Profiling is not exact.

However, using logic and reasoning to synthesize course material

and the evidence of the case, it is possible to come up with a picture of who the murderer could
be. With the information provided from the course readings, lecture material, and the case study,
I have come to the following conclusion about the timeline of the events leading up to, during,
and after the murder as well as the murderer and his physical, criminal, mental, and geographical
characteristics.
The murderer met the victim at the club after the victims friend had left. In order to not
have drawn too much attention to himself he would need to be an average person you might find
at a club: a white male in his twenties. This would also make his advances toward the victim, a
young, white female, normal and accepted for that club. He gained the victims trust, being a
charismatic individual, and they left the club together.
The murder and acts of violence occurred at least an hour after they had left the club,
shown by the lack of fluids in the victims stomach. I believe that the victim willingly left and
travelled with the murderer and at some point refused his sexual advances after exiting the car.
After the victim turned around to go back to the car, the murderer became angry; he hit the
victim in the head with a heavy object as shown by the markings on the victims skull and
killed her. This is a show off his strength and the likelihood of working in a physical labor
profession. The damage was on the left side of the skull, meaning that the killer is most likely
left-handed and hit her from behind, because she had already turned around. After hitting her, not
realizing that the blow had killed her, the murderer used the victims clothing to bind her in case
she came-to and tried to retaliate, accounting for the victims state of bondage when her body
was discovered. Therefore, I believe neither the murder to be premeditated nor the murderer to
be a serial killer.

If the murderer is not a serial killer, the motivation for the dismembering of the body then
comes into question. He most likely has anger issues, though probably does not have the
monetary allowance to seek help, and is also fairly intelligent. All these attributes can be seen in
a number of ways throughout the case: the weapons and tools used during the act, the mutilation,
and the movement of the body and its different parts. The weapons used during the murder, a
sharp knife like a scalpel and a serrated blade like a hacksaw, would be tools found in a common
working mans toolbox. The murderer did not have a special large, sharp knife that would easily
remove a head nor did he have something that would saw right through fingers. Someone who
had planned a murder like this or a serial killer would have all the tools necessary to perform the
acts they wanted to at the time of the killing. This murderer did not. The mutilation of the victim
is evidence of the anger issues that the murderer had. Even after the murderer had discovered he
had killed his victim, he still had enough anger left over to move her, cut off her head, move her
again, cut and rip off her fingers, and move her again to dispose of the rest of her body. The time
spent moving between the crime scenes and committing the crime shows an extreme amount of
anger as well as intelligence needed to know that splitting up the body makes the murder case
harder to solve. However, due to his anger problems and his apparent inclination towards
violence, the murderer has probably been charged for a violent crime in the past.
Due to his knowledge of the roads outside of the city shown by the separation of the
fingers, the head, and the body of the victim, the murderer lived and worked in the area outside
of the city. After killing her with the hit to the head, he brought her to multiple places, moving
her around a lot, shown by the lack of lividity in the victims body. He knew of a rest area as
well as where a cliff is where he could deposit body parts that would remained undiscovered for
enough time for him to remove himself from the crime scenes.

Physically, the murderer is a left-handed, white, good looking with a strong build and
charismatic male in his twenties. Criminally, the murderer is not a serial killer, nor was this
particular murder premeditated. However, he probably has been charged with a different crime in
the past. Mentally, the killer has anger problems but is not stupid. He understood that distance
between the crime and the body parts decreases solvability rates, but could not control his anger
towards the victim, eventually killing and mutilating her. Geographically, he lived close to but
probably not in the city and is familiar with the area, knowing where there are drop-offs and rest
areas off of the road.