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Profiling a Serial Killer

            
             The following material illustrates the profile of a possible serial killer of four given crime scenes that have specific patterns using profiling techniques to identify possible characteristics of the perpetrator. In the first crime scene, the victim is a female college student whose body was found outside her apartment near Cal State Northridge with no signs of outward trauma. The second victim is a young male college student who was found in an alley behind a campus cafe.
             with his throat slashed. The third victim was suspected to be a female based on the skeletal remains found at the scene near the campus field equipment shed whose age is unknown. The skeletal remains suggest a possible stab or gunshot wound to the head. The fourth victim was a male college student found in his car slumped over the steering wheel in the auto campus maintenance shed with no visible wounds. The following victims were recently found in the above stated order over the period of about two weeks.
             Psychological Information.
             Modus Operandi.
             The primary action or procedure the offender used in these crimes was focused on the music that the perpetrator intentionally left behind. In all four cases, a cd or cassette was left behind whose lyrics connected to the crime or the evidence in some way. In addition, the weapon used varied in each murder case in which two that weren't identifiable. The modus operandi describes specific evidence the criminal act leaves behind. Bartol and Bartol provide an example.
             of serial burglars finding new tools or different methods in overriding an alarm system. In these cases, the perpetrator leaves behind messages in the form of notes, objects and music. This leads to the offender doing thing things not necessary to commit the crime.
             Signature.
             In three out of four of these cases the offender leaves behind a syringe that is bagged as evidence. Bartol and Bartol claims "the signature may involve certain items that are left behind or removed from the scene, or other symbolic patterns such as writings or drawings on the wall".


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