Chapter 22 Chapter 19 Sometimes the Dragon Wins

When the body of a 16-year-old girl was found on the Green River outside Seattle in June 1982, no one paid much attention.The river, which connects Mount Rainier to Puget Sound, was a notorious dumping site, especially for a young prostitute.It wasn't until later that summer, on August 12, that another woman's body turned up on the river, and three more three days later, that police realized what was at stake.The victims varied in age and race, but all were suffocated.Some of the corpses were hung with heavy objects and sank into the river. The murderer obviously didn't want people to find the corpses.The victims were all naked.

From this point of view, these crimes are undoubtedly committed by the same person, which evokes terrible memories of the last series of crimes in Seattle. In 1974, at least eight women were abducted and killed in the area by a hit man called "Ted".Those cases remained unsolved for four years until the arrest of a handsome, glib young man, Theodore Robert Bundy, for the serial killing of female college students in Florida.By this time he had traveled across the country, committing crimes along the way that cost the lives of at least 23 young women.He left a permanent shadow on the public mind.

Major Richard Clarke of the King County Criminal Investigation Division is leading the investigation.He asked the FBI for assistance, providing them with a psychological profile of the Green River killer.While members of the newly formed task force, made up of multiple Justice Department figures, disagreed over whether the cases were actually connected, they all had one thing in common: All of the women killed were prostitutes, all at the Seattle-Tacoma International Carnage is traded along the Pacific Coast Highway near the airport. By September, when Special Agent in Charge Seattle Field Station Alan Whitaker came to Quantico for in-service training, he brought us a full set of details on five early cases.As usual, in order to get away from the constant interruptions of office personnel and telephones, so that I could concentrate on my case, I shut myself in the top floor of the library and looked out the window alone (for those of us who work in the basement, this always gives us A sense of novelty), let yourself dive into the minds of perpetrators and victims.I spent nearly a day going through the case files, including the crime scene investigation report and photos, the autopsy report, and descriptions of the victims.Despite the differences in the age, race of the victims and the modus operandi of the perpetrators, the similarities were significant enough to suggest that all the murders were committed by the same perpetrator.

I came up with a detailed profile: the perpetrator was a white man of good build, with a sense of inadequacy and no remorse for the atrocities committed.He was a man of purpose, with a past experience of being humiliated by women, and now he was preoccupied with punishing as much as he could those who he considered the basest members of their ranks.At the same time, I warned the police that many people would meet the profile characteristics based on the crime and the characteristics of the victims.Unlike Ed Kemper, this man was hardly a spiritual giant at all.This is an immature high-stakes crime.The key to solving the case is to use proactive methods to lure the perpetrators into some form of contact with the police.Whitaker brought the profile with him when he left Quantico.

Later that month, the badly decomposed body of another young woman was found in an uninhabitable residential area near the airport.She was completely naked, with a pair of black men's socks tied around her neck.The coroner estimated she was killed around the same time as the Green River victims.Perhaps the perpetrator heard that the police had changed their tactics after the surveillance. Carlton Smith and Thomas Gillen conducted an in-depth study of the case, and as detailed in their research report, "The Search for the Green River Killer," the prime suspect was a 45-year-old taxi driver who was in almost every respect. Conforms to profile characteristics.He intervened early in the investigation, giving police tips on how to find the perpetrator on the phone, advising them to search for other taxi drivers.He often hangs out with prostitutes and street prostitutes in Seattle's Tacoma Panhandle, is used to going out at night, drives around, smokes and drinks like the perpetrator suggested by the profile, and pretends to care about the safety of prostitutes .He grew up along the river, had five failed marriages, lived with his widower father, drove an outdated, poorly maintained car, and kept tabs on the newspaper stories.

