Rapist Profiling Paper

 

Profiling Paper

One man has been responsible for at least thirteen rapes and four attempts over the past thirteen years. All of the rapes occurred along the east coast. Below is a list of the attacks, location, weapon used (if any) and a description of the victims.

Year	State	Weapon	Age of Victim	Race of Victim
1997	Maryland	Gun	34	Black
1997	Maryland	Gun	25	Black
1997	Maryland	Gun	27	Black
1997	Maryland	Knife	18	Black
1998	Maryland	Broken Bottle	16 –Victim 18-Witness	Black
1999	Virginia	Knife	19	Black
2000	Virginia	Knife	18	Black
2000	Virginia	Knife	35	Black
2001	Virginia	Screwdriver	41	White
2001	Maryland	Gun	18 19	Black Black
2001	Virginia	Knife	29	Black
2006	Connecticut		46	Black
2006	Connecticut		17	Black
2006	Rhode Island	Masturbated watching an 11. Then scared off by dog.	11/39	White
2007	Connecticut	Threatened 11 month old baby in a crib next to the mother	27	Mixed Race
2007	Connecticut	Fought off. Left his feces in daughters room prior to attack	33	Black
2009	Virginia	Gun	17 17 16-Not raped	Black Black Black

The rapist has left DNA evidence in twelve of these attacks. Although DNA has been links these attacks to each other, it has not yielded an identification of the rapist.

General Motes Operandi

A. He generally watches the women so he knows their pattern of coming and going. This can be over several days, or several hours. For example one woman was attacked while she was moving from one apartment to another complex. The rapist timed the attack so that the woman’s husband and 14 year old son had just left the apartment.

B. Most of the attacks occurred at or near garden apartments, townhouses or condominium complexes.

C. He will rape more than one woman in a single attack.

D. He threatens to hurt or kill the woman. No woman has been injured beyond the sexual assault.

E. He frequently removes one shoe and a pant leg from the victim to hinder her escape.

F. Rapes occur in either apartments, or the women are removed to close but isolated locations, such as behind a stores or local woods.

G. He often attacks woman at night in the dark. During day time ore indoor attacks he wears a mask, or has the women cover their faces with pillow cases or their own shirts.

H. In several attacks the rapist complimented the woman, saying that they were “fine”, and suggesting that in his own mind there was some mutual pleasure.

I. He speaks with an accent, but he has “turned it on and off” throughout attacks.

Specific Crime Descriptions

A. A 35-year-old woman fought him off. The rapist approached her as she entered a townhouse community after getting off a bus. He implied that he was lost. He put her in a headlock and led her to a wooded area. The woman, who was in the military, wrestled a six-inch serrated knife from him. She told police that she tried to stab him and that he insisted he was “just playing” and ran off.

B. In an apartment complex e grabbed the woman from behind and wrapped his arms around her. She thought her husband had come into the second-floor garden apartment to help her move .”What I noticed is that nobody was laughing with me,” she said. She looked down “He said, ‘Shut up or I’ll kill you. I have a knife,’ ” she recalled. The 41-year-old woman, had spent the evening ferrying belongings from the apartment to her car. It was warm, and she wore a T-shirt and running shorts. The apartment was nearly empty. About 5 p.m., she sent her 14-year-old son to his taekwondo lesson. While she was at the car, the rapist slipped through the open front door. He waited. When she returned, he pushed her into the bedroom and onto the floor. Threatening her with an orange-handled Phillips head screwdriver, he bound her hands over her head with shoelaces he brought with him. He covered her face with her shirt.

C. Three teenagers were laughing, chatting and sending text messages at a shopping center. They were just a few blocks from home. Slinking out of the darkness, a stranger wearing a black ski mask was suddenly behind them. One of the girls felt a gun in her back. The man led them into a steep wooded ravine as they held one another’s hands. A deep voice through clenched teeth told them to lie down side by side and to face away from him. “I thought he was going to kill us,” one of the girls recalled. As her two friends were raped in the leaves beside her, the 16-year-old dimmed her cellphone’s backlight. Operating blindly, she pleaded with her parents and friends for help, texting her rough location. She called her mother and then 911, breathlessly asking police to “please help me, please help me, please help me” before the call was dropped.

D. Carrying a knife, he spied one woman passing him with grocery bags, grabbed her from behind and led her to a desolate spot behind a real estate office where he raped her.

E. Days after Christmas 2001, a 29-year-old mother of four was running late for her 7 p.m. work shift. She pulled on a turtleneck, a T-shirt, a sweat shirt and a coat and waited at a bus stop.

She saw a man smoking a cigarette and thought he was being polite by standing back at the edge of the woods. He came closer and asked whether she knew when the next bus would arrive. But the man didn’t want an answer. “I have a weapon — follow me,” he said. She caught a glimpse of a knife handle in his coat pocket. As he led her down the street, the bus went by, too late to help. He demanded money. When she insisted that she had none, he didn’t believe her.

“You work all the time,” he said. He was right. She had two jobs, one at Ames and the other in a fast-food restaurant. She thought he could not have known that unless he had been watching her. The tip of the knife dug into the left side of her neck. When they reached a nearby apartment complex, he forced her to the mulch, lifted her clothes over her face, and pulled off one of her shoes and one leg of her jeans. She shivered in the winter cold, and he told her to stop shaking. Throughout the attack, she prayed aloud: “Thank you, Jesus.” The rapist got angry and ordered her to be quiet, but she refused. He then got up and, for a moment, she thought the assault was over. He wasn’t done.” It was too good to stop,” he told her. After the rape, he said he would come back to get her if she had AIDS or got pregnant.

Rapist Profiling Paper

!. Describe in detail the four types of rapists.

2. Which rapist profile, or profiles, best fit this rapist?

3. What is your opinion about his childhood? Describe what his family of origin and early life experiences were most likely to be.

4. Describe your best guess of the personal characteristics of this rapist. Be certain to include, age ethnicity, body description, education level, and occupation. Include any other factors you feel may be helpful.

5. Who are likely to be his next victims? What precautions can these potential victims take?

6. Give three possible explanations for the lack of reported rapes during 2001 and 2006. Which explanation to feel is the most plausible? Why?

7. Why do you believe the rapist has eluded police after 17 reported attacks over 13 years?