Murder Call

In order to interpret gunshot wounds, a certain basic knowledge of firearms and ammunition is necessary. There are five general categories of small arms: handguns, rifles, shotguns, submachine guns, and machine guns. There are four basic types of: 1.   Single-shot pistols 2.   Derringers 3.   Revolvers 4.   Auto-loading pistols (automatics) A single-shot pistol has one firing chamber integral with the barrel, which must be loaded manually each time the weapon is to be fired . Derringers are a variant of single-shot pistols. Derringers are small pocket firearms having multiple barrels, each of which is loaded and fired separately. The traditional derringer has two barrels. The revolver is the most common type of handgun in the United States. Revolvers have a revolving cylinder that contains several chambers, each of which holds one cartridge. The cylinder is rotated mechanically so as to align each chamber successively ...

Although not all serial killers are sex murderers, a significantly great proportion are. The very act of cutting, dismembering, binding, torturing, and/or killing is often more important to the sex murderer than the actual sex act. This somewhat differentiates a sexual murderer from a “rapist-killer” who as an afterthought murders his victim to prevent her from reporting him to the police. The psychological dynamic is entirely different, and the sexual killer is more predisposed to repeat his crimes in a serial pattern. Until the mid-eighteenth century, sex crime of any kind was virtually unknown, or at least largely unreported. One reason for this is the proposition that sex crime is a “leisure activity” requiring available time to develop and dwell on sexual fantasies and the freedom to act upon them. Prior to the industrial age the majority of people were just too busy to be fantasizing about sex. Most were desperately trying to feed themselves and survive various life-t...