Serial Killers TEST 2

Largest arrest ever of child pornography

Operation Caireen in 2014, arrested 71 ppl

paraphilia profiling

examines the role of paraphilia in the etiology of sex crimes, fantasy development, and the creation of sexual predators

Charles Albright

Eyeball SK
-Texas, murdered several female prostitutes
-developed a hatred for women
-taxidermist, skillful painter, humorous, athletic, very intelligent
-portrayed himself as a family man
-raped a 13 yr old but managed to keep in on the DL
-conman Jekyll

sex offenders

-few crimes
-usually one victim
-usually family member
-non-progressive
-no threat to community
-non-psychopathic
-usually non paraphilic
-usually admirable to treatment control

sexual predators

-many sex criems
-multiple victims
-stranger/familial
-progressive/exploitative
-threat to community
-often psychopathic
-usually multiple paraphilias
-rarely amenable to treatment
-recidivistic

BTK was

sadistic
massisistic

fantasy

-critical to acting out
-often expressed in talk with others
-sometimes expressed in writings
-contains anger, rage, a desire for revenge
-relationships are fantasized
(Night Caller and The Stroker)

voyuers

stalking/peeping

exhibitionists

genital exposure

frotteurs

mashing, pressing, grinding, humping

necrophiles

dead bodies, graves, mortuaries

gerontophiliacs

senior aged focused

hyphephiliacs

hair, fur, leather, skin

kleptolagniacs

sexually aroused by theft

scatophiliacs

obscene phone calls

anokoscisiacs

mutliation of women

anthropophagolagniacs

rape and cannibalism

biastophiliacs

assaulting

dippoldism

corporal punishment

erotophonophilia

derive sexual pleasure and arousal from murdering (or imagining they are murdering) someone. Many academics in the forensic field refer to such killings as 'lust murder'
Jerry Brudos?

pedophilia

children

pyromania

fire

sadism

tendency to derive pleasure inflicting pain and suffering

4 types of relational rape

marital
courtship
confidence or blitz
stranger rape

Eugene Ramos

caught raping a 2 yr old (EW WHAT THE F**K)

Jerry Brudos

-obsessed with shoes and feet "shoe fetish slayer"
-would cut off feet and breasts of victims
-kidnapped a woman
-broke into houses to steal shoes and underwear
-strangled another woman and had sex with her dead body
-abducted another and brought her to w

M.O.

techniques used to commit crime
learned behaviors
may change with experience and confidence

Signatures

actions beyond those necessary to commit the crime
compulsion based on fantasies
seldom changes and often evolves

Four diff signatures

verbal: exceptionally vulgar/abusive language
sexual: specific order of sexual activity, necrophilia, use of foreign objects, posing
physical: torture, bondage, mutilation
psychological: inducing fear

Robert Berdella

killed men, electrocute them and tortured victims

William Bredford

told her he was a photographer, strangled, and sliced off her tattoos

Dennis Raider

BTK

Dean Kohr

candy man", abducted tortured killed boys with two accomplices

Slifko

Soviet SK, 7 boys, respected member of community

Rodney Alcala

photos, more than 50 victims, awaiting execution

Rhodes

-organized and experienced, arrogant
-rape, saudomized, chained women inside his 18 wheeler
-signature: cutting off the girls hair
-sadistic: calls father
-mobile
-gets caught after cop pulls up and finds him with girl chained in back and finds his tortur

Reasons for the decline in cases of serial murder in US

investigations: more advanced
technologies: DNA analysis, detection easier
investigators: collaboration between agencies
offender victim profiler: scientific and credible
cold cases: resolving
offenders: internet sexual fantasies
public awareness: prefere

in 2004 vs 2011

'04 SK: male, solo, 38% gun
'11 SK: 71% used guns

past vs present number of victims per SK

past: 10-13 avg per sk
present: 3-4 avg per sk

Characteristics of SK

40% caucasian, 52% AA, 5% hispanic, 2% middle E
avg age: 29.5
avg age apprehended: 38
avg killing span: 8 years
total # of victims: 766-955

Victims of male solo's

adults: 94%
specific victim type: 91%
strangers: 61%
prostitutes: 15%
females: 42%
children: 1%

Mobility

male offenders: most common type stay close to kill sites
(FBI 2009-2011 study to identify victims of traveling SK...found 500+ bodies alongside freeways in past 30 yrs)

Stalkers!!!!

LAPD threat management unit
simple obsessional
love obsessional
erotomania
false victimization

HICKEY stalker typologies

domestic: power/anger, obsessional, nuisance, sexual predator, erotomania
stranger: power/anger, obsessional, nuisance
factitious: false victimization, hero fantasy

Non-site Stalking

phone calls
emails
faxes
letters
gifts
texts
social media
video

Site Stalking

following
workplace visits
home visits
signatures
vandalism
sending or leaving gifts
displaying weapons

the "quiet killers

female serials killers acting alone almost invisible to public view and can kill for many years w/o detection

female serial killer names

beautiful blonde killer, giggling grandma, old shoe box Annie, and killer granny, black widow, death angel, & damsel of death. The media gives them nicer names/goes easier on female SKs

F Mobility

-place specific:common among female offenders, kill and abandon in the same location
-nursing homes, hospitals, and private homes, etc
-1/3 of all female serial murders were identified as place specific murderers
-usually kill for other than sex, mainly m

F Poisoners

-most likely to use poison
-potassium chloride, strychnine, & arsenic
-arsenic was popular for hundreds of years
-in 1800s arsenic purchased at any chemists' shop (drugstore)
-arsenic used in small quantities by women: improve facial complexions

