David Keatley

"Where are they?" A haunting question that often proves the hardest to answer in criminal investigations. Missing persons and no-body homicide cases are some of the most difficult to investigate and solve. Even when police locate a body, understanding why the victim was put there requires further investigation. This book develops Winthropping, a method designed to profile placement of caches. Using theories and practical considerations, over 30 real-world cases are reviewed under the newly developed Winthropping approach. This book is aimed at helping those interested in either finding hidden sites or understanding why a particular site was chosen.

This book introduces a novel approach to analysing and mapping criminal behaviours. Every crime occurs as a chain of behaviours and events, from inception and preparation through to commission and exit from the crime scene. These pathways in crime are complex, dynamic sequences that are by their very nature difficult to analyse. Keatley provides a clear and coherent introduction to Behaviour Sequence Analysis, and the chapters address a wide range of criminal offences, from deception in interrogations through to sexual assaults, serial homicide, and terrorism. Interesting additional similarities between Behaviour Sequence Analysis and other well-known methods, such as crime linkage, crime script analysis, and T-Pattern Analysis are also outlined in detail. Academic researchers in Forensic Psychology and Criminology, as well as applied practitioners and investigators will find this an invaluable book, and will gain clear insight and understanding into the method in order to apply it to their own cases.