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Profiling Serial Killer Wayne Williams

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Introduction In 1991 Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins starred in a movie, based on the 1988 book of the same name by Thomas Harris, called Silence of the Lambs that would go onto win several academy awards. In the movie Foster plays Clarice Starling an FBI agent in training and Anthony Hopkins plays Dr. Hannibal "The Cannibal" Lecter as serial killing psychiatrist. The plot of the movie centers on Clarice enlisting the help of Dr. Lecter to catch another serial killer known as Buffalo Bill. While fictional on many fronts this movie gave much of the world its first glimpse of a new practice being used in criminal investigation. This new tactic is known as personality or criminal profiling. According to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) Criminal Investigative Analysis Program (CIAP), or criminal profiling is an investigative tool used within the law enforcement community to help solve violent crimes. The...

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