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RAPE-MURDER CONCLUSIONS the patient has been under stress and especially at times when he or she has been charged with other Gaps do exist in fully understanding a criminal acr criminal acts (e.g., breaking and entering, stealing cars, in general, and a sexual homicide in particular, be. Iarceny), the interviewer should inquire about concur- cause each of the various professionals and disciplines rent assaultive behavior or rape fantasies. Our findings involved work with only one part of.the picture. support those from Groth and associates' srudy (7) of Cooperation through sharing information and col- laborating on cases is often not practiced in the work convicted sex offenders recommended for treatment. setting. We undertook this study to address this gap in Those authors reported that each offender had com- the transfer and sharing of criminal dara. Frazier (9) mitted an average of 5 sexual assaults for which he was encouraged the research step of developing descriptive never apprehended... patterns of murder as human action, with the caution Psychological Profiles to avoid simple, reductionistic conclusions about the causes of murder. We agree with this position and The fact that a psychiatrist wrote a psychological encourage studies across disciplines.e profle of the offender we have described suggests the need for further work in this area. The psychological REFERENCES profle is a critical technique in police work on un- 9 't= 'Tz-0 dd'S61 urf Arpo ASopoapasg ddry :f agps i solved crimes. In a comparison of the profle with the 2. Podolsky E: Sexual violence. Medical Digest 34:6()-63. 1966 data obtained from the offender, two points can be 3. Groth AN with Birnbaum HJ: Men Who Rape. New York. made. First, no one speculated that the murder victims Plenum Press, 1979, p +4 had been raped. The fact that they all were found fully 4. Rada RT: Psychoiogical tactors in rapist behavior. in Chnical clothed and without clinical evidence of sexual inter- Aspects of the Rapist. Edited by Rada RT. New York, Grune & Stratton, 1978 course made the cases seem not sexually related. The offender admitted raping the vicrims several times. The and sexuality. Am J Psychiatry 134:1239-1243. 1977 possibility that he had a sexual dysfunction--retarded 6. Burgess AW, Holmstrom LL: Sexual trauma of children and ejaculation--was never considered (8). Second, the adolescents: pressure, sex and secrecy. Nurs Clin North Am 10:551-563.1975 profle report speculated that because he targered 7. Groch AN. Longo R. McFadin B: Undeected recidivism among women and used their underwear to bind them, he felt hostility toward his mother. Interview data suggested 458,1982 another authority figure in his life:. 8. Groth AN, Burgess AW: Sexual dystunction during rape. N Eng! j Med 297:764-766, 1977 Thar woman judge sent me to a diagnostic center. That's 9. Frazier SH: Murder--single and multipie. Aggression 52:304-- what started me off resenting authority. ... Nobody could 312, 1974 tell me what to do or when to do it or how to do it. #U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE ) 0 3 0 - 2 2 7 gj2 6 0 2 9 141 Am J Psychiatry 1+0:1, Januury 1983