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3-11-08 Define Criminal Profiling: using evidence and deductive reasoning from a crime to create a portrait of a killer

Pick one killer/case and describe how criminal profiling was used to catch them:

in black community, many children go missing. --fbi suspected that it was a black male, not conspicuous they found similar hairs on most bodies police buff, near water...he fit their profile williams prime suspect when body found near chattahooche where he was pulled over courtroom strategy--> needed another profile

ALASKA 15 women died, one woman abducted, raped, chained in the basement. the woman escaped and a policeman found her. security guard identified a green car. there were 14 missing dancers who said they had a meeting. never to be heard from again and bodies were found in the woods. Robert Hanson. baker, demons chasing in his mind, severe stutter. FBI requested profiling agent comfortable with outdoors, hunter, stutter, poor self image after getting search warrant, they found guns, jewelry in Hanson home --flight maps were found and showed sites where bodies were found

In this case, 15 prostitutes were reported missing and later dead. one woman was abducted, raped and chained in the basement of the criminals home. As he was taking the woman, she escaped and found an officer who helped with the case. The FBI requested a profile and they came up with the man was comfortable with outdoors, avid hunter, had stutter, mental issues, and poor self image. They received a search warrant and found enough evidence to arrest him. They found prostitutes' jewelry, many guns, and a map of his flight routes. After investigation, it was realized that the maps coincided exactly with the bodies of women that were found. Robert Hanson received life in prison.