ABSTRACT
Case 5.1 A young white female was assaulted and murdered in her middle-class townhome in a Midwestern city. Her body had been displayed in a manner to shock and to oend. She had been subjected to unspeakable brutality, both antemortem and postmortem. Her killer had repeatedly “carved” on her chest, and the letters “W H O R E” were visible. e carving tool was the bolt protruding from the leg of a disassembled table found at the crime scene. A sharp cutting instrument was used to inict postmortem wounds. She had been strangled with a ligature, bound, and anally assaulted with a foreign object. Her body had been “cleansed” with a facial cream. A handwritten note had been placed on her pubic mound suggesting that the murder was a payback to her employer, a judge, for a sentence handed down on the oender. No material consistent with the ligature marks on the body was found inside the residence. Liquid dish soap had been forced inside her vagina and anus. Great care was taken in the anal insertion of an unbroken lightbulb. ere was no evidence of a
Analytical Background 52 e ree-Step Analysis Process 54
Analysis and Victimology 55 Analysis and the Organized or Disorganized Oender 56 Additional Analytical Points 57
Conclusion 60 Bibliography 61
physically forced entry to the residence, and the oender likely spent up to 5 hours with the victim. e victim’s telephone answering tape had been removed, and the residence revealed signs of someone recently vacuuming the upstairs carpet. No foreign ngerprints of value were located.
