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Ressler etal. “ CRIME SCENE ANALYSIS as she had to work the next day; the victim stayed with the man, whom she knew, hoping he would “get the hint and leave.”’ While they were watching television, she fell asleep lying on her side on the couch. When she awoke, she was “feeling funny” and lying on her back. A shadow ora figure at the edge of the couch was moving toward the bedroom. As the victim started to stand up, she saw her girlfriend standing between the bedroom and the living room with the man holding her by the wrist. Her friend was screaming. At about this time, the victim realized her pants were partly down around her thighs, and as she reached down to pull them up, she discovered she was covered with blood. Her face and abdomen had been slashed. The victim ran outside toa neighbor, holding her stomach as she ran. The neighbor let her in and called the police. After the victim was rushed to the hospital, she was found to have suffered multiple cuts and lacerations to her throat and face and extensive abdominal lacera- lions. The assailant had attempted to disembowel her. Het virlfriend was found lying nude in her bedroom with fatal multiple knife wounds in the abdomen, throat, and arms. A knife with a ten-inch blade (subsequently identified as the murder weapon) was lying near the victim. ‘The disorganized murderer often kills quickly to maintain control. In this case, control was achieved by the murderer’s attack on sleeping women. ‘The bodies were depersonalized through extensive Cuttings and stab wounds and the weapon was left at the crime scene. The murderer knew his victims and had a history of masochistic behavior, as evidenced by autoerotic asphyxial practices as an adolescent and adult. The premeditated aspect of the crime was revealed by a letter, found in the murderer’s car and dated five days before the murder, that stated that the killer intended to force one of the victims to eviscerate and emasculate him and that she was to be found innocent of the crimes. One might speculate that the disorganization of the crime escalated when the offender's fantasy did not match the reality of the situation. In his evisceration fantasy, the assailant rehearsed the disembowel- ment both by assuming the role of victim and of victimizer. There is similarity in intent at the crime scene with the presence of two women. The assailant tries out the evisceration fantasy on the first victim and then attacks his fantasy object. We speculate that between the first and second victim he experienced tension relief from trying out of the fantasy and he escalates the murder behavior to a second target. 78