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  • #31
    Originally posted by Patrick Differ View Post

    I believe this killer was more organized than not.
    I believe the organized-disorganized view of analyzing criminal behavior is simplistic and, at best, unhelpful. The very creation of the mixed category is an acknowledgement of the limitations of this approach. Far too often, broad assumptions are made based on limited data. Criminal profiling has never successfully identified a criminal.

    If the entire idea isn't a waste of time, we need to compare individual elements of the crimes to the behaviors of known offenders and see if there is any correlation.
    "The full picture always needs to be given. When this does not happen, we are left to make decisions on insufficient information." - Christer Holmgren

    "Unfortunately, when one becomes obsessed by a theory, truth and logic rarely matter." - Steven Blomer

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    • #32
      Hi Fiver- I believe sometimes you can make an argument too complex and I do not believe anything is unhelpful in honest debates, especially with this topic. There is plenty of data and profiling is a useful tool. Looked at another way, how could it possibly hurt? It's my personal belief that there was organized thinking and these murders met specific criteria he needed to limit his risk. Just my opinion.

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