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...police in towns separated by hundreds of miles tell when a roaming serial murderer or rapist is at work? The FBI will soon provide a key with its new Combined DNA Identification System (CODIS). The computer program provides a universal registry of DNA traces found in the blood and semen samples the attackers often leave behind. All forensic labs in the U.S. will be asked to use the FBI's system, so that no matter where a person's DNA is tested, the record will be uniform. Using CODIS, authorities can tell if a faceless criminal has been detected elsewhere...
...heard that kind of excuse too, that she was not upset enough. There are some survivors who relive each part of the episode like a single camera frame and others who repress it. But each telling is different. With a serial rapist, for example, you know exactly what he says when he approaches each woman, what the language is, what the sexual acts are, how long it took. And yet it's fascinating to see five women at trial testify about a very similar event very differently, depending on each woman's emotional strength, at what point this happened...
SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, the tale of a heroic FBI agent on the trail of a brutal serial killer, was one of the biggest movie hits of 1991. It gripped viewers' hearts and kept them on the edges of their seats, all the while making millions of dollars for its sponsors. The stars, Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins, received their share of the profits, as did Thomas Harris, the author of the book on which the film was based...
Simon & Schuster is challenging a New York law requiring that all royalties due a criminal for his story be put in an escrow fund for his victims. The law--known as the "Son of Sam" law in reference to the alias used by serial killer David Berkowitz--is the oldest such statute in the nation. More than 40 states have similar laws, and all are in jeopardy of being ruled unconstitutional by the Court in the Hill case...
...rumor circulating widely at Boston college (B.C.) and the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Mass., holds that a serial killer is predicted to strike one of the two schools on October 31 of this year...