Module 5 - Criminal Profiling

Some crime scenes demonstrate elements of both criminal sophistication and chaos. These point to an offender with a combination of organized and disorganized characteristics. Although criminals have one or even two characteristics that fit the opposite offender profile, they are considered a combination offender only if they have an equal number of characteristics from both offender categories.

Criminals with combination or mixed characteristics may be described as

Some believe that the perfect crime is one committed so well that no evidence is apparent and, therefore, the culprit cannot be traced. The most likely individuals to commit perfect crimes include suspects who picked victims they do not know and suspects with no criminal records. Nothing is stolen during the crime, and the culprits have told no one about the crimes. Some examples are the Black Dahlia murder, the Zodiac murders, and the Chicago Tylenol poisonings. The possibility remains that a culprit for these so-called perfect crimes may someday be identified.