The police were scheduled to interview him in September, so they called me for ideas.I was running around at a frantic pace, doing short domestic flights almost every week, working on the case at hand.Unfortunately, I was out of town when the police called.They spoke to Chief Roger Deep.He told them I would be back in a few days and strongly advised them to discuss it with me before the interview.So far, the criminal has been cooperative and has no intention of leaving the area. But the police interviewed him on a regular basis, which lasted all day and resulted in a confrontation.In hindsight, if they had talked in a different way, the outcome might have been very different.The polygraph results appeared ambiguous.Although the police kept him under close surveillance and continued to gather evidence of the circumstances, it was simply not possible for them to make a case against him.

Since I did not personally participate in that stage of the investigation, I cannot confirm whether this person is a major suspect.However, there are side effects of poor coordination and lack of focus at the beginning of the investigation, when perpetrators are often the easiest to catch.He's anxious, doesn't know what's going to happen, and the "pins and needles factor" is most at work.As time goes on, the perpetrator will feel better and better as he realizes that he has a chance of getting away with it.Reassuring, he further perfected his usual technique. At the beginning of the case investigation, the local police did not even have a computer.As the case progressed, at the speed at which they were processing clues, it could have taken 50 years to properly assess the circumstances at hand.If investigations such as the Green River Killer case were carried out today, I believe that the early organizational work would be more effective and the strategy for handling the case would be more clear.Nevertheless, the difficulty of solving the case is still great.Those whores lead a nomadic life.Every now and then someone's boyfriend or pimp would report that so-and-so disappeared on purpose, or simply moved to another part of the coastline.Many of them used aliases, making it difficult to identify the bodies and find clues.Police have struggled to find medical and dental records that could be used to identify the deceased.Besides, the relationship between the police and prostitutes has always been delicate.

In May 1983, the body of a fully clothed young prostitute was found at a well-arranged scene: a fish was placed across the throat, another fish was placed on the left chest, and a fish was placed between the legs. Only wine bottles.She was strangled to death with a thin rope.Police attributed her death to the Green River Killer.Although I don't think the last victim found on land was unrelated to the Green River Killer, I feel the motive for the killing was more of a personal vendetta.The choice of victim is not random.One of the catharsis is excessive anger.The perpetrator knows the victim very well.

Towards the end of 1983, the number of dead bodies had risen to twelve, and seven others were reported missing.One of the women killed was eight months pregnant.The task force wants to ask me to come out and provide them with guidance on handling cases on the spot.As mentioned above, I am doing my best to deal with the following cases as diverse as: Wayne Williams Child Killing in Atlanta, . The Robert Hansen case, the anti-Semitic serial arson attack in Hartford, and more than a hundred other unsolved cases.The only way I could handle all the cases was to force myself to dream of solutions at night.I know I've been exhausted.I just don't know how and how quickly the exhaustion goes.When the people from the Green River Task Force suggested that they needed my help, I knew I had to shoehorn this case in.

I believe my profile fits the profile of the perpetrator, but at the same time I know it fits the profile of many people, and more than one person is currently involved in the case.The longer the case is dragged on, the more likely the number of perpetrators will increase, and the successors are either blind imitators, or prefer to choose to commit crimes in this area.Outlaws are easy prey in the Seattle-Tacoma Panhandle.If you want to kill someone, that's the place for you.Prostitutes were everywhere, and since most of them traveled the entire West Coast corridor, from Vancouver all the way down to San Diego, when a girl disappeared, there was often no one thinking about her.I think proactive technology is more important than ever.These included: holding a rally at a rural school to discuss the murder, then distributing signed literature about it, and recording the vehicle license plates of those who attended the rally, using the media to promote an investigator as a "super cop" to lure the perpetrators into contact, Publishing a flesh-and-blood account of the pregnant woman to impress the perpetrator with remorse and returning to the scene of the crime, monitoring the location of the dump that was not widely reported, sending police officers to induce a confession from the killer, and any other means possible.

