PSY 373 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: 1996 Summer Olympics, Eric Rudolph, Offender Profiling
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Strangled, slit throats, attacked, and killed prostitutes on public streets. Had in interest in police work and law enforcement. Unexploded bomb found in the consolidated edison. Company building and then several other bombs around nyc left letters and calls. Convicted george metesky single unemployed 54 year old former employee of con ed. Put into a hospital for criminally insane. Injured in a boiler accident at work denied a disability claim and fired from his job. Visionary psychotic, have visions and believe they hear voices instructing them to kill. Hedonistic motivated by a desire to kill people they regard as evil or unworthy kill for thrills and take sadistic sexual pleasure in torturing their victims. Power-oriented get satisfaction from capturing and controlling the victim before killing. Carefully selecting and stalking their victims and planning what they will do. Pick victims at random, acting on sudden rage, or follow commands from voices in their heads.
