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work of serial killers, says FBI agent Robert K. Ressler.
Serial killers, out of pleasure or some psychological compulsion, take numerous lives, and the phenomenon appears to be on the rise, Mr. Ressler said.
The U.S. Justice Department says 36 serial killers are at work today. None, Ressler said, are believed to be in Virginia.
A 16-year veteran of the FBI, Mr. Ressler, 48, is a specialist in homicides — particularly serial murders.
“We deal in the worst, most violent, most heinous crimes in the world,” he said.
He gets to meet many infamous people in his job.
People like David Berkowitz, the “Son of Sam” killer who claimed 13 victims in New York City in the 1970s.
And Richard Speck, who murdered eight student nurses in Chicago in 1966.
And Edmund Kemper III, who decapitated his mother and killed nine other people in California in the 1960s and 1970s.
Mr. Ressler works at the National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime and the FBI Academy, both in Quantico.
The center, with a budget of some $3.5 million, came on line just last July. There, FBI agents, behavioral scientists and computer specialists provide hightech assistance to local police departments in probing unusual, hard-to-solve murders.
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