1. Organized Crime Scenes
1. Organized Crime Scenes
The killer shows planning, premeditation and an effort to avoid detection. The individual is well aware of what he is doing and makes every effort to avoid leaving incriminating evidence police could use to catch him.
Characteristics of Organized Crime Scenes
1. Planned offense
2. Transports body
3. Body hidden
4. Controlled conversation
5. Demands submissive victim
6. Missing weapon or evidence
7. Victim is a targeted stranger
8. Personalizes victim
9. Crime scene reflects control
10. Restraints used
11. Aggressive acts done before death
Spontaneous actions and frenzied assaults. Victim selected at random and crime scene is usually where the encounted took place. The offender uses materials at hand. Hurried or blitz-style attack, and crime scene is disarrayed.
Characteristics of Disorganized Crime Scenes
1. Body left at death scene
2. Spontaneous offense
3. Evidence or weapon present at scene
4. Victim or location known
5. Body left in view
6. Depersonalizes victim
7. Sexual acts after death
8. Minimal conversation
9. Minimal use of restraints
10. Crime scene sloppy
11. Sudden violence to victim
Shows characteristics from both the organized and disorganized crime scenes. Could indicate the presence of two offenders, or that the offender planned the crime and was interrupted during the act. Also, the offender may have staged the scene.
Crime scene that can't be classified by the data available. Decomposed remains fall under this type. The police or profilers may have to take other things into consideration when faced with this crime scene. They may look into crime databases to see if anything at the scene matches other previous crime scenes.
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