SERIAL KILLER MIND

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 10 A 78 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N     In addition, an $800 special assessment was imposed. Prior to sentencing, Dinh paid full restitution to the victim investor in the amount of $46,986, which represented the entire amount of money taken from the investor’s account.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 9 A 78 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   Others, such as family members and boyfriends or girlfriends, may be involved in an assault. If the target has taken steps to keep the stalker away (changed phone number, changed residence, or a restraining order, for example), the only access the stalker may have is at the target’s place of employment.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 E78 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   Thus, a self-regulating mechanism develops for the elimination of members guilty of actions deemed unfair to or against the syndicate through the grade of paper, number of letters, computer software, as well as the sincerity and insistence of the correspondence.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 D78 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   It did not appear, however, that sex was used as a vehicle for venting anger, but rather that the aggression was antecedent to or concurrent with sexual arousal. His lifestyle throughout adolescence was characterized by impulsive acting out; indeed, none of his serious crimes had any semblance of pre- meditation, compulsiveness, or ritualism.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 B78 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N     Offender Characteristics. It is likely that this offender has good social skills and has not been involved in serious criminal activities. The offense is usually situational for adult and elder victims and preferential for child victims. Crime Scene Indicators Frequently Noted. The crime scene is usually the victim or offender’s residence.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 A78 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   CASE STUDY: 301.02: SECONDARY FELONY RAPE Victimology A masked offender confronted a twenty-one-year-old white, single female in her residence at 5:30 A.M. He had entered her apartment through an open bathroom window. He put a razor to the victim’s throat, forcing her to the ground and threatening her with the razor.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 7 B 78 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N The United States entered World War II three months later. An unusually patriotic and uncharacteristic letter was sent from this domestic terrorist to police headquarters. It read: “I will make no more bomb units for the duration of the war—my patriotic feelings have made me think this.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 7 A 78 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N Victimology One fire was set in the bedroom and another on the living room couch. A closed bedroom door prevented the two fires from burning together. The living room television set was missing. The owner of the house often had male visitors, and recently before the fire had a male friend living with him.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 H 78 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   However, as the committee involved with writing the group cause section began to review the occult and satanic murder category, several committee members raised questions regarding the validity of including this category in the CCM.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 G 78 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   Shirley Lynette Ledford was last seen hitchhiking on October 31, 1979, around 10:45 P.M. along Sunland Boulevard and Tuxford Street in Sun Val- ley. After Bittaker and Norris picked her up hitchhiking, they enacted the assault differently; instead of heading for their spot in the mountains, they opted to drive around the streets of San Fernando Valley as they tortured Ledford. She was struck on the elbows repeatedly with a three-pound sledgehammer.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 F 78 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   The ISU agents provided an interrogation strategy that would offer a “face-saving” explanation for Bell. Bell confessed, claiming the “bad Larry Gene Bell did it.”   Outcome Larry Gene Bell was given two death sentences for the murders of the two girls. He was executed on October 4, 1996.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 E 78 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   In early August, her priest noted that Carmela was more ritualistic and more isolated during her prayer and attended mass more frequently. The night before the killing, Carmela asked an acquaintance to assemble an exercise bike for her. As Carmela recalled, “I was upset, I wanted to take off weight. I was thinking about just being alone.    I was confused, and couldn’t put all my thoughts together at one time.    I couldn’t calm myself down.” The teenager became frightened when Carmela climbed aboard the bike he had assembled and began pedaling it furiously. He ran all the way home, telling his mother that Carmela was “possessed.”

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 D 78 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   A week later on February 13, seventy-two-year-old Fred Perez was out working on his lawn. Suddenly he fell to the ground, struck by a bullet fired from a station wagon approximately 123 feet away. A neighbor observed a station wagon driving away at normal speed.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 C 78 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   Investigation Rory told his story and gave a description of Torran’s car to the sheriff. Meanwhile, Torran had suddenly felt like returning to the canyon. He and Parker had driven just far enough to pass the ambulance and sheriff car coming from the scene. Other sheriff units that had been dispatched to the scene recognized his car from Rory’s description and pulled him over.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 B 78 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   108: FELONY MURDER Property crime (robbery, burglary) is the primary motivation for felony murder, with murder the secondary motivation. During the commission of a violent crime, a homicide occurs. There are two types of felony murder: indiscriminate felony murder and situational felony murder.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 98 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   105: PRODUCT TAMPERING In this type of homicide, death results from contact with a commercial product, sabotaged by the offender for the purpose of achieving financial gain. There are three primary offender strategies used for achieving financial gain: litigation on behalf of the victim (wrongful death), extortion, and business operations. The last method includes damaging a competing business through sabotage of its product or manipulating the stock market as a result of negative publicity.

  Crime Classification Manual Part I Chapter 5 48 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   VICAP Tool Configuration In the early 2000s, VI CAP had three different electronic schemes to serve the varied needs of law enforcement agencies. The first of these is a stand- alone version. In this configuration, the VI CAP software system operates on one computer, with one sign-on and password. Opportunities for tracking work and changes to the database are lost in this configuration, but it works well in smaller agencies with only a few personnel.

  Crime Classification Manual Part I Chapter 3 18 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 can effectively be articulated and demonstrated by building the mens rea portion of the confession from the foundation of three basic questions: Did the offender premeditate? Did the offender deliberate? Did the offender harbor malice aforethought? These three questions provide the framework to formulate queries that solicit the defendant’s thoughts, behavior (including habits), and feelings he experienced before, during, and after the crime. The interviewer should not restrict his review of the defendant’s history but should probe as far back as possible. Furthermore, if the content of the confession clearly illustrates the defendant’s willful misconduct, it will reject an alleged impaired under- standing of his criminal behavior....