Serial_Killers_Profiles_PPT

Serial Killers

 Serial murders - repetitive homicides, nearly always one- on-one murders, where the perpetrator is usually a stranger or has a slight acquaintance to the victim.

 The serial murderer’s motivation to kill is not based on crimes of passion, victim precipitation, personal gain or profit. Serial murderers are nearly always males prompted by sexual or aggressive drives to exert power through killing.

 Usually intelligent Good appearance Ted Bundy Superficial charm Able to differentiate right from wrong Have no conscience Enjoy victim's terror

 Serial murderers are often very mobile, traveling from one locale to another to find victims, extensive interstate travel Lack of any prior association with the victims Use of remote burial sites

 A psychological profile is a submitted report utilizing information and approaches from various social and behavioral sciences, focusing on a specific type of violent crime According to the FBI, a typical serial killer is a Caucasian male between the ages of 18-32 who has been a victim of child abuse and who has exhibited signs of the McDonald triad  McDonald triad – bedwetting after the age of 12, setting fires, killing small animals

 Intelligent, college educated, handsome man who faked injuries and impersonated police officers to gain access to his victims. His criminal activity began as a peeping tom and as a shoplifter. While at the University of Washington, Bundy worked for a suicide hotline with writer, Anne Rule, who later wrote a bestseller “A Stranger Beside Me”.

 The majority of Bundy’s victims were young women with blonde/light brown hair parted in the middle. Many victims were stabbed, raped, tortured, and had been strangled with panty hose. He desecrated and dismembered them. Bundy confessed to killing 23 women between 1974-1978, but the official toll may be closer to 100. Bite mark evidence from his victims at Florida State University sealed his fate. Bundy was put to death in Florida's electric chair in 1989.

 Ramirez, avowed devil worshipper, randomly raped and murdered his victims in their homes. Most of Ramirez's victims lived near freeways. In July 1989, Ramirez killed one of his victims, beat and raped the man's wife, and then raped the couple's 8-year-old son. While in 8th grade, Ramirez began sniffing glue and smoking marijuana. By the time he began killing, he had graduated to shooting cocaine.

 Lieutenant Gil Carrillo, of the LA Sheriff’s Department, was the co-lead investigator of the Night Stalker serial murder case. Ramirez’s AC/DC baseball cap, his size eleven and a half Avia sneaker footprint, along with his fingerprint found on a stolen car led to his capture and conviction.

 Ramirez was captured  Ramirez's picture was shortly after a then run in newspapers fingerprint lifted from nationwide. When a stolen car was linked spotted by citizens in a to the Night Stalker. rough neighborhood in California's state-of- Los Angeles, Ramirez the-art fingerprint bolted from a liquor database had been up store running nearly and running for only two miles. Shortly three minutes when the thereafter a group of match was discovered. people began beating Ramirez, until stopped by LAPD.

 He died in 2013 of natural causes

 Gacy, a successful contractor and pillar of his community, was arrested for the murder of more than thirty young boys. These boys had been sodomized and strangled. They often were tricked into being handcuffed. He buried 28 of his victims in the crawl space under his home. He was put to death by lethal injection on May 10, 1994.

 Dahmer, like Bundy, was calm, cool, and collected. He invited young boys to his apartment to drink and take pictures. He appeared to be so normal that two Milwaukee police officers actually released one of Dahmer's fourteen-year-old victims back to him after the victim had escaped and had gone to an area hospital. Dahmer killed at least 17 people, by inviting them to his apartment, and then drugging, strangling, and dismembering them. He cannibalized some of his victims as well. A prison inmate killed Dahmer.

 Most of the Zodiac killings took place in the San Francisco Bay Area during a five-year period from 1969 - 1974. The Zodiac, has been positively linked to the deaths of seven students. However, in letters written to San Francisco newspapers, he claimed to have killed nearly forty people. The Zodiac attacked his victims (usually couples) on weekends, in areas near water, using a different weapon and a different automobile each time. Neither sexual molestation nor robbery were motives. (\"Zodiac\" by Robert Graysmith, 1976)

 Lawrence Kane –  Kathleen Johns identified Kane as her abductor  Pam Huckaby, sister to Zodiac victim Darlene Ferrin, identified Kane as a man who followed Darlene in the months before her murder  Kane traded his car in five days after Ferrin's murder  Kane lived within three blocks of the location where Paul Stine was murdered in San Francisco  In 1970, Kane moved to Lake Tahoe as did possible Zodiac victim, Donna Lass. Kane and Lass worked in the same building

