May 31, 2006

A CRIMINAL PROFILE--THE TIFFANY SOUERS TRAGEDY




Criminal Profiling: My Theory


Tiffany lives in a first floor apartment...an open screen door. A man who watched Tiffany for the last couple months had now had an in. She wasn't home, her house was accessible. He saw her roommates move out. He knew...he had been watching. This day he went into her house through the open sliding glass patio door. He went to her bedroom and explored her underwear drawer. While fondling her private items, he comes across the bikini top. He hids in her closet.

When Tiffany gets home, she goes into her bedroom and begins to change for bed. When he realizes she is alone, he comes out out of the closet, coming up from behind her and proceeds to choke her with the bikini top he was holding while hiding in the closet.

He may or may not have had sex with her. If he did, I believe it was after she was dead. I believe this because she had no defense wounds. If she was being raped, then she would have shown some evidence of that. I believe she most likely died as soon as he attacked her due to strangulation. Afterwards, he removed her underwear and kept it. He may have more of these "prizes" with him.

Check the employees of the apartment complex. The maintenence workers, landscapers, particularly. Get all their alibis. I do not think that this person knew Tiffany. I do not believe this person came through the front door. He was lying in wait. He had planned this. This was premeditated.

This person could also have done this in the past. He is not known to any of Tiffany's friends. He is an outsider. Check all fingerprints...check all DNA. The police may find a match in the national DNA and fingerprint database. He may have had some previous time for something like lewd and lascivious behavior, child enticement, what have you. However, he could be a free sexual predator. Check a 5 miles radius of Tiffany's apartment for all registered sex offenders. Get all their alibis.





CENTRAL, S.C. — Investigators are exploring a possible link between the recent bikini strangulation death of a 20-year-old Clemson University student and two other murders in 1992 and 1997.


There have been at least two other unsolved killings in Pickens County involving females, but authorities don't know if they are connected. In 1997, Clemson freshman Stacy Brooke Holsonback was found floating in Lake Hartwell. Authorities believe more than one person is responsible for that death.


Souers was found by her roommate around 2 p.m. EDT on Friday in her ground floor apartment at The Reserve at Clemson apartment complex. Friends last saw her at 11 p.m. EDT Thursday night. Authorities believe she died around 1 a.m. EDT Friday.


"What’s tragic about this is this is an aspiring young girl who was the all-American kid from all appearances," 13th Circuit solicitor Bob Ariail said at a news conference Tuesday. Ariail handles prosecutions in Greenville and Pickens counties. "I feel confident that all the steps being taken will result in an arrest," Ariail continued. "I just think it's going to take a lot of leg work."


Jordan Vogt shared the apartment with Souers and two other roommates and told FOX News the foursome was "security conscious." Ariail's office will hold another press conference on the case at 4 p.m. EDT. "Everyone that knew Tiffany loved her," Vogt said. "She had no enemies, I mean even ex-boyfriends, she just didn’t have any enemies. She accepted everyone for who they were and I don’t question any of her ex-boyfriends."


The bikini top was still around Souers' neck when she was found and she only had a bra on, Mahanes said. She didn't have any other visible injuries, the coroner said. Investigators have not received the results of a sexual assault test and there are no clear suspects or motive, Ariail said. He wouldn't talk about events leading up to Souers' death, whether she had any prior relationships or if she knew her attacker. There was no sign of forced entry.


"Speculation is one of the things that leads to suspects having more information than they need," Ariail said. Souers, a civil engineering student from Ladue, Mo., was a member of the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority at Clemson, an agricultural and engineering school in the northwestern corner of the state about 30 miles west of Greenville. She also worked with a local charity.


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