Joanna Yeates: Murder at Christmas

Exclusive documentary examining the shocking murder of Bristol landscape architect Joanna Yeates, who was strangled in her flat by Vincent Tabak in December 2010. Including interviews with Joanna's parents, initial suspect landlord Chris Jeffries, and those involved in solving the case. Never before had a missing pizza, grey sock and 293 tonnes of domestic rubbish played such an important part in a murder investigation. But this was all the police had to go on when 25-year-old landscape architect Joanna Yeates went missing on 17 December 2010.

Living above Joanna and Greg was their landlord Chris Jefferies. Described "as an eccentric pillar of society" he was a retired 65-year-old English teacher. Also a member of the local neighbourhood watch group, it was alleged that Jefferies had seen three people, including Joanna, leave her flat the night she disappeared. He would go on to play a key part in the hunt for the killer.

Joanna and Greg's next door neighbour was Vincent Tabak, a 33-year-old Dutch national. Described as an "introverted loner" as a child, he had grown up in Uden, Holland. After gaining his masters degree and later a PhD in engineering he moved to the UK. He worked in nearby Bath and lived with his girlfriend, Tanja Morson. The events on the night of 17 December would change his life forever. Joanna Yeates could not know she was living next to a human time-bomb ticking towards murder.

Vincent Tabak spent hundreds of hours trawling pornographic sites learning the best way to kill...and then he set about his task.In Joanna Yeates: Murder at Christmas we meet the people who lived through one of the most compelling crime stories of the decade.It emerged that Joanna's killer was an online fetishist who spent hours watching violent pornography. Psychologist Emma Scott outlines why some men are susceptible to online-addiction and gradually find the line between reality and fantasy blurred.

We also hear from former police detective, Mark Williams Thomas, on why his criticism of Avon and Somerset Police led to him being banned from media conferences. He explains the challenges that were faced by the Police as well as the mistakes that were made.

And we travel to Holland to hear from those who lived alongside Tabak; the man who broke a nation's heart and left a family forever without their 'ray of sunshine.'

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How to Cope With Cheating Girlfriend

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A little murdurous compilation I made using film footage from Beware (2011), Guy loses his job and boozes it up at a local, then heads home to catch his wife with her lover, and when she gets ballsy and reveals that he has fathered an illegitimate child, he reacts as he should in a world of better laws.

How to Be a Serial Killer (2008) Review

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How to Be a Serial Killer (2008): Reviewed by Stuart Conover

While not the first movie to do so- How to Be a Serial Killer, directed and written by Luke Ricci, takes another look at a horror documentary styled film. Playing off the concept that what you are seeing is made to be viewed by an actual audience as if it were real and not just a movie. The slight twist on this concept that’s run with throughout the film though is that it is stylized to be a late night Infomercial. They appear to be trying to sell you on both the lifestyle and buying a video or training course on how to be a serial killer AND why it’s good for you. If you have ever seen the movie “Thank You For Smoking” and appreciated it, this should provide you the same kind of humor.

The tale begins by showing a regular video rental store clerk named Bart (Matthew Gray Gubler) who is dealing with a customer that is nothing short but an asshole towards him. While this is going we pan over to see Mike (Dameon Clarke) who is watching this interaction and quickly cut to his infomercial showing off that learning to be a serial killer can bring you to new heights of self esteem, greatness, and attempts to show you that everyone is doing it. While Mike watches the interaction between Bart and the customer unfold he quickly swoops in for the kill. At first it is figuratively as he sells Bart on the idea of being able to take a life into his own hand and soon it is demonstrated as literally as he kills the customer. From this point on it quickly develops into a friendship that is based on Mike’s outgoing dominant personality convincing Bart’s submissive personality to follow his lead.

