Behavioral Science Unit

The profile will come in, look at all the victims, look at the victimology, um, what commonalities among these victims, among the way they were posed, among the way they were killed, um, and maybe even if you can figure out the way they met the person that killed them.

Looking at the crime, the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit suggested that the crimes had been committed by a white man, comparatively young, 25 to 30.

They told us, "You're looking at his successes.

You need to look for a failure." And by that, they meant somebody got away, and if we could find that somebody, we would get a physical description, maybe a vehicle description, so on and so forth.

Angus Sinclair was very different, wasn't he? He was.

If you read the definition from Behavioral Sciences Unit and the FBI, they talk about organized murderers.

And Angus Sinclair is a classic of that.

Angus Sinclair was many things.

He likely lived seemingly a normal life.

Many of these observations resemble modern profiling techniques later used by the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit.

The prime suspect.

No name is more closely connected to the Moonlight Murders than Ewell Swinney.

There's three or four times, and they remove the Toschi-associated letters from the Zodiac's profile.

The Behavioral Science Unit is kinda, you know, kinda disgusted by this whole matter, and they, uh, they remove anything w- with Toschi's stink on it from, from the, the profile of the letter writer.

Hmm.

You know, there's a 1981 FBI memo where the, there's somebody shopping a story to the San Francisco Chronicle about how Dave Toschi is the Zodiac.

The other thing that John Jay had, I don't think it has anymore, but they had a collaborative agreement with the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit.

Certain researchers were given access to this massive vault of FBI files.

It was housed on, in the college in a secure room.

Hmm

... lucky to get to.

The other thing that John Jay had, I don't think it has anymore, but they had a collaborative, uh, agreement with the FBI's behavioral science unit, the sort of profiling unit, where certain researchers were given access to this massive vault of FBI files, closed FBI cases.

Um, it was housed on, in the college in a secure room.

And so some of us, and I was lucky to be among them, got access to that to conduct research using those files.

The spot the facts.

Because NIS takes Smith's original, still uncorrected statement straight to the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit at Quantico and asks for an equivocal death analysis, which is a psychological profile built entirely from secondhand interviews meant to sort a death into accident, murder, or suicide.

The two agents who write it, Richard Ault and Roy Hazelwood, are never told the single most damning piece of testimony in their file has already been withdrawn by the man who gave it.

So working from that uncorrected statement, they conclude Clayton wasn't gay, but he staged his own death to look like an accident.

30-year-old Kevin Loring was found dead in November of 1990.

The detectives called the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit.

The division studied the Ohio murders and developed a personality profile of a sniper-type serial killer.

It pointed to a white male over 30.

Behavior analysis helped investigators organize possibilities and evaluate suspects, but conventional police work, telephone evidence, interviews, records, witness information, and eventually his confession were all big parts of it.

The FBI describes the Behavioral Science Unit established in seventy-two as part of an emerging effort to systematically apply psychology and behavioral patterns of violent crime.

The most important lesson from Susan Jaeger's case is not the absence of physical evidence, it is not an absence of behavioral evidence.

Choosing a victim, entering a campground, selecting a time, escaping, deciding whether to communicate, and taking additional risks, all very important behaviors.

We haven't got some of the tools that we have now.

We are talking about 1984, a very long time before CSI or the Behavioral Science Unit or any indeed of the great innovations in tracing serial killers had happened.

That detective was then assigned to the Wendy Barabo case before he had a chance to look further into it.

After a two-day search to find Wendy Baribo, a fireman discovered her body just a quarter of a mile away from her home in Lisbon, Connecticut.

He had a genius IQ.

But one time when the case was being presented at the FBI Academy by the Behavioral Science Unit, one of the agents in the back of the room raised his hand and said, I know that guy.

He was dating the female agent that lived on my floor.

So here's a serial killer who's dating a female FBI agent.