The Baseline killer case study and criminal profiling analysis

Violent Crimes Analysis

From the case study, the crimes that were committed by the Baseline killer like rape, murder and torture are crimes that are punishable by death sentences, life imprisonment or very long sentences; hence these crimes can be classified under felony. Felonies are usually the worst kinds of crimes in the society and they are normally directed towards other members of the society, and to protect the society as a whole, more often than not efforts to take these criminal elements away from the society are the main focus of the justice system.

This crime is under the violent crimes in terms of the component of the crime. It is worth noting that the criminal in this case used to shoot those who resisted his approaches, rape women, molest some victims and even carjack some. These are all crimes that are done in a violent manner and the compliance to the criminal activities is usually compelled rather than voluntary (Kristal Hwakins, 2012).

Behavior reflects personality

This is a term tat is majorly used in offender profiling or criminal profiling. This is an assumption that is usually used in unraveling of the homicide cases by the profilers. Here, the profiler will try to fins out as much as possible about the personality of the offender through posing questions about the behavior of the suspect in four phases as below:

The antecedent- this will be a quest to understand the plans, or the fancies that the criminal had before acting in the manner that he did. It will be more of finding out what the possible triggers to act were, for instance why the suspect acted on some days and not other days, or during some occasions and not other occasions.

The manner or the method-this will seek to know the type of victims that the suspect targeted and why. It also seeks to understand the methods of murder that the suspect used and the nature of these murders like stabbing, strangulation, shooting, drowning, torture to death among others and the ferocity of them.

Body disposal-this will seek to analyze the way the murderer disposed of the bodies and the patterns. For instance whether he preferred particular places to dispose the bodies, did he change the places of disposal, did he have a preferred method of disposal, any trophies that he left at the disposal sites and much more of such leading facts.

Post offense behavior-here the profiler will try to study the trends of the murderer after the offense has been committed. They will try to analyze whether the murderer tries to get the investigators to have him into the investigations through the media response or if the murderer keeps off the investigations.

These above are the major concerns for the profilers as they try to unravel a case. Once the suspect has been apprehended, this model of "behavior reflects personality" still goes on and the investigators will still want to check the trend in the baseline behavior to see whether the person harbors personality of guilty knowledge. This will be observed through the changes in the personality, the changing postures, touching of the nose, ears, tonal changes and such like behaviors (Anthony Lantosca, 2006).

Crimes of John Wayne Gacy

John Wayne was one of the most notorious criminals. He was majorly involved in violent crimes and was found guilty of murdering 33 males from 1972 till 1978 when he was arrested and finally convicted. "Killer Clown" as he was dubbed for entertaining kids at parties, yet killing in secret. He was known to sodomize kids if they refused to perform oral sex with him. He was a divorced and disgraced person who lured homosexuals to his house, torture and brutally kill them. He is known to lure his victims into his house through job advertisements then torture them, rape and kill. He was finally discovered when he invited the police for a cup of coffee and they were overwhelmed by the stench of rotting bodies. Upon search, 29 bodies were found. Gacy was executed by lethal injection in 1994.

Gacy could be classified as a psychopath bearing the nature of crimes and the methods that were used to execute these crimes. These are people who are fully aware of the consequences of their actions yet they go on to do them. They are self-centered, don't care about other's feelings and are remorseless. They also pose as completely normal people to the unsuspecting targets yet these are the characteristics that Gacy had (Encyclopedia of mental Disorders, 2012).

Individuals with this personality disorder are fully aware of the consequences of their actions and know the difference between right and wrong, yet they are terrifyingly self-centered, remorseless, and unable to care about the feelings of others. Perhaps most frightening, they often seem completely normal to unsuspecting targets, and they do not always ply their trade by killing.