Habitual offender

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…

Their crimes are planned, well thought out, and staged to prevent investigators from finding evidence. Disorganized offenders on the other hand are of below-average intelligence, socially inadequate, with an anxious mood during the crime, which usually leads to a messy crime scene with lots of evidence such as blood or fingerprints. These terms are beneficial to profiling…

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…

critical in criminal investigations (Canter & Allison, 2000 as cited in Bartol & Bartol, 2011): What are the most salient behavior characteristics that may contribute to identifying and success in prosecuting the offender? What inference can be derived about the characteristics of the offender that contribute to identifying him or her? Are there any other crimes…

L. John E. Douglas is a former FBI special agent and unit chief in the United State’s FBI . He was the first criminal profiler and he has written record-breaking books on criminal psychology. Thx this man, he has given me a future purpose and goal in life to achieve and that is to become a federal agent. To do this I need to study criminology and criminal psychology. He taught me criminologists have a significant job in the criminal justice system. Criminologists like him conduct research while…

is treatment of sex offenders. Sex offenders are defined as individuals who have committed a crime involving a sexual act. Within this heterogeneous population, there are adults and juvenile rapists, pedophiles, incest offenders, child sexual abusers, and non-contact offenders. Sexual offenders come across every line ranging from age, gender, race, socio-economic status, intelligence level, and mental health status (CSG.gov, n.d.). Even though there are no typical sex offenders or profile,…

The infamous Ted Bundy once said, “Society wants to believe it can identify evil people, or bad or harmful people, but it’s not practical. There are no stereotypes” (Bundy). Despite Bundy’s beliefs, professionals had hope that they could get inside his head and their hope is what ultimately led to justice. The 1970s was the decade of criminals and the time period when Bundy was front and center of the reign of terror. Bundy struck fear into everyone everywhere and with a jaw-dropping 30 victims…