Tracey’s Reviews > Mapping Murder: The Secrets of Geographical Profiling > Status Update

Ah - this bit points up one of the problems with the author's technique: you need data points. In other words, you need victims. As many as possible. Two bodies aren't going to do it. Three will narrow it down. Four or more, though - now we're talking!

Such stranger murders are very rare in Britain, less than 150 a year

Oh, well, if that's all, then that's all right then

"...As if they were soulless ball bearings..."

But - -but - - but you JUST said you don't believe in the soul.

I'm sorry, "the demise of the belief in the soul"? This is a thing? People in the main no longer believe in even a non-denominational driving spirit that differentiates a living person from a dead one, and possibly lives on in some form after the death of the body?

At all?

Wow.

OK.

Good luck with that.

THE WILDERNESS THAT IS THE REST OF NEWFOUNDLAND?

Funny, in all my trips to visit family in Newfoundland, I never saw wilderness. I found it even rather civilized.

This author is a moron.

But ... why is a killer who uses a hammer called "The Yorkshire Ripper"? Ripper = knife, no?

Really? Mocking the idea that Jack the Ripper might have been a "pillar of the community" mere minutes after talking about pillar of the community John Wayne Gacy? Mm hmm.

This whole section about Fred West is just nauseating detail pulled from the killer's "autobiography", almost a brag that the author purchased access to it - and not a bit so far has anything at all in the least to do with the subject of the book.