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Another time, working intently on a dissection, Roy discovered a little slip of paper in the cadaver’s mouth.
“Eat at Dino’s,” it said.
He learned from the experts at the AFIP that if you know how to listen, the dead can tell you a great deal about how they got that way.
Roy met world-class authorities in toxicology, pathology, radiology, odontology, entomology, anthropology, and evengeology, all of whom contributed at various times to AFIP evaluations.
A toxicologist, for example, might establish if the victim was drunk or sober or had been poisoned. A pathologist might determine that a bruise or a scrape was a defensive wound, or estimate from how far, and in what direction, a fatal bullet was discharged.
An odontologist might identify the victim via dental records, or identify the killer via bite marks left on the victim’s skin. The entomologist could tell from insect larvae associated with the corpse if it was dumped where it was found, and how long ago. If there’s soil, clay, or rock associated with the body, a geologist can offer useful knowledge of where it came from, or the settings in which the material is used.
Hazelwood was fascinated by it all, not: least because so much of this knowledge was based upon experience and observation. For example, radiologists familiar with injuries characteristic of child abuse know to be alert to so-called spiral fractures of the forearm and lower leg bones if the possible victim is very young or immobile. Reason: Abusers tend to twist a child’s arms or legs as they grab them by their wrists or ankles, torquing their bones, which then fracture in a familiar spiral pattern.
Hazelwood personally researched stabbing and cutting wounds at the AFIP, and put together a text-and-photo syllabus for teaching the subject that is still in use in pathology classes around the country. Among the very strange cases covered in the syllabus is that of a man who committed suicide by repeatedly jamming ballpoint pens into the side of his head.
But a more intriguing area of investigation for Roy was personality: Who would do such a thing, and why? Could such a person be described?
Hazelwood wasn’t thinking like a clinician. He was thinking like a cop, wondering if a combination of experienceand research could yield reliable
behavioral
data to assist investigations, the way the hard sciences produced physical evidence.
One day in conversation with his AFIP mentor, Dr. Charles Stahl, a navy commander and forensic pathologist, Roy mentioned Harvey Glatman, and his own interest in one day conducting a study of autoerotic fatalities.
“Oh, we did one of those,” the pathologist replied, and he directed Hazelwood’s attention to Stahl’s published survey of forty-three autoerotic asphyxial deaths, all white male members of the military, culled from the 1.4 million cases in the AFIP’s voluminous files. At the time, Stahl’s study was the largest ever published.
Roy’s idea was to build on Stahl’s beginning by conducting a much broader survey aimed at assisting police departments in the investigation of these strange, often bewildering deaths. He got his chance in 1978, the year he joined the Bureau’s Behavioral Science Unit.
FBI assistant director Ken Joseph, then in charge of the FBI Academy, issued instructions that all Academy instructors, including the BSU’s mind hunters, were to undertake original research projects. Larry Monroe, then BSU unit chief, called his profilers together to announce the directive.
Agents Bob Ressler and John Douglas were delighted, and relieved, at the news. Since early in the year Ressler and Douglas had been paying informal visits to maximum-security prisons around the country, where they sought out America’s most infamous and prolific incarcerated killers. The profilers’ objective: to conduct deep interviews with the likes of Edmund Kemper and Sirhan Sirhan, Richard Speck and David Berkowitz.
Suddenly, with Ken Joseph’s
Another time, working intently on a dissection, Roy discovered a little slip of paper in the cadaver’s mouth.
“Eat at Dino’s,” it said.
He learned from the experts at the AFIP that if you know how to listen, the dead can tell you a great deal about how they got that way.
Roy met world-class authorities in toxicology, pathology, radiology, odontology, entomology, anthropology, and evengeology, all of whom contributed at various times to AFIP evaluations.
A toxicologist, for example, might establish if the victim was drunk or sober or had been poisoned. A pathologist might determine that a bruise or a scrape was a defensive wound, or estimate from how far, and in what direction, a fatal bullet was discharged.
An odontologist might identify the victim via dental records, or identify the killer via bite marks left on the victim’s skin. The entomologist could tell from insect larvae associated with the corpse if it was dumped where it was found, and how long ago. If there’s soil, clay, or rock associated with the body, a geologist can offer useful knowledge of where it came from, or the settings in which the material is used.
Hazelwood was fascinated by it all, not: least because so much of this knowledge was based upon experience and observation. For example, radiologists familiar with injuries characteristic of child abuse know to be alert to so-called spiral fractures of the forearm and lower leg bones if the possible victim is very young or immobile. Reason: Abusers tend to twist a child’s arms or legs as they grab them by their wrists or ankles, torquing their bones, which then fracture in a familiar spiral pattern.
Hazelwood personally researched stabbing and cutting wounds at the AFIP, and put together a text-and-photo syllabus for teaching the subject that is still in use in pathology classes around the country. Among the very strange cases covered in the syllabus is that of a man who committed suicide by repeatedly jamming ballpoint pens into the side of his head.
But a more intriguing area of investigation for Roy was personality: Who would do such a thing, and why? Could such a person be described?
Hazelwood wasn’t thinking like a clinician. He was thinking like a cop, wondering if a combination of experienceand research could yield reliable
behavioral
data to assist investigations, the way the hard sciences produced physical evidence.
One day in conversation with his AFIP mentor, Dr. Charles Stahl, a navy commander and forensic pathologist, Roy mentioned Harvey Glatman, and his own interest in one day conducting a study of autoerotic fatalities.
“Oh, we did one of those,” the pathologist replied, and he directed Hazelwood’s attention to Stahl’s published survey of forty-three autoerotic asphyxial deaths, all white male members of the military, culled from the 1.4 million cases in the AFIP’s voluminous files. At the time, Stahl’s study was the largest ever published.
Roy’s idea was to build on Stahl’s beginning by conducting a much broader survey aimed at assisting police departments in the investigation of these strange, often bewildering deaths. He got his chance in 1978, the year he joined the Bureau’s Behavioral Science Unit.
FBI assistant director Ken Joseph, then in charge of the FBI Academy, issued instructions that all Academy instructors, including the BSU’s mind hunters, were to undertake original research projects. Larry Monroe, then BSU unit chief, called his profilers together to announce the directive.
Agents Bob Ressler and John Douglas were delighted, and relieved, at the news. Since early in the year Ressler and Douglas had been paying informal visits to maximum-security prisons around the country, where they sought out America’s most infamous and prolific incarcerated killers. The profilers’ objective: to conduct deep interviews with the likes of Edmund Kemper and Sirhan Sirhan, Richard Speck and David Berkowitz.
Suddenly, with Ken Joseph’s
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