SERIAL KILLER MIND

Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 10 A 85 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   The search should look for the pornographic data as well as addresses of customers. Pornographic material at the offender’s site should be compared with the pornographic material at the victim’s site.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 9 A 85 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   CASE STUDY: 411: DOMESTIC STALKER A forty-three-year-old woman who recently separated from her fifty-year- old husband worked at the same casino as he did. About a month after she began dating another man, she became aware that her husband was following her into the parking garage and then, by car, to her home.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 E85 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   Paul kept the refrigerator supplied with food and bought toys and clothes for the children. He drove a Cadillac equipped with a telephone, and he handed out business cards advertising a twenty-four-hour limousine service that he provided with his Cadillac.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 D85 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   Offender Characteristics Terry came from an upper-middle-class, professional home. He did not, however, experience a normal childhood. From early childhood into adolescence, he was plagued by night terrors, nightmares, and sleep talking and sleepwalking.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 B85 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   Frank became even more aggressive, and at various times, he slapped, kicked, punched, and pulled Rose into the bedroom, where he raped her three times, both vaginally and orally.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 A85 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   These assaults are not primarily motivated by material gain and are not sanctioned by a group. Rather, an underlying emotional conflict or psychological issue propels the offender to commit rape and sexual assault. Although the case may be legally defined as rape, the term sexual assault is used in this classification to encompass a wide range of forced and pressured sexual activities.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 7 B 85 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N Brussel created the following profile for the Mad Bomber: a neat, meticulous, skilled, middle-aged male, holding a grudge against Con Edison. From his letters, it was determined that he was most likely a former employee who believed that he was permanently injured by the company and was seeking revenge.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 7 A 85 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N 230: CRIME CONCEALMENT ARSON In this category, arson is a secondary or collateral criminal activity, perpetrated for the purpose of covering up a primary criminal activity of some nature. The types of crime concealment–motivated arson in this category are murder (231), suicide (232), breaking and entering (233), embezzlement (234), larceny (235), destroying records (236), and other (239).

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 H 85 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   Many of the cases exhibited indicators that either the victim or offender had some involvement with the occult or satanism. However, the primary motive in each case was found to be sex, money, or interpersonal conflicts and not to satisfy the requirements of an occult or satanic ritual.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 G 85 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   The setting of Ledford’s death and assault was still within the realm of the organized, controlled scene, despite the body being left in view with no effort to conceal it. Bittaker’s craving for some press time, recognition of his crime, was his incentive for this change in MO.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 F 85 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   Staging. Secondary criminal activity may be present, but usually it is more indicative of less sophisticated offender (disorganized offenders are often below average intelligence) than staging to confuse law enforcement.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 E 85 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   Offender risk varies with institutional setting, depending on amount of autonomy or supervision, shift, and quantity of staff. The victims of the hero killer may include the critically ill patient since a medical emergency, such as a cardiac arrest, would not appear suspicious. Infants are also included as likely victims of the hero murderer because of their mute vulnerability. When the crime scene is an institutional setting, the victim is one of opportunity with an increased risk factor due to the vulnerability that illness or age imposes. Outside the institutional setting, the hero killer’s victim is a random target who has become a victim of opportunity by being in the building the arsonist torches or in the zone where the emergency medical technician works.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 D 85 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   Two of the incidents were the spree or mass killings common to this type of offender: no effort was made to conceal any of the bodies, a weapon of choice was brought to the scene, all of the killings were during daylight hours, and several were in public places.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 C 85 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   Denial can persist even through labor and delivery. Breaking water may be thought of as urination, and labor pain may be experienced as bowel movement or simple cramping, for which a hot bath may be sought for relief. Delivery is nearly always in secret or isolation, often occurring in the bath- tub or on the toilet.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 B 85 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   Investigative Considerations It is important to work the case as a robbery and not a murder. Any known robbery suspects with similar MOs should be scrutinized. The offender of an indiscriminate felony murder is usually a youthful male with a criminal his- tory (history of auto theft appears especially prevalent). This offender often travels on foot to the crime scene because he lives in the area of the crime.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 105 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   Investigative Considerations Threat assessment of offender communication may be helpful. If there is no extortion demand associated with the death and civil litigation has been initiated, the litigant should be scrutinized. The litigant’s financial status (beneficiary to insurance claims or inheritance, along with problems such as outstanding debts, for example), relationship with the victim (problems, extra- marital affairs), and preoffense and postoffense behavior should be examined. Although the primary motivation is financial gain, the offender who tar- gets a family member for death often has concurrent secondary motivations or goals that will be equally well served by the victim’s death. Avenues such as domestic problems and extramarital affairs should be explored. Because product tampering deaths are relatively rare, early allega...

  Crime Classification Manual Part I Chapter 5 55 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   Cases Suitable for VICAP VI CAP collects case information on more than homicides or attempts, miss- ing persons, and unidentified dead. Child abductions or attempts, kidnap- pings, and sexual assaults or attempts and rapes cases are now accepted and sought. Including these additional offenses makes VI CAP a much more desirable tool for law enforcement. (Information about VI CAP can be found at http://www.fbi.gov/hq/isd/cirg/ncavc.htm.)

  Crime Classification Manual Part I Chapter 3 25 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   Consider, for example, the advantage an interviewer would have when he has in his possession the following personality characteristics of the suspect extracted from a criminal analysis generated from the analysis of a disorganized lust murder:   •     Of average intelligence and a high school or college dropout •     Probably unemployed or blue-collar, unskilled occupation •     Financially dependent on a domineering female •     A previous criminal record of assault-related offense •     Probable voyeuristic activities •     Probable pornography interest and collection •     Alcohol or drugs exh...