene Indicators Frequently Noted. There are often several locations involved with the offense. For example, the precipitating event may happen at one site at an earlier date, but the revenge is acted out later at another location. An offender who has brooded over the victim’s affront often demonstrates a less spontaneous crime that is reflected by the well-ordered crime scene.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 C 53 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   Martha Ann Johnson demonstrated a consistent choice of “weapon” as listed in the planned domestic murder. It was a method that allowed her seven years of freedom before the cases were reopened after an Atlanta Constitution article in December 1989 questioned Johnson’s family tragedies.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 B 53 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   Forensics Findings: Victim 2 Sean Cavaness had died between 5:00 A.M. and 7:00 A.M. that morning, possibly less than one hour before discovery of his body. The cause of death was two .357-caliber magnum bullets to the head, either of which was lethal. The shot to the back of the head just to the right of center had traveled up- ward at angle through the brain and exited at the corner of the left eye. It had been fired from a distance of one inch or less, but not in actual contact, as evidenced by the powder stippling and searing of the flesh. Based on the blood spatter pattern and flesh fragments found on the left shoulder and in the crook of the left arm, it was evident that Sean had been standing with his left arm slightly raised when he was hit by the first shot.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 73 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   Greene’s clothing was torn off, except his brown zip-up boots and black socks. His left arm landed a hundred feet from the bomb site. A blue Adidas duffel bag he was carrying containing a 9mm pistol, two magazines full of bullets, notebooks, and a list of license plates driven by his enemies was found nearly intact.

  Crime Classification Manual Part I Chapter 5 23 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION John E. Douglas, Ann W. Burgess, Allen G. Burgess, and Robert K. Ressler, Editors   Unidentified Dead Matters involving unidentified dead persons can be thought of as the mirror image of missing person cases. It is very difficult to begin the homicide investigation of an unidentified victim. The body recovery site of an unidentified victim may suggest its connection to a multiple murderer. Fuhrman (2001) wrote that during the Spokane series of murders, the bodies of Laurie A. Wason and Shawn McClenahan were found on top of one another in a vacant lot in Spokane. He also wrote that in the early 1970s, Ted Bundy engaged in similar behavior: he kidnapped two women on one day and killed both at the same location. Failing the certainty of connection with an ongoing serial event, where to begin in a murder investigation is far more easily deter...

  Crime Classification Manual Part I Chapter 2 33 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION John E. Douglas, Ann W. Burgess, Allen G. Burgess, and Robert K. Ressler, Editors   The crime scene also offered many red flags. The victim’s body was found in the living room, not the bedroom. A large amount of blood was found on the living room floor close to where the husband had been sitting. Blood- stains also were observed on the husband’s shirt, pants, and shoes. The most extensive damage by the fire occurred in the living room area, particularly around the husband’s chair, and not in the back bedroom, where his wife allegedly had been sleeping and the fire supposedly had originated. The husband offered no explanation of his wife’s brutal beating. He denied hearing or seeing anything related to the incident. Closer observation of the crime scene made it apparent the fire had been set to conceal the struggle and homicide that had occurr...