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Archive for the 'Criminal profiles' Category


Summary: U.S. District Judge Larry Burns has ruled that Jared Lee Loughner, the 22-year-old man accused of wounding Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and killing six in a shooting rampage in Arizona, is mentally incompetent to stand trial. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on May 25, 2010, Aubrey Immelman provided his weekly report of U.S. military deaths in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.


Mar 23rd, 2011

Summary: Jared Lee Loughner, the accused in the January 8 shooting rampage in Tucson, Arizona, that killed six and wounded 13, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, has been transferred to a federal Bureau of Prisons medical facility in Springfield, Missouri, to undergo a court-ordered mental evaluation to determine his competency to stand trial. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on March 23, 2010, Aubrey Immelman provided his weekly report of U.S. military deaths in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.


Jan 13th, 2011

Summary: Information about Tucson shooter Jared Loughner’s mental state, signs and symptoms of mental illness, and his likely diagnosis according to the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on January 13, 2010, Aubrey Immelman provided his weekly report of U.S. military deaths in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.



Summary: The writings of Jared Lee Loughner, would-be assassin of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, provide no evidence of a cognitively consistent set of political beliefs or even a coherent ideological orientation. However, his writings do reveal signs of thought disorder, pointing to the possibility of an undiagnosed mental illness of a psychotic nature. There is no direct evidence that Loughner thoughts or actions were specifically influenced by incendiary political rhetoric such as Sarah Palin’s “target list” or Michele Bachmann’s provocative “armed and dangerous” remarks or her paranoid conspiracies — for example, AmeriCorps youth brainwashing, “one-world currency,” or the U.S. census. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on January 10, 2010, Aubrey Immelman reported that CIA bomber Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi, in a videotape released posthumously by the Pakistani Taliban, called on Muslim jihadists worldwide to avenge the death of former Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud in an August 2009 U.S. missile strike, by attacking U.S. targets. Immelman also featured new details about the sequence of events in the Dec. 30, 2009 suicide bombing that killed seven CIA personnel and contractors at Forward Operating Base Chapman in Khost, Afghanistan.


Jan 5th, 2010

Summary: Intelligence lapse: Dr. Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi, the 32-year-old Jordanian physician who turned against his Jordanian intelligence recruiters and struck the CIA’s Camp Chapman forward base in Khost province near the Afghan-Pakistan frontier on December 30, 2009 killing seven Central Intelligence Agency employees and his Jordanian recruiter, matched the psychological profile of a suicide bomber. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on January 5, 2009, Aubrey Immelman reported that Vice President Dick Cheney, in an exit interview on CBS “Face the Nation,” defended the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, of which he was a key proponent and architect.



Summary: The Gaffney, South Carolina killer who murdered male and female victims ranging in age from 15 to 83 in less than a week does not fit the profile of a serial killer and can be more aptly described as a spree killer. As such — unlike most serial killers — he is unlikely to be captured alive to face charges.


Jun 5th, 2009

Summary: Initial reports regarding the circumstances surrounding actor David Carradine’s death suggests it was likely the result of a tragic accident, namely a botched case of autoerotic asphyxiation (self-induced suffocation in an attempt to enhance sexual pleasure during masturbation).


Mar 14th, 2009

Summary: Jeff Kass, one of the first reporters on the scene of the Columbine High School shooting on April 20, 1999, has completed the definitive work on the tragedy, “Columbine: A True Crime Story.”