As a result, I often feel the perpetrators are not punished strongly enough. I discount the notion of rehabilitation for any of them. I knew that the killer in Atlanta would be an African American after assessing the modus operandi that was being utilized by the perpetrator. A white person would have been unable to go into these communities and abduct and murder these children unnoticed. Behavior reflects personality.
Dead people tell tales.
So it's my job to assess the victim and assess the nature and methods in which the victim was assaulted based upon my research findings, based upon the thousands of cases on which I've worked and the hundreds of violent offenders I've interviewed. As a writer of horror fiction, I'm concerned about my work being a negative influence. There are different types of serial killers. Some want to be in the limelight and read about themselves in the newspapers. The Anatomy of Motive.