The Murder Of Kara Brown

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One day Karla Brown´s body was found by her fiancé Mark Fair and his friend in their newly bought house. She was found on her knees, bent forward and her head was in a dreamlike barrel filled with water. Karla was only wearing a sweater she only use to wear during winter and hear hands were tied behind her back.
The Wood River Police Department went to the crime scene, but they had technical problems. The crime-scene technician couldn't make his flashlight to his camera work, so they had to take pictures of the crime scene with another camera, unfortunately that camera only took black and white pictures. The technician also had problems with fingerprints, because there where a lot of clear prints, but Kara and her fiancé have had a party the …show more content…

About two years after the murder of Kara the investigators went to John Douglas in the BSU for help. Mr. Douglas gave a specific prescription of the kind of UNSUB they should be looking for and what his behavior will be. Mr. Douglas told the investigators that the offender didn't come with the intention to kill Karla, he wanted sex from her. The killing of Karla was the result of the attack going wrong and the offender killed her instead. John Douglas explains that this offender will not have committed murder before because of the poor staging, but he will probably have committed smaller crimes. This kind of offender will also have a lack of self-esteem, and average IQ, no further education than high school, and he will probably turn to alcohol, drugs or cigarettes after the crime. The offender will be recently divorced or having marital problems, which was the stressor in this case. Mr. Douglas tells the investigators that this kind of UNSUB will follow the investigation closely to see if they have any new leads, and the investigators have already interviews him about the …show more content…

The investigators used Mr. Douglas profile to lure the real offender out. They knew he was watching the case and will probably talk about the murder as well, they told the media that they had new leads in the case and gave them the profile. Not long after contacting the media a man contacted the police department telling him that not long after the murder a woman had told him that a man had told her he´d been in the house the day Karla was murdered. The man had also told her about bite marks at Karla´s neck, which was something the police didn't find out about one year after the murder and they hadn't shared it to the public. This man was one of the two suspects and he fits the profile more than the other suspect. The investigators sent a wired man to talk to the main suspect and see if he would talk more about the murder. Though, he didn't admit he killed Karla, he was telling the wired man things that made him fit the profile even more. The investigators then required a court order to get the suspects dental impressions to see if it matched to the one´s found on Karla´s neck, they matched. After almost four years they found the killer thanks to John Douglas

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