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Criminal profiling: Using research from crime scenes and convicted criminals to make a portrait of the criminal at hand. The point is to create a profile of the killer. Profilers look for things that happen in the past that could lead to present. You can get this information by questioning: What type of area are the bodes put in? In order to do it correctly you must only learn about the victims, not the suspect, so nothing influences your opinion. Using deductive reasoning and basic clues to create a profile of the killer is what criminal profiling is.

Summaries: This case involves murders of young black boys in Atlanta. They decided that they were dealing with a black male early to late twenties because he would be able to move through the environment without being noticed. Hair and fiber evidence on ten of the victims matched. This showed that the murderer had gotten close to his victims. He then started to put the bodies into the rivers. A policeman heard a splash in the river and found Wayne Williams at the top of a bridge. Williams had been known to impersonate policeman and was able to get close to the children because of it. All of the bodies were strangled. They put him under surveillance and the murders stopped. They searched the home of Wayne Williams and found matching fibers in his house as on the bodies. They described him as a man who was angry and seeking power. They predicted that Williams would fake illness in order to get sympathy from the jury and Williams did. The profiler also said that Wayne would take the stand and that is what he did. They said that he would panic when someone touched him and that is what he did. The profiler was correct in everything that they had said about his character. Wayne had an outburst in the court that led to his guilt and two life sentences.

Robert Hanson raped and kidnapped a prostitute. He tried to take the girl into the plane, but she ran away and found the police. He was not charged. There had been 14 dancers before, but nothing was done about them. Hanson had a stutter and had personal demons that had haunted him, arson, assault, and larceny. He was a hunter and was comfortable with the outdoors. The profiler said that he individual might stutter and this man did stutter. They said this because he wouldn’t have to talk to the prostitutes. Hanson offered to give information about the killers. They had discovered several flight maps that showed the police where the bodies were buried and they found 14 more bodies.

There was a girl who went missing at the end of her driveway and the car was running and her purse was in the car. Someone called the home of the missing girl. He said that he had Sherry with him. He sent a letter that was the girl’s last will and testament. She was found dead in the woods and had been dead for four days: so the killer led them to believe that she was alive, when really he wasn’t. They said that the man would be overweight and white and meticulous and that he was a coward. Nine days after Sherry’s body was found, another girl was abducted. They kidnapper called the family and led them to the body of the girl. They used the paper to determine the location of the killer and it led them to Larry Bell who was house sitting for a couple while they were out of town. They suspected that the man would have a flexible job and had had bad things with women. It ended up that the profile fit exactly. Larry told the police that the good Larry couldn’t have done this but the bad Larry could have. The profiler said that Bell would cause an outburst in court for the first time. He was sentenced to death.