'Monster of Florence' profiled by FBI

e) He is most likely to be employed in a semi-skilled capacity requiring use of his hands. He is not likely to have much contact with the public in his job due to his feelings of inadequacy. He may exhibit erratic work habits.

f) The offender is most likely to have lived alone during the years spanning these assaults in a lower middle class neighborhood. If not living by himself, he will have resided w/ some family member on whom he is at least in part financially dependent, such as his mother, aunt, grandmother or older sister. He is not likely to be married, since he is not able to sustain successful relationships w/ peer-age women.

g) The offender is sexually inadequate and immature person who has had little if any consensual sexual contact with a peer-age female. He is likely to suffer from a sexual dysfunction

• Research suggests the offender use of alcohol or drugs prior to the assaults serves to lower inhibitions and to build up his courage to proceed w/ the assaults.
• The offender is likely to have a preference for pornography, particularly which depicts graphic male-dominant violence.
• The offender is likely to have served in the military
• Offenders of this nature rarely stop their assaults for long periods of time without specific reason.
• It is noted that this assailant was not active in the Florence area between 1968 - 1974 and 1974 - 1981. Probable that offender resided elsewhere during those periods or was otherwise inhibited from acting. Legitimate absence could have resulted from a change of jobs, attending school, foreign travel/work, military service, or was incarcerated for totally unrelated offense during this period and institutionalized for treatment of a mental illness.

h) The offender's residence is consistent with his economic status, and is not likely to be far from the area where he committed these offenses. As stated previously , his most likely place of work or residence is apt to fall within the cluster center or in close proximity to his first attack.

Post-offense behavior
The assailant feels no remorse for his victims nor guilt. His primary emotion will have been the fear of possible discovery. Following each incident he is more likely to have been nervous or edgy and may have appeared pre-occupied to those around him.

Following each assault, the offender would have gone to a place of comfort and safety, most probably his own residence...cleaned himself and his clothing as well as his implements, and would have returned his weapons to their "hiding" place for storage until the next assault. Items of a personal nature that he removed from his victims are likely to have been placed in a safe, secure place accessible only to the assailant.

The grotesque nature of these crimes have had the effect of shocking and horrifying the community. Therefore the offender closely followed all media reports of the crimes and is very likely to have cut articles pertaining to the offenses our of newspaper and placed them in a "scrap book" or album. He may also have kept diaries or journals.

The offender may have returned, and still may return to the scene of previous offenses to relive in his fantasies, his prior experiences. Shortly after the discovery of bodies at various sites, the offender may well have visited the scene to assess the extent of the police investigation through indirect or informal contact with the police.

The offender is likely to assault until apprehended, incapacitated, or otherwise inhibited from acting.

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