This friendship lasts through the film as Mike teaches Bart how to live as he does. The teaching becomes an obsession for Mike that starts to hamper the facade of normality that he has developed from his girlfriend to his job. The walls he has put in place to hide the monster that he is start to slip as he appears to grow more open and less careful with his killing. The entire time he becomes more obsessed with his own darker side he is trying to turn Bart into being exactly what he is. He finally has someone he can be open with and it pleases him to no end.

The entire film jumps between the dark humor of Mike’s infomercial and the reality of what he is actually doing. It quickly shows though that he lives by a code of rules to both keep himself safe and ‘moral’ in who he kills. Yes any fan of the show Dexter will quickly be making a comparison of using the idea of a serial killer with a code for both keeping himself safe and moral, even so with the commercial feel it plays out with some originality to it. This movie unfortunately suffers from coming out when Dexter is so popular as to easily overshadow the original concepts that it has.

The infomercial shots are what end up embodying how Mike feels his actions should be carried out, even when the rules don’t agree with he is preaching to Bart. While he shows off all of the ways in his rules that you can kill someone, and in action actually kills people in a multitude of ways, he tells Bart that if he wants to stand out he needs a signature. It is the signature that will let him leave a mark ont he world and Mike does not have a signature he follows through with in every kill. There is no underlying method to his madness.

The overall verdict? How to Be a Serial Killer is a mix of seriousness and fun. At parts of the movie it can’t seem to decide which way to lean which causes the pacing to be slightly off. For the most part though it’s a fun watch if your looking for an entertaining satire of a serial killer mover or documentary. With it’s infomercial styled pitch it is hard pressed to call this one a true mockumentary but that is the closest description that can be made. It’s a fun watch, worth a rent at the very least.

Serial Killers Effect: Serial Killer Profiling

Serial Killer Profiling

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Determining the signature and the MO are both aspects of profiling. TheFBI's Behavioral Sciences Unit developed the process of profiling in the 1970s, and Ted Bundy was one of the first serial killers to be profiled. Studies by psychologists and psychiatrists and information gleaned from past serial murders go into the creation of the profile, along with crime-scene information and witness statements. For example, if the victim is Caucasian, the killer is probably Caucasian. If the crime scene shows evidence of careful planning, the killer is likely to be intelligent and older. If the victim was mutilated in a very disorganized way, her killer is probablyschizophrenic, and schizophrenics are more likely to be very thin and unkempt [source: Vronsky].

Profiles are not 100 percent accurate, but they're usually found to be very close. According to Robert Keppell, the detective who took Bundy's confession, the profile assembled for Bundy's crimes was perfect, "even to the point where they predicted he'd have a step-brother and that's what he had" [source: Bellamy].

Once the profile is completed, investigators can look at the existing list of suspects and determine which are most likely to have committed the crime and determine how best to capture him. Some organized serial killers, such as Dennis Rader (the BTK Killer), feel the need to taunt the police, which sometimes leads to their arrest. Rader sent police a floppy disk containing metadata that was traced to his church. Many serial killers, even those who are incredibly organized and methodical, slip up in some way that leads to their arrest. In the case of Jeffrey Dahmer, a potential victim escaped and led police to Dahmer's apartment. Some of John Wayne Gacy's victims had worked for his construction business.

Serial Killers in Pop Culture One of the first films to feature a serial killer was the 1960 Hitchcock thriller "Psycho," based on Robert Bloch's book of the same name and inspired by real-life killer Ed Gein. Gein also inspired the "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" and the character of Buffalo Bill in "The Silence of the Lambs." The latter film also made the public aware of the FBI's profiling and ViCAP system. There are numerous true crime books, novels,films and TV shows devoted to the phenomenon. But why are they so popular? Perhaps people are fascinated simply because what serial killers do is so horrifying. They enjoy the fear that comes with serial killer films and books. Some people take this fascination a step further. Until recently, a search on eBay for "serial killer memorabilia" turned up personal items of convicted serial killers, including clothing, paintings and letters. EBay banned the sale of these and other "murderabilia" items after protests by victims' rights groups. One Web site sells serial killer action figures, calendars and trading cards.

