[354] FORMER FBI EXPERT ON SEX OFFENDERS GIVES FREE LECTURE AT MTSU

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 11, 2009
EDITORIAL CONTACT: Lisa L. Rollins, 615-494-8857, or lrollins@mtsu.edu

FORMER FBI EXPERT ON SEX OFFENDERS GIVES FREE LECTURE AT MTSU
Author-Profiler Roy Hazelwood’s April 14 Talk Will Focus on ‘BTK’ Serial Killer

(MURFREESBORO)—Robert “Roy” Hazelwood, a former FBI profiler of sex crimes who is generally regarded as the pioneer of profiling sexual predators, will present a free and open lecture beginning at 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 14, in the State Farm Lecture Hall in MTSU’s Business Aerospace Building.
Sponsored by the MTSU Distinguished Lecture Committee and the university’s Forensic Institute for Research and Education, or FIRE, the upcoming talk will largely focus on Dennis Rader of Kansas, who is known as the “BTK” serial murderer. The acronym is a self-appointed moniker by Rader that stands for “bind, torture, kill.”
Guest speaker Hazelwood is a native of Pocatello, Idaho, who was reared in Spring Branch, Texas. He completed a tour of duty in Vietnam in 1968 before pursuing a forensic medicine fellowship with the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology and a stint with the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Division as an instructor.
In 1971, Hazelwood joined the FBI, and in ’81 he developed the distinction between "organized" and "disorganized" murderers, a concept that continues to be utilized by law enforcement to help in the apprehension of criminals.
The co-author of two books, The Evil that Men Do and Dark Dreams, Hazelwood also has defined the four categories of rapists: power-reassurance, power assertive, anger retaliatory and anger excitation—the latter of which is considered the most dangerous by far and the most difficult to capture.
As a result of his research and many studies related to sexual predators, Hazelwood has offered the theory that there is no cure for pedophiles or sexual sadists. His numerous studies have involved sex crimes, including cases of autoerotic asphyxiation, as well as the willing victims of sexual sadists—namely, wives and girlfriends—and how sexual sadists appear in everyday life.
Retired from the FBI since the mid-1990s, Hazelwood is an active member of the Academy Group, an organization of former FBI agents and law enforcement officers, and continues to serve as a consultant for the FBI and other governmental agencies as part of their efforts to identify and capture sexually-oriented murderers.
For more information on the free April 7 lecture, please contact MTSU’s FIRE at 615-494-7713.

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