Classifying serial killers

¹Psychology Program, Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, Pomona 08240-0195, USA. donald_promish@compuserve.com

|January 22, 2000

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We attempted to match the appearance and demeanor of 27 serial killers to the postmortem 'signatures' found on their victims' bodies. Our results suggest that a link may exist between postmortem signatures and two complementary appearance-demeanor types.

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