But not all serial killers are caught. Some are arrested or picked up for other crimes, and evidence leads investigators to their murders. Ted Bundy was caught at a routine traffic stop, while David Berkowitz, the "Son of Sam," was initially picked up for loitering and was thought to be a witness to the crimes instead of the killer.

Once convicted, most serial killers either spend their lives in prison or are executed if the death penalty exists in their state. Ed Gein is one exception. At first found incompetent to stand trial, Gein was sent to a mental institution. Later his psychiatrist determined that he was competent, and a judge found him not guilty by reason if insanity. Gein died in 1984 of heart failure.

Most researchers agree that there is no way to "cure" a serial killer. Some serial killers who spent time in mental institutions after committing their crimes or received psychiatric treatment were deemed "cured" and released. But they went on to kill again. Peter Woodcock spent 35 years in a criminal psychiatric hospital inOntario, Canada, after murdering three children. Within a few hours of his release, he killed a fellow psychiatric patient and was immediately sent back to the institution.

Until we know more about how to stop serial killers before they start to kill or refine ways of capturing them before they continue the cycle of murder, they will continue to be as much a part of reality as murder itself.

For lots more information about serial killers and related topics, check out the links on the next page.

Serial Killers Effect: Catching a Serial Killer

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Investigators search for the remains of a victim of Gary Ridgway, the Green River Killer.

A serial killer keeps killing until one of four things happens: he is caught, he dies, he kills himself or he burns out. Obviously once law enforcement determines that a string of murders can be attributed to one person, the goal is to catch him as soon as possible. But how do they figure this out? And how are serial killers caught?

In the aftermath of any homicide, inv­estigating thecrime scene and performing anautopsy are routine steps that law enforcement takes in an attempt to solve the crime. Once all of this information has been collected, it can be entered into a nationwide database run by the FBI, as part of ViCAP (Violent Criminal Apprehension Program). This program can help to determine patterns, or signatures, that link separate homicides.

According to FBI profiler John Douglas, a signature "is a ritual, something the subject does intentionally for emotional satisfaction -- something that isn't necessary to perpetuate the crime” [source: JohnDouglas.com]. Some serial killers pose their victims in a certain way or leave them in a certain place after killing them. Another signature might be a method of torture or mutilation. It's what the killer does to fulfill his fantasies, and it can tell investigators a lot about his personality.

Investigators also look at the MO, or modus operandi, of the crime. The MO reflects what the killer had to do to commit the crime. This includes everything from luring and restraining his victim to the way that he actually murders her. A serial killer's MO can change over time. Essentially, he learns from past mistakes and improves with time.

For other uses, see Modus operandi (disambiguation).

Modus operandi (plural modi operandi) is a Latin phrase, approximately translated as "mode of operating".^[1] The term is used to describe someone's habits or manner of working, their method of operating or functioning. In English, it is frequently shortened to M.O.

Serial Killers Effect: Serial Killer Sanity

For some people, the only way to explain serial murder is to say that serial killers are "insan­e." Some serial killers do plead "not guilty by reason of insanity" as a defense, but are all of them "insane" or even mentally ill? According to the U.S. Code, an insanity defense means that "at the time of the commission of the acts constituting the offense, the defendant, as a result of a severe mental disease or defect, was unable to appreciate the nature and quality or the wrongfulness of his acts. Mental disease or defect does not otherwise constitute a defense" [Source: U.S. Code].

Basically, a serial killer arguing "not guilty by reason of insanity" must prove that he did not understand right from wrong at the time that he killed. But it can be difficult to prove that he really did not understand that his actions would result in the death of the victims. Only two serial killers have successfully pled insanity. John Douglas, long-term head of the FBI's Investigative Support Unit, believes that serial killers "don't have a problem understanding what death means, and that they have the power to kill" [source: JohnDouglas.com].

