Forensic Psychology: Criminal Profiling - Peter Dupas Research
Research Questions:
- What is criminal profiling and what is its purpose?
- What are the description and summary of Peter Dupas' crimes, including any signature behaviors?
- What is the offender's history (criminal/personal), characteristics, employment status, socioeconomic status, marital status, and prediction of future behaviors?
- If a stalker, what type of stalker is Peter Dupas, and what are the reasons for stalking?
Notes in Point Form only:
- Criminal profiling is a technique used to assist in identifying and apprehending likely criminal offenders for a crime.
- Its purpose is to help investigators apprehend criminals and give an idea of what future offenders look like and how they might think.
- Peter Dupas was born on 6th July 1953, 5 foot 7 in.
- He has been convicted of rape three times and murder three times along with one false imprisonment.
- Dupas' signature behavior was removing the breasts of his murder victims.
- He only ever targeted females. None of his crimes were ever performed on another male.
- Dupas has been convicted of three murders and is a suspect for three others.
- Committed 2 murders at age 44 to two women named Margaret Maher and Mersina Halvagis.
- Committed another murder at age 45 to a woman named Nicole Patterson.
- Suspected of killing three other women when he was 31, 40, and 44 years old.
- Youngest of three children, grew up in Frankston and Mount Waverly area.
- Was spoiled as a child. His mother (Merle) was overprotective, father (George) was a perfectionist.
- Stabbed neighbor at age 15, caught peeping through bathroom window at woman at age of 18.
- At 20 years of age, he raped a woman at kn...
Resources used:
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Title: Criminal Profiling: Profile Report
Subtitle: Peter Dupas Research
Quotation or Citation: "He remains an extremely disturbed, immature and dangerous man. His release on parole was a mistake."
Timeline: Not specified
Adnan Syed, was arrested for the crime, and within a year, he was convicted and
to their future criminal behavior, they commit the crime because they have been associated by
...e is incarcerated in Sullivan Correctional Facility in Fallsburg, N.Y. he was eligible for parole in 2002. He did not attend his first parole hearing. In his second parole hearing he stated that he felt he did not deserve parole and that he only wanted to apologize.
unjustly put into jail. He accepts going to jail even though he was put in jail
... to 52 killings. He was brought into custody one final time when suspicious investigators checked his whereabouts on a day of a killing in the city of Ilovaisk. He had been there on business.
was said to have illegally taken the law into his own hands. He was charged with murder
(New Orleans). All the evidence that was found is very unclear, but the next suspect in the murder is Joseph Mumfre.
raped and kidnapped by whom she thought was Butler. He has been falsely accused in many
sentenced to 63 years in prison. Once again, his term was reduced, and he moved
Upon his arrest he had confessed to 5 burglaries and several violent sexual assaults, including the two unsolved murders and sexual assaults of Barbara Krlik, 15 and Annie Mae Johnson, 24. He had also admitted to have attempted sexual assaults on more than 4 women, all of which failed because he preferred to be a necrophilia stating that “He got no thrill with the living women he raped” (Gado, 2004).
..., convicted of nine murders, stated at one point, "After I'm dead, they're going to open up my head and find that just like we've been saying a part of my brain is black and dry and dead”.
These murder cases stayed unsolved for decades, and their resolution may give some sense of closure to the long-suffering families of the victims. But these triumphs are largely symbolic. By congratulating ourselves too much for them, we risk neglecting the challenges of the present.
forever, all we know is that he was the killer of five women and the
McGrath, Michael G. "Criminal Profiling: Is There a Role for the Forensic Psychiatrist?." Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law 28. (2000): 315-324. Web. 13 Apr 2011.
Maguire, M., Morgan, R., and Reiner, R. (2012) The Oxford Handbook of Criminology. 5th ed. United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.