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This article treats one of the most relevant aspects in serial killer investigations. It is about the relation between modus operandi and the particular elements of the killer's signature.
The main theme of this article is an important aspect of the serial killer investigation, which is the variations of killer's modus operandi and their signature, the last being more important and specific to this kind of killers.
The paper analyzes the inference of psychologycal traits in how a violent killer achieves his fantasms.
Key words: crime scene, serial killer, "signature", "modus operandi", man slaughter, victims.
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Articolul abordeaza un aspect important în cazul investigarii criminalilor în serie, si anume deosebirile dintre modul de operare si semnatura criminalilor în serie, cea din urma fund mai importanta si specifica acestui gen de ucigasi.
Cuvinte cheie: criminali în serie, "semnatura", "modus operandi", omucidere, victime.
In "Crime Scene", the "signature" of a criminal is sometimes evident. He proves a thorough approach in positioning (placing) in a certain way and in a special place the corpse. Some criminals bound the victim in a precise and complicated way, hitting frantically and repeatedly the victim until the occurrence of death, sometimes even after the death occurs.
Another "signature" of the killer is stabbing the victim repeatedly and in a certain area of the body. Most times it is not important or it is less important this thing.
In fact, the signing could be described as what the criminal did, what acts that were unnecessary to kill the victim he committed, such as torture, mutilation, rape, etc.
These acts are part of of his psychological mark, something that he shouldn't have done.
John Douglas, profiler for the FBI, described the "signature" as "the achievement of a violent criminal fantasies." Because this person thinks of his fantasies and dreams it all the time, he develops a need to express them in reality. Most serial killers live with their fantasies for years and before dying they translate them into reality thus some aspects of their crimes expresses its ego, its ideas, its unique desires.
Often, the "signature" may be something rare or unusual. When we find something unusual in a crime, and we encounter again this thing in another crime, a few...