Some serial killers have been diagnosed by psychologists and psychiatrists as psychopaths. The official term in the Diagnostic and Standard Manual of Mental Disorders, fourth edition (DSM-IV) is antisocial personality disorder (APD). According to the DSM-IV, a person with APD follows a pattern of "disregard and violation of the rights of others occuring since age 15 years." This pattern includes seven factors (three of which must be met for diagnosis), such as "failure to conform to social norms," "irritability and aggressiveness" and "lack of remorse" [source: Vronsky]. Psychopaths are not insane -- they do know right from wrong. But this diagnosis may explain their behavior during their killing cycles.

Brain Injury Some researchers theorize that serial killers have brain damage or other biological abnormalities that contribute to their actions. Damage to areas like the frontal lobe, the hypothalamus and the limbic system can contribute to extreme aggression, loss of control, loss of judgment and violence. Henry Lee Lucas, who was convicted of 11 murders, was shown to have extreme brain damage in these areas, probably the result of childhood abuse, malnutrition and alcoholism. Arthur Shawcross, another 11-time serial killer, was found to have had several brain injuries, including two skull fractures. While in prison, he suffered from headaches and often blacked out. Bobby Joe Long, convicted of nine murders, stated at one point, "After I'm dead, they're going to open up my head and find that just like we've been saying a part of my brain is black and dry and dead" [source: Scott].

In the next section, we'll see how law enforcement catches serial killers.

Serial Killers Effect: Serial Killer Motives

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Jeffrey Dahmer at his trial in 1991. He killed at least 17 men and boys.

One of the most studied aspects of serial murder is “why?” A number of theories have been set forth as potential explanations. But “unraveling the making of a serial killer is like aligning a Rubik's cube” [source: Vronsky]. In other words, there is no one answer. Let's take a look at three possible theories: childhood neglect and abuse, mental illness and brain injury.

Neglect and Abuse
One theory centers around the neglect and abuse that many serial killers experience as children. Robert Ressler and Tom Shachtman describe a study conducted by the FBI, which included interviews with dozens of murderers (mostly serial killers). In each case, they found “similar patterns of severe childhood neglect” [source:Ressler & Shachtman]. During a child's development, there are important periods in which he learns about love, trust, empathy and basic rules about how to interact with other human beings. If these traits aren't imprinted upon the child during that period, it may not be possible for him to learn them later in life.

Serial killers were often physically or sexually abused as children or witnessed the abuse of family members. This pattern of neglect and abuse, some researchers say, leads serial killers to grow up without a sense of anyone other than themselves. But at the same time, many children grow up neglected and abused, but do not become violent criminals or serial killers.

On the next page we'll learn about mental illness and brain injury in serial killers.

Serial Killers Effect:Serial Killer Behavior

Serial killers can also be classified by their organizational and social skills. They can be organized ordisorganized (depending on the type of crime scene) andnonsocial or asocial(depending on whether they are excluded by society or exclude themselves). The following chart illustrates behaviors of the two most common types.

The majority of identified serial killers are organized and nonsocial. Most of them also follow some other basic patterns. More than 80 percent of serial killers are male, Caucasian and in their 20s or 30s [source: Hickey]. Serial killers are generally intelligent, and they usually kill Caucasianwomen. There's no way to "tell" a serial killer simply by his appearance -- most of them look like everyone else. Ted Bundy, who was convicted of 30 murders, was often described as attractive, charismatic and articulate. John Wayne Gacy was a popular figure in his community and often performed as a clown at block parties. He met with first lady Rosalynn Carter when he was precinct captain of his local Democratic Party. He was also convicted of the murders of 33 boys and men.

