From Right to Left it Had No End: Choice Matters Over Need
Facet Theory offers a new approach to classifying serial murderers that may be practical for police investigations. There are two immediate advantages. First, serial murder investigations are faced with a great deal of information of investigative value that may be derived from simple overt aspects of an offense. Facet Theory can be helpful in serial murders which often involve subtle behavioral information which has value, but detailed analysis of the overt actions of the murder usually overshadow these actions. The study found that the locations at which victims were abducted were centrally located close to the offenders’ home bases rather than at any number of the body dump locations. Second, Facet Theory can use offense and offender variables that have been inductively related and empirically replicated for linking crimes to a common offender. There has been little empirical study of the abilities that contribute to proficient performance in psychological pr...