我真的那么令我自己都害怕吗？

我是用还在颤抖的手在键盘上打下这篇文章。
我到现在还不敢相信30分钟前我干下的事...

这件事开始于我在Facebook发现有位coursemate的shouout:
"I passed the exam!"
下了一跳！难道考试成绩出了？！
第一个念头就是发sms问一问...
结果，很不幸得，果真如我所料。

在只剩我一人的空荡荡apartment里走来走去，坐立不安...
时间已经是晚上2330了。
我突然念头一闪，换了衣服，拿了钥匙和学生证就往门外走。
对了！我就是要到campus看成绩！

Campus的距离离我的住处只有5分钟的行走距离。
了解我的人都知道我是的没耐心的人。
若等到明天再到campus，我今晚一定是睡不着的。
不管成绩如何，好歹也让我今晚或安心或伤心地入睡吧！

问题就是campus在2000时后就不再让人进入。
要知道这里国大医学院的academic office还是传统地把牺牲树木把成绩登在布告栏纸上。
上网我都试过了，结果是（意料中网站画面）masalah sistem无法查询。
所以，夜闯campus并不能完全是我的错咯！

一面走在暗昏昏的街上，我就一面让自己呼吸急促，
心跳加速...
加快速度让自己流多点汗...
到了campus的 guard house，我出示我的学生证，
一副焦虑的样子，说：
saya nak masuk dalam cari dompet saya yang hilang

不用费多少功夫，自以为自己高高在上的guard很容易的就相信了。
（这就是典型UKM guards）
他用对讲机说了一些话后就让我一人在空无一人的campus里“找我遗失的钱包”。
有时候，最烂的借口也许就是最好的借口。
再加上我那天衣无缝的演技....
我果然是犯罪的料啊！

我用随身带的handtorch照亮前路在漆黑黑的Block E里找到我要的布告栏。
这并不是一件简单的事，因为全Block E 里有三个布告栏在不同的两曾楼。
而且要避开随时巡查的警卫。
（因为我应该在“遗失钱包的图书馆locker"找着）
这可不是简单的任务啊！

犯罪天才的我找到了我夜闯UKM campus的目的...呼了口气...
我还是及格了。
我不敢相信...我看了三次然后匆匆转身就走。
我离开那布告栏2米后，我再转身看了布告栏，
看了三次后才决定我的眼睛没问题后，
才转身匆匆一副赶到图书馆前（两栋建筑物的距离）的样子。
还好到这时候才碰到警卫。
他那关心的样子让我觉得...
唉~如果我真的是个小偷的话，实验室里的东西就完蛋了。

最后我装着一副快哭出来的样子到 guard house 拿回我的学生证，
那个自以为很了不起的 guard 还劝不懂处理状况的我到警察局报案。（当老子白痴啊！）
只好对道德说对不起啦！
我对这里的警卫本来就没有好感...
尤其上次出纸罚我50块的那只。（因为我没把学生证套在颈上）

说起来我为什么那么在意这次的成绩...
因为我在温习周里颓废崩溃了一个星期。（50%的温习周时间）
每次进考场前我都在忧郁地听着耳机，
甚至在考 urinary system 的前一天到 Time Square 的 Arcade drift 到过瘾了一个下午，
回到房间后随手翻了Anatomy 20分钟就躺在床上死到第二天的天亮
-- 我可是睡了12个小时哦！
在我考一张我之前完全没有温习过的 paper 前...
更屌的是我在考试时间结束的25分钟前就离开考场了。

我真的只用了20%的力气来考这次的final，
我及格了...?!
这是什么道理啊？！

说真的，我对自己的能力感到....
害怕？
不管是我在学业上的能力，还是我那与天俱来的犯罪智慧。

我真的那么令我自己都害怕吗？

Geographical Profiling

Mobility is one characterisitc which distinguish organisms from non-living things; so do criminals. In criminal psychology, there's a usual approach known as "geographical profiling", which utilize this mobility characteristics of criminal to estimate where do the unsub settle and hence provide a more precise analysis of his MO.

In geographical profiling, it is usually connecting few crime scenes together to obtain a bigger picture of "nodes of familarity" or "comfort zones" of the unsub. The middle of the zone would be the highest probability where the unsub lives.

This technique begins by profiling the crime scene, and it is particularly useful when it is a body dumping sites. One should notes that is there any effort of the unsub to conceal the body, e.g. a body sinked in the river with a stone tied to the body indicates the unsub don't want anyone to find the body because the victim may probably somehow linked to him, one should consider crime of passion, or somethings more personel. Conversely, if the body emerged on the water surface tells us that the unsub doesn't care about whether the body is discovered or not, hence we can narrow down it may be opportunistic killing, and rule out personal element in crime.

Next, observe the route to the body dumping site. If it's an open space, the unsub must posses a vehicle, preferably a truck, which wouldn't arouse any suspicion to be at the scene. If the body is discovered in a jungle, the unsub must be familiar with the place, and he's strong enough to carry the body to the middle of jungle. With this, we can estimate where are the comfort zone of the scumbag.

In serial killing, body dumping sites usually indicates the comfort zone of the unsub, For scattered body dumping places, those places, if connected by lines on map, will form the peripheral of the comfort zone for unsub. On the other hand, if the dumping places is concentrated / centered, it is usually in the middle of journey within the unsub's locus of familarity, i.e. the route he takes almost everyday to work (most probably) and other daily activities. The reasons behind this bold assumption are:

1. The unsub would intentionally / unintentionally observe the condition of the body dumping sites daily. Just think this, if you're gonna get rid of a body, you would feel safer to go someplace where you are familiar with, and you must sure that the time you do that, the lesser people there the better.

