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= Criminal Profiling Video Wiki Notes=

Criminal Profiling: using research from previous crimes to create a portrait of a criminal’s mind

Wayne Williams Case: 13 year old was found, and the boy was strangled. Another boy, near the 13 year old, was found shot. Bell’s body was found strangled in an abandoned school classroom. 9 year old was sent to the gas station to buy cigarettes, and the son was reported missing after he was gone for several hours. Black children’s murders were publicized, and a task force was employed to investigate the murders. The FBI was assigned to create a profile of the killer. The killer was probably a black male because the murders were committed in poor black neighborhoods and the suspect got around unnoticed. Patterns of behavior were documented in other already convicted serial killers. When the FBI returned to Atlanta, more victims had been claimed. By February, 3 more victims had been claimed. The list of murdered children numbered 19. A 10 year old boy was found dead in the woods, and he had been missing for a year. The profile reached was a black male in his mid-twenties, and he was a police buff. The murders were in fact connected according to hair and fiber evidence found at the scenes. Douglas predicted that the next group of victims would be found near water. The investigators suspected that the bodies would be dumped in the water to wash away evidence. 9 more victims were found in the rivers of Atlanta. A car was pulled over on a bridge, and the driver was identified as Wayne Williams. Williams fit the investigators’ profile, and an only child. He still lived in his childhood home. Another strangled body was found on the river; he was a 27 year old retarded man. Not enough evidence was present to press charges, so Williams was watched closely. Hair evidence found in Williams’ house and car matched the evidence found on 2 of the bodies, and he was charged for their murders. The criminal profiler gave insight to the prosecutors as to what to do to provoke Williams into rage. The prosecutor took the profiler’s advice, and a conviction was made for both murders.