The Evil That Men Do: FBI Profiler Roy Hazelwood's Journey Into the Minds of Sexual Predators (42 page)

His capital murder trial lasted for three days in late March 1987.

On Monday the thirtieth, the jury required two hours to return a verdict of guilty. That night, after an hour-long meeting with his attorney, Hammond burst through an unlocked door in the county jail’s second-floor visitation area, leaped over a counter, and raced barefoot down the staircase to freedom.

As an estimated thousand officers fanned out across San Antonio in search of him, the fugitive found a telephone and called the local FBI office to warn he would “off” an FBI agent, and a San Antonio policeman, before he was caught.

Nothing quite so dramatic occurred.

Tuesday evening, an off-duty San Antonio policeman spied the fugitive killer sneaking out a hospital door and into a Dumpster, where he was arrested. Roy later was told Hammond had been dallying upstairs with a nurse.

The following day in the interrupted penalty phase of his trial, the jury considered together for just ninety minutes before voting Hammond death by lethal injection. Donna Lynn Vetter’s mother, Virginia, endorsed the decision, but told reporters the method of execution was too humane.

“I think he should be beaten to death slowly and left on
the street for people to come by and kick him,” Mrs. Vetter said as she left the courthouse. “He needs to feel what she felt.”

Eight years later, on the evening of June 20, 1995, Karl Hammond ate his last meal: a double cheeseburger, French fries, chocolate milk, and dessert. Just after midnight, he was strapped onto a gurney to receive his sentence.

“I just wanna say I know it’s so hard for people to lose someone they love so much,” Hammond spoke into a microphone above him. “I think it’s best for me to just say nothing at all.”

Then the chemicals overtook him. The thirty-year-old killer snored loudly for a moment, and was dead.

To undertake any serious book is an act both of hope and hubris—an invitation to make God laugh.

The Evil That Men Do
was conceived in just that ambitious spirit, and gestated over several momentous years in my personal life; a period during which my wife, Susan, and I made a wrenching relocation from New York City to Texas; our wonderful twins, Alexandra and Spencer, made their surprise debut; and I toiled disconsolately at a woeful community daily covering grass fires and jackknifed 18-wheelers.

Evil
was written mornings, evenings, and on weekends, time stolen from Susan and the twins, who all were patient if not wholly sympathetic with, or understanding of, Dad’s obsessive project. I apologize once again to all three for those long absences at the computer.

I also wish to thank five colleagues for their generous assistance in helping research the book. They are Kay Melcher at the
Birmingham
(Alabama)
Post-Herald;
Ken Dilanian at the
Philadelphia Inquirer;
Jan Fennell at the
Fort Worth Star-Telegram;
Mike Dunne of the
Baton Rouge Advocate;
and Angie Mitchell of the
Walker County
(Georgia)
Messenger.

Finally, a nod of appreciation to Charles Spicer, my editor at St. Martin’s, for sticking by the project, and a warm embrace to Elizabeth Kaplan, my new agent, who is also the proud parent of twins.

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A
RTICLES

Hazelwood, Robert R., and John E. Douglas. “The Lust Murderer.”
FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin,
April 1980.

Hazelwood, Robert R., Ann W. Burgess, and Park Elliott Dietz. “The Investigation of Autoerotic Fatalities.”
Journal of Police Science and Administration,
vol. 9, no. 4 (1981).

Dietz, Park Elliott, and Robert R. Hazelwood. “Atypical Autoerotic Fatalities.”
Medicine and Law,
vol. 1 (1982), pp. 307-319.

Hazelwood, Robert R., Park Elliott Dietz, and Ann W. Burgess. “Sexual Fatalities: Behavioral Reconstruction in Equivocal Cases.”
Journal of Forensic Science,
vol. 27, no. 4 (October 1982).

Hazelwood, Robert R. “The Behavioral-Oriented Interview of Rape Victims: The Key to Profiling.”
FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin,
September 1983.

LeDoux, John, and Robert R. Hazelwood. “Police Attitudes and Beliefs Toward Rape.”
Journal of Police Science and Administration,
vol. 13, no. 3 (September 1985).

Dietz, Park Elliott, Harry Bruce, and Robert R. Hazelwood. “Detective Magazines: Pornography for Sexual Sadists?”
Journal of Forensic Science,
vol. 3, no. 1 (January 1986).

Hazelwood, Robert R., and Joseph A. Harpold. “Rape: The Dangers of Providing Confrontational Advice.”
FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin,
June 1986.

Hazelwood, Robert R., and Ann W. Burgess. “An Introduction
to the Serial Rapist: Research by the FBI.”
FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin,
September 1987.

Burgess, Ann W., Robert R. Hazelwood, et al. “Serial Rapists and Their Victims: Reenactment and Repetition.”
Current Perspectives in Human Sexual Aggression in Annals, New York Academy of Sciences,
vol. 528 (1987), pp. 277-295.

