SERIAL KILLER MIND

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 10 A 57 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   Heckenkamp was sentenced to eight months in prison and eight months of electronic monitoring and home confinement; was ordered to pay restitution to the victim companies in the amount of $268,291; and was ordered to serve a three-year term of supervised release, during which time he would be prohibited from using a computer with Internet access absent approval from a probation officer.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 9 B 57 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   The assaultive event in July started because she had not washed fruit particles sufficiently out of a container that was to be used to hold water for their daughter. Mr. B hit his partner, saying she should have learned how to clean a container by this time. He kicked her in the stomach as she lay on the floor and slammed her head against the tiles.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 9 A 57 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   The purpose of stalking resides in the mind of stalkers, who are compulsive individuals with a misperceived fixation. Stalking is the result of an underlying emotional conflict that propels the offender to stalk or harass a target. Targets of stalkers often feel trapped in an environment filled with anxiety, stress, and fear, which often results in their having to make drastic adjustments in how they live.  

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 E57 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   Outcome The jury, sequestered for the nineteen-day trial, deliberated two and one-half days before reaching a verdict of guilty. The judge sentenced the physician to five years’ probation on the condition he undergo psychiatric treatment.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 D57 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   Steven had an active sexual life, but only with women whom he considered to be “bad.” These relationships were short-lived, ending when he was directly confronted with their promiscuity. Terminating the relationship always occurred with violence, either in assaults on the women or on the boyfriends who replaced him.  

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 C57 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   Defining Characteristics Victimology. The victim may be an adult, adolescent, child, or elder. The victim, either female or male, is usually unknown to the offender.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 B57 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   For the overt sadistic type, the aggression is manifested directly in physically injurious behavior in sexual assaults. For the muted sadistic type, the aggression is expressed either symbolically or through covert fantasy that is not acted out behaviorally.

  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 7 B 57 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   When confronted with obvious overkill in setting the fire, investigators should be aware of the possibility of extreme concentrations of flammable or combustible materials used to set the fires. Unexploded incendiary devices may be found at the scene.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 7 A 57 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   The author of the diary implicated himself and other volunteers, who in turn provided investigators with additional names. Subsequently, eleven of the volunteer firefighters were charged with arson. One defendant was quoted as saying, “It isn’t like we wanted to go out and burn down houses to hurt people. The firehouse was like our second home.”

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 I 57 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION Investigative Considerations Preoffense behavior may be evident in the planning, surveillance, and selection of the victim. In addition, the ease of escape will often demonstrate this preplanning. An example is with bombings that use a transmitting device: one person will trigger the bomb from a car, while the other is driving them away from the scene, thus allowing for an escape masked by the confusion of the explosion.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 H 57 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION In December, again in the Back Bay, twenty-one-year-old, African American Sophie Clark was found by her roommates on the living room floor, legs spread, with nylons and her slip tied around her neck. There was evidence of assault, and for the first time, semen was found on the rug.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 G 57 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   The act of killing is often eroticized; death comes in a slow, deliberate manner that the offender savors. But since an unconscious or dead victim does not afford the offender the gratification he seeks, great care is taken not to prematurely end her or his life. This caution is demonstrated by several cases in which subjects not only took special measures to keep their victim’s conscious but actually revived near-dead victims in order to cause additional suffering.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 F 57 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION     Also missing from the crime scene may be trophies or souvenirs, which include pictures, jewelry, clothing, or the victim’s driver’s license. These items do not necessarily have much extrinsic value, but to the offender they commemorate the successful endeavor and offer proof of his skill. They also serve as a means to fuel the fantasy of the act by serving as a remembrance. Finally, if the offender has time, the victim’s corpse will be concealed. The location for disposal is generally an area familiar to the offender.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 E 57 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   Sexual homicides may inspire the killer to remove keepsakes from the scene as trophies or may occur in a setting of a concurrent robbery. By contrast, a religion-inspired killer adds his or her own sense of holiness to the scene rather than removing items from it. When a killing appears to have a ritualized quality without a sexualized aspect, religion motive needs to be considered.  

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 D 57 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION     Investigative Considerations Preoffense behavior by the offender will often follow a pattern in which he or she is at first very verbal about the incident that involves the victim’s in- justice. Interviews of those close to the offender often reveal that their con- versations with the offender often pertained to this incident.   As the offender formulates a plan for vengeance, he or she may become preoccupied and less vocal in general. The offender will seek a weapon, if necessary, at this point.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 C 57 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   Crime Scene Indicators Frequently Noted. The crime scene of the well- planned domestic murder reflects a controlled, organized crime. The weapon, fingerprints, and other evidentiary items often are removed. The body is usually not concealed. It will still often involve the victim’s or offender’s residence, but locations of crime scenes outside the home also are possible.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 B 57 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   Cavaness then came up with the story that he had indeed gone to see Sean that night. They had gone out drinking until after 3:00 A.M. and then gone for a ride. When they arrived at the crime scene, Cavaness claimed that Sean asked for his gun while the two were standing by the car. “Tell Mom I’m sorry,” he said, and then shot himself in the head. Dale claimed that after he had determined Sean was dead, he fired another shot and took Sean’s be- longings to make it appear a robbery-murder. His motive for this was to spare Marian the sorrow and guilt of her son’s suicide.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 77 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   The license plates of the Trojan horse played an important role in the investigation. When agents went to the department of motor vehicles to check registrations, they went to the original files rather than the computer. Immediately before and after the Trojan horse plates were plates that were registered to the same person. One name was a phony, but the other was the true name. The clerk remembered the man who had filed the tags since he acquired two sets of plates with different names. The car was also eventually traced to a dealership that was known to be involved with the Cleveland mafia.

  Crime Classification Manual Part I Chapter 5 27 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   Urban Void An analysis of VI CAP submissions revealed that the cities and urban areas that were recording large numbers of homicides were not submitting the cases to the national database. No one could explain why this was the case. The assumption that VI CAP misconceptions were prevalent—for example, only unsolved cases were wanted for the national database—did not provide an adequate explanation. Case closure rates in large cities were less than 100 percent, suggesting that even if law enforcement agencies did not understand which cases could be forwarded, many more cases should be arriving for the national database.