When I traveled to Seattle in December, I took two new profilers, Brian McIlwain and Ron Walker, with me, thinking this would be a good time for them to gain some field experience.Thankfully I did this, as if God or some other lord of creation intended it to be so.They saved my life. When they broke down the locked and securely chained door and broke into my hotel room, they found me lying on the floor, convulsed, delirious.I fell into a coma with a high fever and was dying. When I finally recovered and returned to work in May 1984, the Green River Killer was still at large, just as I am writing this more than a decade later.I then went on to advise the task force that organized the largest organized manhunt in the history of the United States.As the number of dead bodies continued to mount, the longer the investigation went on, the more convinced I was that several murderers were at work.They have some of the same characteristics, but they are doing their own way.Police in Spokane and Portland reported to me a string of murders and disappearances of prostitutes that I found no apparent connection to the murders in the Seattle area.San Diego police believe that another spate of cases in the city may be related to this.All told, the Green River Task Force is investigating more than fifty deaths.Suspects were narrowed from 1,200 to about 80.There was everything from the deceased's ex-boyfriend and solicitor to a Portland john (a prostitute escaped after he threatened to rape her) to a longtime Seattle resident. trapper.Even some members of the police force were considered suspects at one point.However, there is no definite evidence to prove which of them is the murderer.I am now convinced that at least three perpetrators were involved, and probably more than three. The last time proactive technology was used on a large scale was in 1988, when a two-hour live television show titled "The Hunt for the Murderer...Live" featuring "Dallas" actor Patrick Duffy hosts.The program introduced the general situation of the search and arrest operation, and at the same time provided a set of toll-free telephone numbers so that the audience can directly provide clues to solve the case.I flew to Seattle to be on the show and train officers on how to quickly extract useful information from incoming calls. Within a week of the broadcast, the telephone company estimated that more than 100,000 people tried to dial in, but less than 10,000 people got through.Three weeks later, there simply wasn't enough money or volunteers to continue the few hotlines with leads.In the end, it became just another futile attempt by us to solve the case.Lots and lots of good-hearted people are trying to help, but it is too little, too late. Years ago, Greg McClary pinned a cartoon to the bulletin board in his office.There is a dragon on the screen, spitting out flames, standing domineeringly in front of a prostrate knight.The title is simple: "Sometimes the Dragon Wins." This is an inescapable reality.We can't catch all the criminals, and because the criminals we have already captured have already murdered, raped, raped, exploded, set fire to, or killed, it can be said that no one has been arrested in time.This makes the public panic today, just as it did more than a hundred years ago when Jack, the first serial killer, started killing and dismembering corpses. Ironically, while the show "Hunter Man" didn't help solve the Green River murders, I did profile the notorious serial killer on another national TV show I was on that year possible identity.The timing of the show coincided with the 100th anniversary of Jack the Ripper's murder of Whitechapel, which meant that my profile was a century too late to help us find the real killer. Those brutal murders of prostitutes took place between August 31 and November 9, 1888, in the gaslit streets of Victorian London's rough and crowded East End.During that period, brutal murders and dismemberment intensified. In the early hours of September 30, the perpetrators killed two women within an hour or two, which was unheard of at the time.The