Organized Disorganized Variable % Variable % Victim alive during sex acts 91 Vaginal rape 74 Body positioned 75 Overkill 70 Murder weapon missing 67 Multiple sex acts 66 Multiple crime scene 61 Beaten 61 Body concealed 58 Body left in isolated spot 54 Torture 53 Belongings scattered 47 Restraints 40 Tease cuts 38 Body covered postmortem 37 Bludgeoned 38 Ligature strangulation 34 Clothing scattered 36 Firearm used 23 Object penetration 35 Tampered with evidence 21 Improvised murder weapon 31 Gagging 16 Manual strangulation 27 Bitemarks 5 Violence directed at genitalia 23 Weapon left in victim 19 Facial disfigurement 19 Throat cut 19 Trail of clothing to murder scene 13 Ransacking 11 Genital mutilation 10 Body parts missing 10 Thoracic mutilation 9 Burns on victim 8 Abdominal mutilation 8 Innards extracted 6 Decapitation 5 Dismemberment 3

Note. Frequency across the sample of 100 cases indicated in parentheses.