David Victor Canter is a psychologist that helped police on a case involving two serial killers who attacked numerous women and children in the south of what?
David Canter David Victor Canter (born 5 January 1944) is a psychologist. He began his career as an architectural psychologist studying the interactions between people and buildings, publishing and providing consultancy on the designs of offices, schools, prisons, housing and other building forms as well as exploring how people made sense of the large scale environment, notably cities. He set up the "Journal of Environmental Psychology" in 1980. His work in architecture led to studies of human reactions in fires and other emergencies. He wrote about investigative psychology in Britain. He helped police in 1985 on the Railway Rapist case. He was the Professor of Psychology at the University of Surrey for ten years, where he developed investigative psychology described in detail in "Investigative Psychology: Offender Profiling and the Analysis of Criminal Action" and a course curriculum. He set up and was Director of the Centre For Investigative Psychology which is based at the University of Liverpool. Since 2009 he has been at the University of Huddersfield where he is the Director of the International Research Centre in Investigative Psychology. He is the founder and director of the International Academy for Investigative Psychology, an academy for researchers seeking to apply social science to investigative and legal processes.
Lake Bodom murders The Lake Bodom murders took place in Finland in 1960 on the shores of a lake by the city of Espoo. Two 15 year old girls and an 18 year old boy were stabbed and battered to death during the early hours. The victims had been sharing their tent with an 18 year boy, who was found in the morning at the scene, apparently unconscious. He had a jaw fracture and knife wounds, but made a full recovery. Nils Wilhelm Gustafsson said he could not remember what had happened. Despite bloodstained shoe-prints at and leading away from the scene of the crime matching the soles of Gustafsson's footwear (found hundreds of meters away) he was seemingly not considered a prime person of interest for the original investigation.