In the consult, we discuss cases involving violence, sexual violence, abduction, and and I'm joined today by my colleagues.

Susan Costler, Drew, and Bob Drew.

Susan and Bob are also retired FBI profilers, and we work together in the FBI's behavioral analysis unit.

Today is part two of our analysis of the unsolved murder of Karina Homer, a young au pair from Sweden who was working in the United States at the time.

In part one, we discussed how Karina was last seen in the early morning hours of Saturday, June 22, 1996 in downtown Boston.

She'd been out with friends and was known to have gone to a nightclub called Zanzibar

and was last seen outside Zanzibar around the intersection of Boylston and Tremont Streets.

And that's located right near the Boston Common.

The following day, Sunday, June 23rd, at approximately 1.30 p.m.,

the top half of her body was discovered inside a trash bag in a dumpster behind 1091 Boylston Street,

which was a little over a mile away from where she'd last been seen. So police reported that the cause of death was

ligature, strangulation, and that she had been dissected at the waist with a power saw, and her

body had been washed. The lower half of her body has never been found. In part one, we reviewed the

known facts of the case and some of the

evidence that was recovered. Today we'll be continuing some of our observations about the

crime. We'll be focusing on Karina's victimology and sharing some of our observations based on

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our episodes and other true crime topics. Okay, so one question I want to explore is the

offender's mental state during the commission of the crime. One of the things that I think

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