Rippercast: The Whitechapel Murders Podcast
Profiling The Ripper
August 18th, 2019
Duration: 01:16:40

Researchers and authors John Malcolm and Jon Lee Rees join Jonathan Menges in a discussion about behavioral and geographical profiling. Does profiling have value when applied to the hunt for Jack the Ripper?

Sources read and further reading:

John Douglas: The Cases That Haunt Us, Scribner, 2000

John Douglas: FBI NCAVC Criminal Investigative Analysis of Jack the Ripper

David Canter: Criminal Shadows: Inside the Mind of a Serial Killer, HarperCollins, 1995

Kim Rossmo: An Evaluation of NIJ's Evaluation Methodology for Geographic Profiling Software, March 9, 2005

Kim Rossmo: Geographic Profiling-NCIS Conference 1998

Geographic Profiling Survey: A Preliminary Examination of Geographic Profilers Views and Experiences Karla Emeno, Craig Bennell, Brent Snook, and Paul J. Taylor

Nichols, Beth "Geographic Profiling: Contributions to the Investigation of Serial Murders ." Electronic Thesis or Dissertation. Wright State University, 2019. https://etd.ohiolink.edu/

Serial Crime- Theory and Practical Issues in Behavioral Profiling, Wayne Petherick, Editor, Academic Press 2006

Sir Jim Takes the Stand Alan Sharp, Ripper Notes #28, Inkling Press

Discuss this episode »

You can listen to the podcast via the player below:

If you'd like to download the full mp3 you may do so by clicking here. You may wish to right-click on this link and select "Save as" in order to save the .mp3 file directly to your computer.