police received several letters mocking them wantonly, and then disclosed them to the newspapers. These horrific incidents immediately became the focus of media coverage.Despite the best efforts of Scotland Yard Police, the man who dismembered the body was never caught, and his identity has been widely debated.As much as people speculate about Shakespeare's "true" identity, the sketches of suspects are speculative and reveal little. For many years the most accepted and intriguing suspect was Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence, grandson of Queen Victoria's eldest grandson Edward, Prince of Wales Accessed the throne in 1901, known as the son of Edward VII).The Duke of Clarence is presumed to have died of influenza in 1892, though many who study the dismemberment believe he actually died of syphilis, or was poisoned by the royal physician to prevent the royal family's reputation from being tarnished by scandal.This statement is very interesting. Other prime suspects include Montague John Druidt, a teacher at a boys' school who fits the descriptions of eyewitnesses; Dr William Gour, chief physician to the royal family; a Polish immigrant who has been in and out of mental institutions in the area; Dr. Roslyn Donstein, a journalist known for his penchant for witchcraft. The fact that the Ripper had come to an abrupt halt had been the subject of much speculation, that he might have committed suicide, that the Duke of Clarence had been sent on a royal journey, that he might have died.Re-examining the case with our current knowledge, I find it entirely possible that he was arrested for a minor crime, as many perpetrators are, and that is why the killing stopped.Another question of interest concerns "The Fragmentation" itself.Attention was focused on a medically trained suspect because the perpetrator seemed to be quite adept at disemboweling corpses. The TV program "The Mysterious Identity of Jack the Corpse Breaker" was broadcast nationwide in October 1988. All the existing evidence in this case was presented, allowing experts from various disciplines to put forward their opinions on Jack's actual identity, so as to "once and for all Earth" to solve the mystery of the century.Roy Hazlewood and I were invited to be on the show, and the FBI saw it as an opportunity to fully showcase the accomplishments of our work without revealing internal secrets, ongoing investigations or Negative impact on interrogation work.The two-hour live show is hosted by British actor, writer and director Peter Ustinov. As the program continues to deepen, he really is in the mysterious case. Today, any such exercise is subject to the same rules as an ongoing investigation, namely that our inferences can only be made with as much confidence as the evidence and data we must employ.The methods employed by forensic scientists a hundred years ago were primitive by modern standards.But I think, based on what I know about those dismemberment cases, that if such a case were brought to us today, it would have a very good chance of being solved, so I think we might as well try.When you do what we do, if you make a mistake, the only harm is embarrassment in front of a national television audience, but not another person's innocent life, which is actually a little bit of fun and relaxation from the show . Before the program aired, I drew up a profile, as I would a modern case, and wrote the title: National Violent Crime Analysis Center refers to a complex established in Quantico in 1985 that includes the Behavioral Science Investigative Support Section, the Violent Offender Apprehension Computer Database Center, and other rapid response teams and units. As with actual case-solving consultations, after I profiled them, they handed over the suspect's profile to us.Despite the drama of the Duke of Clarence being the perpetrator, after analyzing all the evidence collected, Roy and I agreed that Alan Kosminski was the most likely perpetrator. We are convinced that the mocking letters sent to the police, as happened 90 years later in the Yorkshire Murder case, were