SS, thanks for the wing support. I was going to post a message to ask other readers if they construed as to what I wrote a threat to RB. You beat me to the punch. If there are any threats made I think they come from PB.
PROFILERS: We had a murder case of a 13 year old that went cold. I was assigned to take another look at it. A Profile from a NYPD profiler provided us with such a profile.
He told us the killer was very close to the victim. That we should have a sit down with the family and expand it outwards until we found a viable suspect.
He told us the killer would probably skip the wake and funeral. That he would be obsessed with the TV coverage. We might find some satanic literature in his room. We should then look for stressors that drove the killer to kill.
What we found was a reluctance of certain family members to re-open the case.
We found that the victims older uncle was actually her brother. We found that the suspect was forced to live with his grandparents in relative squalor while his sister lived in a relatively secure home in the first floor apartment with her and HIS mother and her father.
We visited the grandparents apartment in July. There were cats running around the house. Hair balls littered the floor. A once live Christmas Tree with ornaments was still on the living room floor. The suspects room was littered with satanic material and he had an obsession with the Dungeons and Dragons game. We brought him in for questioning.
He admitted that he began molesting her when she was only 7 years old. He was at least 10 years older. He started by peeing with the bathroom door and it progressed to you show me yours and Ill show you mine. They then went into touch and feel. He never admitted to fornicating with her. He then learns the horrible truth that it was his sister. That is sister, the mother of the girl was actually his mother. Talk about triggers.
He also found out his brother was actually his uncle, the brother of the mother. It was the brother/uncle that didnt want us to pursue this case. The suspect had severely deformed hands. I thought it was a genetic disorder from incest.
On the night before the murder the suspect stayed with his friend after going out doing the town. While he was doing his thing in NYC the car was broken into and his treasured music collection was stolen. He would return home later the next day and learn the girl was missing. She was found later between her home and the newsstand where she went to get the paper at 7AM, on the coldest day of the year. She wanted to read a story about Wayne Newton. Weird, isnt it.
There is a wake and a funeral. He doesnt show up for at least the wake. He decides he is going out with his friend doing the town.
He admits that he and his friend took delight in mutilating her dolls by cutting out the breast area.
We take him for a poly. He fails big time. He pleads for a do over. The poly experts tell us it is not necessary. He did it, no question about it. They relent and give us another appointment for the next morning. I go to pick him up. He is living in an apartment now with his uncle/brother, or maybe his father. The door is locked. I fear that he may have committed suicide. We bust open the door, he isnt there. We find out later that he went to Pennsylvania with his pal and they went to a library to research how to beat a polygraph.
His friend is asked to take a poly. He is unresponsive to the questions by answering the questions in muti-worded responses. He is shifting his feet and moving around, presumably to throw the examination off.
A super great profile. We never made the case and 22 years later it remains unsolved.
I later learn that the same profiler does a work-up for a Westchester PD on a 16 year old kid named Jeffrey Deskovic. Jeffrey fits the profile. He becomes suspect #1 for the cops. They work on him and he confesses to a crime he didnt commit. That was proven beyond any doubt after he received a compressive and updated DNA review. He was released soon thereafter, and the real killer was identified and convicted of a crime that Deksovic served 16 years for.
Deskovic will tell you the profile may have been the biggest factor that got the cops interested in him and forced a false confession from him
PS. The real killer lived only doors away from the victim and never came to the attention of the police.
Profiles are like police sketches or *advertiser censored* on a bull. Worthless. They make for great reading. In my case we just couldnt push it through. One reason is we had an equally good suspect not only a few blocks from where the girl lived. She had to pass his home on the way to the newsstand. Months later he would be arrested and convicted for raping a woman on the side of the Van Wyck Expressway at 7am in the morning. He was drunk and his efforts to get into the home of his girlfriend were turned down. He went looking for someone to take his rage out on.
IMO, and it is purely subjective, the girlfriend that denied him entry into her apartment and the lady that was raped could have been the victim only 10yrs older, the GF and the victim 25 years older. They looked almost like family.
He threatened the rape victim with a large stone he found nearby. He told her he would bash her brains in if she didnt comply. The 13 year old was killed with a blow to the head by a large piece of stone found at the murder scene.
Profilers are entertainment to assuage the public thirst for cases to be solved. When that fails they turn to psychics. Both are for entertainment and PR purposes only.
