| Chapter 2: | Characterizations in Murder |
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| Forensic findings |
-Leaves little physical forensic evidence
-Denotes forensic awareness of evidentiary significance -May mutilate or dismember body -Hands on: bindings, ligatures, rape, smothering, removes clothing from victim (may redress for disposal) -Death by: asphyxia, strangulation, or blunt force |
| Victim |
-High-risk victim selection: prostitute, substance abuser, <100 IQ, homosexual, personality disordered, youthful, female
-Acquaintance or stranger |
Table 3. Mixed sexual homicide classification characteristics.
| Category | Characteristics |
| Offender profile:Mixed sexual homicide | None noted |
| Crime scene | May have elements of both organized and disorganized |
| Forensic findings |
-Hands on
-Mutilation and overkill -Body not concealed or poorly concealed -Blitz attack, overkill, and/or blunt force trauma -Death by: asphyxia, strangulation, or blunt force |
| Victim |
-High-risk victim and low-risk or high-risk victim selection: offender as opportunist
-Acquaintance or stranger |
Other researchers have influenced the ongoing debates and clarification of homicide motivation and behavioral classifications. In 1996 Holmes and Holmes (2002, 2004) presented a five-part typology of serial murderers and continued to use the classification presented as an organized and disorganized typology serial killer model developed by Douglas, Burgess, Burgess, & Ressler (1992). A series of typologies representing the offender's profile, crime scene behavior, crime scene forensic