2. For opportunistic serial killing, the dumping part should be considered as one of his MO because they way he get rid of the body is the chain of though what he was thinking after kiling the victim. Some killing of passion unsub intentionally hide the body in a "storing" way so that he can revive the pleasure after killing by visiting the body. These kind of ritual is not uncommon among those sociopath as it is the only way they feel connected to people (victims).

3. Dumping the body is a habit, rather than a casual action. For example, while throwing rubbish out of window, we tend to throw through one particular window and a more or less defined direction. Working something our of habit would be discomfort for the unsub.

More over, if possible, abduction site would further narrow the zone of comfort that we map. Hunting part is so crucial that the unsub need to abduct his victim from a place where he is also familiar, even opporunistic killing rarely occur outside comfort zone. He needs to know that his presence in that place while waiting for his prey shouldn't be interfered by any unwanted events which would compromise his action. Again, familrity is very important.

To further extend our discussion, one should think of operating outside the comfort zone if the kiling habit has been prolonged due to connection lacking in initial investigation. An unsub's comfort zone tends to get bigger as he kills more, as sadly, his confidence is gaining. Any new killing outside the comfort zone would assist in capturing the unsub, because with the geographical profiling, one can predict the dumping site and the interval since any new abduction is reported. In here, geographical profiling proven to be extremely useful.

At last, to end this blog, I would strengten that geographical profiling is not as easy as it seemed, becuase many aspects should be considered, like relevance of cases, evolution of unsub, socioeconomy of the particular area etc. Therefore, it's never easy and I'm damned fascinated everytime Reid perform this geographical profiling in criminal minds!

Here's Dr Spencer Reid:

(cool, right? ^^)

Criminal Minds -- season 3 pilot

It has been days I was experiencing "DVD-withdrawal" syndrome...finally, I bought the (pirated) criminal mind season 3 as my fix...damned! It's heaven...It's really good to feel that my life has something to go on.

Here's the pilot case of episode season 3.

There has been murders in a campus. 4 female victims in 3 days, so it's calssified as a spree murder case. Victims all shared some common features: no defensive wounds, multiple stab wounds to the chest, no hesitation marks, Brunnetts, electiical shock marks, found with both hands crossed in anterior of chest. Two of the crime scenes were well lit place in the campus.

Agent Giddeion suggested that investigation should be carried out and profile be made ASAP because this was a killing in a confinced place. This kind of spree killer will kill as many as they can, as fast as they can...this was like a game to them. Killing in this confined campus makes them fell secure because this is thier nodes of mobility, i.e. the place that they are familiar with, and spend most of thier daily life there, whether for thier job, entertainment, or on thier way to some place on thier daily basis.

Hence, after establishing the pace of this profiling, time's for modus operandi (MO). Most bodies were found in well lit places in campus -- this indicates that the unsub (unknown subject) is a part of this campus, either he/she works here or study here. He is not afraid being noticed in the campus because no one will suspicious with his presence in campus. Anyone of the campus, may see or know him. Next, there is no defensive wound, means the victims may not be alerted when he was there or he may even talked to the victims which may suggest that victims feel secured with his presence while each of them was alone before being killed. Electrical shock wounds means he carries the tools before attacking those victims, he is well planed. No hesitation marks, mens the victims were killed merciless, and the unsub is sure (not hesitant) about he wants to kill those victims. However, in this special case, the position of crossed hands in front of chest is contrasting that the unsub is merceless, but he is in remorse. He felt guilty moments after killing those girls.

Next, victimology. The unchanged pattern with all 3 victims are white Burnnets means the stressor in this case may be a person, girlfriend, mother, wife ect., who may exactly is a white Burnnets. No hesitation marks and the way of positioning bodies give us the clue that the unsub has a conflicted and mixed feelings of hate and love to the stressor. Since the murders just occured few days earlier, his relationship with the stressor must have some changes exactly days, or weeks ago. The emotional transition period in unsub is still in early phase, so he most probably expresses some obvious devolution in his life which his surrounding peoples, colleages / friends might have noticed, e.g. depressed, drinking, irritable etc.

Okay, now with the MO and victimology analysis, the BAU draft a profile ... which they successfully made an arrest of a security guard who matched almost all the profile. Stressor? He lost his daughter custody to his exwife...who you guess, is a white Brunnets. Since there's no physical evidence, he can only be held for 72 hours.

You thinks the case is just be goin on like this? The police finally found a piece of comfirmative evidence? No no no... there's another killling within the 72 hours.

The victim this time is also a white Brunnet female. But, there has been some change in the MO: the victim suffered blunt force trauma to the head, and this time, some of the stab wounds are more shallow -- hesitation marks.

The last murder is least likely to be commited by the first unsub, i.e. we have a copycat in this case. Thus, Agent Gideon suggested a solution... he released the first unsub. And he expect the copy cat to meet with the unsub because copycats are people who admiring the primary killer, and they are mostly keen to seek for confirmation from the primary killer to make them feel satisfy...Gideon was right! But....

It ended up the copycat killed the unsub and then killed herself (copycat is a she).

What a twist! Criminal Mind apparently hasn't lost his unique assence in crime series! But, in this episode, it was also told that Gideon's judgement might be clouded by Sarah's death... and it's fact that Gideon is going to leave BAU soon...how sad! :(

Anyway, this is the pilot case of criminal mind season 3 -- and I hope this show will be going on for long time!