Cassie and Kelsey were on their way to the pool at their apartment complex when they came across a kitchen knife coated with blood outside the pool gate. When they got into the pool they were shocked to find a body floating face down in a pool of scarlet water. The body was of a young girl that was not moving and was lifeless. After overcoming the horror and shock of what they were seeing, Kelsey called the police.
As they were waiting they heard sounds coming from the trees beside the pool but were too terrified to move, as it could have been the murder that was leaving the scene. Within in minutes the police arrived and began to tape off the area and begin their investigation of who committed such an unthinkable crime.
“This looks similar to a case we had a few years back,” said Olivia.
“Oh yeah, you’re right, which one was it. . . Britiany’s case that is who it was” replied Stabler.
As soon as Olivia and Stabler finished at the crime scene they went back to the station to talk to their captain. After analyzing the crime scene they soon realized that they were unable to solve the case on their own. They enlisted the help of the department criminal psychologist, Dr. Bekker. Olivia and Stabler knew that they would need to be able to look at the evidence from a different perspective if they were going to find the murderer. Dr. Bekker’s first order of business was to determine which strategy would be most effective in gaining clues and insight to the potential murder. He concludes that profiling this criminal will be the most effiecient technique to begin the analysis. Olivia and Stabler ask Dr. Bekker to explain criminal profiling to them. Bekker, replies “it is a technique for identifying the major personality, behavioral, and demographic characteristics of offenders based on an analysis of the crimes they commit” (1). Once they know this information, they are able to gather the evidence for Dr. Bekker that is needed for him to begin the profiling process.
Olivia and Stabler begin to make a list of the similarities of the current murder and of the murders past. As they investigate they find the following similarities: each victim is a young girl, stabbed on the right side, they were found floating in a pool still in their bathing suits. Each victim was alone at the time and found in the same pool. Britiany’s murder had no witnesses or DNA evidence linking anyone to the crime. Based on the evidence presented to Dr. Bekker., he determines that the suspect in the murder may be a young male that befriended the girls at the pool offering lemon head candy as a way of striking up a conversation. His attention towards his victims may have been friendly which caused them to put their guard down. Each victim was found to have lemon heads in their stomachs at the time of autopsy . He also determined that the murder was right handed as both stab wounds on the body were on the victims left side, meaning they he was facing the victim at the time of the stabbing. In addition, he believes that the murderer may be a resident in the apartment complex since both murders were committed at the same pool.
Olivia and Stabler return to the scene of the crime and begin to ask questions of the residents. They come across a young man cleaning the pool. As they are talking with him they notice that he is right handed and has lemon heads in his pocket. As they begin to ask more and more questions they notice that he begins to get very edgy and uncooperative. They decided they have enough evidence to bring him in for questioning. As they questioned him they offered him a glass of water. They carefully had the glass dusted for fingerprints, which matched the finger prints on the bloody knife at the last crime scene. Oivia and Stabler were confident they had enough evidence to charge the pool boy with the most recent murder. They were confident that with the help of Dr. Bekker completing a psychological profile on the suspect that they would reveal a motive for this murder and create links to the previous murder. (726)
Works Cited:
(1)Cook, , and Hinman. "Criminal Profiling: science and art." 15.230 (2011):
230-241. Web. 7 Jun 2011.
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