Thomas Bond a police surgeon who preformed autopsies on the victims was asked to create a report of the killer, Dr. Bond’s process in producing this report is very similar to that of modern day profilers, which included looking over the medical and police reports of the other victims along with recreating the crime scenes, ultimately ‘Jack the Ripper’ was never indentified despite the exhaustive search but Dr. Bond’s profile remains a prominent example of criminal profiling assisting law enforcement in active cases. Since then the practice of criminal profiling has matured significantly going into the 20th century, in 1972 the ‘Behavioral Science Unit’ was established by the FBI and was headed by Dr. Howard Teten who helped implement the plan. The aim of the program was to teach future agents the technique of analyzing unknown offenders by looking for behavioral patterns at the crime scenes, following Teten Robert Reseller became one of the most well-known profilers of the time, studying the crimes of serial offenders, Reseller essentially wrote the book for future profilers along with creating the ‘organized vs. disorganized’ typology method which is still in use
Thomas Bond a police surgeon who preformed autopsies on the victims was asked to create a report of the killer, Dr. Bond’s process in producing this report is very similar to that of modern day profilers, which included looking over the medical and police reports of the other victims along with recreating the crime scenes, ultimately ‘Jack the Ripper’ was never indentified despite the exhaustive search but Dr. Bond’s profile remains a prominent example of criminal profiling assisting law enforcement in active cases. Since then the practice of criminal profiling has matured significantly going into the 20th century, in 1972 the ‘Behavioral Science Unit’ was established by the FBI and was headed by Dr. Howard Teten who helped implement the plan. The aim of the program was to teach future agents the technique of analyzing unknown offenders by looking for behavioral patterns at the crime scenes, following Teten Robert Reseller became one of the most well-known profilers of the time, studying the crimes of serial offenders, Reseller essentially wrote the book for future profilers along with creating the ‘organized vs. disorganized’ typology method which is still in use