Just posted this link in the East Are Rapist thread because he made taunting calls to his victims, and thought that this could be very pertinent here because Lisk did the same thing..
Hope this thread is appropriate.
Rbbm
Dec. 2016
http://nottstv.com/nottingham-experts-could-reveal-the-face-of-notorious-american-serial-killer/
Based on our earlier work, it seems that people make similar judgements about strangers faces and voices, even when the two are not encountered together.
Hope this thread is appropriate.
Rbbm
Dec. 2016
http://nottstv.com/nottingham-experts-could-reveal-the-face-of-notorious-american-serial-killer/
The identity of an elusive American serial killer and rapist could finally be revealed by a groundbreaking Nottingham research project matching voices to faces
His exact appearance is largely a mystery as he normally wore a balaclava, and a handful of police sketches from witnesses accounts are inconsistent.
But evidence collected over the years also includes audio tapes of chilling follow-up calls he made to victims to terrorise them.
The recordings are now being used by psychologists at the universitys School of Social Sciences, who completed a study earlier this year suggesting people can work out someones appearance just by hearing their voice.
We know that drawing links between faces and voices could produce some fascinating results, said Dr Harriet Smith, a psychologist leading the research in Nottingham.
Based on our earlier work, it seems that people make similar judgements about strangers faces and voices, even when the two are not encountered together.
This knowledge could be helpful in narrowing down a list of suspects, or establishing which one of several composites best depicts the perpetrator.
Analysing the way in which participants respond to the voice recordings and facial composites could help us to develop new ways of accessing identity information about perpetrators in other cases. The results could inform novel approaches for the future, which we hope will eventually be useful to the police.
Dr Smiths study involves asking people to take part in an online experiment, so that psychologists can use their collective responses to whittle down a more accurate representation of what the perpetrator might have looked like based on the sound of his voice.
Results showed people made similar judgements of how masculine, feminie, tall, healthy or over underweight they were regardless of whether they just see their face, or only heard their voice