SERIAL KILLER MIND

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 10 A 69 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N     On July 7, 2003, a member of Stockcharts.com’s stock-charting forum, who lived in Westborough, Massachusetts, received a message from an individual named “Stanley Hirsch,” who turned out to be Dinh. He responded to the e-mail, thus providing his personal e-mail address to Dinh.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 9 B 69 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   The jury’s foreman said the jury’s main challenge came when deciding the count of elder abuse. The jury had to decide whether the intruder reason- ably should have known the age of the victim. The defendant faced up to eleven years and four months in prison.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 9 A 69 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   Investigative Considerations A stalker tries to control the victim through behavior, or threats intended to intimidate and terrify. A stalker can be an unknown person, an acquaintance, or a former intimate partner. A stalker’s state of mind can range from obsessive love to obsessive hatred. A stalker may follow a victim off and on for days, weeks, or even years. The stalker may even have had contact with the victim on more than one occasion.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 E69 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   Suppliers. Suppliers of child pornography include pedophiles, professional distributors, and parental figures. Pedophiles with economic resources and community status may organize their own group to have access to children and cover their illegal intentions, or they may work within the frame- work of existing youth organizations.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 D69 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   Sexual gratification is obtained from torture involving excessive mental and physical means. Sexually sadistic fantasies, in which sexual acts are paired with domination, degradation, and violence, are transmitted into criminal action that results in rape. Usually, the offense is at least partially planned, sometimes in detail.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 B69 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   Vindictive Motivation The core feature and primary driving force for the vindictive type is anger at women. Unlike the pervasively angry rapist, women are the central and exclusive focus of the vindictive rapist’s anger.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 A69 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   He took the four-year-old girl from her bed because “I did not want to leave empty-handed.” He placed her in sheets, put her into his car, touched and sodomized her after she awoke in the car, and then masturbated before leaving her at a stranger’s house.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 7 B 69 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N One way this was accomplished was through his modus operandi (MO), the actions necessary to carry out the offense. Although he planted bombs months or even years apart, he always used a homemade pipe bomb that was created from untrace- able items. As time passed, he began perfecting his MO by creating bombs of greater sophistication.  

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 7 A 69 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   A revenge arsonist typically resides in rental property. Although this offender tends not to be a loner and has close relationships, the relationships generally are not stable or long term. An exception is the revenge-motivated serial arsonist, who is often a loner.

Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 I 69 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   Police responding to the call found a cache of guns, ammunition, explosives, cyanide, and SLA pamphlets. They also discovered a list of officials marked for kidnapping and execution.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 H 69 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   Again it turned out to be DeSalvo, who claimed to have assaulted hundreds of women in four states, which may not legitimate because of his braggart character. After being committed to the Bridgewater State Hospital, he became friends with another inmate, George Nassar, a manipulative genius.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 G 69 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   Bittaker spotted her, making the comment, “There’s a cute little blonde.” The van pulled alongside her, and Norris asked her if she wanted to go for a ride and smoke some grass. She refused and kept on walking, with Norris and Bittaker following at a distance. When they reached a residential section with little traffic, the two made their move. Bittaker pulled up ahead of her, stopping the van in front of a driveway while Norris waited on the sidewalk as Cindy approached. When she had reached him, the two exchanged a few words.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 F 69 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   Investigation revealed that both girls were low-risk victims. However, the fact that they were not likely to have the physical strength to fight or resist a strong male assailant increased their risk factor slightly. In the case of the first victim, it appeared the offender was taking pictures of her on her bike as she arrived at the mailbox.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 E 69 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   Crime Scene Indicators There was no sign of forced entry, and indications were that the perpetrator had entered the apartment through the back window, using the fire escape. A number of potted plants lay smashed on the ground below.  

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 D 69 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   Staging. Staging is not present.   Common Forensic Findings. Because nothing is removed from the scene, an abundance of evidence is usually available, including shell casings, prints, and discarded weapons. High-powered, high-caliber, or high- capacity firearm use will be evident and enables the offender to accomplish his goal of mass killing. Wounds will be concentrated on vital areas: head, neck, and chest.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 C 69 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   Torran rode home on his motorcycle, and the other two followed him in a car, which they parked down the street from his house. Torran entered the house alone and greeted his mother, who was sitting in the dining room. She began to yell at him for coming home so late. Torran offered the excuse of mechanical troubles with his motorcycle. He walked into the kitchen to get some dinner Shirley had left him and then went into his bedroom. He let Jay and Parker into the house through his window and left them hiding in his room with a noose he had made earlier.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 B 69 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   Just as Benson ran into the house to get something he had forgotten, the Suburban was engulfed by a thunderous explosion and an orange fireball. Benson ran out of the front door, only to immediately return and shut the door behind as a second explosion rocked the house. Of the car’s occupants, sixty-three-year-old tobacco heiress Margaret Benson and her twenty-one- year-old adopted son, Scott, were killed instantly. Forty-one-year-old Carol Lynn sustained serious injuries.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 89 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   Robert Hearin was a self-made millionaire who controlled an empire consisting of Mississippi’s largest gas distribution company, its second largest bank, and the second largest insurance company. Hearin also had run School Pictures, the photo-processing operation that had employed the twelve men named on the ransom note as franchisers.

  Crime Classification Manual Part I Chapter 5 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   The Network VI CAP engaged contractors outside the FBI to write the client-server soft- ware application for New VI CAP. (Use of the lowercase “i” in VICAP became the official choice in the late 1990s. A standard spelling, VI CAP, is used in this chapter to reduce confusion.) VI CAP software is now distributed to participating agencies so that they can perform their own analyses with direct access to all of the data they enter into the system. A networked version of New VI CAP software allows the exchange of violent crime information within a police department, a county, a state, or across the nation.  

  Crime Classification Manual Part I Chapter 3 9 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   A legal description of a confession is contained in the following case proceedings: “An accused person knowingly makes an acknowledgement that he or she committed or participated in the commission of the criminal act. This acknowledgement must be broad enough to comprehend every essential element necessary to make a case against the defendant” (James v. State, 1952). According to this legal description, a confession should consist of (1) an acknowledgment of the commission of or participation in a criminal act that (2) must be sufficiently comprehensive to include every element of the criminal act as defined by statute. To fully understand and implement the confession as described earlier, a review of burden of proof and the criminal act requirements and...