Deadline #2, HW #5

My mother passed away when I was 14. It wasn't an accident or anything like that, she had actually taken her own life. There was no note and therefore no goodbye to any of us. Up until that point I had wanted to do nothing more than write. After she died the only thing I wanted to do was be a cop. The way I saw it was I had no closure to the experience I had. I wanted to be able to give that to others who had experienced loss similar to my own. The only thing I felt was close to what I had gone through was homicide. I at first wanted to work as a Homicide Detective, but after entering the world of law enforcement I decided that the hours put into the job as well as the years needed to even obtain that position weren't for me. Then I came across an article on Criminal Profilers and their contributions to investigations and I knew that's what I wanted to be. Everything I have read including what processes are used to determine a person's psychological makeup to the evidence used in solidifying that conclusion has only made me more determined to become a profiler. When researching recently I did find a website that really caught my attention. I had assumed, because I hadn't read anywhere else, that there was only one procedure for creating a profile when really there are two . One was created by the FBI's behavioral science unit called Crime Scene Analysis and the other Behavioral Evidence Analysis created by Brent Turvey. I really value the issues involving this topic because it's a newer way of attempting to understand killers and make it easier to lure them, give investigators and idea as to who could be the murderer as well as possibly bring the killer to custody.