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The Author

D. Kim Rossmo

 is the Detective Inspector in charge of the Vancouver Police

Department’s Geographic Profiling Section. Over the course of his 20-year
policing career he has worked assignments in organised crime intelligence,
emergency response, patrol, crime prevention, and community liaison. He
holds a Ph.D. in criminology and has researched and published in the areas
of policing, offender profiling, and environmental criminology. He is an
Adjunct Professor at Simon Fraser University, sits on the editorial board for
the international journal 

Homicide Studies

, and is a member of the American

Society of Criminology.

Dr. Rossmo is the Vice President of the Canadian Association of Violent

Crime Analysts, a member of the International Association of Chiefs of Police
Investigative Operations Advisory Committee, and a former Executive Vice
President of the Canadian Police Association. In 1998 he was made a Fellow
of the Western Society of Criminology, and in 1999 accredited as one of
British Columbia’s top innovators and granted an Outstanding Alumni of
the Year Award from Simon Fraser University for his work in developing
geographic profiling.

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His present duties include assisting police agencies in Canada, the U.S.,

Britain, and Europe, including the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the
Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Scotland Yard, in cases of serial murder,
rape, bombing, and arson. He has been recognized as an expert witness in
the geography of crime and the hunting patterns of serial offenders. Dr.
Rossmo is currently involved in several research, writing, and development
projects.

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Acknowledgments

Like much research, this book is the product of many people in addition to
the author. I would like to thank the following for their support and guidance
during the research that led to the development of geographic profiling:
Professor Paul Brantingham, Professor Patricia Brantingham, Professor John
Lowman, and Professor Tom Calvert, Simon Fraser University; Professor
John Yuille, University of British Columbia; and Professor Ronald Clarke,
Rutgers University.

I would also like to acknowledge the encouragement and assistance of

the following researchers and authors: Professor Eric Hickey, California State
University; Professor Steven Egger, Sangamon State University; Professor
James LeBeau, Southern Illinois University; Professor George Rengert, Tem-
ple University; Jonathan Alston, Simon Fraser University; Anne Davies, Lon-
don Metropolitan Police; and Doctor Janet Jackson, The Netherlands
Institute for the Study of Criminality and Law Enforcement.

As an investigative technique, geographic profiling owes a debt to the

following: Chief Constable Ray Canuel, Chief Constable Bruce Chambers,
Deputy Chief Constable Brian McGuinness, Deputy Chief Constable Ken
Higgins, Inspector Ken Doern, Inspector John Eldridge, and Cheryllynne
Drabinsky, Vancouver Police Department; Staff Sergeant Doug MacKay-
Dunn, Vancouver Integrated Intelligence Unit; Assistant Commissioner Joop
Plomp, Inspector Ron MacKay, Inspector Glenn Woods, Staff Sergeant Keith
Davidson, and Corporal Scot Filer, Royal Canadian Mounted Police; Detec-
tive Inspector Kate Lines and Detective Sergeant Brad Moore, Ontario Pro-
vincial Police; Detective Chief Inspector Adrian Hogg and Detective Sergeant
Neil Trainor, National Crime Faculty; Supervisory Special Agent James A.
Wright, Supervisory Special Agent Gregg O. McCrary, and Dr. Roland
Reboussin, Federal Bureau of Investigation; Sergeant John House, Royal New-
foundland Constabulary; Corporal Guy Pollock, Coordinated Law Enforce-
ment Unit Intelligence Section; Lieutenant Debra Davidoski, Milwaukee
Police Department; Corporal Steve Hess, Justice Institute of British Colum-
bia; Diane Bell, British Columbia Federation of Police Officers; and all the
police investigators who were willing to try geographic profiling during its
early days.

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Supervisory Special Agent Judson Ray, Federal Bureau of Investigation,

facilitated the initial data collection from the National Center for the Analysis
of Violent Crime. Janice Campbell-Barnett, Kim Bufton, Rebecca Wall, Laurie
Henderson, Rose Chow, Kevin Bonnycastle, Michelle Jenion, Dorothy Lott,
and Kellie Smith all supplied invaluable research assistance. Jay Clarke,
Michael Slade, Chief Superintendent Robert DeClercq, and Special X helped
spread the word. And the students from both my 

Phenomenon of Serial

Murder

 and 

Forensic Behavioural Science

 classes more than adequately dem-

onstrated that learning occurs on both sides of the podium.

Rigel

 was made possible through the vision, business acumen, and pro-

gramming expertise of Ian Laverty, David Demers, Barry Dalziel, Tim Loch-
ner, Matt Naish, Brian Eng, and Lisa Shields, Environmental Criminology
Research, Inc.; and Jennifer Thompson, Facet Decision Systems. Important
development funding was provided by the National Research Council of
Canada and the Simon Fraser University Industry Liaison Office.

I am indebted to Becky McEldowney and the professional team at CRC

Press for making this book happen. Finally, a special thanks to my parents,
family, and friends for their constant support and encouragement.

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Dedication

Dedicated to those who hunt the predators.