JW-Criminal+Profiling+Video

1. Define Criminal Profiling > 
 * Uses evidence from the scene to predict what the killer is like. "to understand an artist, you must look at the artwork"
 * to create a profile of the killer.
 * Family life, childhood, adult life and what they are like
 * not to substitute investigation, but to enhance investigation

2. Pick one of the killers/cases and describe how criminal profiling was used to catch him/her. >
 * Alaska 1983, June 12th prostitute- man raped her and chained her to a basement pillar. Kidnapper said that they were going to go to his cabin house. She planned out an escape, he chased her and called out saying that he would killer her. Police helped her identify man, but not a lot of details. Few days later, police dropped case.
 * 14 women were all dancers and reported missing. One of the dancers found in woods 50 miles from anchorage. Another exotic dancer was found in a location only accessible to get to through airplanes.
 * Robert Hanson-Trade mark stutter, personal demon's haunting him, 5 years sentence, and women abuse.
 * FBI profiling unit, told about suspect, but didn't want to know about him rather the killings. Told about body dump sights, prostitutes. phoned in profile: like the outdoors, hunting, poor self image.
 * Hanson's physical and mental background for warrant. Everything that the profilers said was going to be there was there : guns, jewelry from women. Could only be charged kidnapping and rape of prostitute. Did not confess but gave info. Found flight map of where a location of a lot of bodies were found. He confessed to over 17 murders in 3 years- Admitted to 14 more