Ep11 Blood Hungry

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Criminal Minds Analysis 1
S1, Ep11 Blood Hungry - a killer whose delusional fantasies lead him to commit three murders and a kidnapping.
In the beginning when they found the second victim the crime profile was believed to be for two suspects, because you could tell that one victim only got as close as it took to see the victim while the other murdered and eviscerated the victim. They believed that one of the suspects was just a drug addict and thief because you could tell that the drug cabinet had been rummaged through and things had been stolen. While they thought the other was psychotic and possibly knew the victim because of the way the eviscerated the victim and only got as close as needed. One suspect was described as; male, crazy, tall, and skinny, with a busted lip. When they brought their first suspect into custody they had found out that he showed up after the murder and was the one who stole things. After evidence was found and another description was given there next profile describes the suspect as; male, black hoodie, 20-30
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He studied comparative religion in college and compared his case to a similar on called "The Vampire of Sacramento". What was believed to motivate him to murder these people was a religious background. Many crimes are committed because of religious beliefs. Religion, Age, and Crime states, "A growing body of empirical research demonstrates that the relative presence of religious adherents at the community-level has important relationships with rates of crime and violence." (Harris, 2015, p. 211). Showing that a lot of crimes are driven on religion. Along with crimes a lot of people who are cannibals do so because of a religious story so they are driven to eat others based off of religion. So based off of evidence his motivation for these crimes was religious because of the things he did during the murders and his background in

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