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...banal tasks of everyday life, their last unremarkable moments juxtaposed with the killer's lightning brutality. Officials speculated thatthis could be a terrorist attack but searched in vain for any overt political message. The victims, if they were lined up side by side, would roughly resemble a random sampling of the Washington metropolitan area. They were white, black, Hispanic, Indian, male, female. There was a government analyst, a landscaper, a housekeeper, a nanny...
...profilers began working on the case, and, at the ATF's suggestion, geographic profiler Kim Rossmo stepped in. "Random crimes aren't random, not in the mathematical sense," says Rossmo, a former Vancouver police official. After studying about 4,000 criminals, Rossmo is convinced that most operate a predictable distance from where they live and work. They constantly juggle the competing urges to attack in a convenient and familiar locale and to go unrecognized. That means they tend to pick hunting grounds midway between the places they know best. When a criminals' stats are plugged into an algorithm Rossmo...
...Thomas Lee Dillon. Convicted of killing five Ohio men between 1989 and 1992, Dillon drove around shooting complete strangers from afar with high-powered rifles. He saw himself as an extremely powerful person during these expeditions. And he would later tell forensic psychologist Jeffrey Smalldon that he intentionally picked random victims located across multiple jurisdictions in order to make it harder for police to find...
...business community in Indonesia has had to deal with random violence in the past?two years ago, a bomb exploded in the building housing the Jakarta Stock Exchange, killing 15. But the Bali blast has dragged Indonesia into the war on terror. Foreign businessmen "knew Indonesia was unsafe, but they still came," says Harun Hajadi, managing director of property developer Ciputra Group. "After this one, I don't know if they will come. Maybe they won't want to deal with Indonesians anymore...
Except for one unusual question. As the summer moved from pleasantly sunny to I-want-to-die sweltering, the same nine words continually popped out of the mouths of my friends, my mother’s friends, random people in my neighborhood, local school children: “So Ari, what are you going to do next year...