written by an imposter who was not the 'real' Jack.Such criminals would not have the guts to openly challenge the police.The dismemberment revealed that the perpetrator was a deranged, sexually incompetent man, filled with anger towards women as a whole.The sudden attack style in each case also tells us that he had trouble interacting with people.He is not good at words.The specific circumstances of the incident tell us that this man could easily blend into the crowd around him without arousing the suspicion or fear of the prostitutes.He's a quiet solitary man, not a manly killer, who prowls the streets at night and returns to crime scenes.There is no doubt that the police have interviewed him in the course of their investigation.Of all the suspects presented to us, Kosminski fit my profile better than any other.As for dissecting corpses, one should have medical knowledge, that's not necessarily the case, basic butchering skills are enough.We've known for a long time that serial killers go to great lengths to dispose of dead bodies.Ed Jean, Ed Kemper, Jeffrey Dahmer, Richard Magitt were not hindered in any way by lack of medical knowledge, just to name a few. After making this analysis, I have to reserve my judgment, because from the perspective of 100 years later, I cannot say that Alan Kosminski is definitely the Corpse Ripper.He's just one of several suspects offered to us.But I can say with considerable confidence that Jack the Ripper is someone like Kosminski.Had this criminal investigation analysis taken place today, the information we had entered would have helped Scotland Yard Police narrow down the focus of the suspect and identify the perpetrator.That's why I say the case has a good chance of being solved by modern standards. In some cases, we found a suspect through our analysis, but we were unable to obtain sufficient evidence to arrest and prosecute him.A similar case was the strangulation case in Wichita, Kansas in the 1970s. The case began with the murder of the Otero family on January 15, 1974. Joseph Otero, 38, and his wife Julie were bound with venetian blind pull cords and strangled to death.Their 9-year-old son Joseph II was found bound in his bedroom with a plastic bag over his head; 11-year-old Josephine was found hanging from a rope hanging from a pipe in the basement ceiling, wearing only one A loose-fitting, collarless sweatshirt and socks.All evidence suggests that this was not a spur-of-the-moment act.Telephone lines have been cut and ropes were brought to the scene. Ten months later, the editor of a local newspaper received an anonymous call directing him to the public library to find a book.Included in the book is a note left by the perpetrator claiming responsibility for the killing of the Otero family, prophesying many more murders to come, and explaining: "My code name for the operation is: Bind, Rape and kill them." During the next three years, several more young women were killed.A letter the perpetrator subsequently wrote to a local TV station revealed many of his psychological conditions.He solemnly gave himself a nickname: "How many more people do I have to kill before my name can be reported or attract the attention of the whole country?" In a published letter, he compared his masterpiece to that of Jack the Ripper, "Son of Sam" and the Hillside Killers, outlaws who became media celebrities for their crimes.He blamed a "demon" and "X-factor" for his actions, leading to widespread press speculation about his personality. He encloses vivid sketches of naked women in various positions as they are bound, raped and raped.These obscene sketches, which were not made public, prompted me to create a clear picture in my mind of the perpetrators we were after.From here, the remaining problem is to narrow down the range of suspects. Like his hero, Jack the Ripper, the Strangler stopped murdering abruptly.In this case, however, I believe the police interviewed him.He knew very well that the police were chasing him, so he appeared very smart and experienced, and quit before the police collected enough