Serial Killers

Jordan EustaceSenior Graduation Project

May 12, 2010Mrs. Oren, Period 10

Overview

• Powerpoint presentation

• Application imovie• Application

overview• Class activity

Forensics and Psychology although very different, go

hand in hand when it comes to investigations. One

without the other does not allow a thorough

investigation of serial killers.

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SI

Personal Importance

Special Agent

Why should you care?

“Tracking Serial Killers”

“No one knows why some men and women become serial killers. Yet there are events that seem to be influential…” (Yancey 8)

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FeelLike

Avampire”

"You feel the last bit of breath leaving their body. You're looking into their eyes. A person in that situation is God!"

“The “scene of the crime” might be a room, an entire building, a wharf, and surrounding harbor, the three mile path of a disintegrating airplane, or just the keypad and receiver of a public phone booth”

“A “crime scene” isn’t only the actual location of the crime – it is also the staging and planning areas, the paths of flight to and from the primary scene, and the paths between the primary and secondary scenes.”

“The Forensic Casebook”

“The profiler looks for patterns in crimes and tries to come up with the characteristics of the likely offender….We learn all we can from what has happened, use our experiences to fathom the probable reasons why it happened, and from these factors draw a portrait of the perpetrator of the crime” (Ressler, Shachtman 32)

“Tracking a Serial Killer”

Creating a Criminal Profile

1. Evaluate the criminal act(s)2. Evaluate the crime scene(s)3. Analyze the victim(s)4. Evaluate preliminary police records5. Evaluate autopsy report6. Profile the offender’s characteristics7. Suggest future investigation

f r n i so e s c what is

“Perhaps it may seem as though forensics always

revolves around the laboratory, in which case it does, but one should not

underestimate the importance of what takes place at the crime scene

itself, for without before there is no after, just as there

wouldn't be much use for forensic science if incorrect crime scene procedures led to the discredit of forensic

evidence in court.”

“Tracking Serial Killers”

DNA Profiling

“Even if a forensic anthropologist gets a DNA Profile from a victim, identification cannot be made until the profile is matched to a missing person.”

“not all autopsies are forensic. Determining cause of death many be strictly medical procedure, designed only to answer questions of medical curiosity and not to gather evidence for future legal proceedings. However, violent deaths, suspicious deaths in apparently healthy individuals, and some accidental deaths, fall firmly into the forensic field” (N.E. Genge 171 – 172)

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•Joints and soft tissue

•Joints and soft tissue•Dental records

•Joints and soft tissue•Dental records•Skin

•Joints and soft tissue•Dental records•Skin•Hair

•Joints and soft tissue•Dental records•Skin•Hair•Bone

•Joints and soft tissue•Dental records•Skin•Hair•Bone•Feet

•Joints and soft tissue•Dental records•Skin•Hair•Bone•Feet•Skull

•Joints and soft tissue•Dental records•Skin•Hair•Bone•Feet•Skull•Fingerprints

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Fingerprints

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Finger printing process

• fluff the brush• Light stroke over area• see which direction it is going, and continue

Finger printing process cont..

• Blow off extra powder. • photograph the print• “Apply print tape to the entire print, starting at the top

of the print and moving steadily. You need complete contact, no wrinkles or “fish eyes” (bubbles). With tape in place, firmly press straight down on the entire surface. Don’t rub it about, just press down. (like the art of dropping a cover on a microscope slide without trapping bubbles beneath, taping skills improve with practice)” (N.E. Genge 39)

Finger printing process cont...

• “Just as placement requires a steady hand, removing tape from the surface without wrinkles or creases requires a smooth lift without pauses.

• Carefully lay the tape on the card and ensure there are no loose corners.”

• (N.E. Genge 39)

Fingerprinting process cont….

• Document the collection. Immediately initial and neatly jot notes on the card and in the examiners notebook, making sure to have each lift numbered and mapped to the larger scene maps and diagrams.

• Repeat if it appears a second lift might be better than the first.

✒ “this had been a nightmare crime scene – no nonresident prints anywhere. Then, there it was – this beautiful complete thumb on a piece of chocolate in a Christmas candy box! It’s funny how we think sometimes. The suspect touched nothing else, but was caught because he didn’t like nuts. God bless chocoholics.” (N.E. Genge 30)

Blood splatter patterns

Blood splatter patterns

• “the physical presence of blood droplets-their shape and number, as well as the patterns made when they fell or were sprayed against the walls, floor, or ceiling – tells a story” (N.E. Genge 98)

Blood splatter…

• Shows you the velocity of the drop as it fell– The smaller the droplets, the faster

the injury

• fog of tiny droplets = explosively fast

• Medium = mid-speed / blunt objects

• Large = slow / punch

Blood splatter

• “When a drop of blood hits a smooth surface from directly overhead, it tends to form a round spot”

• “drops from a greater height can form a “crown” – a round drop that hits, bounces up, then falls again to cause small droplets around the original drop.” (N.E. Genge 99)

Blood splatter

• “if a blood drop hits at an angle, the edge that hits first-the leading edge-will be round because the droplet was still round at that point. The far side of the now-deformed droplet, however will be irregular. Looking at the drop, the investigator now knows the direction in which the drop of blood was traveling-toward the jagged edge of the spot” (N.E. Genge 99)

Angle = arc sin (width/length).

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