SERIAL KILLER MIND

Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 10 A 89 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   The search warrant should list all computers at the offender’s location and all forms of computer storage: disks, data CD-ROMs, DVDs, magnetic tapes, external hard drives, mini-drives (sometimes called memory sticks), flash memory modules, programming documentation, e-mail addresses (possible sources of malignant software creation programs), the computer and all its peripherals, and all program CD-ROMs. The search warrant should also include the search for copies of the messages sent previously to the victim.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 E89 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   Offender Characteristics Paul kept an apartment in a complex with a swimming pool and tennis courts. He used this apartment for many of his child prostitutes, and they used the pool and tennis courts. The older boys were told by Paul to keep the younger ones in line.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 D89 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   Upon graduating from high school, he enlisted in the air force. He spent four years in the serv- ice, compiling an excellent record that included five commendations for meritorious action. During this time, he also attended college and earned a degree. After discharge from the service, he began the first of a series of jobs in sales.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 B89 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   After some delay, Frank drove Rose to the hospital because she was almost blinded by the blood in her eyes, but only after she promised not to reveal how she was injured.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 A89 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   Offenders in these four categories may be viewed as undesirable individuals, but when they are interviewed with empathy and understanding, the police officer may find that the individuals already have committed serious contact sexual offenses. Spending time with these offenders may have an important payoff in solving other rape and sexual assault crimes.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 7 B 89 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N Brusel’s final conclusion about the bomber was that “when you catch him, and I have no doubt you will, he’ll be wearing a double-breasted suit. And it will be buttoned.”

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 7 A 89 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N The offender commonly uses liquid accelerant. Although the origin of the fire is usually on or near the victims, many of these fires are not adequate to totally consume the body or the evidence. The offender tends to act toward the disorganized end of the spectrum. Correspondingly, the investigator should expect to find more physical evidence than with other arsons.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 H 89 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   Defining Characteristics Victimology. Occasionally cult murder is the result of members preying on a random victim, but the prevailing casualty of this type of murder tends to be one who is a member of the cult or on the fringe of membership. Gener- ally multiple victims are involved.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 G 89 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION Investigation Bittaker and Norris engaged in other crimes during this time beside sadistic murder. There were at least three separate incidents: an attempted rape, rape kidnapping, and an assault with mace. Photos were also found after Bittaker and Norris’s arrest that are indicative of another victim, an unknown white female, who remains missing.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 F 89 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   In addition, sexual assault will probably occur at this time for the same reasons. There may be depersonalization, which entails mutilation to the face and overkill (excessive amount or severity of wounds or injury) to specific body parts. The face, genitals, and breasts are most often targeted for overkill. Body parts may be missing from the scene.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 E 89 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   Liver biopsy, thorough blood-chemistry analysis, complete drug screen of blood and urine, and hair analysis for arsenic and drugs (especially digoxin, lidocaine, and smooth-muscle-paralyzing drugs) should be performed. Asphyxiation should be checked for by petechial hemorrhage, taking an X-ray for broken ribs, and so on. In the case of the hero killer, the post- mortem examination should look for toxic levels of injectable drugs such as digoxin, lidocaine, and potassium hydrochloride.

    Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 D 89 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   Investigation Mullin was apprehended ten minutes after the last shooting because of witnesses’ giving police a description of his car. There were witnesses to two of the more public murders, illustrative of Mullin’s nonchalance for being identified.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 C 89 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   The crime scene may reflect evidence of only the birth, not the death. However, the scene of the birth may also reflect disorganized behavior, such as incomplete attempts to clean blood from the scene. Disorganized behavior may represent panic, particularly when birth and homicide transpire with a relative or other responsible party nearby who might discover the baby and intervene. Disposal of the body, often in a trash receptacle, is not alone evidence of murder. Reconstruction of the infant’s demise may be difficult under certain circumstances of method of homicide. Autopsy remains the most important means for identifying a murder.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 B 89 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION None of the victims posed an apparent threat to the offenders since they were immediately tied up and placed face down in the basement. Pierre and Andrews maintained complete control of the victims throughout the entire offense. None of them offered any resistance.

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 109 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   Victimology At the time of his death, Bruce Nickell was fifty-two. When he married Stella, he was a hard-drinking heavy-equipment operator, which suited Stella since she had a fondness for bar hopping. Nickell had recently taken stock of his life and decided to dry out by attending a rehabilitation program. Stella at- tended a few sessions with him. Before his death, Bruce was often unemployed, which had begun to get on Stella’s nerves. Sue Snow was forty years old at the time of her death. She had dropped out of high school to marry but had turned her life around through hard work. She had become the assistant vice president at a branch of the Puget Sound National Bank and was happily married to Paul Webking. They were rarely apart and “madly in love,” according to Webking. Both victims were users of the product. Nickell and Snow...

  Crime Classification Manual Part I Chapter 5 59 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   After Los Angeles, Pierce Brooks became the chief of police in Lake- wood, Colorado; Springfield, Oregon; and Eugene, Oregon. In later years, he consulted on the Seattle, Washington, Green River murders; Chicago Tylenol murders; and the Atlanta, Georgia, child murders. He wrote a couple of books, and Joseph Wambaugh’s The Onion Field (1979) is about one of Brooks’s cases. Brooks died in Springfield, Oregon, on February 28, 1998.

  Crime Classification Manual Part I Chapter 3 29 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       Before a tracker begins a journey into unknown territory to apprehend an enemy, he enlists all possible resources to familiarize himself with the known terrain, climate, and environment. This permits him to identify the type of survival tools and skills needed to accomplish the task. Remember that the offender has been preparing his responses to conceal his guilt from the moment he committed the crime, and probably before. He will use every tactic available to counter and dismantle every offensive attack. To know your enemy is the best strategy. It takes time, commitment, and grueling effort. Lord Byron stated the principle well: “Knowledge is power.”