evidence.I hope we've at least stopped him from wreaking havoc, but sometimes dragons win. In our own lives, there are times when the dragon wins.When a mob kills a person, it's not just the dead person who suffers.I'm not the only one in our department who suffers from too much stress, far from it.Family disputes and marital conflicts occur from time to time, and you cannot help worrying about them. After 22 years of ups and downs, my marriage to Pam broke up in 1993.We may have our own opinions on the matter, but some things cannot be denied.I spent far too much time away from home while my daughters Erica and Lauren were growing up.Even back in the city, I still have to devote time and energy to the case at hand, so that Pam often feels like a single parent, having to do the housework, pay the bills, send the children to school, meet with the teachers, and make sure the children complete the family. Homework and teaching at the same time.By the time our son Jed was born in January 1987, I had other profilers working with me, so there wasn't as much time out on the lecture tour as before.I have to admit that I have three bright, sweet, charming children, and I didn't really get to know them until shortly before retiring from the Bureau.Over the years I have devoted so much time to studying the persecution of dead children that I have not been able to fully understand my own bright, lively and lovely children. There have been many times when Pam has come to tell me that a kid has been hurt, like a knife wound or a bicycle fall.We all remember how often I would talk to her because of the stress and tension I had seen children my age get dismembered, couldn't she realize that falling off a bike is normal, Isn't it worth the fuss? Trying not to show complete indifference to the brutality, you find yourself indifferent to injuries in general.Once, when I was eating with the kids, Pam was in the kitchen unpacking the food.She was accidentally scratched by a knife and was seriously injured.She screamed and we all rushed in.I also remember studying the blood splatter pattern with interest when seeing injuries that were not life threatening or mutilating, while mentally relating it to the blood splatter patterns I had seen at murder scenes.I made a joke, trying to defuse the tension.I started pointing out to her and the kids how we saw a different pattern of blood splatter every time she moved her hand, and that was one of the ways we figured out what was going on between the attacker and the victim.However, I don't think others will take the knife wound as lightly as I do. You try to keep an emotional distance from what you're witnessing at work, but it's easy to end up as a detached jerk.If your family is intact and your marriage is strong, you can handle a lot of stress at work.But if there are weak links in your family, all kinds of stressors can exacerbate the problem, just as we do when criminals are hunted. As a result, Pam and I both had different circles of friends.I couldn't talk about my work in her circle, so I needed to be around my kind.When we get into social circles outside of the bureau or law enforcement circles, I'm often bored by the day-to-day stuff people talk about.As harsh as it may sound, when you're trying to figure out a killer's mind all day, where your neighbor's trash can is or what color his fence was painted doesn't excite you at all. However, I can say with relief that we have gone through a lot of emotional hardships and are now good friends again.The kids live with me (Erica is away at college), but Pam and I spend a lot of time together, and we now share parenting.Lauren and Jed are still young, and I can still enjoy a wonderful time watching them grow up, and I am grateful for that. In the early 1980s, I was the only one who did full-time profiling for the FBI.Roy Hazlewood, Bill Hagmell, et cetera would give me a hand when they had the time.Our department has grown to more than ten people.We're still not big enough to handle the sheer volume of cases that come to us, but we can only grow so far.We maintain