I saw this on another thread about Awareness Space - just something to keep in mind...
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At this point, perhaps the best path to solving this particular murder rests with the ability of law enforcements geographic profilers to identify the killers awareness space, which is defined as that geographic area that individuals have become familiar with over their lifetime. It is composed of those places that have been incorporated into a persons memory by repeated exposure.
A persons, including a criminals, awareness space is centered around those locations that are most important to them, starting with their home and including other locations such as work, a friends house, the primary stores where they shop, favorite walking paths, etc. It is also composed of the transportation corridors used to connect those locations to one another. In the vast majority of child abduction murders, as well as other crimes, researchers have found that the perpetrator lives within his awareness space, commits his crimes close to home and within that awareness space, and disposes of his victims and other evidence at the outer edges of the awareness space, generally along the spaces transportation corridors.
This is because when it comes to operating in our comfort zones, criminals, even sociopaths who murder children, have been found to be just like the rest of us. We tend to operate within the areas that we know best.
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