Famous serial killer Gary Ridgway was arrested in 2001 for 4…

Famous serial killer Gary Ridgway was arrested in 2001 for 4 murders, though he confessed to killing at least 70 women in New York. He was caught by  tracing the connecting subway lines around which most of the bodies were found. This type of profiling is known as

In 2004, an analyst from the Oklahoma Bureau of Investigatio…

In 2004, an analyst from the Oklahoma Bureau of Investigation detected a crime pattern: the bodies of murdered women were being dumped along the Interstate 40 corridor in Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas, and Mississippi. The analyst and a police colleague of the Violent Criminal Apprehension Program found more similar patterns of highway killings elsewhere. So, the FBI launched an extensive effort and found the killer.This kind of killer is known as