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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| About the Author | |
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| Future Prey | |
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| The Serial Murder Phenomenon | |
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| Serial Murder | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Defining Serial Murder | |
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| Why Do they Kill and Kill Again? | |
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| Who Are These Serial Killers? | |
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| Solo Predators | |
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| Team Killers | |
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| Serial Murder Victims | |
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| Investigation of Serial Murder | |
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| The Myths of Serial Murder | |
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| Why Do They Kill and Kill and Kill? | |
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| Serial Killers on the Couch: Explanations | |
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| Sources of Serial Murder Theories and Explanations | |
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| Common Characteristics of Serial Killers | |
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| Empirical Works | |
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| A Multidisciplinary Theory | |
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| Case Studies | |
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| The Case Study | |
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| Other Studies | |
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| Psychopaths or Sociopaths? | |
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| Inadequate Socialization | |
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| Sex As a Motive | |
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| Nature and Nurture? | |
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| Variations on Power and Control | |
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| Similarities to Rape | |
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| Biological Predisposition | |
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| Anthropological Viewpoint | |
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| Are They Simply Evil? | |
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| Problems with Explanations | |
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| They Are All Around Us | |
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| We Are Strangers to One Another | |
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| Who Are They? | |
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| Appearances Can Be Deceiving | |
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| What Do They Look Like? | |
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| They May Be Your Neighbors | |
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| Some Are Very Quiet and Hard to Spot | |
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| Some Take Years to Catch | |
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| A Number of Serial Killers Have Not Been Caught | |
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| Female Serial Killers | |
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| Categories and Types of Serial Killers | |
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| How Many Are There in the United States? | |
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| FBI and CNN Disagree on the Numbers | |
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| A New Phenomenon? | |
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| An Increase in Serial Killers? | |
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| International: A Global Phenomenon | |
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| Colombia | |
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| Ecuador, Colombia, and Peru | |
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| Russia | |
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| India, Turkey, Thailand, and Nepal | |
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| South Africa | |
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| Singapore | |
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| Australia | |
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| United Kingdom | |
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| Italy | |
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| France | |
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| Serial Killers Outside the United States Who Have Not Been Caught | |
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| Europe--Identified but Not Caught | |
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| United Kingdom | |
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| Canada | |
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| Mexico | |
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| Poland | |
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| Sweden | |
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| Becoming an International Phenomenon | |
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| Essay by the Author: Serial Killing of the Lambs in Our Dreams: Concept of the "Less-Dead" | |
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| Victims: The "Less-Dead" | |
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| Serial Murder Victims | |
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| Society's Throwaways: A Low Priority for Law Enforcement | |
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| Who Are the "Less-Dead"? | |
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| The Killing Fields: Where Do Serial Killers Hunt? | |
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| Investigative Value of Victim Information Quickly Dismissed | |
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| Serial Murder As a Growth Industry: A Brief Analysis | |
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| Serial Killers in the Arts and Music | |
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| Serial Killers in News Reporting | |
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| "Mutants from Hell" | |
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| The Profile That Isn't | |
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| Sound-Bite Answers | |
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| The FBI and Serial Murder Mythology | |
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| A Violent Culture | |
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| Case Studies of Serial Killers | |
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| John Wayne Gacy: A Case Study | |
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| Social Environment | |
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| Family Background | |
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| Peer Group Associations and Personal Relationships | |
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| Contact with Defining Agencies | |
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| Offense Behavior | |
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| Self-Concept | |
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| Attitudes | |
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| Recall of Events | |
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| The Demise of John Wayne Gacy | |
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| Henry Lee Lucas: A Case Study | |
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| Social Environment | |
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| Family Background | |
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| Peer Group Associations and Personal Relationships | |
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| Contact with Defining Agencies | |
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| Offense Behavior | |
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| Self-Concept | |
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| Attitudes | |
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| Recall of Events | |
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| The Aftermath and the Lucas Controversy | |
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| Lucas's Last Words | |
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| Kenneth Bianchi: A Case Study | |
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| Social Environment | |
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| Family Background | |
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| Peer Group Associations and Personal Relationships | |
