SERIAL KILLER MIND

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 10 A 76 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   Outcome Van T. Dinh pleaded guilty on February 9, 2004, to an eight-count indictment charging him with causing damage in connection with unauthorized access to a protected computer, committing mail and wire fraud, and knowingly executing a scheme and artifice to defraud the investor and others in connection with a security and to obtain by means of false and fraudulent pretenses, money and property in connection with the purchase and sale of a security.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 9 A 76 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   Crime Scene Indicators Frequently Noted. The domestic stalking case of- ten culminates in a violent attack directed at the target. Usually, the scene of this attack involves only one crime scene, and it is commonly the target or stalker’s residence or place of employment. The crime scene reflects dis- order and the impetuous nature of the stalker. A weapon is usually brought to the scene.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 E76 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   The technique he used was to have older boys engage younger boys in sex acts. If a youth did not submit, he was beaten and abused by an older youth. After the youth sub- mitted, he was photographed in the sexual acts, and the man would then use the boys for his own sexual purposes. In order to ensure secrecy, a pornographer often keeps a blackmail file on each boy.  

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 D76 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   Outcome Martin was a twenty-five-year-old single male committed to the Treatment Center at Bridgewater, Massachusetts, in 1976 for sex offender treatment. He was convicted of second-degree murder.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 C76 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   Defining Characteristics Victimology. The victim must be a woman, and high expressive aggression must be present. In addition, there must be clear evidence from the offender’s behaviors or verbalizations that the primary intent of the rape is to hurt, demean, humiliate, or punish the victim (for example, by calling the victim names or forcing the victim to engage in acts that are seen by the offender as demeaning or humiliating, such as fellatio).

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 B76 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   Other relationships include student-teacher, athlete-coach, or priest–altar boy affiliations. For child cases, the relationship might include a neighbor or family friend. For elder cases, the relationship might include caregiver in the home.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 A76 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   Investigative Considerations In secondary felony rape, the offender targets the victim and crime scene and has been in the area before. There will be a history of robberies and rapes in the area. In addition, the sexual offense is preferentially motivated.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 7 B 76 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   Ironically, this note would have been destroyed if the bomb had detonated. After a brief investigation, both the company and the police disregarded the incident.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 7 A 76 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION Bottles, flammable liquids, matchbooks Cloth (fiber comparison), tape (if an explosive device was used) Objects taken from the scene Clothing, shoes if a liquid accelerant was used (or a homicide victim’s blood; glass fragments if windows were broken during burglary attempt)

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 H 76 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   140: GROUP CAUSE HOMICIDE Group cause homicide pertains to two or more people with a common ideology that sanctions an act, committed by one or more of its members, that result in death.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 G 76 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   Gilliam and Lamp were held for nearly forty-eight hours before they were murdered. Both were tortured; Norris took approximately twenty-four instant pictures of Gilliam and Bittaker engaged in various sexual acts. She was then stabbed through the ear with an ice pick, manually strangled, and finally struck on the head with a sledgehammer.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 F 76 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   This letter was sent to the state laboratory for analysis, which revealed indented writing not visible to the naked eye. The writing was identified as a telephone number with one digit obliterated. By a process of elimination, people with similar telephone numbers were interviewed until a list of possible suspects was developed. One number belonged to a house in the abduction locale. When police contacted this person, he told them his parents were not at home but had someone house-sitting for them. His parents had given the house sitter their son’s number in case of any problems. The man’s name was Larry Gene Bell.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 E 76 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   Carmela had a history of repeatedly assaulting her grandmother, particularly when her grandmother would not give her money for Luis. In the most serious attack, she broke five of her grandmother’s ribs on one side and seven on another by stomping on her back.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 D 76 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   On November 23, Mullin entered a confessional booth at St. Mary’s Church in Los Gatos, California. He stabbed Father Henri Tomei, age sixty- five, to death. The next five murders occurred on January 25, 1973. On this day, Mullin had set to look for James Gianera, age twenty-five, who had introduced him to marijuana years before. His search led him to the primitive cabin once owned by Gianera. One of the cabin’s occupants at that time, Kathy Francis, age twenty-nine, gave Mullin directions to Gianera’s new residence, four miles away. Mullin drove there, argued with Gianera, and then shot him three times. During the course of the struggle, Gianera ran up the stairs to his twenty-one-year-old wife, Joan, who was taking a shower. Mullin followed behind, finishing Gianera off in the bathroom, then turning on Joan Gianera, shooting her five tim...

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 C 76 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   When they arrived at the preselected spot in the canyon, Torran told Rory he had to be blindfolded and have his hands tied because he did not want Rory to know where Parker lived. Rory did not resist. At this point, Shirley’s body was removed from the trunk and propped up in the driver’s seat. With the engine running, a rag soaked with gasoline was stuffed in the gas tank opening. Parker then lit the rag while Torran and Jay aimed the car for the cliff and put into gear. It rolled across the road, over an embankment, and down a hill. As flames spread through the car, it came to rest on a plateau halfway down the gorge. Torran, Jay, and Parker drove away, heading north. Jay dropped Parker and Torran Meier off at the initial crime scene so any damning evidence could be removed. Signs of the struggle were cleaned up or removed. The poison...

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 B 76 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION Forensic Findings Scott Benson had sustained massive injury to his entire right side. The right side of his trunk was laid open from the waist to the shoulder, with most the internal organs exposed. A knifelike piece of shrapnel had penetrated his skull. Margaret Benson’s right foot had been destroyed. It appeared she had been resting her left hand on the console over one of the devices because that hand had been completely blown off. Her face had been obliterated from the fore- head down. In addition, the left side of her body had sustained heavy damage.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 96 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   A neighbor of the Hearins identified Winn from a photo lineup as the man she saw in a white van in the neighborhood a few days before the kidnapping. In addition, a superintendent for a construction crew working at a neighborhood church two blocks from the Hearin residence recalled seeing Winn looking around the neighborhood. On August 5 or 6, 1988, sometime between 6:00 A.M. and 9:00 A.M. at the Quality Inn in DeLand, Florida, Winn met with a woman and asked her to mail the letter in Annie Hearin’s handwriting. At Bishop’s Planetarium and South Museum Tampa in late August, Winn again met with this woman to pay her the initial $250 of a $500 promised payment. The rest was paid on February 18, 1989, about 7:15 A.M., again at the DeLand meeting spot. The woman had agreed to dye her hair and disguise herself as part of the deal. In ...

  Crime Classification Manual Part I Chapter 5 46 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   Turner and Kosa (2003) offered that cold case squads are formed because law enforcement agencies, regardless of size, are not immune to rising crime rates, staff shortages, and budget restrictions. Rising crime rates can tax the investigative and administrative resources of an agency. More crime may mean that fewer cases are pursued vigorously, fewer opportunities arise for follow up, or individual caseloads increase for already overworked detectives. Transfers, retirements, and other personnel changes may force departments to rely on younger, less experienced investigators to work cases, often unsuccessfully.  

  Crime Classification Manual Part I Chapter 3 16 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 Intent To comprehensively understand the act, the criminal mind must be unraveled. This issue is especially significant when a crime is classified by various degrees of seriousness depending on the defendant’s state of mind. Not only must the confession reflect that the defendant did something “bad,” but also it must show that he had a “bad” intent. This distinction is especially useful for the prosecution when it is essential to determine the level of seriousness of the crime and its associated degree of punishment. Moreover, it may also be considered when assessing the predictability of the defendant’s propensity toward violence and potential for recidivism.