CRIMINAL PROFI LINGName: ______________________Due Date: ______________________

TASKIn this assignment you must choose and research a criminal and give a detailed report on his/her/their criminal record.

Step 1Look at the list attached and choose a criminal that you would like to research.Choose carefully as everyone will chose one, you will not be able to change your mind once you have decided.

Step 2Use various resources to research answers to questions below. You may use websites as sources but you must provide a bibliography (and should be reliable)

QUESTIONS/THINGS TO INCLUDE:

What is criminal profiling and what is its purpose? Profile your criminal Provide information about the crimes committed by your criminal Discuss signature behaviour Discuss inductive versus deductive profiling Timeline the events for the chosen criminal Assess the criminals’ dangerousness How was the killer caught, did what sentence did they receive? Other relevant information to help solve the crime.

Step 3While you are doing the research, complete detailed notes. Write your answers to the questions in point form only!

Step 4Use the notes in your data grid to write a rough draft of the text that you will put onto your presentation. Develop the notes into full sentences that are in your own words.

Step 5Come up with a finalised audio visual presentation – Any Medium you choose – PowerPoint, Video, YouTube, Wiki, Glogster etc. Please see me for a detailed list if you want to try something “different”

INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE ASSIGNMENT

Word limit: 700 – 1,000 wordsPresentation: Visual and Written (Poster/Power Point etc.)Use of time: 1 library lesson, 2 classroom based lessons (complete)Record all sources (bibliography)Present & complete information as outlined

LIST OF CRIMINALS TO

PROFILE

Paul Bernardo : also known as "the Scarborough Rapist"; a Toronto man who killed three teenage girls (including his wife's sister) with the aid of his wife Karla Homolka

Wayne Boden : also known as "the Vampire Rapist" killed 4 women between 1968–1971

Clifford Olson : murdered 11 children in British Columbia Robert Pickton : charged with the first degree murders of 26 women; allegedly

confessed to 49 murders; convicted December 9, 2007 of six charges; reduced to second degree murder

Peter Woodcock : murdered three children in 1956–1957 and a fellow psychiatric institute patient in 1991

Ted Bundy : law student who raped and murdered more than 35 women in six states; escaped from prison twice before being executed in Florida State Prison on January 24, 1989

Albert Fish : AKA the "Werewolf of Wisteria"; sadist and pedophile who cannibalized several children; convicted of one murder, confessed to 2 others,claimed to have molested 100 children

Ed Gein : two known victims, one suspected victim, four missing persons; elements of Gein's life and crimes have inspired, at least in part, the films Psycho and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, and the novel/movie The Silence of the Lambs

Henry Lee Lucas : convicted of 11 murders and confessed to approximately 3,000 others, although most of his confessions are considered outlandish; a task force set up to investigate his claims suggested that the true number of his murders may be as high as 213

David Meirhofer : killed three children and an ex-girlfriend between 1966 and 1974; first serial killer apprehended by offender profiling

Earle Nelson : AKA "Gorilla Man"; necrophiliac convicted and hanged for one murder; implicated in about 20 others

Marie Noe : murdered eight of her children between 1949 and 1968 Gary Ridgway : AKA the "Green River Killer"; convicted of murdering 49 women

in Washington state Harvey Miguel Robinson : teenager who stalked, raped and killed three women in

Allentown, Pennsylvania in 1992 and 1993 Michael Swango : physician and surgeon who poisoned over 30 of his patients and

colleagues Carl Eugene Watts : convicted of two murders; admitted to killing 80 people in

Texas and Michigan; possibly guilty of 100 murders Christopher Wilder : AKA the "Beauty Queen Killer"; millionaire Australian

realtor who killed eight women in seven weeks in 1984 Robert Lee Yates : murdered at least 16 women in Spokane County, Washington

Mark Breakdown:

Research/Use of Library time = 5 marksInformation – detailed & answers all of the required elements = 15 marksBibliography –complete and correct = 5 marksDetailed point-form research notes = 5 marksPresentation – visuals = 10 marksPresentation – performance (prepared, no awkward pauses etc.) = 5 marks

Total = 45 marks