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 Weblinks

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modus_operandi
 http://www.ehow.com/info_8762018_modus-operandi-system.html#ixzz2kRy5Nk1M

Suggested Readings
 Modus Operandi: A Writer's Guide to How Criminals Work (Howdunit)
By Mauro V. Corvasce (Author), Joseph R. Paglino (Author)

 Mindhunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit

By John Douglas and Mark Olshaker

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 Case Study
December 16 gang-rape case: Accused adopted unique modus operandi, judge says

A "unique modus operandi" was adopted by the accused in the December 16 gang rape and
murder of 23-year-old girl in a moving bus, the Delhi court on Tuesday said while holding
them guilty of 13 offences.

"Accused persons adopted a unique modus operandi to do the acts," additional sessions Judge
Yogesh Khanna said in his judgement.

"They, besides causing external bodily injuries, inserted the rods in abdomen of the victim.
They did this act repeatedly and pulled out internal organs even by their hands..." the court
noted.

The judge also observed, "The important aspect of this trial is the manner in which both rods
and hands were used for damaging the alimentary canal and pulling it out from the body (of
the girl).

"This act of complete destruction of the most vital parts of the body can never be termed as
intending to cause bodily injuries and rather it will be act done with intention of causing
death."

The court noted that the accused were acting in a premeditated manner and deceived the
victims into boarding the bus thinking it is going towards their destination and then
humiliated and gang-raped the girl.

After her body became devoid of any resistance, iron rods and hands were inserted into the
abdominal cavity, the court noted.

Biblography
JJOHN EDWARD DOUGLAS
John Edward Douglas (born June 18, 1945), is a
former special agent with the U.S. Federal Bureau of
Investigation (FBI), one of the first criminal profilers,
and criminal psychology author.

Douglas joined the FBI in 1970 and his first

assignment was in Detroit, Michigan. In the field, he
served as a sniper on the local FBI SWAT team and
later became a hostage negotiator. He was transferred
to the FBI's Behavioral Sciences Unit (BSU) in 1977
where he taught hostage negotiation and applied
criminal psychology at the FBI
Academy in Quantico, Virginia to new FBI special
agents, field agents, and police officers from all over
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 the United States. He created and managed the FBI's Criminal Profiling Program and was later
promoted to unit chief of the Investigative Support Unit, a division of the FBI’s National Center for
the Analysis of Violent Crime (NCAVC).
While traveling around the country providing instruction to police, Douglas began interviewing serial
killers and other violent sex offenders at various prisons. He interviewed some of the most notable
violent criminals in recent history as part of the study, including David Berkowitz, Ted Bundy, John
Wayne Gacy, Charles Manson, Lynette Fromme, Arthur Bremer, Sara Jane Moore, Edmund
Kemper, James Earl Ray, Sirhan Sirhan, Dennis Rader, Richard Speck, Donald Harvey, and Joseph
Paul Franklin. He used the information gleaned from these interviews in the book Sexual Homicide:
Patterns and Motives, followed by the Crime Classification Manual (CCM). Douglas later received
two Thomas Jefferson Awards for academic excellence from the University of Virginia for his work
on the study.

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