SERIAL KILLER MIND

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 10 A 64 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N     Common Forensic Findings. Common findings are unauthorized credit card charges, credit card accounts unknown to the victim, unauthorized bank account withdrawals, and addresses on the illegal accounts different from the victim’s address.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 9 B 64 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N CASE STUDY: 450: BATTERY/ABUSE Case Contributed by Leonard Morgenbesser Victimology A seventy-three-year-old woman awoke in the early morning of July 10, 2004, to the sound of breaking glass. When she opened her door, a man charged inside, grabbed her, muffled her mouth, and made her promise not to call the police.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 9 A 64 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   Of note, the terms target and victim are not necessarily interchangeable. The term target is used to describe the primary recipient of the stalker’s attention. However, in many cases, those people around a stalker’s target become victims of the stalker’s behavior.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 E64 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   Items of trade. Items of trade refer to the children, photographs, films, and tapes. The degree of sexual explicitness and activity may vary. For example, photographs range from so-called innocent poses of children in brief attire taken at public parks, swimming pools, arcades, or similar places where children congregate to carefully directed movies portraying child sub- jects in graphic sexual activities.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 D64 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   Behavioral evidence may include sham sadism (such as whipping, bondage), violence focused on the erogenous parts of the victim’s body (such as burning, cutting, or otherwise mutilating the breasts, anus, buttocks, or genitals); insertion of foreign objects in the vagina or anus; intercourse after the victim is unconscious; and the use of feces or urine within the offense.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 C64 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N     By the age of three, he was killing kittens by locking them in a refrigerator, and by age four, he was removed from a day nursery for fighting. By age six, he was pulling up girls’ dresses and exposing himself. He was placed in a home the same year and remained in penal institutions, juvenile detention centers, and foster homes through- out his life.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 B64 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   As noted, the higher social competence of muted sadistic offenders may explain the difference in aggression, with the greater social sophistication of muted sadistic rapists attenuating or muting the aggression. In general, muted sadistic offenders, except for their sadistic fantasies and their slightly higher lifestyle impulsivity, resemble the high social competence, non-sadistic rapist.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 A64 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   At the time Griffin raped the ten-year-old girl, he was in prison, sentenced of attempted burglary, second degree, a felony.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 7 B 64 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   Eric Rudolph, who was responsible for bombing abortion clinics and the Olympics in Atlanta; Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber; and those responsible for various school shootings at the end of the twentieth century.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 7 A 64 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   For the revenge arsonist in general, residential property and vehicles are the prime targets. Arsonists who seek revenge against society may exhibit displaced aggression by choosing targets at random. Other offenders retaliate against institutions such as churches, government facilities, and universities or corporations.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 I 64 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   Investigation The offense will involve selection, surveillance, and even rehearsal. Suspects involved in paramilitary operations often have criminal records. Booby traps are especially a danger when approaching this type of extremist group operation.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 H 64 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   The last victim was found on January 4, 1964, and was the most brutal and grotesque. She was strangled with a stocking with two colorful scarves tied over it in bows. She was sitting with her back against her bed headboard, a thick semen-like liquid dripping from her mouth to her bare breasts. A broom handle had been inserted three and a half inches into her vagina, and at her feet was a bright Happy New Year card from the Boston Strangler.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 G 64 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION CASE STUDY: 134: SEXUAL HOMICIDE, SADISTIC Background During the last year of his incarceration at California Men’s Colony at San Luis Obispo, Roy Lewis Norris met Lawrence Sigmund Bittaker. Both in- mates had an extensive history with the law that involved a substantial amount of violent criminal activity. As the relationship developed, the two discovered several topics of mutual interest: dominating, torturing, and raping women. They also shared the attitude that with any future sexual assaults on women, they would leave no witnesses.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 F 64 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   A possible suspect may have a history of prior offenses of lesser notice, escalating to the homicide being investigated. His background should be checked for precipitating situational stress such as financial, employment, or marital or other relationship problems. He may have a history of recent residence or employment change. He may have even left town after the murder. If property is missing, local areas should be checked for burglaries.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 E 64 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION CASE STUDY: 127.02: RELIGION-INSPIRED HOMICIDE Classification and Case Contributed by Michael Welner Background Police were called to the small, quiet, and modest Brooklyn apartment building where Rose, an eighty-one-year-old woman, was discovered dead by her building manager. When the decedent had failed to meet her niece at an outing scheduled earlier, the niece became concerned and visited the building.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 D 64 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION Investigation Although there was considerable physical and forensic evidence left at the crime scene, suggesting a disorganized crime scene, no suspects were developed until a suicide note surfaced. On March 6, 2005, Ross killed himself and left a suicide note and letter with explanations for his actions. Blood and fingerprints matched the DNA samplings taken from the crime scene.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 C 64 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   Besides being the object of Shirley’s cursing and screaming, Torran often suffered public humiliation when she ridiculed him in front of his friends. She would call him a faggot and tell him he would never be a real man. Torran never seemed to do anything that satisfied Shirley, from his playing high school football to the house cleaning and cooking she demanded of him.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 B 64 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   Crime Scene Indicators Frequently Noted. Crime scene indicators are the same as those for individual profit murder: a continuum from the spontaneous and haphazard murder to the well-executed one. Staging. Staging is the same as for individual profit murder. It depends on the resources, sophistication, and degree of premeditation of offender. Common Forensic Findings. Forensic findings range from violent to accidental to natural death.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 84 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   Investigative Considerations Items that should be scrutinized when dealing with a kidnap murder are tele- phone and financial records. Prior employees should be considered. The possibility that multiple offenders were involved also should be kept in mind. A telephone trap and trace is usually indicated.

  Crime Classification Manual Part I Chapter 5 34 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   1998 Crimes Against Children Legislation This legislation provided funding for additional crime analysts (CAs). In 1998 VI CAP hired thirteen CAs, and this brought the total number to twenty. In 2004, VI CAP staffing levels provided for one unit chief, five regional managers (typically supervisory special agents of the FBI), nine- teen CAs, one squad operations assistant, and three major case specialists.