Geographic Profiling - Investigative Questions to Consider

Locations

• What are the location types connected to this crime or crime series?
• Where are these locations? Map them!
• What are the distances and travel times between them?

Time

• When did the crimes occur (date, time, weekday)?
• What was the weather?
• How much time was there between crimes? 

Site Selection

• How are the crime locations accessed?
• What else is in the general area?
• How might the offender have known of these locations?
• What purpose did the crime locations serve?

Target Backcloth

• Where is the target group (and where is it not)?
• How much control did the offender have over the choice of crime locations?
• Has displacement (in space or time) occurred? 

Hunting

• What hunting method did the offender use?
• Why these sites and not others?
• What was the offender's likely transportation?

For information, please contact:

Center for Geospatial Intelligence and Investigation
Kim Rossmo, PhD
Research Professor
KRossmo@TxState.edu
(512) 245-2006

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