| Chapter 2: | Characterizations in Murder |
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| Forensic findings |
-Strangles, ligature, garrote, and so forth
-In touch with reality and lives with real world successfully on daily basis but not as well as they might wish -May engage in sexual behavior with victims as test, victim punishment, or power but not aberrant sex |
| Victim |
-Strangers
-Conscious level needs to eradicate certain persons: prostitutes, ethnic or racial group, homosexuals, other bothersome types |
Table 7. Hedonistic serial killer-lust (LHA) and thrill hedonistic sexualization (THS).
| Category | Characteristics |
| Offender profile:Hedonistic serial killer-lust (LHA) |
-Offender in touch with reality and lives with real world successfully on daily basis
-Organized nonsocial or disorganized asocial (Burgess et al., 1986) |
| Crime scene |
-Controlled crime scene
-Overkill -Body moved -No weapon at scene |
| Forensic findings |
-Use of weapons of torture
-Strangles, ligature, garrote, and so forth -Penile and/or object penetration -“Killing is pleasurable for the offender, an eroticized experience” (Holmes & Holmes, 2002, p. 113) -Acts may include “anthropophagy, dismemberment, necrophilia, torture, mutilation, domination, or other fear-instilling activities for the victim” (Holmes & Holmes, 2002, p. 113) -Has made connection between sex and violence -May engage in sexual behavior with victims as test, punishment, or power against the victim |
| Victim |
Strangers
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