Forensic Psychology Webinar - Katherine Ramsland - notes - conclusion

Linkage Analysis: MO and signatures Criminal Profiling Jun 14-27. Maybe also psychological autopsy. When death scene is ambiguous, potential for staging (undermined) when not known. Graphic photos. Man stabbed 83 times. It was concluded as homicide. It was actually stab wound, hesitation wounds. He also drank drain cleaner. Another photo - stabbed three times. Ambiguous - this is suicide. Missed so many aspects of this case. Very unlikely a suicide. Bathtub - Erotic accident. Found sexual magazines. Anyone doing this investigation of Suicidology has to know the data if investigating. Staging - revising a scene to deflect investigators toward a different scenario. Indicators 911 calls. (Look between teeth and not in calling in). Gliniewicz -had been searching for three suspects because no one believed he committed suicide to make it look like a homicide. Legacy of him being a great guy. Tunnel vision here very much in place. CSI effect: One Police Officer had watched a CSI episode where a guy wanted suicide. His wife was ill. Used balloons found away with gun. Investigators believe if there is a suicide note, it is but that’s not true. They did a suicide check list - not tested. A whole other study. Fantasy of torturing. Coercive Paraphlic addictions (needs to harm or kill someone). Picture of head on chest. The Psychopathic brain ( is different). Studies demonstrate that unintentionally when some psychiatrists are hired by one of the attorneys they show biases for their case. (Snakes and Suits - book) How many psychopaths are highly manipulative and charming. Serial killer from Japan and after that couldn’t eat chicken salad but did this for 25 years and not affected. Mind of a Murderer - There are going to be different clinical opinions. Police had wrong idea about a murderer who killed two people and on suicide note said PS. So this person got to kill another person. It is impossible to answer is it nature or nurture. There is a collection of behaviours - deception detection. Dr Ramsland was watching a five hour interrogation. For the first few hours the suspect barely moved and hands were clasped. Afterwards, raw gestures, touching face. Now we have a collection of behaviours that he may be lying. But don’t know for sure. Three cases of this. He had raped and killed. Doesn’t feel unsafe but probably should. Hard to stop are Psychopaths, sex offenders (addiction), need to survive on the street. The younger the better. There is protocol - ethics - to a certain point if worked for one side or the other. Sometimes an attorney hires you and you don’t do anything so you don’t go to the other. Concluded. Any errors here I take responsibility for. I was very impressed by this professor and it is the States gain, and our loss. I would have loved to have studied her courses. Too bad, so sad.