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 emos 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

rapist 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.

It's just after 3 a.m. when 29 year old Shannon Johnson wakes to a stranger in her bed.

He tried to get between my legs and I'm thinking, okay, if I let him go through with this and he kills me

What's he gonna do to my daughter? So it was just like a snap instance to grab the knife.

And I grabbed it with this hand by the blade.

And then we started fighting.

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