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lh RAPE-MURDER residential facility. He forced the woman at knite point The offender's use of either verbal or physical strate- ro drive to her apartment, where he raped her. The gies to assert control over the vicum depended on the third and tourth rapes with which he was never victim’s initial response. The victim who was compli- charged included codetendants. While on 2 weekend ant when he showed a weapon received no additional pass, the offender and 2 other patients from the threats oF orders. Victims who screamed received residential facility stole a car, traveled out of state, verbal threats, and those who refused to cooperate broke into a house, stole 2 guns and money, andeach were physically struck. raped a 17-year-old girl who was in the house. The offender returned home; however, his mother immedi- Interaction Between Offender and Victim ately sent him back to the residential facility and he was counseled on his runaway behavior. Three months Reconstruction of the victims’ talk and actions 3s later he and another patient weng to 4 local swimming viewed from the offender's perspective revealed that pool. They broke into the women’s locker room and conversation and behavior served to either neutralize raped a young woman, covering her head with a towel. or escalate his affective state. The sixth rape (the fifth for which he was never Murder victim 1, rape victim 7. The woman's ralk charged) occurred before the first rape-murder he (“She asked which way | wanted it”) raised the committed and involved a woman he had seen iv his - offender's suspicion ot her life style. After the rape and own apartment building. He obtained an air pistol, while both were dressing, he had not decided on his captured her in the apartment elevator, took her to 3 next action. The woman's sudden attempt CO escape storage room, and, covering her face with her jacket, triggered in him feelings of anger and frustration that raped her twice. resulted in increased aggression. He stated: ‘An attempted armed robbery (an act intended to be rape) occurred 3 weeks after his release from the She rook off running down the ravine. That's when | residential treatment facility. He rargeted a woman grabbed her. [ had her in an armlock. She was bigger than ‘ me. [ started choking her... she stumbled... We colled entering the elevator of the apartment complex, donned a ski mask, and held a knife to her. She was successful in escaping. down the hill and into the water. | banged her head against the side of a rack and held her head under water. She broke pushed me out of the way and started Death was determined to be trom strangulation. going to the front ot the elevator, pushed the button to Murder victim 2, rape victim 8. The woman s talk open the door and started to run and she stumbled. Id consisted of many questions \ She wanted to know started to run after her and stumbled over her and at that why If wanted to do this, why | picked her; didn’t | point the knife fell and she was on the ground hollering have a girl friend; what was my problem: what | was and | was on the ground next to her, scared to death. My going to do”), which served to annoy him. The wom- mind wene blank. [ ran out of the building. (He was an, talking while driving the car, suddenly stepped on subsequently arrested. the accelerator and attempted to counter his control by threatening ro drive the car into a tree. He turned off Rape and Murder: The Last 6 Offenses the ignition and pur his foot on the brake, and the car ; _ slid sideways. The car stopped, and the woman got out The offender selected the last 6 victims at random as and ran across the road screaming for help. He said: he watched cars drive into the apartment complex where he lived. Once he targeted a victim, he would | go into the woods after her. [see her run from behind a walk behind her, follow her into the apartment eleva- tree and that’s when | go after her. From then on | knew | tor, pull his knife, and tell her it was a holdup. Then had to kill her. She trips over 3 log and that’s when [catch they would leave the building, either for the victim's up with her and | just start stabbing her. car or for an area near the apartment complex. In one case the pattern was reversed. The offender was hitch- The victim was stabbed 14 times in the chest. hiking and was given @ ride by 2 woman who was Murder victim 3, rape victim 9. The offender going to a party in his apartment complex. She let him claimed he had not decided whether he would kill this otf at his building; he watched her park her car and woman. He would not let her calk ("The more I got to then ran across the complex, entered the elevator with know about the women the softer | got”). He ordered her, and. captured her there. All abductions and mur- her to be quiet and turn on the radio. He described his ders occurred within his own territory. Thus, known thinking 3s follows: territory was a distinct advantage for him. (Going somewhere that | didn’t know or where the cops patrolled might get me caught. | knew what time the : cops came by in the morning because I'd be sirung : L was thinking .. . I've killed rwo. | might as well kill chis one, [00.--- Something in me was wanting to kill... . 1 tied her up with her stockings and | started to walk away AURA there.) Indeed, he was right. One of the reasons he —_. then | heard her through the woods kind of rolling was not caught until ater the fifth murder was that the Mound and making muffled sounds. And | turned back police were looking tor strangers—especially suspt- and said, “No, | have to kill her, I've got to do this to cious strangers—not a teenager living in the area. preserve and protect myself.” 139 Am J Psychiatry 140:1, January 1983