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Serial Murder : Pathways for Investigations
Every day, law enforcement officers across America are called to respond to homicides. Each case is tragic.
Each one means someone has lost a spouse, a parent, a sibling, or a child. Few cases, however, are more devastating
and perplexing as serial murder.
These multiple victim crimes may span days, months, or even years, and can cross numerous jurisdictions.
Often the relationship between suspect and victim is difficult to discern, and the motive may remain a mystery.
Investigators may have little to go on other than evidence at the crime scene where the murder victim is
found. They face pressure from the public and the media to quickly solve these high-profile crimes, before
the killer strikes again.
As the clock ticks, investigators with different levels of expertise must sift through a vast amount of information
to narrow down their pool of suspects. Although much information has been published about serial
killers, much of it may be of little use to investigators working an active serial murder investigation.
This monograph represents five years of empirical research gathered by experts at the FBI’s National Center
for the Analysis of Violent Crime. Our hope is that it will give our law enforcement partners the resources
they need to better understand the motivations and behaviors behind these crimes, to discover the necessary
correlations between potential suspects and cases, and to more expeditiously identify, arrest, and convict
serial killers.
Each one means someone has lost a spouse, a parent, a sibling, or a child. Few cases, however, are more devastating
and perplexing as serial murder.
These multiple victim crimes may span days, months, or even years, and can cross numerous jurisdictions.
Often the relationship between suspect and victim is difficult to discern, and the motive may remain a mystery.
Investigators may have little to go on other than evidence at the crime scene where the murder victim is
found. They face pressure from the public and the media to quickly solve these high-profile crimes, before
the killer strikes again.
As the clock ticks, investigators with different levels of expertise must sift through a vast amount of information
to narrow down their pool of suspects. Although much information has been published about serial
killers, much of it may be of little use to investigators working an active serial murder investigation.
This monograph represents five years of empirical research gathered by experts at the FBI’s National Center
for the Analysis of Violent Crime. Our hope is that it will give our law enforcement partners the resources
they need to better understand the motivations and behaviors behind these crimes, to discover the necessary
correlations between potential suspects and cases, and to more expeditiously identify, arrest, and convict
serial killers.
94 pages, Kindle Edition
Published February 11, 2017
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