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If you've listened to this podcast before, you'll know that I have my doubts about criminal profiling.

It can be a useful investigative tool,

but I don't think that profiling alone can solve a case.

That's because there isn't any single indicator

that can predict whether or not someone will display criminal behaviors.

It's not black and white.

However, once a crime has been committed,

there are some pretty standard M.O.

When it comes to repeat offenders,

one of which is that perpetrators often return to the scene of the crime

to relive whatever satisfaction they find in the crimes they committed.

Sometimes they return for other reasons too, like when a location feels

like an easy target, especially when they've successfully committed a crime in the area before.

That's exactly what happened in Louisville, Kentucky in 1998. Someone was terrorizing crafty drive, committing multiple rapes on the same street within just a few days.

But despite the clear pattern of behavior, it would take another seven years to bring the serial rapists to justice.

From A&E, this is Cold Case Files.

I'm Brooke, and here's the astounding Bill Curtis,

with a classic case caught on tape.

The knife was to my throat,

and he started saying, do not say anything, don't say a word.

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