Offender profiling

Netflix’s Making A Murder, Glaspell’s A Jury of Her Peers, 48 Hours’ Nightmare in Napa, and the podcast Serial are all examples of popular true crime medias. People enjoy true crime because its purpose is to inform and entertain others. True crime medias are made to educate the public about peculiar parts of life that are not discussed in a normal, day-to-day conversation. Learning about true crime allows others to be capable of looking at life through a different lens. When looking through a…

Bundy. From the looks of it, it was said that Ted grew up in the middle-class working family environment. At an early age Bundy revealed a strange interest in the macabre. When he turned 3 he started to show interest in knives and sharp objects. As a child Bundy was a reluctant, but also a very intelligent kid who did exceedingly well in school, but he did not engage well with students or peers at school. As he got older there was a darker side of him that started to develop. Bundy did strange…

What subset of offenders/offenses may be more suitable for profiling and why? The subset of offenders/offenses more suited to profiling is “where discernible patterns are able to be deciphered from the crime scenes or where fantasy motive of the perpetrator is readily apparent” (Brandl, 2018). Crimes where the offender gets some form of sexual or psychological fulfillment out of the act, such as rape or murder, are amongst those best suited for criminal profiling. Typically, in order for the…

The Stranger beside Me: “The Stranger beside Me” is a biographical crime book based on a real story and is written by Ann Rule. This book is all about the notorious serial killer Ted Bundy. Ted Bundy was well known to Rule as she was quite close to him in several series of murders he committed. The reason for choosing this book is that it provides detailed explanation about how and when was the wrongdoings were committed against the law. It describes how the serial killer, Ted Bundy, executed…

The Ken and Barbie killers were a couple that conducted murders together for their own pleasure. This case is very unique from when the study started because of its nature and type of crime. “Ken” real name was Paul Bernardo and “Barbie” real name Karla Homolka. This case is very unique because it was linked from an early age of Paul Bernardo, which led to his rampage. In Paul Bernardo early childhood his father Kenneth fondled with a girl and was charged with child molestation. From such an…

Gary Ridgway is one of America’s most prominent serial killers. He killed for 18 years, until physical evidence was able to link him to murder. Over those years here was picked up for other crimes and released. It is because of him and other killers that America must become better at finding physical evidence. Gary was born in 1949, he is the middle child of three boys. His home life wasn’t completely upsetting, just the occasional heated argument between his parents. His IQ was tested at 82,…

Introduction In 1974, Ted Bundy embarked on a series of grisly murders that began in Seattle, Washington and in a period of over five years spread through Oregon, Utah, Idaho, Colorado, and Florida. His rampage took the lives of at least thirty five women, but there is a lot of controversy over this number. The exact number of women Bundy killed will never be known as experts predict that he killed at least 100 or more. He was known to be a serial killer who went on a killing spree after a…

• Suspect Name: Theodore Robert Cowell “Ted Bundy” • Ethnicity: White • Age at Arrest: 42 • Place of Birth: Burlington, Vermont • Height: 5’10 • Weight: 145-175lbs • Build: Slender Frame • Hair: Wavy dark brown • Record of Arrest: 3 arrest and 2 escapes • Ted Bundy was a very smart and charming man. He knew that young women were not going to just walk away with any random man. To get the women to come within his reach he posed as an injured man that needed help, because Ted Bundy looked…

Theodore Robert Bundy was a serial killer, kidnapper, rapist, burglar, and necrophile. During the 1970’s he murdered a great number of young women and girls. He would lure the young women in his car with his charm, on the passenger side of his vehicle there was no door handle so the women could not escape. He would carry with him many weapons to torture and kill his victims, he would mostly keep the weapons in the trunk of his vehicle. After bundy lured one of his victims into his vehicle he…

As crazy as serial killers may be, most of them don’t even get what they “had hoped for out of his murders” and they just “merely act out a ritualistic fantasy” (Dolan 55). Although insane, according to psychologist Joel Norris’s conception of the ritual phases of serial murder, the serial killers all go through different ritualistic phases mainly for the purpose of finding a “companion” to accomplish their plans, obviously killing them and keeping their body parts. These ritualistic phases…