Serial Killer Case Studies Samples For Students

Overview

The second half of summer, 1982. Five women were found strangled to death at the Green river banks in King County, Washington. During the investigation, the detectives found out that all they were prostitutes. They were working nearby. All the women were announced to be lost for some time already. This was only the beginning. In the next several years, more and more girls have been found along the Green River banks and in the woods nearby. If the first five murders made investigators suspect a serial killer in the King County, now there was no doubt about that. Sometimes ...

Serial killers are always an interesting study and the United States has had its fair share of these, especially in the last century. The case selected for analysis here is Jeffrey Dahmer who killed a large number of underage boys after having lured them and had sex with them. It remains one of the most compelling cases of recent times not least due to the fact that Dahmer himself was murdered while serving out a life term in prison a few years after he was convicted (Purcell, 2006).
Jeffrey Dahmer was a serial killer who murdered a huge number of men in a spree ...

David Parker Ray was born in November 6, 1939 in Belen, New Mexico. He died in May 28, 2002, at the age of sixty two years. His death was as a result of myocardial infarction. During his life, Ray was linked with serial killings. Approximately fourteen to sixty killings were executed by him. He did his killing operations in the states of New Mexico, in United States. In March 22, 1999, he was apprehended.
The serial killer operated as from 1950 to March 22, 1999. Besides killing people, Ray was suspected of involvement in the torturing of women. His ...

Computer forensic is one of the crucial science in the modern society. It is worth noting that computer forensic has become an important science in the criminal justice system. This is because it entails identification of evidence that is found in digital storage media and the computers. Computer forensic has been used in resolving various cases in the criminal justice system. The BTK serial killer case was resolved through computer forensics. There is forensic evidence that was crucial in the case. In 2004, the serial killer began communicating with the police. This became a breakthrough for the police in ...