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Sexual Homicide of Elderly Females

Linking Offender Characteristics to Victim and Crime Scene Attributes

Mark E. Safarik

John P. Jarvis

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Kathleen E. Nussbaum

University of Liverpool

The FBI consults regularly on the investigation of extraordinarily violent and unusual homicide cases. Although overall awareness of elderly victimization throughout the United States has greatly increased over the past decade, little attention has been focused on elderly female victims of sexual homicides and the offenders who commit these crimes. Law enforcement agencies are often faced with rarely seen and excessively violent crime scenes as they attempt to solve these homicides. This in-depth study examines the characteristics of 128 elderly women who were murdered by 110 offenders as well as the characteristics of the attendant crime scenes. An empirical analysis of crime scene attributes, victim characteristics (including severity of victim injuries), and offender demographics produces significant predictive information about offender characteristics that may assist law enforcement investigations of such cases.

Journal of Interpersonal Violence, Vol. 17, No. 5, 500-525 (2002)
DOI: 10.1177/0886260502017005002
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