SERIAL KILLER MIND

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 10 A 71 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   The purported application sent to the potential investor was actually a disguised Trojan horse that contained a series of keystroke-logging programs that enable one Internet user to remotely monitor the keystrokes of another user.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 9 A 71 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   The acts may include threatening contact by mail or by phone or damaging the victim’s property. Search Warrant Suggestions Warrants to search should include the stalker’s residence, car, and other known areas.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 E71 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   While these photo laboratories can provide services to many illegal operations, they also present some problems to professional pornographers, who may find their photographs or films in magazines or adult bookstores without their knowledge and prior to their own distribution.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 D71 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   The commitment offense occurred one year later when Martin, age nineteen, sadistically killed a thirty-year-old woman by manual strangulation. According to Martin, he had met the victim in a bar, and they left together to go to a secluded area to engage in sex. He described binding the victim and choking her until she did not respond. He left the woman and returned home.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 C71 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   He may have manifested behaviors listed for sadistic sexual assault, but these must appear to be punishing actions done in anger, not to increase sexual arousal. The primary motive for the offense is anger, not sexual gratification. When the offender knows the victim, the assault on that victim appears to be the result of the offender’s easy access to that victim.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 B71 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   As noted, these offenders differ from pervasively angry rapists in that they show little or no evidence of anger at men (for example, by instigating fights with or assaulting men).

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 A71 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   He chose the home because it was not well lighted. For his third victim, Griffin told police he raped the woman “with the intention of robbing her for drugs” but that drugs made his desire for sex reach “from the bottom of my feet to the crown of my head.”

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 7 B 71 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N In letters placed on various bombs and those that Metesky sent to the police and media, the letters “F.P.,” later disclosed to represent “Fair Play,” were signed at the bot- tom. In addition, his signature became the way in which he constructed the bombs, allowing investigators to link them.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 7 A 71 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   The offender is rarely accompanied to the crime scene and seldom returns once the fire is set. In fact, he wants as much distance between himself and the fire as possible and concentrates on establishing an alibi. The offender usually lives within the affected community.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 H 71 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   Nassar’s attorney, F. Lee Bailey, contacted DeSalvo, and he confessed to all thirteen murders. He was able to go into great depth regarding the manner in which he killed his victims, the apartments’ layouts, and small details regarding the placement and appearance of small items and evidence in each case.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 G 71 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   Once they arrived, Bittaker and Norris smoked some pot while asking Cindy questions about her family and boyfriend in Wisconsin. After they grew bored of that, Bittaker took a walk while Norris raped her and forced her to perform fellatio. When Bittaker returned, he continued the sexual as- sault until Norris came back for more.  

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 F 71 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION Crime Scene Indicators The offender communicated by telephone with the victim’s parents two days after the abduction and then with the victim’s sister. With his voice dis- guised, the offender asked for forgiveness and expressed remorse. He gave the impression the victim was still alive. He told the victim’s family he had taken her to a house where she was tied to the bed. Twelve hours later, the offender gave her a choice as to the method of her death: strangulation, suffocation, or drowning. The victim chose suffocation, at which time the of- fender placed duct tape over her nose and mouth.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 E 71 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   Blood spatter indicated that the door to the refrigerator was opened before she died. This demonstrates that the assailant was attacking Rose after she had already occupied herself in some way with the refrigerator. No weapon was identified at the scene. While the location of her body, on the kitchen floor next to the refrigerator, was quite messy, there was no sign of activity elsewhere in the one- bedroom apartment and no evidence of robbery or items otherwise removed.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 D 71 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   CASE STUDY: 126: NONSPECIFIC MOTIVE MURDER Background “Born on April 18, 1947, and raised in Santa Cruz, California, Herbert Mullin had a relatively normal childhood. His father, a World War II veteran, was stern but not overtly abusive. He frequently discussed his heroic war activities and showed his son how to use a gun at an early age. Mullin had numerous friends at school and was voted ‘most likely to succeed’ by his classmates.” In 1965, “shortly after graduating from high school, one of Mullin’s best friends, Dean, was killed in a car accident, and Mullin was devastated. He built a shrine to his deceased friend in his bedroom and later expressed fears that he was gay, even though he had a long-term girlfriend at the time.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 C 71 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   Torran requested his mother to close her eyes or allow herself to be blind- folded before entering his room, both of which she refused, but she agreed to walk in backward. As she was backing through the door of Torran’s room, she saw Jay coming at her from behind the door. Parker approached from the other direction and dropped the noose around her neck before she could react. Torran and Jay knocked her to the floor as Parker pulled on the noose. The commotion caused by Shirley’s kicking and screaming woke eight- year-old Rory and bought him to the doorway in time to witness his mother’s death struggle. Torran intercepted Rory and led him to the family room, where he attempted to calm the crying child by watching TV. Over the next twenty minutes, Torran made a circuit between his room to help Jay and Parker and the family room to calm R...

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 B 71 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   By July 1985 Margaret had finally endured enough of Steven’s sapping her money. In addition, she had suffered nothing but disrespect and cruelty from both Steven and his wife. The day before her death, she had summoned her lawyer from Pennsylvania to look at the company’s books and “finally do something about Steven.” She discovered Steven had bought a luxurious home by siphoning money from their joint business, which she had financed and managed. He had also opened up another office in nearby Fort Myers, Florida, that was much more luxurious than the trailer office in Naples. With just one glance at the books, the lawyer was able to tell that here were many improprieties with Steven’s bookkeeping.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 91 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   Crime Scene Indicators The last person to see Annie Hearin was her maid, who left the Hearin residence around 3:30 P.M. the afternoon of July 26. Hearin had hosted a bridge game with several friends that afternoon. When her husband arrived home at 4:30 P.M., he found his wife’s car in the driveway and her shoes placed beside a living room chair. There were no signs of forced entry, and nothing was missing from the home. At 9:50 P.M., Hearin notified the police. They made a search of the area and discovered a splattering of blood, possibly from nose or lips, on the front door and door frame. A note was found in the foyer.

  Crime Classification Manual Part I Chapter 5 41 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   THE NEW VICAP The sea change in New VI CAP utility was the movement of the software from a mainframe platform to a user-friendly, client-server environment that can be delivered to any law enforcement entity. Briefly, New VI CAP soft- ware permits users to Match violent crime cases Perform cold case analysis Identify trends Learn the “how” and “why” of violence Provide agency administrators with a violent crime reporting system

  Crime Classification Manual Part I Chapter 3 11 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   Criminal Act Requirements There are several factors that need to be addressed to determine whether in fact what happened was a crime. These are termed criminal act requirements. Actus Reus . Before a person may be convicted and punished for a crime, the prosecution must present evidence that the person (acting as a principal, accessory, or accomplice) committed a criminal act as defined by statute. Each element of the crime prescribed by law must be present in the offender’s actions to duly constitute a criminal offense. This principle is referred to as actus reus. It is the first condition required to label an act a crime.