The Evil That Men Do: FBI Profiler Roy Hazelwood's Journey Into the Minds of Sexual Predators by Stephen G. Michaud, Roy Hazelwood Page B

shoved it down the garbage disposal. Afterward, he propped her severed head on the mantel for dart practice.
    Hence Bob Ressler’s informed unease when Kemper threatened to “screw your head off.”
    But Ed Kemper had more than one dimension to him.
    What distinguished him from a James Lawson, Hazelwood recognized, was organization. Patience and planning and attention to detail were the reasons Kemper was able tocommit serial kidnap-murders for so long without being identified. Ed Kemper thought through his every move, and even rehearsed his crimes.
    He would pick up a girl, try a personality on her, and then release her unharmed and unaware of his intentions. He experimented for months with different approaches, perfecting what Hazelwood calls the killer’s “service personality,” the image he projects to mask his true intentions.
    Highly disciplined and a perfectionist, Kemper learned to be conversational, unthreatening, to project a mild, even attractive, persona with which he would smoothly transact the critical first phase of his assaults, the approach.
    Afterward, despite the ghastliness of his postmortem behavior, he never left messy crime scenes or in any way called unnecessary attention to himself. Kemper wasn’t caught until he called California police from Colorado, confessed what he’d done by telephone, and then waited in his car to be arrested.
    This, Hazelwood recognized, was the antithesis of James Lawson’s and James Odom’s
disorganized
behavior. Ed Kemper was
organized.
    Pursuing the distinction further, Hazelwood realized that what he’d really captured with his dichotomy was the broad difference between crazy (psychotic) behavior, and irrational yet sane (psychopathic, or antisocial) behavior.
    In time, the insight led to a practical and handy way for homicide investigators to quickly categorize their UNSUBs into three major classes: organized, disorganized, and mixed offenders.
    Hazelwood unveiled his organized and disorganized analytical framework in an article entitled “The Lust Murderer,” published under his name and John Douglas’s in the April 1980
FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin.
It was the first professional article Roy wrote as an FBI agent. Since then, “The Lust Murderer” has been the most frequently reprinted of all BSU papers.
    The title comes from an old catch-all clinical term for homicide committed during passion. Hazelwood and Douglas appropriated
lust murder
for any killing that involves mutilation and/or removal of the victim’s sexual parts. In either sense, the term today has fallen largely into disuse.
    Hazelwood used it to describe the Odom-Lawson slaying, because “there really isn’t another term that captures what those men did to that woman,” he explains.
    He describes the organized offender as indifferent to his fellow humans, irresponsible, and self-centered—the classic psychopath. He is manipulative, deliberate, and full of guile, outwardly amiable for as long as it suits his objectives.
    If the organized offender is a crafty wolf, then the disorganized offender is more like a wild dog.
    He has few, if any, social skills. Typically, he is a loner and manifestly so. He may not wash or shave for days, or change his clothing or comb his hair. He feels rejected, and for the most part is incapable of forming normal relationships with other people of either sex. He lacks the organized offender’s craftiness, and commits his crimes on impulse, in a frenzy, with little planning or preparation.
    His spontaneous fury may be sparked by anger or passion, drugs or alcohol. He may also be mentally retarded or psychotic, or may simply lack experience or maturity.
    Unlike the organized offender, who preys for the most part on strangers, the disorganized offender may kill a friend, relative, acquaintance, or neighbor, indifferent at that moment to his risk of capture.
    He also will score lower on standardized intelligence tests, although here Hazelwood cautions against