Serial violence : analysis of modus operandi and signature characteristics of killers
by
 
Keppel, Robert D.

Title
Serial violence : analysis of modus operandi and signature characteristics of killers

Author
Keppel, Robert D.

ISBN
9781420066326

Personal Author
Keppel, Robert D.

Publication Information
Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press, 2009.

Physical Description
xix, 232 p. : col. ill. ; 25 cm.

Series
CRC series in practical aspects of criminal and forensic investigations

Series Title
CRC series in practical aspects of criminal and forensic investigations

Contents
1. The Components of Modus Operandi, Ritual, and Signature -- 2. The Discovery of Signature: Harvey Glatman, the Lonely Hearts Killer, William Heirens - "Stop Me Before I Kill Again!" - and Morris Frampton -- 3. The Jack the Ripper Murders: A Modus Operandi and Signature Analyses of the 1888-1891 Whitechapel Murders / Robert D. Keppel, Joseph G. Weis, Katherine M. Brown and Kristen Welch -- 4. The Essence of Torture -- 5. Signature Analysis Convicts the Right Man -- 6. The Picquerism Signature -- 7. A Sexual Assault Signature Lacking Primary Mechanisms -- 8. The Ritual of Sexual Degradation through Posing of Victims -- 9. What's Important is What's Not There -- 10. Signature Left in Kansas City -- 11. Signature of an Arson-Rape-Murderer -- 12. The Definitive Signature of a Rapist and Murderer -- 13. Best Practices in Linking Cases.

Subject Term
Serial murderers -- Psychology.
 
Criminal methods.
 
Serial murder investigation.
 
Serial murders.

Added Author
Birnes, William J.


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