The Real Cracker (HB)

by stephen-cook (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2001

  $3.77

  Using unprecedented access to sensitive police work, The Real Cracker follows Britain's two top offender profilers, Julian Boon and Richard Badcock as they help police work on five grim and perplexing cases. These include the prolific serial criminal who has raped or assaulted more than twenty elderly women and the man who preys on courting couples at a Hampshire beauty spot. There is the shocking rape and murder of a young woman in her south London flat, the sinister blackmailing of airline stewardesses in Sussex, and the mysterious killing of an eighty-seven-year-old spinster in a seaside town. As well as exposing the modern realities of profiling, The Real Cracker looks at its history and tackles some of the big questions about this fledgling and controversial science: does it really help to solve crimes? Is it much better than palmistry?

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  Paperback
  2002

  $3.28

  The Real Cracker follows the profilers as they advise on five violent crimes, including what is reputedly Britain's most unsolved crime - over a period of ten years, a series of women have been raped at a beauty spot, yet no forensic evidence has ever been discovered. Boon investigates the strange case of 30 women over 80 being raped by a 30-year-old man and the murder of an 87-year-old woman in Sussex. Badock inspects the evidence of the horrific murder of a 23-year-old woman in Kent - police turned to him in order to dismiss her boyfriend from the investigation. As the detective work continues, the psychiatrists advise the police who to look for, who not to look for and how to search for them. Once suspects are arrested they even devise detectives' interview strategies and listen in as suspects are questioned, advising who is guilty and who is not.