SERIAL KILLER MIND

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 10 A 59 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   It is estimated that 25 percent of state, county, and city Web sites contain social security numbers of property owners, government employees, taxpayers, and others. At one time the Pentagon Web site contained the social security numbers of high-ranking military officers. This practice was stopped when many of these top-ranking military officers became victims of credit card fraud.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 9 B 59 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   He kept very close watch on her and refused to let her leave the apartment. On the fifth day, he said he was taking the daughter out. Ms. J wrote him a check and after he left, she managed to get herself to the emergency room. She was in such critical condition that the doctor called her mother in another state to say he did not think she would live.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 9 A 59 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   This distinction is significant because of the potential legal implications. What most readily distinguishes the behavior of this spectrum is the type and nature of the relationship an offender has had with his target.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 E59 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   : SYNDICATED CHILD SEX RING Syndicated child sex rings have a well-structured organization that recruits children, produces pornography, delivers sexual services, and establishes an extensive network of customers.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 D59 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   On the other hand, he maintained the fantasy that they would be faithful to him. This is an exemplary case of a pervasively angry, low-impulse rapist. As one diagnostic report stated, Steven’s attitude toward women was “tremendously hostile and bordering on rage.” His pattern was to jockey for a position in a relationship with a woman where he would feel ashamed, foolish, and hurt.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 C59 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   CASE STUDY: 313.04.01: EXPLOITATIVE RAPE, ADULT Background and Victimology Richard is a thirty-two-year-old single male. His first rape was a twenty-five- year-old woman. He grabbed her around the throat and placed a knife to her neck, forcing her to the basement of a building.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 B59 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   Moreover, since a feature of sadism is the synergistic relationship between sexual arousal and feelings of anger, there must be some evidence that the aggression either contributed to sexual arousal or at least did not inhibit such arousal.

  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 7 B 59 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   Investigative Considerations The extremist offender is frequently readily identified with the cause or group in question when friends, family, and other associates are interviewed. The offender may have previous police contact or an arrest record for violations such as trespassing, criminal mischief, or civil rights violations. Post- offense claims should undergo threat assessment examination to determine authenticity.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 7 A 59 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION 220: REVENGE-MOTIVATED ARSON A revenge-motivated fire is set in retaliation for some injustice, real or imagined, perceived by the offender. This offense may be a well-planned, onetime event compared with the other categories of arson, or the offender may be a serial arsonist taking revenge against society, with little or no preplanning.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 H 59 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   This took place about ten minutes before Clark’s death, and she was able to describe him as a twenty-five to thirty-year-old man of average height and light hair, with dark pants and jacket. Later that month, twenty-three-year-old Patricia Bissette was found in her Back Bay apartment, with several stockings interwoven with a blouse strangling her.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 G 59 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   Investigative Considerations The perpetrators of sexually sadistic homicides are predominantly white males. Sometimes a partner is involved, either male or female. The subjects can be married while committing these offense, as shown by the research data of “The Sexually Sadistic Criminal and His Offenses” (Dietz et al., 1990); 43 percent are married, and 50 percent have children.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 F 59 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   Common Forensic Findings. The forensic findings of an organized sexual homicide may be bite marks and saliva recovery on the body, semen in body orifices or on body pubic hair, and bruising or cutting of the sex organs. Aggressive acts as well as sexual acts will usually take place prior to death. Evidence of restraint devices may also be present.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 E 59 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   The investigator must be careful not to confuse a hate crime with a crime in the name of religion, although both may be present. When the crime scene is of spiritual significance, the crime is more likely a hate crime targeting the religion represented there.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 D 59 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION The precipitating event that links the victim and offender is the key point of this investigation. However, this event may hold significance only to the offender and not be obvious to those associated with the offender or victim. It may not be obvious to the investigator either. Also of importance is any significant person in either the offender’s or the victim’s life who may have direct or indirect involvement with the incident.  

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 C 59 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   Common Forensic Findings. The forensic findings of a staged domestic homicide are similar to those for spontaneous domestic murder. The exception is when the suspect includes himself as an apparent victim. If the per- son posing the greatest threat (usually the male) to the alleged intruder receives no or nonlethal injuries while others are killed who pose less of a threat are killed, the investigator should become suspicious that the crime has been staged.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 B 59 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   The other detail that cast doubt on Dale’s veracity was his activity in the evening of the day of the murder. He had gone to a big Christmas party attended by most of the people in his town. A few of the partygoers were questioned, including several who spent most the evening with Cavaness. Despite their unwavering belief in Dr. Dale’s innocence, each agreed that he had acted perfectly normal, drinking, laughing, and even staying late. His actions were hardly appropriate for someone who supposedly had witnessed the death of his son only hours before (not to mention having to shoot his own son in the head as he lay dying).

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 79 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   104: KIDNAP MURDER Kidnap murder pertains to a person abducted for ransom and killed whether the ransom is paid or not. It is important to know what designates a kidnap- ping as opposed to a hostage/barricade situation. A kidnapping involves the seizing and detainment or removal of a person by unlawful force or fraud, often with a demand of ransom. The victim has been taken against his or her will by a possibly unknown subject and is detained at a location unknown to the authorities. Negotiations involving a kidnap situation may include the victim’s family, government officials, business leaders, law enforcement authorities, and the offender.

  Crime Classification Manual Part I Chapter 5 29 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   Recognizing and prioritizing the function of VI CAP, Howlett wrote:   VICAP’s purpose was not to investigate cases but to analyze them. In order to do so effectively, general patterns have to be discernible, and that is better done by establishing the general parameters of events rather than extremely specific reconstructions. Crime scenes are seldom exactly replicated, but general MOs are. Crime analysis and criminal investigation require different levels of specificity [Howlett et al., 1986, p. 17].   In 1986, the VI CAP report form was reduced in size from three volumes to a fifteen-page, 190-question, check-the-block, forced-choice instrument. This was the report form that users in 1995 found too difficult.

  Crime Classification Manual Part I Chapter 2 39 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   CONCLUSION Behavior reflects personality, and to understand the criminal, the investigator must be able to detach himself or herself emotionally from the violent offense. There is a fine line between being detached versus being observant and sensitive to minute forensic details left by the UNSUB at the scene. Investigators should recognize offender behavioral patterns such as MO, personation, undoing, and staging. If investigators approach each crime scene with an awareness of these factors, they will improve their abilities to solve the equation, Why  How  Who, and win the war against violent crime.