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   Poisoners are sneaky. Non-confrontational. Insidious, because the victim   
   doesn't stand a chance...money are the principal motivators for    
   oisonings...most criminal poisoners are actually female...    
      
      
      
      
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   Profiling the Borgias    
   Poisoners are sneaky. Non-confrontational. Insidious, because the victim   
   doesn't stand a chance.    
   But what else do they have in common? What personality traits distinguish the   
   poisoner from other types of murderers? A scientist from Michigan is about to   
   find the answer, undertaking what is believed to be the first comprehensive   
   study of the    
   psychology of criminal poisoners. And the study that John H. Trestrail III,   
   author, forensic toxicologist, and pharmacist, is about to begin will have a   
   strong historical focus, while using the same methodologies that the FBI   
   Behavioral Science Unit used    
   to profile serial sexual killers--namely, interviews with living specimens.    
   Trestrail, managing director of a regional poisoning center in Grand Rapids,   
   Michigan, has already authored a manual for the FBI on investigating criminal   
   poisonings. (He's also asked to consult with authors and TV show producers on   
   poisons, but says he    
   doesn't feel comfortable broadcasting detailed knowledge on the subject of how   
   it's done; there are real poisoners out there, he says, who might think to   
   themselves, "Hey, I have some of that in my garage....")    
   His manual, Criminal Poisoning: An Investigational Guide for Law Enforcement,   
   Toxicologists, Forensic Scientists, and Attorneys examines all that is known   
   about the use of poison as a weapon in murder and reaches quite far back.   
   Trestrail drew on his own    
   collection of 1,000 books going back 300 years to review the various poisons   
   that murderers have used over the generations.    
   With such a vast body of historical, scientific, and anecdotal knowledge,   
   Trestrail will approach his study of the psychology of poisoners with some   
   hypotheses. For one thing, he believes that love and money are the principal   
   motivators for poisonings.    
   Although most known poisoners are men, he thinks that most criminal poisoners   
   are actually female - they're just better at getting away with it. It is women   
   who caretake the sick, make the meals, clean the house... and when they end   
   lives with poisons,    
   they are not as often caught. Trestrail also notes that almost half (!) of the   
   poisoners who have been caught had more than one victim.    
   Trestrail's earlier book explained how poisoners accomplish their foul deeds.   
   This new work-in-progress will explain who. That ought to fascinate armchair   
   criminal psychologists everywhere. I can't wait to read that book.    
   Source:    
   Michigan Public Radio interview with Trestrail on Sept. 16, 2005.    
      
      
   http://www.laurajames.com/clews/2005/09/profiling_the_b.html    
      
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