personal friendships with each other and with police departments everywhere.Friendship building has become our own formula.Many of the police chiefs and detectives who called Corey had met us in classes at the National Academy.Sheriff Jim Metz, who called me to help find the murderers of Sally Smith and Debra Helmick, and Deputy Inspector Lynde Johnston, both graduates of the National Academy, Called Greg McClary and asked him to help find the murderer who killed prostitutes in Rochester. By the mid-1980s, the Behavioral Science Division had been split into the Behavioral Science Teaching and Research Section and the Behavioral Science Investigative Support Section, which I was the director of the Offender Profile Project.In addition to my program, the Investigative Support Section is responsible for two important sub-programs: the Violent Criminal Apprehension Program, which Jim Wright has replaced Bob Ressler as head, and the Engineering Services Program.Roger Dipper served as the Chief of the Teaching and Research Section, and Alan Smokey Burgess served as the Chief of the Investigation Support Section. (He’s not really related to Ann Burgess, though her husband, Ellen Burgess, co-wrote The Handbook of Crime Classification. Get it?) Even though my job is challenging and drains me a lot, I get a kind of satisfaction out of it.Fortunately, I've been able to avoid taking the step that almost everyone who wants to move up the bureau has to take: administration.By the spring of 1990, things had changed.We were having a departmental meeting when Smokey Burgess suddenly announced that he would soon be retiring as chief of the department.Later, Dave Cole, the new Assistant Deputy Commissioner, called me into his office to ask what my intentions were.He was my team leader in the Milwaukee Field Station and a colleague of the Special Weapons Strike Team. I told him I was extremely tired, sick of everything, and was considering applying to end my career in a violent crime office away from downtown. "You shouldn't be doing that," Kerr told me. "You're going to get nowhere. You can do a lot more as a section chief." "I don't know if I should be the section chief." I told him.I was already performing many of the functions of the Section Chief and at the same time acted as the institutional memory because I had been here for a long time.But at this point in my career, I don't want to get bogged down in the hustle and bustle of administration.Burgess was a brilliant executive, skilled at cutting out distractions so those of us who worked for him could function effectively. "I want you to be section chief," Cole announced.He was energetic, unambiguous, and aggressive. I said I hoped to continue offering interrogation strategies, testifying in court, and speaking in public.I think these are my strengths.Cole assured me that I would be able to continue the work and nominated me for the position of section chief. One of the first things I did when I took office, as I have mentioned many times, was to drop the word "behavioral science" from the name of our department and simply call it the Investigation Support Section.My idea is to send a clear and unmistakable message to our police customers everywhere and to the rest of the department about what we do. With the great help and tireless efforts of Robert Biddle, head of personnel, I expanded the Violent Criminal Apprehension Program from four to sixteen people.Cory's other branches were also expanded, and before long we had reached a total establishment of nearly 40 people.To ease the administrative burden of scaling up, I have implemented a district management scheme whereby individual agents are responsible for specific regions of the country. I think all of these people are eligible to be promoted to GS14, but the headquarters only agreed to give us four or five places.So I got them to agree that those who completed the two-year professional training program would be "selected" as specialists and recognized as supervisor-level agents, and be eligible for that title and salary.The professional training