The Big Picture
There are still many people who are not convincd about the guilt of Scott Peterson and these pictures still attract national attention. Will this case ever be resolved?

 

 

 

 
The point of this website is that serial killers are having a field day while we provide free room and board to innocent people like Scott Peterson. We need to apply FBI investigation techniques to get the real killers of the streets.

FBI Behavorial Sciences Unit - 7 Step Investigative Process for the Apprehension of a Serial Killer.

1) Evaluation of criminal acts.

2) Comprehensive evaluaton of the crime scenes.

3) Comprehensive analysis of the victims.

4) Evaluation of the police and investigative reports.

5) Evaluation of medical examinar autopsy protocols.

6) Development of a profile with critical offender characteristics.

7) Investigative suggestions predicated on the above.

1) Evaluation of criminal acts.

"The job of the investigator is to discover...what specific offense has been committed...how it was committed, by whom it was committed, where it was committed, when it was committed and, under certain circumstances, why it was committed....He must have the ability to stick to a task in spite of the monotony of it and in spite of many obstacles....He must have a certain native abilitly, an intelligence which enables him to acquire certain information easily and readily and which enables him to use this information. He should have a capacity to think through situations....The investigator must be as intelligent as the offender.." (From Techniques for the Crime Investigator, By William Dienstein; Charles C. Thomas, Publisher, Springfield, Ill., 1952, 1965).

"A primary factor of personal integrity is a sincere desire to arrive at a conclusion based upon facts. The investigator must be free of bias or prejudice, and cannot let these emotions interfere with his objective efforts to arrive at the facts..."

"Another requisite is an understanding of people and the environment in which they live. It is through this understanding that an investigator is often able to develop leads which might otherwise escape attention. The investigator must know what prompts people to act as they do in various situations. He must know the weaknesses and strength of people so that he can use them to his advantage, particularly during interrogations. A knowledge of the psychology of human behavior is essential to an investigator...He must possess that knack of being able to get along with people, that quality which enables people to confide in him...."

"Investigation requires thinking and acting, acting based on continuous thinking. One mistake may make invalid months of tedious effort. An investigator canot seek personal aggrandizement...does not seek personal credit, but rather seeks to give credit to others who have assisted him...Commendation is due them for their part in the administration of justice."

2) Comprehensive evaluaton of the crime scenes.

"The clues that lead to the solution of an offense lie at the scene of the crime. Therefore, the investigator must be aware of what consitutes evidence, what are the clues, where they may be found, and how they may be protected, collected and preseved."

"The most common error made by investigators is to pass up evidence as immaterial and unnecessary. Later, the evidence so passed may be of great importance. No investigator can tell what observation will be important in the future."

3) Comprehensive analysis of the victims.

"Motive for murder can be divided into seven specific groups: 1) Profit; 2) Elimination; 3) Revenge; 4) Jealousy; 5) Conviction; 6) Sadism; 7) Sex....Removal of the person who happens to be 'in the way' is the determining factor in a great number of murders. In the true elemination murder the continued existence of the victim is inconvenient or dangerous to the killer." (The Detection of Murder - A Handbook for Police Officers, Detectives, Coroners, Judges and Attorneys, by Paul B. Weston and William F. Kessler).

"One of the most important factors in an initial investigation is to reconstruct the last hours, even the last days, of the deceased. Who saw him last? With whom did he have his last meal? Who spoke to him over the telephone in his last hours? Where he went and what he did in the period preceeding death are what must be reconstructed. And it is the reconstruction of this period that most often reveals the true facts surrounding unexplained and unexpected death."

"Professional killers do not usually kill for any other motive than elimination...However in 90% of these killing the persons who have the motive for the killing never handle the gun that fires the fatal shots, nor drive the car that may have been used in the killing. They are involved in the conspiracy and are guilty of murder because they procured the 'trigger men' who did the actual killing, but they have an alibi to prove they were many miles away from the scene of death at the time of the homicide...More than likely the triggermen were imported from some other town to do the killing and return home as soon as the 'job' is completed."

4) Evaluation of the police and investigative reports.

"When evidence is presented factually and graphically, the judge and jury are in a far better position to arrive at a logical conclusion than if the evidence is indefinite and inaccurate. There is no danger of securing too much accurate and detailed information about a situation that is the subject of the investigation. The trial of a criminal case should not be a guessing match in which witnesses and investigators alike participate. The trial should be an accurate and scientific presentation of all the facts."

5) Evaluation of medical examiner autopsy protocols.

"Persuant to an order of a court a body may be exhumed - removed from its burial place....(but) an autopsy of exhumed remains presents certain problems to the autopsy surgeon. In the first place, the body is generally embalmed, and the chemicals used in embalming are apt to destroy evidence of the crime. If considerable time has elapsed from death to exhumaton and the natural disintegration of the body has taken place, it is obvious that the disinterred body is not a good subject for an autopsy."

6) Development of a profile with critical offender characteristics.

"Motive is that which stems from within the individual, rather than from without. It is that which incites an individual to certain actions. Motive is the 'why' of the act, the reason for it. Intent is the result of a motive, and is the bridge between the motive and the act. Without intent no action would be taken. When plans are made to do some act then an intent to do that act has been made as the result of some motivation. The intent of the murder is to kill...Motive or its absence may be of considerable importance in determining the intent of the defendant. Murderous intent may be inferred from motive clearly established, while absence of motive is more than pertinent to the question of intent where it is an issue."

7) Investigative suggestions predicated on the above.

"The investigation into the circumstances of a murder will reveal the situation which confronted the individual guilty of the killing, and a knowledge of the characteristics of each suspect will give the investigator some knowldge of how each of them would react to such a situation...It all depends on the individual and the situation with which he is confronted."

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