SilverTheRat
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The way Israel Keyes operated as an offender was systematic. The way he offended was designed in such a way that it eliminated nearly all tools the FBI could use to identify him as a serial killer.
1. Geographical profiling: It is impossible to eliminate your travel, that is why geographical profiling has become a strong tool for investigators. From how Keyes lived his life he neutralized the validity of geographic profiling by traveling all over the United States over the span of a decade. Any travel related to his crimes got diluted by the sheer amount of travel he did.
2. Money: He used bank robberies in order to fund his crimes, avoiding any credit card trail that can be used against him. All the objects used in the kill kits were bought with cash that could not be traced back to him. The FBI did not have a way to trace when the purchases happened.
3. Temporal profiling: One of the load bearing points of his system is that all of his set up took years. He used his trips across the country to plant the kits, took years between the kits, and then took more time till he killed someone. In doing so it made it nearly impossible to trace any one of those events together.
4. Victimology: This is one of the reasons he is hard to classify. He selected victims randomly which displays as a disorganized trait. Compared to his organization it muddles his organized profile. Unlike disorganized offenders, he did so on purpose so the FBI could not have any way to profile him based on victim linkage.
5. Evidence severance: He limited how much he had to interact with the evidence of the crime. One of the purposes of the kill kits is so he would never have to travel with a murder weapon, or any evidence. On anything he could deny the FBI access to he would.
Unlike other offenders he seemed to completely shutdown the validity of the investigation tools the FBI used. For example in multiple cases the FBI was able to work backwards using the offender as a starting point to use the tools mentioned above to build how they operated. Yet Keyes system was so resilient that it held under the backwards identification that most offenders falter under. Was it just because he disabled the tools that thoroughly, or did he understand the system the FBI used to investigate crimes like his?
1. Geographical profiling: It is impossible to eliminate your travel, that is why geographical profiling has become a strong tool for investigators. From how Keyes lived his life he neutralized the validity of geographic profiling by traveling all over the United States over the span of a decade. Any travel related to his crimes got diluted by the sheer amount of travel he did.
2. Money: He used bank robberies in order to fund his crimes, avoiding any credit card trail that can be used against him. All the objects used in the kill kits were bought with cash that could not be traced back to him. The FBI did not have a way to trace when the purchases happened.
3. Temporal profiling: One of the load bearing points of his system is that all of his set up took years. He used his trips across the country to plant the kits, took years between the kits, and then took more time till he killed someone. In doing so it made it nearly impossible to trace any one of those events together.
4. Victimology: This is one of the reasons he is hard to classify. He selected victims randomly which displays as a disorganized trait. Compared to his organization it muddles his organized profile. Unlike disorganized offenders, he did so on purpose so the FBI could not have any way to profile him based on victim linkage.
5. Evidence severance: He limited how much he had to interact with the evidence of the crime. One of the purposes of the kill kits is so he would never have to travel with a murder weapon, or any evidence. On anything he could deny the FBI access to he would.
Unlike other offenders he seemed to completely shutdown the validity of the investigation tools the FBI used. For example in multiple cases the FBI was able to work backwards using the offender as a starting point to use the tools mentioned above to build how they operated. Yet Keyes system was so resilient that it held under the backwards identification that most offenders falter under. Was it just because he disabled the tools that thoroughly, or did he understand the system the FBI used to investigate crimes like his?