Exceptions to the Rule There have been female serial killers, serial killers who were members of racial and ethnic minorities, serial killers who murdered outside of their race and serial killers who began murdering during childhood. Aileen Wuornos, the subject of the 2003 film "Monster," was convicted of killing seven men. She died via lethal injection in 2002. Most of the victims of Jeffrey Dahmer and John Wayne Gacy -- both Caucasian -- were men and boys of racial or ethnic minorities.­ ­Mary Bell was 10 years old when she was convicted of murdering two boys in England in 1968. After being incarcerated in first an all-boys' reform school and later a women's prison, she was released at age 23.

Often, serial killers exhibit three behaviors in childhood known as the MacDonald triad: bed-wetting, arson and cruelty to animals. They are also likely to have come from broken homes and been abused or neglected. Although some are shy and introverted, others are gregarious and outgoing but actually feel very isolated.

Many theorists point to the troubled childhoods of serial killers as a possible reason for their actions. We'll explore this and other theories for why they do it in the next section.

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Serial Killers Effect: Serial Killer Classifications

America's First Serial Killer H.H. Holmes, who was convicted of nine murders, is often considered to be the first serial killer in the United States. Holmes confessed to 27 murders, and some investigators thought he may have actually murdered hundreds. He began by killing guests at the massive "castle" hotel that he opened to host visitors to the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago. Holmes' crimes were discovered in an inspection after a custodian told police that he was not allowed to clean certain floors of the hotel. He was convicted and hanged in 1896. Interest in the Holmes case was revived in 2003 with the publication of "The Devil in the White City," a book juxtaposing the murders with the construction of the World's Fair.

Intense study in the field of serial murder has resulted in two ways of classifying serial killers: one based on motive and one based on organizational and social patterns. The motive method is called Holmes typology, for Ronald M. and Stephen T. Holmes, authors of numerous textbooks on serial murder and violent crime. Not every serial killer falls into a single type, and many are more than one type. Neither of these classifications explain what might actually lead someone to become a serial killer (more on this later). There is not enough scientific data upon which to base these classifications, either -- they are based on anecdotal and interview data. Critics of the Holmes typology point to this as a flaw, but many investigators still find the method useful when studying serial murder.

Acc­ording to Holmes typology, serial killers can be act-focused (who kill quickly), or process-focused (who kill slowly). For act-focused killers, killing is simply about the act itself. Within this group, there are two different types: the visionary and the missionary. The visionary murders because he hears voices or has visions that direct him to do so. The missionary murders because he believes that he is meant to get rid of a particular group of people.

Process-focused serial killers get enjoyment from torture and the slow death of their victims. These include three different types of hedonists -- lust, thrill and gain -- and power-seeking killers. Lust killers derive sexual pleasure from killing. Thrill killers get a "kick" from it. Gain killers murder because they believe they will profit in some way. Power killers wish to "play God" or be in charge of life and death.

Serial Killers Effect: Introduction to How Serial Killers Work

The Zodiac Killer. John Wayne Gacy. The BTK Killer. Ted Bundy. Son of Sam. Jeffrey Dahmer­. The names and pseudonyms of these killers are burned into the collective consciousness of Americans, thanks to massive coverage in newspapers, books, films and TV specials. Many of those who have been captured appeared average -- attractive, successful, active members of the community -- until their crimes were discovered.

This kind of killer doesn't just "go crazy" one day and kill a lot of people. He doesn't kill out of greed or jealousy. So what makes a person not only murder, but murder multiple people over periods of days, weeks and years? There's a special name for these types of murderers: serial killers. In this article, we'll learn about what makes them tick.

The term "serial killer" was coined in the mid-1970s by Robert Ressler, the former director of the FBI's Violent Criminal Apprehension Program. He chose "serial" because the police in England called these types of murders "crimes in a series" and because of the serial films that he grew up watching. Prior to this, these types of crimes were sometimes known as mass murders or stranger-on-stranger crime.

