Recent Offender Profile

FBI data suggests that when a child under the age of 12 is murdered, a family member is the likely culprit (13). The use of ligature strangulation suggests the crime was committed by an adult female known to the victim. An intricate knowledge of the movements of members of the household, and the layout of the house, suggests that the perpetrator was not only known to the victim, but to her family also.

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