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The study of crime scene profiling efforts elicits two important patterns of sexual murders: organized and disorganized. These law enfore pment calegories have been derwed from enidence and patterns of eordence at the site of sexual murders. The study then explores viciim information and ils relationship to the two categories. In partic- ular, we explored victim response to the offender m terms of no resistance and active resistance to the assault. We found thal regardless of type of resistance, active or passive, and category of offender, death ensued. When we examined nine victims who suruwed, the category of offender was not the predictor, rather, “chance happenings” preserved life. Sexual Killers and Their Victims Identifying Patterns Through Crime Scene Analysis ROBERT K. RESSLER FBI Academy ANN W. BURGESS University of Pennsylvania JOHN E. DOUGLAS FBI Academy CAROL R. HARTMAN Boston College RALPH B. p’AGOSTINO Boston University Interpersonal violence spans 2 wide range of human behaviors of which murder represen ts one of the terminal disruptions in the equi- librium of a society. The tragedy of murder and its irrevocable effect on victims and families is often neglected in the focus on the mur- ——— ee Authors’ Note: Preparation of this article was supported by Department of Justice grants: Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (#84-JN-AX-K010) and JOURNAL OF INTERPERSONAL VIOLENCE, Vol. | No. 3, September 1986 288-308 © 1986 Sage Publications, Inc. 61