The FBI defines a serial killer as one who murders three or more victims, with "cooling-off" periods between each murder [source: U.S. Code]. This sets them apart from mass murderers, who kill four or more people at the same time (or in a short period of time) in the same place, and spree killers, who murder in multiple locations and within a short period of time. Serial killers usually work alone, kill strangers and kill for the sake of killing (as opposed to crimes of passion).

According to a recent FBI study, there have been approximately 400 serial killers in the United States in the past century, with anywhere from 2,526 to 3,860 victims [source: Hickey]. However, there's no way to really know how many serial killers are active at any point in time -- experts have suggested numbers ranging from 50 to 300, but there's no evidence to support them.

Serial murders also appear to have increased over the past 30 years. Eighty percent of the 400 serial killers of the past century have emerged since 1950 [source: Vronsky]. Why this is happening is a question of some debate; there is no answer, just as there is no simple answer as to why some people become serial killers.

In the next section, we'll look at some classifications of serial killers in use by criminal researchers and profilers so we can begin to understand this phenomenon.

Police Officer REceives 10 Year Sentence For Murder Of American Citizen ( Military Contractor? )

Prague - The Prague High Court upheld the 10-year prison sentence for former Czech patrol policeman Milan Pavlis, 26, for the murder of a U.S. citizen.

The murder took place at night on January 30, 2008 near Prague's Sazka Arena.

Pavlis, who was off duty at the time, was returning home drunk from a celebration and he started a brawl with the 44-year-old American who was sleeping in his stationary car.

The American reacted to Pavlis's attack by beating him with two telescopic batons. Pavlis then pulled out a knife and stabbed the man three times. His third stab hit the chest and was fatal.

Witnesses, who watched the brawl from the windows of nearby houses called in a police patrol. The police arrived in two minutes but could not prevent the victim's death.

Pavlis at first claimed that he was attacked by unknown men and that he does not remember anything.

It came out during the investigation of the case that the police celebration in which Pavlis participated was organised at the local police station. The policemen rejected the fact that they drank alcohol at the station and they will probably be charged with giving false testimony because of it.

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Police Officer held over fatal stabbing of US citizen

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A 27-year old Czech police officer is being held over a stabbing in the early hours of Wednesday, which resulted in the death a US citizen. The incident happened sometime after 1 am, after the officer, who was off-duty and apparently drunk, made obscene gestures at a passing car. The American driver stopped and got out of his vehicle, resulting in a quarrel which led to the fatal attack.

So far there are few details and the questions are many: just what led to the fatal stabbing of a US citizen in Prague? The incident unravelled in the early hours of the morning near the city’s Sazka Arena, and soon got out of control. When it was over, one man lay dead. The suspect in the case, an off-duty officer reportedly drunk, appears to have sparked the incident by making obscene gestures at the driver of a car, the 44-year old American who stopped his vehicle.

An argument ensued, leading to the attack, and the American was stabbed in the heart. He died at the scene. The murder weapon? A tiny pocket knife, known as a “rybička” or little fish. After the incident, the officer was found sitting on the pavement with head down and shoulders slumped; he was taken into custody to be questioned after sobering up.

On Wednesday a number of news sites speculated over the victim’s identity: reportedly, he was an employee of a private US company working in Germany for the US Department of Defense; the US Embassy in Prague confirmed he had not been in the capital on business, also adding that he was a civilian, not a solider, as had been reported by some news sites earlier. The deceased man’s identity has been kept secret for the sake of protecting his family. As for the suspect in the case? Before Wednesday’s incident, he had been described as a capable officer; he had been on the force for one year. Now, he has been charged with murder.

Police have appealed to any witnesses to come forward to help their investigation, in particular one man believed to have been walking a dog near the scene at the time of the incident. The police are aiming to discount conflicting stories: a number of reports have suggested a broader brawl took place which involved not just the two men but also others. Ambulance crew had reported that more weapons were spotted at the site, including bars and brass knuckles. But a security camera near the scene is said to have captured the presence of only two in the fight – presumably the suspect and the American victim.

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