US FEB-28-2005 Serial Killer Profiles Often Inaccurate

[AmyStrange]

http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=539371


What is the point of my post, you may ask, since it so clearly seems not to be political, and thus not really DU material in any way, shape, or form?

What is the point of ANY post, but to inform and/ or create discussion. Missing persons and the wrongly accuused deserve as much democratic consideration and justice as any other person.

Personally, I think they deserve it more so, because their voices (unless they are a young white college kid or white clean-cut mostly female rich person - for example, Smart, Sjodin, Levy, Peterson, Hacking etc.) are rarely heard from or written about or acknowledged in any way shape or form.

Do you know how many persons went missing in California at about the same time as Laci Peterson? Two that I know of specifically. One was hispanic (and also pregnant and also found murdered not too long AFTER Laci) and another was a prostitute, but guess which was talked about incessantly by the media?

And finally, missing persons and serial killers and miscarriages of justice are an example of why the budgets of LE (both here in the U.S and abroad) should be raised (and NOT just for homeland security) which is A VERY POLITICAL subject - in my opinion,

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[The_Casual_Observer]

1. Are there really any cases that have actually been solved

by "profiling" Just my opinion, but it seems a lot like fortune telling or bringing a "clairvoyant" on to the case.

[AmyStrange]

2. Maybe one or two...

that I can recall off the top of my head (mostly an impression from researching so many sk cases but not specific cases), but many (if not most) are brought to justice because of luck or tips such as the BTK killer was,

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[The_Casual_Observer]

3. It makes me wonder why this stuff hasn't been totally discredited

and deemed a wasted of time and money.

[AmyStrange]

4. Probably because...

it's all they got to cling to that's cheap in the way of real violent crime investigation concerning serial killers. Does that make sense? I had to edit this because my first reply didn't make sense to me?

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[The_Casual_Observer]

5. It's is pathetic that with all the brilliant minds and resources

we are basically forced to cling to something that doesn't work simply because it's all we got.