program required students to sit in on all courses taught by the Behavioral Sciences Section at the National Academy, complete two courses at the Armed Forces College of Pathology, take courses in psychiatry and law at the University of Virginia (where Parker Dietz was teaching at the time), complete Interrogation School under John Reed, death investigations with the Baltimore coroner's office, duty with the NYPD's homicide squad, and profiling under a district supervisor. Plus, we're more involved in international casework than ever before.For example, in the last year before retirement, Greg McClary handled major serial murders in Canada and Austria. My Section is functioning well.In terms of administration, I am looser, which is just my personality.When I see someone burnt out, I bypass the rules by signing off on them or telling them to take a break.In the end, they are much more productive than if I followed the rules and let them keep coming to work.When you have a lot of talent and you can't reward them with bonuses, you have to find other ways to help them through. I've always gotten along well with the support staff, and as I retire, they seem sad to be gone.Maybe it's because I have served in the Air Force.There are a lot of people in the leadership of the bureau who are officers (and many, like my last supervisory agent, Robin Montgomery, who was decorated as a hero) and they always think from the officer's point of view.This in itself is justifiable, and most managers of large institutions, if they are like me, will make these institutions dysfunctional.But I was a soldier, so I've always identified emotionally with the second-line support staff.For this I am more likely than some other leaders to get the necessary help. Many people see the FBI the way they used to think of IBM: a sprawling bureaucracy full of men and women in white shirts and black coats, smart, accomplished, humorless, and alike. .I am always grateful to be a part of my small group of truly extraordinary individuals, each with their own specialties in their field.随着时光推移以及行为科学在执法界的作用不断增强，我们自然而然都发展了自己的兴趣，攻克不同的领域。 从我们开展研究起，鲍勃·雷斯勒从事的是研究，我则投入到实际办案之中。罗伊·黑兹尔伍德是侦破强奸谋杀案的专家。肯·兰宁是处理迫害儿童案的一流权威。吉姆·里斯从侧写起步，后来在警官及执法人员的压力管理上做出了重大贡献。他在这一领域拥有哲学博士头衔，论著颇丰，在整个执法界因其咨询才华而广受欢迎。吉姆·赖特初来科里时，不但接手了培训新任侧写人员的重任，而且成为侦破跟踪案的一流权威，跟踪是严重人际间犯罪，目前这类案件的增长速度最快。我们每个人都与全国各地的外勤工作站、警察局、治安官办公室，以及执法机构建立了许多的私人联系，因此每当有人打来电话时，他或她都认识并信任与之通话的人。 对于加盟我们科的新人来说，试图与所有这些“大腕人物”并驾齐驱是困难的，在随着上映全国上下对我们的工作表现出极大兴趣后，情况尤其如此。但是我们尽力让他们相信，他们之所以被选中，就是因为我们认为他们完全具备胜任科里工作所必须的素质。他们都拥有丰富的办案经验，一旦与我们共事以后，我们还要让他们接受整整两年的在岗培训。除此之外，他们还拥有聪慧、直觉、勤奋、正直和自信，再加上倾听和评估他人观点的能力。以我之见，导致联邦调查局全国学院成为世界上同类院校中佼佼者的原因之一是，它是由那些拥有共同目标和各自的兴趣的有才华的个人组成的。反过来，这些人中的每一人又在激励别人具备同等的素质。我希望并相信，我们在科里建立起的学院式的、相互支持的体制，在我们这些第一代人员退休之后，将得以保持下去。 1995年6月，在匡蒂科为我举办的退休晚宴上，不少人对我大加赞誉，令我既惭愧又感动。坦率地说，我原先准备举行一个烧烤晚会，指望大伙会利用这个最后的正式机会，把他们积累已久的种种不满对我发泄出来。我后来在洗手间碰上了贾德·雷，他一见到我便为没有发言表示歉意。在他们说完之后，轮到我说话了。我觉得没有必要对他们隐瞒自己的想法，于是把原先预料他们都会说些什么以及事先准备好的一套反驳论点悉数道了出来。那天晚上，我没有什么特别的至理名言或慎重的建议可以传授。我只是希望我的言传身教能起到一点作用。 自从退休以来，我曾返回匡蒂科从事教学和咨询工作，而我的同事们清楚我对他们是有求必应的。我一如既往地进行讲课和演讲，将我25年来研究谋杀犯心理的心得体会传授出来。我已经从联邦调查局退休，可是我认为我永远不可能停止与那些犯罪行为作斗争。不幸的是，犯罪问题越来越严重，我们永远不会缺少客户。 人们时常问我，面对可怕的暴力犯罪统计数据，我们能拿出什么对策。尽管肯定有切实可行的对策能够采取而且应当采取，我倒是相信解决犯罪问题的最好办法是让更多的人关注犯罪问题。配备更多的警察，设立更多的法庭，建立更多的监狱，改进办案技巧，这些固然不错，可是要想使犯罪率降下来，惟一的办法就是我们所有人不能接受和容忍我们的家庭成员、朋友和同事犯罪。这是我们从犯罪率低得多的其他国家那里得到的启示。在我看来，这才是从根本上解决问题。犯罪是一种道德问题。它只能从道德层次上加以解决。 在我这么多年从事研究和对付暴力犯罪的过程中，我从来没有碰上一个罪犯是在良好的环境上长大的或者拥有功能齐全的、体面的家庭。我相信，绝大多数暴力凶犯要对其罪行负责，他们自己做出了选择，因此应当正视他们的行动所带来的后果。那种认为一个年仅14岁或15岁的人不能正确估计他行动的严重性的想法是荒谬的。我的8岁儿子杰德已能区分是非好几年了。 不过，25年的观察还告诉我，罪犯是“后天造就的”而非“先天形成的”，这意味着在他长大成人的某个阶段，有个人给他造成了深远的负面影响。这也说明如果有人对他产生深远的正面影响，他也许不会犯罪。所以我笃信，在需要更多的财力、警察和监狱的同时，我们最需要的是更多的爱。这并非是将问题简单化，而是问题的核心所在。 不久前，我应邀对全美神秘小说作家协会纽约分会进行了演讲。出席演讲会的人很多，会上洋溢着热情友好的气氛。那些以创作谋杀案和重伤犯罪案小说维持生计的男士女士怀着浓厚的兴致，聆听一位实际经手过数以千计案件的人的演讲。事实上，自从托马斯·哈里斯的问世以来，作家、新闻记者以及电影制片人就一直在设法让我们提供“真实的故事”。 当我追述着几起较为有趣和生动的案子的具体情节时，我很快就意识到，在场的许多听众变得兴味索然，思想开着小差。我和我的人每天都要目睹的场面使得他们感到十分恶心。我意识到，他们对那些案情细节毫无兴趣，同时他们必定意识到，他们并不想按照实际案情去写作。非常公允。我们各自拥有自己的客户群。 龙并非总会取胜，我们正在竭尽全力，务必要使龙的取胜率越来越低。不过它所代表的邪恶势力，即我在整个职业生涯中一直与之斗争的势力，是不会自行消亡的，因此必须有人站出来讲述真实的故事。这便是我在这里尽力要做的事情，因为我有过亲身经历。