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fromVulture
3 days ago

What Kind of Person Would Kidnap an 84-Year-Old Woman?

During retired FBI profiler Mary Ellen O'Toole's work in the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit, the first thing investigators would do is create a 'study of the victim.' O'Toole said that kidnappings of older people are 'very rare' - meaning there is little empirical evidence to work with in terms of understanding such crimes.
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fromPsychology Today
5 months ago

The Expert Witness, the Keeper of Values

Ann Burgess used forensic psychiatric methods and victim-centered research to reveal sexual-abuse trauma and inform criminal profiling in the Menendez murder investigations.
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