SERIAL KILLER MIND

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 10 A 79 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   522: INVASION OF PRIVACY This crime involves sending spam or unsolicited sexually explicit material by computer user via the Internet

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 9 A 79 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   In such cases, co- workers, security personnel, customers, or others in the area may become victims. In some instances, the stalker will abduct his target in an attempt to convince her to stay with him.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 E79 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   Letters are kept as a security measure. Recriminations between the offender and guilty party become extremely bitter, and support by fellow members in chastising the guilty party is solicited through immediate correspondence.  

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 D79 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N : SADISTIC RAPE, ADOLESCENT The offender is sexually aroused or otherwise derives pleasure from placing the victim in pain or fear; sadistic acts may include aggressive sodomy, insertion of foreign objects; and violence focused on the breasts, genitals, or anus. The sexual acts often occur during or after the violence and aggression.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 B79 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   Common Forensic Findings. See the section on general forensic evidence collection at the start of the chapter if the victim reports the rape shortly after it occurred.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 A79 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N     He took off her pants and under- wear and told her he would cut her if she did not comply. He removed a tampon and threw it in her face. He forced oral sex and then raped her. He robbed the victim and fled the scene.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 7 B 79 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N Later I will bring the Con Edison to justice—they will pay for their dastardly deeds.” Indeed, the Mad Bomber did not plant any bombs during the next nine years. His presence was still felt, however, in the dozens of threatening letters he sent to Con Edison, the police, movie theaters, and private individuals.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 7 A 79 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N Crime Scene Indicators The fire was suspicious to investigators from the outset. It was obvious that two separate fires had occurred, with the closed bedroom door preventing the fires from communicating. Investigators eliminated all possible accidental causes of the fire, leaving arson as the only possibility. In the bedroom, a large bed was completely consumed by fire, and the wall behind it was dam- aged. In the living room, a couch had burned completely through the floor to the ground below. Smoke damage was extreme throughout the home.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 H 79 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   The National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime’s (NCAVC) definition of true occult or satanic murder is murder committed by two or more individuals who rationally plan the crime and whose primary motivation is to fulfill a prescribed satanic ritual calling for the murder. Committee members raised the question of whether occult and satanic murder truly exists aside from the media hype surrounding this subject.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 G 79 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   Bittaker decided Ledford was not screaming loud enough to suit him, so he retrieved a pair of pliers and vise grips from his toolbox and pinched her nipples and vagina with them. Bittaker later stated to one jail informant that he tried to punch her “titties back into her chest.” Ledford was also raped and sodomized.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 F 79 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION 132: SEXUAL HOMICIDE, DISORGANIZED The term disorganized when used in reference to a sexual homicide is based on the same factors that defined organized: victim and crime scene analysis, forensic evaluation, and assessment of the act itself. The unplanned, spontaneous nature of the disorganized perpetrator’s crime is reflected in each of these fac- tors. This “disorganization” may be the result of youthfulness of the offender, lack of criminal sophistication, use of drugs and alcohol, or mental deficiency.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 E 79 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   The next morning, Carmela went out onto her fire escape and began dumping plants and soil to the ground below, then tossing the pots down as well. She made her way down from the third floor to the second floor on the fire escape. She entered into Rose’s apartment through the window leading into the kitchen. No one was there initially. After about fifteen minutes, Rose entered her apartment and told Carmela, “You don’t belong here . . . get out of the apartment.”

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 D 79 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   The random selection of the nonspecific killer is well illustrated by Mullin’s victims. Several of the victims were at high risk due to their habits (they were hitchhiking or had a transient lifestyle). Gianera’s past association with the drug trade may have been a factor if this was a drug murder and he was still actively involved with the drug trade. But because the motive was not drug related, his involvement with drugs, if it still existed, was not consequential to his death. Most of the victims would not be considered likely to become victims of violent crime based on their lifestyle, employment, and income.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 C 79 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   The extensive brutalization that Torran Meier suffered at the hands of his mother obviously fueled his decision to kill her. However, there seemed to be one incident that burdened him beyond his capacity to endure. It was in March 1985 when Shirley informed her mother that Torran no longer wanted to live at home and was not welcome there anymore. She had told Torran that going to live with his grandparents meant he could never return home. Torran immediately moved in with his grandparents. The warmth and affection he experienced there made him feel hopeful that life could be free of the constant harassment and abuse he had known for most his life. Two weeks later, his hope was shattered when the police showed up at Shirley’s request. She had sent them there to return her “runaway” son.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 B 79 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   : INDISCRIMINATE MURDER An indiscriminate felony murder is a homicide that is planned in advance of committing the felony without a specific victim in mind.   Defining Characteristics Victimology. The victim of an indiscriminate felony murder is a potential witness to the crime. The victim appears to be no apparent threat to the offender. He or she offers no resistance to the offender but is killed anyway, a victim of opportunity—for example, walking into the store or house at the wrong time or having his or her shift coincide with the robbery.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 99 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   Violation of the Federal Anti-Tampering Act occurs when any product has been affected by the actions of the perpetrator. With a business attack, tainting or switching labels may happen on a retail level. Elements of this crime include the involvement of a consumer product such as a drug; the tainting of that product or the switching of product labels to make them materially false; and intent to cause serious injury to the business of a person. The extortion method also can be tied into the business manipulation approach. An example is a crime involving a protection racket, in which the taint is tied to a demand for payments under threat of closing down the store or causing grave damage to the reputation of the business.

  Crime Classification Manual Part I Chapter 5 49 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   The second configuration operates on one computer but with several sign ons and passwords available. This option provides individual, tracked access to the database, but is more costly as licensing issues come into play. The third configuration operates in a client-server environment. Here the VI CAP software resides in the server and is accessible from as many client computers as the law enforcement entity wishes—or can afford—to network with the server. Although this is the most expensive option in terms of both equipment (clients and servers) and licenses, this option provides individual access to the database by multiple persons at the same instant in time.

  Crime Classification Manual Part I Chapter 3 19 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   Preparing for the Prescriptive Interview I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts. Arthur Conan Doyle, A Scandal in Bohemia   Prescriptive interviewing is a tool to supplement law enforcement efforts in achieving successful results during the interview. It will also serve to elevate the interviewer’s awareness of steps that can be applied to increase interview effectiveness. Enhanced interview skills and techniques are especially fitting in the light of the Supreme Court’s decision in the case Minnick v. Mississippi (1990), when it ruled six to two precluding law enforcement officials from reengaging a suspect after the sus...