The Dunblane Murders (Dunblane, Scotland)

• On March 13, 1996, there was a mass killing of children at the Dunblane Primary School, where most victims were six years of age or younger. The gunman, Thomas Watt Hamilton, was a former scoutmaster who was obsessed with young boys and bitter over the community's rejection of him. This case clearly illustrates the differences between mass murderers and serial killers.
• For more information about this case, or about the differences between mass murderers, serial killers, and spree killers, please refer to pages 1-10 in The Anatomy of Motive.

Paul Kenneth Keller (Seattle, Washington)

• This interesting serial arson case took place in the early 1990s. Turned in by his own family, twenty-seven-year-old Paul Keller had already set hundreds of fires during his lifetime. On February 6, 1993, he was arrested for the three fires with the best evidence.
• For more information about this case, about arsonists in general, or about the many different types of arson, please refer to pages 47-81 in The Anatomy of Motive.

Edward Lee Adams (New Mexico)

• This twenty-four-year-old man was accused of raping and murdering an eighty-one-year-old woman, as well as setting the woman's house on fire after the attack. His case illustrates the importance of figuring out the defendant's motive for committing a crime, particularly when it comes time for the trial.
• For more information about this case, please refer to pages 81-90 in The Anatomy of Motive.

The Hi-Fi Murders (Utah)

• On April 22, 1974, Dale Selby Pierre and William Andrews, both nineteen years of age, robbed the Hi-Fi Shop, a stereo equipment store in Ogden, Utah, just as it was closing. They poisoned their hostages by forcing them to drink drain cleaner. Although these two offenders would have committed the crime anyway, they actually got the idea for the drain cleaner by watching the movie Magnum Force, thus showing how people can be easily influenced by the media.
• For more information about this case, please refer to pages 91-109 in The Anatomy of Motive.

The Tylenol Murders (Chicago, Illinois)

• Between September 29 and October 1, 1982, seven people in the Chicago area died mysteriously, beginning with a twelve-year-old girl who stayed home one day with a cold and collapsed on her bathroom floor. The only thing that all of the victims had in common was that they had taken Extra-Strength Tylenol just before they died.
• For more information about this case, and to find out whether or not anyone was ever charged for these murders, please refer to pages 121-146 in The Anatomy of Motive.

Stella Nickell (Seattle, Washington)

• In an attempt to sue the Bristol-Myers pharmaceutical company for the wrongful death of her husband, Nickell adulterated five bottles of Extra-Strength Excedrin, killing both her husband and another unlucky woman. On May 9, 1988, Nickell was found guilty of murder and was sentenced to two ninety-year terms of prison for the murders. She was the first person in American history to be convicted of murder through product tampering.
• For more information about this case, and about product tampering in general, please refer to pages 146-155 in The Anatomy of Motive.

Audrey Marie Hilley (Anniston, Alabama)

• In the late 1970s, Hilley murdered both her husband and her mother via arsenic poisoning, and, in 1979, she was charged with the attempted murder of her daughter. However, after she was free on $14,000 bond, the poisonings and deaths did not cease, until she was eventually found again, posing as the twin sister of her alias.
• For more information and more specific details about this bizarre and twisted case, please refer to pages 156-163 in The Anatomy of Motive.

Matthew Beck (Connecticut)

• Around 9 AM on March 6, 1998, Matthew Beck, a thirty-five-year-old accountant, shot and/or stabbed a number of his fellow employees, killing four. More than anything else, this case is a good example of how people can "snap" unexpectedly, often with disastrous consequences.
• For more information about this case, please refer to pages 193-197 in The Anatomy of Motive.

John List (Westfield, New Jersey)

• In 1971, John List, a forty-six-year-old accountant, murdered his entire immediate family (his wife, mother, and three children) in their own home, left them there, and then disappeared. In 1989, the case aired on the television show America's Most Wanted, and tips led to the finding of John List, who was then remarried and using the alias Bob Clark.
• For more information about this case, please refer to pages 197-212 in The Anatomy of Motive.

