FBI serial killer profile
Anger- Defined as a motivation in which an offender killed victims based on personal pentup hostility that was projected towards a person or group represented by the victim. The victim could have been a symbol of this hostility, or may have just been an available, vulnerable target to the offender
Mental illness - although not technically a motivation, this “motive” was utilized as a category to cover the cases in which an offender appeared to demonstrate symptoms of various psychiatric maladies . In turn, those symptoms were a significantly contributing factor for the murders . There were some cases in which offenders were clinically diagnosed by mental health professionals; however, the majority of the included cases were based upon third party reporting of obvious psychiatric features
Victimology-
Stranger - was defined as no known relationship between the offender and the victim
Concealed was defined as the offender hiding or concealing the victim’s body for a number of reasons . This was to either delay discovery of the victim’s body; to destroy physical evidence; or to use time to distance the discovery of the victim’s body from any observable contact between the offender and the victim . This also included placing the bodies of the victims in isolated locations that delayed discovery of the victims
PATHWAY #1
Offenders
All were White .
Offenders were between the ages of 24-43 and not married .
90 .0% were working full-time at the time of the murder
Half had prior military service .
All of the offenders had a criminal history; however, no offenders had arrests for patronizing prostitutes .
Almost 80% of offenders killed between two and four victims .
Motivation for Same Sex Murders:
The motivations for the murders were:
• Sexual (85 .3%)
• Profit (5 .9%)
• Mental Illness (4 .4%)
• Anger (1 .5%)
• Unknown (3 .0%)
I believe Jeffrey Dahmer is playing the system, especially at his trial. Based on his confession he knew what he was doing was wrong. He was not mentally stable but he was not mentally insane. Dahmer knew how to use his charm into getting out of his criminal charges in the past and he was trying to use the insane plead to get out of his murder charges. He pleaded guilty due to insanity but was not mentally insane in my opinion. I think the 15 life sentences were properly due. Dahmer's motivations fit in with FBI profile for same sex murders. His motivation was sexual, that paired with mental illness. Dahmer fit the FBI profile description, he was white, age 24-43 and not married, had prior military service, and had a criminal history. His victims were mostly black males, with just a couple of caucasian males or hispanic victims ranging in ages.
Sources:
Serial Murder: Pathways for Investigations. (2016). Retrieved December 06, 2016, from https://www.fbi.gov/file-repository/serialmurder-pathwaysforinvestigations.pdf/view Sources:
Serial Murder: Pathways for Investigations. (2016). Retrieved December 06, 2016, from https://www.fbi.gov/file-repository/serialmurder-pathwaysforinvestigations.pdf/view Sources: