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RAPE-MURDER The offender's use of either verbal or physical strate. residential taciliry. He torced the woman at knite point gies to assert control over the victim depended on the to drive to her apartment, where he raped her. The victim's initial response. The victim who was compli- third and fourth rapes with which he was never ant when he showed a weapon received no additional charged included codefendants. While on a weekend threats or orders. Victims who screamed received pass, the otfender and 2 other patients trom the verbal threats, and those who refused to cooperate residential facility stole a car, traveled out of srate, were physically struck. broke into a house, stole 2 guns and money, and each raped a 17-year-old girl who was in the house. The Interaction Between Offender und Victim offender returned home; however, his mother immedi- ately sent him back to the residential facility and he Reconstruction of the victims' talk and actions as was counseled on his runaway behavior. Three months viewed from the otfender's perspective revealed that later he and another patient went to a local swimming conversation and behavior served to either neutralize pool. They broke into the women's locker room and or escalate his affective state. raped a young woman, covering her head with a towel. Murder victim I, rape victin 7. The woman's talk The sixth rape (the ffth for which he was never ("She asked which way I wanted it") raised the charged) occurred before the first rape-murder he offender's suspicion ot her life style. After the rape and committed and involved a woman he had seen in his while both were dressing, he had nor decided on his own apartment building. He obtained an air pistol, next action. The woman's sudden attempt to escape captured her in the apartment elevator, took her to a triggered in him feelings of anger and frustration that storage room, and, covering her face with her jacket, resulted in increased aggression. He stated:. raped her twice. An attempted armed robbery (an act intended to be She rook off running down the ravine. That's when I grabbed her. I had her in an armlock. She was bigger than rape) occurred 3 weeks after his release from the residential treatment facility. He targeted a woman down the hill and into the water. ! banged her head against entering the elevator of the apartment complex, the side of a rock and held her head under water. donned a ski mask, and held a knife to her. She was successful in escaping. Death was determined to be from strangulation. Murder victim 2, rape victim 8. The woman's talk She broke . ... pushed me our of the way and started. consisted of many questions ("She wanted to know going to the front of the elevator, pushed the burton to open the door and started to run and she stumbled. I'd why I wanted to do this; why I picked her; didn't I started to run after her and stumbled over her and at that have a girl friend; what was my problem: what I was point the knife fell and she was on the ground hollering going to do"), which served to annoy him. The wom- and I was on the ground next to her, scared to death. My an, talking while driving the car, suddenly stepped on mind went blank. I ran our of the building. (He was the accelerator and attempted to counter his control by subsequently arrested.! threatening ro drive the car into a tree. He turned off the ignition and put his foor on the brake, and the car Rape and Murder: The Last 6 Offenses. slid sideways. The car stopped, and the woman got out and ran across the road screaming for help. He said: The offender selected the last 6 victims at random as he watched cars drive into the apartment complex I go into the woods atter her. I see her run from behind a where he lived. Once he targeted a victim, he would tree and that's when I go after her. From then on I knew I walk behind her, follow her into the apartment eleva- had to kill her. She trips over a log and that's when I catch tor, pull his knife, and tell her it was a holdup. Then up with her and I just start stabbing her. they would leave the building, either for the victim's car or for an area near the apartment complex. In one The victim was stabbed 14 times in the chest. case the pattern was reversed. The offender was hitch- Murder victin 3, rape victim 9. The otfender Stm oym uhhon e Aq apa e uhnrs sem pue Suneay claimed he had not decided whether he would kill this going to a parry in his apartment complex. She let him woman. He would not let her talk (*The more I got to know about the women the sotter I got'). He ordered then ran across the complex, entered the elevator with her to be quiet and turn on the radio. He described his her, and captured her there. All abductions and mur- thinking as tollows: ders occurred within his own territory. Thus, known territory was a distinct advantage for him. (Going I was thinking . . . I've killed rwo. I might as well kill this somewhere thar I didn't know or where the cops one, too.... Something in me was wanting ro kill... patrolled might get me caught. I knew whar time the tied her up with her stockings and I started to walk away cops came by in the morning because I'd be sitting '. then I heard her through the woods kind of rolling there.") Indeed, he was right. One of the reasons he around and making mutled sounds. And I turned back was not caught until atter the ffth murder was thar the and said, -No, I have to kill her. I've got to do this to police were looking for strangers--especially suspi- preserve and protect myself." cious strangers-not a teenager living in the area. 139 An J Psychiatry 1+0:1, January 1983