Other evidence led investigators to believe the bomber was a blue-collar aviation worker. The profile concluded that the suspect was an antitechnology Luddite. In 1994, a new investigator took over the task force and tried to convince Tafoya that new forensic analysis should alter his profile. Tafoya didn't waiver, and he says the profile was ignored. Their embracing Tafoya's profile would have meant they trusted behavioral scientists over shoe-leather investigators and it would have been a tacit admission that countless hours and dollars had been wasted.
Freeman notes that profiles are but one component of any investigation.
He says investigators pursued several tracks, including the possibility that the bomber might be an academic. Tafoya says his colleagues were well intentioned. Inc. All rights reserved.