F Stressors

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F Public Response

compared to male offenders, female serial killers appeared to have been preferentially treated by media and criminal justice system. women serial murderers are often confined to mental institutions rather than being put to death

victims of female serial killers

-adults only: 81%
-children only: 14%
-average number of victims: 3.1-3.9
-strangers only: 43%
-prostitutes: 5%
-elderly: 10%
-patients: 10%
-males only: 38%
-females only: 14%
-male and female victims: 48%

F methods of killing

-poison only: 19%
-strangle/smother only: 19%
-shoot only: 25%
-stab only: 5%
-blunt force only: 5%
-combo: poisoning, beating, strangling, stabbing, and/or shooting: 27%

female serial killer from 2004-2014

-female killers account for 8%
-percentage of offenders in team cases 57%
-race offenders:
-caucasian: 95%
-african american 5%
-average age: 39
-average age at apprehension: 44
-average of offender killing: 6 years
-total number of victims: 65-81

Male serial killers in the U.S. have declined because:

Advanced Investigations
-DNA analysis and technology advancement
-Investigators and agencies collaborating
-Scientifically credible offender/victim profiling
-Cold cases being solved
-Public awareness
-Internet fantasies provide an outlet

How the image of SKs has changed

-Increase of gun use
-Decrease in # of victims

Mobility of Male SK

higher than female SKs

Team Killings

-One group member in control of the other
-Partner dissipates inhibitions and fears

Members of team killers

-psychological control
-intimidation
-persuasion

Group Dynamics

-relationships built on deception and bravado
-if caught the leader blames the subservient members
-unlikely many group members would kill if not for persuasion and manipulation from the leader.

Identifying Team Killers

-typically 2-5 members
-males usually assume leadership
-male/female lovers
-women are rarely leaders

Solo vs Team

Solo
-killers cause greater destruction/death
-more team members means a greater chance of leaving behind evidence
Team
-higher # of place specific
-remain in local proximity to killing sights
-fewer victims per case

Victim Selection for Team Killers

- equally target men and women
-target adults and teen more than children
-among teenager female are the more common victims
-among strangers women are the most common victims
-not all strangers are at equal risk

Motives and Methods of Team Killers

Purpose
-to keep victims alive as long as possible to subject to torture
Methods
-mutilations (stab, dissection, forms of cutting)
Motives
-motives of sexual nature
-money is NOT a huge motive for killing

Hillside Stranglers

-cousins
-Bianchi was handsom and charming, With a hot temper and organized
-Buono was 17 years older than Bianchi and was the dominant one. He had an insatiable sexual appetite and sadistic.

Most male SKs exhibit

malignant narcissism, an extreme form of narcissistic personality disorder.
-pathologically grandiose
-lacking in conscience and behavioral control
-demonstrations of joyful cruelty and sadism.

HICKEY Stalker typologies

-Stranger: power/anger, obsessional, nuisance
-Domestic: ^ + sexual predator, erotomania
-Factitious: hero fantasy, false victimization.

LAPD 4 categories of stalkers

-Simple obsessional
-Love obsessional
-Erotomania
-False victimization

Simple obsessional stalker

The offender knows his victim and stalks bc of perceived mistreatment or separation.

Erotomania

Offender believes victim (often celebrity) is in love with them. Often female offenders.

Love obsessional stalker

Stranger-to-stranger stalking, harasses victim for attention.

False-victimization syndrome

Offender falsely accuses another of stalking them and assumes role of victim.

Site vs. Non-site

2 types of stalking methods
Site: following, workplace visits, vandalism, leaving gifts, displaying weapons
Non-site: calls, emails, letters, messages, gifts

BTK Killer

Bound himself because he was a masochist

Arthur Shawcross

-killed prostitutes he thought were stealing from him
-claims to have a "partial seizure", see white light and wakes up after murder
-killed and left bodies by river, sometimes returned to body and continued to mutilate it
-avoided cops by listening to th

Ted Bundy

-confessed to almost 30 homicides
-narcissistic
-was handsome and charismatic so it was easier for him to get to women
-kept mementos of his victims
-very high in psychopath
-cold and showed no empathy
-"murder is about posession"
-handcuffs weapon of cho

Jeffery Dahmer

-sudden change in personality as a young kid, parents had to force him to interact with others
-mother mentally unstable, parents bad relationship
-dissected roadkill around puberty
-realized he was attracted to men but turned to violence for ~pleasure~
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Robert Van Rhodes

-"Truck Stop Killer"
-trucker that picked up hitchhikers
-raped and tortured them in his 18 wheeler
-houston/pasadena area
-believed to have 50+ victims, only 3 confirmed

Aileen Wuernos

-guilty of murdering 6 men
-was sexually active at a young age and sold herself to get money
-She would act as a hitchhiker and kill the men who picked her up. She would steal their money and dump the body and car
-claimed that the police set her up to ki

dominatrix and massicist

non-harmful if consensual

partialism

part of body (toe fetish) non-harmful

Williams, Dorner, Turner

All African American serial killers

Henry Wallace

-killed 9 AA women over 2 years
-pretended to be a brotherly figure
-went to funerals of some of his victims

Carlton Gary

-killed mostly widows
-Stocking Strangler

Calvin Jackson

-killed 9 victims
-strangulation
-sexually assaulted victims in a hotel he worked at

Samuel Dixon

AA ordained minister
-committed four sexual homicides of men and women
-necrophiliac

Bruce Mendenhall

truck stop prostitutes
discovered rape kit in truck

Robert Long

10 young women abducted from florida
bound, raped, murderd
many prostitutes

4 categories of rapists

displaced aggression
compensatory
sexual aggressive
impulsive

Wayne Henley and Dean team killers

wayne was 15
dean was 33
dean made wayne lure boys to kill them