 Rick Marshall  Lived within blocks of the Stine murder scene  Worked as a projectionist at a silent movie theater. The Zodiac had signed one of his letters as \"The Red Phantom\", a silent movie.  Owned a Royal typewriter and a teletype machine - devices such as these had been used to create messages written to police and the newspapers  Owned a car with a stripped reverse gear (as used in the Vallejo attempted murders)  Physical appearance - crew cut and similar glasses to the Zodiac

 Zodiac’s first murder*, two kids out on a first date, occurred in 1968, near Vallejo, California. A couple was attacked near Lake Berryessa, another “lover’s lane” Paul Stine, a San Francisco cab driver was murdered and a piece of his shirt was later sent to the police as proof that “The Zodiac” was the murderer. At the time, the Vallejo murder was thought to be Zodiac’s first

 The 1966 murder of Riverside college student Cheri Jo Bates was later thought to be the work of the Zodiac. This watch was found near the murder scene. It was sold at a PX in England. (Post Exchange is a store that sells merchandise to military personnel )

 The Zodiac signed his letters with the symbol above His letters included cryptograms, “a type of puzzle which consists of a short piece of text encrypted with a simple substitution cipher in which each letter is replaced by a different letter. To solve the puzzle, one must recover the original lettering“ [1] [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptogram retrieved 4/30/08

 Three of the Zodiac’s four cryptograms have never been solved http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptogram retrieved 4/30/08 The identity of the killer is still unknown



 Dennis Rader, the Bind, Torture, Kill strangler murdered his victims during a 25 year crime spree in Wichita, Kansas. Rader was apprehended after DNA evidence collected at a crime scene was tested against DNA collected from Rader's daughter. [1] Rader was married with two children He was a Boy Scout leader, a compliance officer in charge of animal control Rader was a psychopath who morphed into a serial killer, who easily maintained a family life while committing these heinous murders  In typical psychopath style, Rader didn’t show a lot of affection or emotion [1] http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/02/27/btk.investigation/index.html - Obtained June 9, 2008

 He was arrested, found guilty and sentences to 10 life sentences

 Aileen Wuornos, a female prostitute, killed at least six men on the roads of Florida. She was the subject of the film \"Monster\", which starred Charlize Theron. Wuornos pawned a camera and radar detector that belonged to one of her victims and had left her required thumbprint on the receipt. When the thumbprint was run through AFIS (Automated Fingerprint Identification System), her thumbprint matched an outstanding warrant against a Lori Grody (one of Wuornos' aliases) Wuornos‘ bloody palm print was also found in the vehicle of one of her victim's Wuornos claimed she had killed each of her victims in self- defense. However, because of Florida's \"Williams Rule\", information regarding the other murders was presented to the jury, clearly showing the pattern to the murders committed by Wuornos. She was sentenced to death by the electric chair (1992)

 Puente was a 59-year-old boarding house owner in Sacramento, CA. who killed seven of her tenants and buried their bodies in her backyard. She was sentenced to life w/o parole. When neighbors complained about the stench coming from Puente's yard, she told them the sewer was backed up, rats were dead under the floorboards, or she blamed the odor on the fish emulsion she put on her garden.  When her boarders started disappearing, a concerned social worker tipped off police, who made a gruesome discovery: She had drugged and killed her frail boarders.  Puente's motive was to collect her tenants' government benefit checks

 Bundy was apprehended after a patrol officer noticed a vehicle prowling an area near a restaurant that had just closed. Bundy, who sped away, was followed and then stopped by the alert patrol officer. Bundy then provided a stolen credit card as identification, assaulted the officer, and attempted to flee the scene. One of John Wayne Gacy's victims worked in a pharmacy. He left the pharmacy briefly to speak with a contractor in the parking lot about summer employment. When he failed to return to his job, his disappearance was reported. Gacy had been spotted in the pharmacy between 6 and 8 PM the night of the victim's disappearance. David Berkowitz,known as the \"Son of Sam\", came under suspicion when investigators noticed that he had received a parking ticket at a location near one of the murder scenes. When following up on the parking citation, an officer noticed a machine gun protruding from a bag in Berkowitz's car.