SERIAL KILLER MIND

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 10 A 66 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   Search Warrant Suggestions The search warrant for the offender’s location should list all computers and all forms of computer storage: disks, data CD-ROMs, DVDs, magnetic tapes, external hard drives, mini-drives (sometimes called memory sticks), flash memory modules, programming documentation, e-mail addresses (possible sources of malignant software creation programs), the computer and all its peripherals, and all CD-ROMs programs. The search warrant should also include the offender’s Internet accounts.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 9 B 66 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   Forensic Findings He ate a banana, drank some milk, and fell asleep. He awoke, used the bathroom, got undressed, and exposed himself to the victim but fell back asleep. Swabs of the milk glass were taken as well as fingerprints on broken glass and his clothing.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 9 A 66 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   Crime Scene Indicators Frequently Noted. The stalker may do some or all of the following: follow the victim or victim’s family or household members; vandalize the victim’s property; inflict damage to property—perhaps by vandalizing the car, harming a pet, or breaking windows at the victim’s home; make threatening calls or send threatening mail; or drive by or park near the victim’s home, office, or other places familiar to the victim.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 E66 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   Circulation mechanism. Various mechanisms for circulation include the mail (photographs, coded letters), tape cassettes, CB radio, telephone, and beepers. The mail is a major facilitator for circulation of child pornography.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 D66 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   In some cases of “sham” or muted sadism, there is clear evidence of eroticized aggression (insertion of foreign objects, bondage, and whipping, for example) without extensive physical injury.  

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 C66 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   Richard’s profile is typical of an exploitative, high-impulse rapist. The assaults were all impulsive, predatory acts. Although there was little gratuitous aggression (compared with the expressive rapist), there was no concern for the victims’ fear or discomfort (compared with the compensatory rapist).

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 B66 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   Indeed, these two rapist types are hypothesized to manifest less aggression than any of the other rapist types. If confronted with victim resistance, these offenders may flee rather than force the victim to comply.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 A66 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   Forensic Findings Forensics cleared this case. In 2000, Griffin was returned to state prison while on parole from his original 1998 attempted burglary sentence. While in custody, he was arrested after evidence taken from the victims in the three sex crimes was allegedly matched with his DNA in the New York State DNA database of convicted felons.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 7 B 66 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N CASE STUDY: 251: EXTREMIST-MOTIVATED ARSON, TERRORISM   Case Contributed by Kristen Moore Background George Metesky, a mild-mannered toolmaker, was dubbed the Mad Bomber after terrorizing the citizens of New York City for sixteen years between 1940 and 1956. During that time, he assembled, planted, and detonated thirty-one pipe bombs in the city.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 7 A 66 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   The male arsonist also may begin with an area of personal significance, but his fire-setting episode is wider in range and destructive. He may use an excessive amount of accelerant and sometimes Molotov cocktails.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 I 66 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   A letter sent to a local radio station stated that the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) was responsible for the ambush. The letter said that Foster and his deputy had been found guilty by a court of the people for “crimes against the children and life of the people.” Some of these “crimes” included the proposal to form a school police unit, identity cards for students, and an effort to coordinate teachers, probation officers, and police to help reduce juvenile crime.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 H 66 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   A couple of years before the murders, Cambridge had had a string of strange sexual offenses with a man known as the “Measurement Man,” who told woman he had been referred to them for a modeling career and needed to take some measurements.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 G 66 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   Bittaker and Norris felt well prepared after spending the first half of 1979 outfitting the van with a twin-size mattress supported by wood and plywood, tools, clothes, and a cooler. They had carefully selected a remote area in the San Gabriel Mountains above the city of Glendora. It was a gated fire road that Bittaker secured with his own lock, added insurance that they would be left undisturbed. In addition, they had picked up more than twenty hitchhikers, not attacking any of them, but simply rehearsing for the right day.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 F 66 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION Background The local police department of Columbia, South Carolina, received a worried call from the parents of a seventeen-year-old girl. Their daughter had taken her bike to the end of their driveway to get the mail and had never returned. When the parents went looking for her, they found her bike by the mailbox and alongside the curb.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 E 66 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   Police investigating the building knocked on the door of an upstairs neighbor, Carmela Cintron. There was no answer when they knocked on Carmela’s door; police then made their way up the fire escape to look into her apartment. When an officer looked into Carmela’s back window, she ran into the bathroom, and he called to detectives in the front stairwell, who entered through an unlocked front door. Carmela subsequently confessed, in a rambling and disjointed statement, and was charged with Rose’s killing.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 D 66 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   126: NONSPECIFIC MOTIVE MURDER A nonspecific motive murder pertains to a homicide that appears irrational and is committed for an undetermined reason known only to the offender. It subsequently may be defined and categorized with more extensive investigation into the offender’s background.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 C 66 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   Victimology Shirley Meier had always been outgoing and lively by her parents’ estimation. It was evident at a young age that she was a talented manipulator. She often fabricated elaborate stories for her parents and teachers in order to get her own way.  

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 B 66 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   The net worth of the victim, as well as the net worth solvency of the business, is important. For example, a business having difficulties may be bailed out by a business partner’s life insurance. This may be seen by a correlation of impending business failure with purchase of the policy.   Search Warrant Suggestions Business records and the suspect’s and victim’s financial records are search warrant suggestions. Additional suggestions are those presented for individual profit murder (see classification 107.01).

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 86 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   Search Warrant Suggestions Search warrant suggestions include communication records such as tele- phone records. In addition, pictures of the victim, audio or video recordings of the victim, and diaries, journals, and travel-related data such as airplane tickets should be considered.

  Crime Classification Manual Part I Chapter 5 36 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   Computing Platform In 1985, most automated systems resided in a huge mainframe computers. Typically these machines were housed in special rooms with dedicated air handling (air conditioning, mostly, as the machines produced a large amount of heat) and raised floors to accommodate heavy cables providing power and communication among machine components. The machines required frequent maintenance. Programming the machines was a special function and practiced by a small number of persons. Programming languages were difficult to master, with abstruse syntax.