lots, gay bars, gay districts, or highways for hitchhikers .
to locate victims. These hours usually involve alcohol and .
drugs; victims may briefly meet their killers by drinking .
or smoking-up with them. Pre-crime behavior leads to the .
actual act of murder. In this first phase, the victim .
selection and some triggering factors combine to lead to .
the murder itself. .
The victim selection process is also a very interesting .
process. Often times a murderer will select his victim so .
that they will perfectly fit the characteristics of a .
victim he had previously visualized in his fantasies. He .
will go "hunting" every night for a victim. Because they .
have a specific type in mind, they would wait until an .
appropriate on appeared. In some cases, the victim will .
some how relate to a disturbing part of the killers history .
or will be symbolic of someone in the murderer's past. For .
example, one killer had numerous conflicts with his mother, .
who often reminded him of his inability to develop .
relationships with a certain type of woman. The killer than .
hunted attractive, wealthy, female college students - the .
women his mother claimed were unattainable for him. Some .
victims are selected by certain actions or subtle movements .
they make when first happening upon the killer, as .
described by a killer of hitchhikers: "She was playing up .
the role, the big beautiful smile and getting in the car, .
which was kind of tragic, but she had advertised to get .
blown away." Killers who do not have any notion of .
premeditation claim that a victim may be selected by .
eliciting certain responses within him. For instance, .
someone may remind him of his belief in an unjust world. .
This manifests the killer in him because of the feelings of .
unfair treatment, further justifying the crime. .
Most murders, when describing the serious of .
events leading up to a murder and the murder itself, .
express the fact there was something in particular that .
