SERIAL KILLER MIND

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 10 A 65 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N     Investigative Considerations The victim should register with all credit services to report the possible identity theft. The investigator should trace addresses and the location of erroneous credit card charges and look for possible travel patterns of the offender.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 9 B 65 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   Crime Scene Indicators The assailant spoke only Spanish, but the victim knew him from his land- scaping her yard in April. After the man calmed down, the victim showed him family pictures, shared stories, and offered him something to eat.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 9 A 65 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   Defining Characteristics Victimology. A stalking victim feels reasonable fear of bodily injury or death to self or to a family or household member or damage to property. Stalking can be perpetrated by the stalker or by someone acting on her or his behalf. It can take the form of verbal threats or threats conveyed by the stalker’s conduct, threatening mail, property damage, surveillance of the victim, or following the victim.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 E65 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   In the films, the child is often following cues provided by someone standing off-camera. Also, in audiotapes, the children may be heard conversing with age-appropriate laughter and noises, as well as using language that is highly sexual and suggestive of explicit behaviors.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 D65 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   : SADISTIC RAPE, ADULT Most often, there is high expressive aggression with moderate to severe injury to the victim. Frequently the offender uses items to inflict pain or in- jury, such as cigarettes, knives, sticks, or bottles.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 C65 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   He remained in the fourth grade until his sixteenth birthday. He eventually earned his general equivalence diploma while in prison. Richard had a long juvenile and adult criminal record that included numerous in- stances of larceny, statutory burglary, breaking and entering, motor vehicle offenses, armed robbery, assault and battery, and rape.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 B65 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   Non-sadistic Types For the non-sadistic sexualized rapists, the thoughts and fantasies that are associated with their sexual assaults are devoid of the synergistic relation of sex and aggression that characterizes the sadistic types.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 A65 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   However, due to rules in effect at that time, he was on work release from the prison system and was program eligible since he was a nonviolent offender and had no history of violent crime (the system did not know at the time of his work release of his abduction and sexual assault on July 31, 1997, before he began his prison sentence for burglary).

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 7 B 65 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   Terror activity can be motivated by political, religious, or economic ideas. It can be carried out by a lone offender or multiple offenders.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 7 A 65 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   Crime Scene Indicators Frequently Noted. The female offender usually burns an area of personal significance, such as the living room sofa or the bedroom. She often starts the fire by using the victim’s clothing or other per- sonal effects. If she targets the victim’s vehicle, she usually sets fire to the interior passenger compartment.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 I 65 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION CASE STUDY: 142.01: EXTREMIST HOMICIDE, POLITICAL   On November 6, 1973, Marcus Foster, a highly respected black superintendent of the Oakland, California, school system, was leaving an education committee meeting with his deputy, Robert Blackburn. As they exited the building, two gunmen ambushed them, killing Foster and wounding Black- burn. The autopsy on Foster revealed the killers had used bullets filled with cyanide crystals.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 H 65 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   Investigation Attorney General Edward Brooke took over the investigation and instituted the Strangler Bureau to work nonstop and make it the city’s highest priority. Although forensic mental experts claimed that the killings were likely the work of multiple killers due to the age differentials and slight inconsistencies of the crime scene, the Boston Police were on the hunt for one man.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 G 65 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   Bittaker was released in November 1978 and Norris in January 1979. After their reunion, the duo decided to fulfill their prison ambitions. The first thing they needed was the proper vehicle to ensure uncomplicated abductions. Bittaker found a 1977 silver GMC cargo van with a sliding door and no windows on the side, perfect for pulling up close and grabbing their victims.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 F 65 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   Search Warrant Suggestions Items that should be kept in mind when preparing a search warrant for a suspect are diaries, calendars, or newspaper clippings that commemorate the murder. Recordings may be found, either audio or audiovisual. Photographs of victims are another possible finding. The souvenirs or trophies should be kept in mind when formulating a search warrant. Any police or related paraphernalia should also be looked for.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 E 65 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   When the niece was canvassing the building, she learned little from the neighbors; the niece sought out the building manager, who looked into Rose’s apartment through a window accessible to the fire escape. There they saw her lying on the floor, dead.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 D 65 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   Outcome The case was solved when Ross killed himself. In a four-page letter sent to NBC5 in Chicago, Ross outlined his grievance and desire for revenge. In 1992, he had had surgery for mouth cancer, which left him with a facial disfigurement. In 1995 he filed a medical malpractice suit, but the suit was dismissed because no violations had been noted in his medical records. Over the next seven years, Ross regularly filed appeals, becoming more and more frustrated by the system. He sent an angry letter to the governor and said he was unfairly represented by his lawyers. In 2004, he filed a civil rights case against the government, his lawyers, the doctors, and the hospital. Judge Leftkow dismissed the case due to lack of presentation of new evidence, and in October she denied a motion to reconsider.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 C 65 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   Shirley’s erratic and often violent behavior seemed to escalate as Torran became older. She also began to direct it toward her younger child, Rory. Torran was encouraged by his friends and grandparents to persist in his situation with Shirley until he graduated from high school, but the years of abuse had burdened him past his endurance. After sixteen years of it, he finally retaliated.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 B 65 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   Investigative Considerations In a commercially motivated homicide, the business relationship and corporate structure should be checked. As in individual profit murder, the offender’s preoffense financial status should be examined. In addition, the victim’s pre- offense status should be checked, because motive for the killing could be that the victim was costing the company money (through faulty investments, ineffectual business decisions, or alcohol problems, for example).

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 85 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   The offender’s preoffense surveillance, efforts to trace the victim’s movement, and routine may help produce witnesses who observed strangers or suspicious persons in the victim’s neighborhood or other locations that were part of their routine. Analysis of the offender and victim communication using threat assessment may prove advantageous. Threat assessment is the process of determining validity and potential source of threats received by individuals, groups, or companies. If the threat is determined to be real, countermeasures are developed to protect the potential victim. The analysis of threat communication, based on the psychology and psychodynamics of the threat, may denote personality traits of the suspect. Preoffense publicity of the victim or other types of victim visibility may provide leads to victim select and targeting.

  Crime Classification Manual Part I Chapter 5 35 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 CHANGE The Form The easiest part of the change process involved the VI CAP data collection instrument. The number of questions on the form was reduced to 95. For more than two years, VI CAP personnel sifted through the database to learn which data were most probative and offered the best possibility of suggesting relationships between or among cases. Frequently reported attributes were made part of the form, and infrequently used attributes were discarded. The form revision was very much like that undertaken by the VI CAP staff in 1986 when the variables and attributes of the comprehensive form that Pierce Brooks had initiated were trimmed.