William Bradford Bishop, Jr. (North Carolina)

• On March 2, 1976, a forest ranger found five bodies burning in a shallow grave in the swampland of rural Tyrrell County, North Carolina. They were identified as Bishop's wife, mother, and three children. The only ones missing were Bishop himself and the family's golden retriever, Leo. Despite a great deal of effort on the part of a lot of people, and his appearance for a time on the FBI's Ten Most-Wanted List, Bishop has managed to stay on the run. Therefore, he has, of course, never been convicted of any crime.
• For more information about this case, please refer to pages 214-223 in The Anatomy of Motive.

Andrew Phillip Cunanan (Varied Locations)

• A spree killer who left a trail of deaths behind him as he traveled across the country, Cunanan is most well known for killing Gianni Versace in the South Beach section of Miami.
• For more information about Cunanan's murders, and spree killing in general, please refer to pages 240-268 in The Anatomy of Motive.

Charles Joseph Whitman (Austin, Texas)

• Known around the world as "the sniper in the tower," Whitman shot and killed thirteen unsuspecting strangers on August 1, 1966, after killing both his wife and mother because he felt that the world was not worthy of them.
• For more information about this case, including possible theories about why Whitman suddenly turned into a sniper, please refer to pages 269-286 in The Anatomy of Motive.

Ira Attebury (San Antonio, Texas)

• On April 27, 1979, sixty-four-year-old Attebury randomly fired shots from his motor home into a crowd of approximately five thousand people, who had gathered in anticipation of the start of the Fiesta Battle of Flowers parade. Two women died, and about fifty other people were injured. After a half an hour of gunfire, this mass murderer finally turned the gun on himself and died.
• For more information about this case, including insight into what may have led up to the crime, please refer to pages 286-291 in The Anatomy of Motive.

James Oliver Huberty (San Diego, CA)

• Wielding a Winchester pump-action twelve-gauge shotgun, a nine-millimeter Uzi submachine gun, and a nine-millimeter Browning semiautomatic pistol, forty-one-year-old Huberty walked into a McDonald's restaurant near his apartment on July 18, 1984, and opened fire for about an hour and a quarter. He killed twenty-one people and wounded nineteen, until he finally committed suicide by cop.
• For more information about this case, please refer to pages 291-297 in The Anatomy of Motive.

Walter Leroy (Roy) Moody, Jr. (Southern U.S.)

• Beginning on December 16, 1989, Roy Moody, who had an IQ of 130, killed or injured several people via bombs that he created and sent through the mail to unsuspecting recipients, even after he served a five-year prison sentence for killing his wife in 1972 in the very same manner.
• For more information about these cases, please refer to pages 318-330 in The Anatomy of Motive.

Timothy McVeigh (Oklahoma)

• Formerly a distinguished soldier in the Persian Gulf War, twenty-seven-year-old McVeigh, who had radical political beliefs, later became a terrorist in his own country when he bombed the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City on April 19,1995, killing 168 people and wounding more than 500.
• For more information about this case, including insight into what led up to the bombing, as well as the typical profile of bombers in general, please refer to pages 331-343 in The Anatomy of Motive.

Ted Kaczynski

• The most-wanted serial killer in the United States for more than a decade (beginning in 1980), Kaczynski (a.k.a. Unabomber) was a very bright, but failed academic, who was taking out his unhealthy rage on society in general, and the academic world in particular, behind the cloak of an anti-technology cause. Ted Kaczynski was eventually caught after the FBI received a tip from his very courageous brother, David Kaczynski.
• For more information about this case, please refer to pages 345-369 in The Anatomy of Motive.

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Detailed information about all of the above cases, as well as an inside look into John Douglas' interviews with some of the most dangerous and infamous criminals, and his opinion regarding the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Jr., can be found in The Anatomy of Motive, written by John Douglas and Mark Olshaker. Four hypothetical cases are also included at the end of the book, so that readers can practice their own profiling skills!

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