SERIAL KILLER MIND

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 10 A 74 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   On July 11, Dinh used the password and log-in information for the investor’s online account to place a series of buy orders for the Cisco options, depleting almost all the account’s available cash—ap- proximately $46,986. The buy orders for the investor’s account were filled with 7,200 Cisco put options sold from Dinh’s account. As a result of the execution of these buy orders, Dinh avoided at least $37,000 of losses (some of the $46,986 in funds taken from the investor’s account went to commission costs).

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 9 A 74 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   Defining Characteristics Victimology. The target knows the stalker as an acquaintance or may have a familial or common law relationship that the target has attempted to terminate.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 E74 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   One such facility had a mail order division that promised, through its advertisements in “adult” magazines, confidential photo finishing. These advertisements were also found in periodicals catering to clientele with special sexual interests.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 D74 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   All employment had been of a menial nature. Martin did not have a long history of violent crime. Most of his transgressions involved truancy, lying or cheating, and disruptiveness in school. His criminal record contained mostly alcohol- and automobile-related offenses.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 C74 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N     The violence is a lifestyle characteristic that is directed toward males and females alike. The rape is but one feature in a history of unsocialized aggressive behavior noted across various social settings.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 B74 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   Vindictive rapists also differ from both the pervasively angry and overt sadistic offenders in their relatively lower level of lifestyle impulsivity (they have relatively fewer problems with impulse control in other areas of their lives).

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 A74 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   Defining Characteristics Victimology. The victim is usually an adult female. Crime Scene Indicators Frequently Noted. Evidence of breaking and entering or robbery is present.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 7 B 74 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N For years, the New York City Police Department searched to locate the Mad Bomber. The Mad Bomber planted his first bomb at the Con Edison building on West Sixty-Fourth Street on November 16, 1940. He left it in a wooden tool- box on a windowsill in the building.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 7 A 74 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION The investigator is cautioned that documented studies show the events that precipitate the revenge-motivated arson may take place months or even years prior to the fire, a factor that is commonly overlooked. An investigator should be prepared to expand the search if no suspects or viable leads are apparent from the beginning.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 H 74 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   Second, because he always wanted to be a story, to be big, he wanted to have the notoriety attached with the Boston Strangler to be his own. Finally, two witnesses went to the hospital to identify DeSalvo; both agreed that DeSalvo did not look like the man they saw. But they were both reminded of the Boston Strangler when they saw his friend, the manipulator, George Nassar.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 G 74 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   Around noon, she was let out and picked up by Bittaker while Norris hid under the bed. At Bittaker’s urging, Andrea obtained a drink from the cooler in the back of the van, at which point Norris made his move to sub- due her. Andrea’s assault followed much like Cindy’s with the exception that she was photographed, providing souvenirs for her killers to recall the look of terror on her face. At this point, Bittaker and Norris were becoming comfortable enough with their crime to experiment with torturing their victims, verbally and then physically. Andrea had an ice pick jabbed into her brain, first through one ear then the other. She was then strangled and thrown over the cliff.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 F 74 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   Forensic Findings The forensic findings indicated both victims had been bound with ligatures and duct tape. All bindings had been removed from the bodies before disposal. Duct tape residue was found on both victims’ faces. The subject claimed the victims had been smothered. The bodies were far too decom- posed to determine if they had been sexually assaulted. Both victims were fully clothed when their bodies were discovered.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 E 74 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   Carmela had a history of destroying her own apartment, being “anxious,” throwing things around her apartment, and episodes in which she hallucinated and spoke incoherently. She had no history of substance abuse.  

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 D 74 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   By September 1972, after being institutionalized and arrested several times, Mullin allegedly began receiving telepathic messages ordering him to kill. On October 13, 1972, he began to comply with these messages.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 C 74 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   Malibu Canyon Highway contains some of the steepest canyon ledges in Southern California, which became the ideal setting to stage Shirley’s suicide. The road twists along the face of a sheer rocky cliff. Because there are no guardrails, it is a common sight to see a tow truck hoisting a car up that had gone over the side.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 B 74 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   Crime Scene Indicators The first blast blew the car windshield out and both doors open. It also peeled back the top of the car toward the rear. The explosion blasted Margaret and Scott out of the vehicle. Margaret’s body landed in the grass alongside the driveway. Scott was thrown away from the house and landed on the drive- way. Carol Lynn survived because her door had been open. She jumped out of the car, which was engulfed in flames, and tried to get her shirt off. Both her shirt end her hair were on fire.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 94 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION Investigation An investigative consideration of great importance in this case was the list of franchisers on the ransom note. A suspect in a kidnapping of this sort, one that was more retaliatory than profit motivated (nonspecific demands in ransom note), would be someone who had been (in his perspective) mistreated by the victim’s husband. Careful investigation of the financial status as well as any history of problems precipitating the incident, either domestic or occupational, would be helpful in narrowing down a list of possible suspects. Another consideration that was of significance in terms of the suspect who was finally charged with Annie Hearin’s kidnapping was scrutiny of meetings and travel typical of his routine. His travels had made him familiar with Jackson.

  Crime Classification Manual Part I Chapter 5 44 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   Another feature of New VI CAP software is the ability to enter victim or crime scene photographs into the database and have them associated with a particular case. A written description cannot capture the details of bindings applied to a victim, but a photograph can do so with great clarity. Moreover, although case jackets and photographs can disappear over time, data entered into the New VI CAP database are not lost and are available for later retrieval and analysis.

  Crime Classification Manual Part I Chapter 3 14 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     What does the criminal act requirement (actus reus, men rea, and causation) have to do with the confession? What is the relationship between the confession and the prosecution’s burden of proof responsibility? Recall the previous legal description of the confession: that it requires acknowledgment and comprehensive culpability of each required element to constitute a crime. Regretfully, interviews are concluded prematurely for many reasons, sometimes unknowingly. While devoting a concentrated effort to the first criterion (participation in the criminal act), the interviewer mistakenly over- looks the pivotal third criteria (criminal intent). Although the offender’s acknowledgments may satisfy the actus reus and causation provisions of the crim...