been made of the "hunting patterns" of serial offenders, mainly serial killers and those committing repeated sex crimes. Such patterns constitute the interaction...
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Recidivism (redirect from Serial offender)
Incapacitation (penology) Incarceration Positive criminology Serial killer Serial offender hunting patterns Henslin, James M. (2008). Social Problems: A Down-to-earth...
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serial killers were active in the United States. In one study of serial homicide in South Africa, many patterns were similar to established patterns in...
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Robert Ressler (category Offender profiling)
the psychological profiling of violent offenders in the 1970s and is often credited with coining the term "serial killer", though the term is a direct translation...
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Geographic profiling (category Offender profiling)
growing in popularity and, combined with offender profiling, can be a helpful tool in the investigation of serial crime. While the use of spatial analysis...
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A serial killer is typically a person who murders three or more people, in two or more separate events over a period of time, for primarily psychological...
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Aileen Wuornos (category American female serial killers)
Shipley, Stacey L.; Arrigo, Bruce A. (2004). The Female Homicide Offender: Serial Murder and the Case of Aileen Wuornos. Pearson. p. 98. ISBN 978-0-13-114161-2...
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Dennis Rader (redirect from Btk serial killer)
Years of Hunting for the Wichita Serial Killer. Jossey Bass Wiley, 2007. ISBN 978-0-7879-8484-7. Ramsland, Katherine. Confession of a Serial Killer: The...
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Red Dragon (novel) (category Novels about serial killers)
during the late 1970s. He learned about serial killers, offender profiling and the role of the FBI in serial killer investigations. After his father became...
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David Berkowitz (redirect from David berkowitz (serial killer))
ISBN 978-1-4381-3191-7. Harmening, William M. (2014). Serial Killers: The Psychosocial Development of Humanity's Worst Offenders. Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas Publisher...
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bloodstain pattern analysis for the fictional Miami Metro Police Department, who leads a secret parallel life as a vigilante serial killer, hunting down murderers...
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Mark of a Killer (category Non-fiction works about serial killers)
examines the disturbing behaviors of serial killers. As of Season 3, the series is currently titled Mark of a Serial Killer. Each 45 minutes-long episode...
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Yap Weng Wah (born 1983), alias Wai Loon or Loon, is a Malaysian serial sex offender, who formerly worked as a quality assurance engineer, and is currently...
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Göhrde murders (category Serial murders in Germany)
state before the murder or if the murderer undressed them himself. The offender also stole the victims' picnic basket and took their car keys, using them...
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murder victim. Williams was initially presumed to have drowned on a 2000 hunting trip to Lake Seminole, a large reservoir straddling the Georgia-Florida...
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Jerry Brudos (category Serial killers from Oregon)
Henry "Jerry" Brudos (January 31, 1939 – March 28, 2006) was an American serial killer and necrophile known as the Lust Killer and the Shoe Fetish Slayer...
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Dean Corll (category Serial killers from Indiana)
Corll (December 24, 1939 – August 8, 1973) was an American serial killer and sex offender who abducted, raped, tortured and murdered a minimum of twenty-nine...
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bloodstain pattern analysis for the fictional Miami Metro Police Department, who leads a secret parallel life as a vigilante serial killer, hunting down murderers...
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Andrei Chikatilo (category Executed Russian serial killers)
Psychopathology of Russia's Notorious Serial Killer. Barricade Books. ISBN 0-942-63790-9. Lourie, Richard (1993). Hunting The Devil: The Pursuit, Capture and...
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agent Emily Byrne, who disappears without a trace while hunting one of Boston's most notorious serial killers, and is declared dead in absentia. Six years...
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bloodstain pattern analysis for the fictional Miami Metro Police Department, who leads a secret parallel life as a vigilante serial killer, hunting down murderers...
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The Silence of the Lambs (film) (category 1990s serial killer films)
stars Jodie Foster as Clarice Starling, a young FBI trainee who is hunting a serial killer known as "Buffalo Bill" (Ted Levine), who skins his female victims...
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Rossmo's formula (category Offender profiling)
Rossmo's formula is a geographic profiling formula to predict where a serial criminal lives. It relies upon the tendency of criminals to not commit crimes...
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Elmer Wayne Henley (category Juvenile serial killers)
Elmer Wayne Henley Jr. (born May 9, 1956) is an American serial killer and accomplice to murder convicted in 1974 of the murder of six of the twenty-nine...
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Manfred Seel (category German serial killers)
Hesse Ripper, Jack the Ripper of Schwalbach and Alaska, was a suspected serial killer believed to have committed five murders in the Frankfurt Rhine-Main...
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Christopher Wilder (category Australian serial killers)
Retrieved April 3, 2016. Newton, Michael (1990). Hunting Humans: An Encyclopedia of Modern Serial Killers. Loompanics Unlimited. ISBN 978-1-55950-026-5...
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John Wayne Gacy (category Executed American serial killers)
Wayne Gacy (March 17, 1942 – May 10, 1994) was an American serial killer and sex offender who raped, tortured and murdered at least thirty-three young...
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Scott Lee Kimball (category Serial killers from Colorado)
Scott Lee Kimball (born September 21, 1966) is a convicted serial killer, con man and fraudster from Boulder County, Colorado, who murdered at least four...
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Larry Eyler (category Serial killers from Chicago)
also called the Interstate Killer and the Highway Killer, was an American serial killer who murdered a minimum of twenty-one teenage boys and young men in...
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Peter Sutcliffe (category English serial killers)
(2 June 1946 – 13 November 2020), also known as Peter Coonan, was an English serial killer who was convicted of murdering thirteen women and attempting to murder...
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