CRIMINAL PROFI LING
Name: ______________________
Due Date: ______________________
TASK
In this assignment you must choose and research a criminal and give a detailed report
on his/her/their criminal record.
Step 1
Look at the list attached and choose a criminal that you would like to research.
Choose carefully as everyone will chose one, you will not be able to change your mind
once you have decided.
Step 2
Use various resources to research answers to questions below. You may use websites as
sources but you must provide a bibliography (and should be reliable)
QUESTIONS/THINGS TO INCLUDE:
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What is criminal profiling and what is its purpose?
Profile your criminal
Provide information about the crimes committed by your criminal
Discuss signature behaviour
Discuss inductive versus deductive profiling
Timeline the events for the chosen criminal
Assess the criminals’ dangerousness
How was the killer caught, did what sentence did they receive?
Other relevant information to help solve the crime.
Step 3
While you are doing the research, complete detailed notes. Write your answers to the
questions in point form only!
Step 4
Use the notes in your data grid to write a rough draft of the text that you will put
onto your presentation. Develop the notes into full sentences that are in your own
words.
Step 5
Come up with a finalised audio visual presentation – Any Medium you choose –
PowerPoint, Video, YouTube, Wiki, Glogster etc. Please see me for a detailed list if
you want to try something “different”
INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE ASSIGNMENT
Word limit: 700 – 1,000 words
Presentation: Visual and Written (Poster/Power Point etc.)
Use of time: 1 library lesson, 2 classroom based lessons (complete)
Record all sources (bibliography)
Present & complete information as outlined
LIST OF CRIMINALS TO
PROFILE
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Paul Bernardo: also known as "the Scarborough Rapist"; a Toronto man who
killed three teenage girls (including his wife's sister) with the aid of his wife Karla
Homolka
Wayne Boden: also known as "the Vampire Rapist" killed 4 women between
1968–1971
Clifford Olson: murdered 11 children in British Columbia
Robert Pickton: charged with the first degree murders of 26 women; allegedly
confessed to 49 murders; convicted December 9, 2007 of six charges; reduced to
second degree murder
Peter Woodcock: murdered three children in 1956–1957 and a fellow psychiatric
institute patient in 1991
Ted Bundy: law student who raped and murdered more than 35 women in six
states; escaped from prison twice before being executed in Florida State Prison on
January 24, 1989
Albert Fish: AKA the "Werewolf of Wisteria"; sadist and pedophile who
cannibalized several children; convicted of one murder, confessed to 2
others,claimed to have molested 100 children
Ed Gein: two known victims, one suspected victim, four missing persons;
elements of Gein's life and crimes have inspired, at least in part, the films Psycho
and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, and the novel/movie The Silence of the
Lambs
Henry Lee Lucas: convicted of 11 murders and confessed to approximately 3,000
others, although most of his confessions are considered outlandish; a task force
set up to investigate his claims suggested that the true number of his murders may
be as high as 213
David Meirhofer: killed three children and an ex-girlfriend between 1966 and
1974; first serial killer apprehended by offender profiling
Earle Nelson: AKA "Gorilla Man"; necrophiliac convicted and hanged for one
murder; implicated in about 20 others
Marie Noe: murdered eight of her children between 1949 and 1968
Gary Ridgway: AKA the "Green River Killer"; convicted of murdering 49 women
in Washington state
Harvey Miguel Robinson: teenager who stalked, raped and killed three women in
Allentown, Pennsylvania in 1992 and 1993
Michael Swango: physician and surgeon who poisoned over 30 of his patients and
colleagues
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Carl Eugene Watts: convicted of two murders; admitted to killing 80 people in
Texas and Michigan; possibly guilty of 100 murders
Christopher Wilder: AKA the "Beauty Queen Killer"; millionaire Australian
realtor who killed eight women in seven weeks in 1984
Robert Lee Yates: murdered at least 16 women in Spokane County, Washington
Mark Breakdown:
Research/Use of Library time = 5 marks
Information – detailed & answers all of the required elements = 15 marks
Bibliography –complete and correct = 5 marks
Detailed point-form research notes = 5 marks
Presentation – visuals = 10 marks
Presentation – performance (prepared, no awkward pauses etc.) = 5 marks
Total = 45 marks