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| Contact with Defining Agencies | |
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| Offense Behavior | |
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| Self-Concept | |
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| Attitudes | |
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| Recall of Events | |
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| Afterword | |
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| Theodore Robert Bundy: A Case Study | |
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| Social Environment | |
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| Family Background | |
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| Peer Group Associations and Personal Relationships | |
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| Contact with Defining Agencies | |
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| Offense Behavior | |
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| Self-Concept | |
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| Attitudes | |
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| Recall of Events | |
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| Bundy's Last Con | |
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| Jerry Marcus: A Case Study | |
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| Social Environment | |
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| Family Background | |
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| Peer Group Associations and Personal Relationships | |
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| Contact with Defining Agencies | |
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| Offense Behavior | |
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| Self-Concept | |
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| Attitudes | |
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| Recall of Events | |
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| A Concluding Statement | |
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| Joseph Miller: A Case Study | |
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| Social Environment | |
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| Family Background | |
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| Peer Group Associations and Personal Relationships | |
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| Contact with Defining Agencies | |
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| Offense Behavior | |
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| Self-Concept | |
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| Attitudes | |
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| Recall of Events | |
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| The Possibilities for Closure | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Jeffrey Dahmer: A Case Study | |
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| Social Environment | |
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| Family Background | |
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| Peer Group Associations and Personal Relationships | |
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| Contact with Defining Agencies | |
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| Offense Behavior | |
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| The Victims: The Forgotten Ones | |
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| Self-Concept | |
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| Attitudes: From Jeffrey Dahmer's 179-Page Confession | |
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| Recall of Events | |
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| Dahmer's Demise | |
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| Cross-Case Analysis: Similarities of Seven Serial Killers | |
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| Social Environment | |
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| Family Background | |
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| Peer Group Associations and Personal Relationships | |
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| Contact with Defining Agencies | |
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| Offense Behavior | |
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| Self-Concept | |
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| Attitudes | |
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| Recall of Events | |
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| Missing Persons Problem | |
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| The Investigation of Serial Murder | |
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| Problems in Investigating Serial Murder | |
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| Defining the Problem | |
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| Seven Major Problems of a Serial Murder Investigation | |
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| Linkage Blindness | |
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| Lack of Commitment | |
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| Coordinating Investigative Functions and Actions | |
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| Managing Large Amounts of Investigative Information | |
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| Public Pressure and Mass Media Pressure for Information | |
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| The Less-Dead: Low Priority Leads to Low Clearance Rate | |
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| Lack of Knowledge of Others' Experiences with Serial Murder Investigation: Documenting the Problem | |
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| Linkage Blindness: An Analysis | |
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| Different Police Strategies for Investigating Serial Murder | |
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| Conferences | |
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| Information Clearinghouse | |
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| Task Force | |
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| Central Coordination without Forming a Task Force | |
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| Psychological Profiling (Investigative Profiling) | |
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| FBI Model | |
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| Canter Model | |
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| Geographic Profiling | |
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| Investigative Consultants | |
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| Forensic Consultants | |
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| Major Incident Room Procedures | |
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| Solicitation from the Public | |
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| Computerized Analysis System | |
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| Centralized Investigative Network | |
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| Interpol | |
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| FBI's Violent Criminal Apprehension Program (VICAP) | |
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| New York State's Homicide Assessment and Lead Tracking System | |
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| Examples of Other Computerized Analysis Systems | |
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| Psychics | |
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| Offender Rewards | |
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| Specialized Response Team | |
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| All Investigative Response Strategies Share a Common Focus | |
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| The Future | |
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| Future of the Phenomenon | |
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| A Research Agenda for Serial Murder | |
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| Victimology | |
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| Serial Murderers | |
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| Policy | |
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| Criminal Justice Failure: An Example | |
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| Future Investigation of Serial Murder | |
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| Beyond the Dahmers of the 1990s | |
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| Author's Final Comments | |
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| References | |
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| Case Study Source Material | |
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| Index | |