Hazelwood, Robert R., and Kenneth V. Lanning. “The Maligned Investigator of Criminal Sexuality.”
FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin,
September 1988.

Hazelwood, Robert R., and Janet I. Warren. “The Serial Rapist: His Characteristics and Victims.” Parts I and II.
FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin,
January and February 1989.

Hazelwood, Robert R., Roland Reboussin, and Janet I. Warren. “Correlates of Increased Aggression and the Relationship of Offender Pleasure to Victim Resistance.”
Journal of Interpersonal Violence,
vol. 4, no. 1 (March 1989).

Dietz, Park Elliott, Robert R. Hazelwood, and Janet I. Warren. “The Sexually Sadistic Criminal and His Offenses.”
The Bulletin of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law,
vol. 18, no. 2 (1990), pp. 163-178.

Hazelwood, Robert R., and Janet I. Warren. “The Criminal Behavior of the Serial Rapist.”
FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin,
February 1990.

Hazelwood, Robert R., Park Elliott Dietz, and Janet I. Warren. “The Criminal Sexual Sadist.”
FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin,
February 1992.

McCormack, Arlene, Frances E. Rokus, Robert R. Hazelwood, and Ann W. Burgess. “An Exploration of Incest in the Childhood Development of Serial Rapists.”
Journal of Family Violence,
vol. 7, no. 3 (1992).

Hazelwood, Robert R., Janet I. Warren, and Park E. Dietz. “Compliant Victims of Sexual Sadists.”
Australian Family Physician,
vol. 22, no. 4 (April. 1993).

Byard, Robert W., Stephen J. Hucker, and Robert R. Hazelwood.
“Fatal and Near-Fatal Autoerotic Asphyxial Episodes in Women.”
The American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology,
vol. 14, no. 1 (1993), pp. 70-73.

Ault, R. L., Robert R. Hazelwood, and R. Reboussin. “Epistemological Status of Equivocal Death Analysis.”
American Psychologist,
January 1994.

Hazelwood, Robert R., and Carlos Schippers. “Behavioral Support in Criminal Cases: An Aide in Sexual Assault Cases.”
Modus,
no. 5 (November 1995), pp. 4-7.

B
OOKS

Hazelwood, Robert R., Park Elliott Dietz, and Ann Wolbert Burgess:
Autoerotic Fatalities.
Lexington, Mass.: Lexington Books, 1983.

Hazelwood, Robert R., and Ann Wolbert Burgess, eds.
Practical Aspects of Rape Investigation: A Multidisciplinary Approach,
2d ed. Boca Raton, Fla.: CRC Press, 1995.

The index that appeared in the print version of this title was intentionally removed from the eBook. Please use the search function on your eReading device to search for terms of interest. For your reference, the terms that appear in the print index are listed below.

Aarau (Switzerland) child murders

Rebecca Bieri

Benjamin Egli

Fabienne Imhof

Loredana Mancini

Sarah Oberson

Peter Roth

Ruth Steinmann

Daniel Suter

Edith Trittenbass

Christian Widmer

See also
Ferrari, Werner

Abel, Gene

Abrams, Bob

Academy Group

“Analysis of Materials Seized from James Mitchell DeBardeleben, An”

Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (AFIP)

Aspin, Les

Atlanta Child Murders (Wayne Williams)

Ault, Dick

autoerotic asphyxia

bondage and

fetishism and

Marquis de Sade and

See also
hypoxia

Autoerotic Fatalities
(Dietz/Hazelwood)

Aynesworth, Hugh

Baker, Ken

Banda, Antonio

Bass, John C.

Behavioral Science Unit (BSU)

VICAP (Violent Criminal Apprehension Program)

Bell, Yusef

Berkowitz, David (Son of Sam)

Berman, Alan L.

Bernardo, Paul (Scarborough Rapist)

Bernstein, Lester

Bianchi, Kenneth (Hillside Strangler)

Bieri, Rebecca

Bogard, Kenneth (Pacific Beach Rapist)

Bogard, Kenneth (victims)

Kim Caldwell

“Dana Holly”

“Molly Iverson”

“Tina Mitchell”

“Jane Philips”

“Tammy Watkins”

“Marsha Wilson”

Borer, Leon

Brawley, Glenda

Brawley, Tawana (Maryam Muhammad)

Broderick, Betty

Brooks, Pierce

Brown, Lee

Browning, Cliff

Bruno, Gloria

Brussel, James

Bundy, Ted

Buono, Angelo (Hillside Strangler)

Burgess, Alan “Smoky”

Burgess, Ann Wolbert

Buxton, Geneva

Buxton, Todd

Caldwell, Kim

cannibalism

“Carla” (“Andrew McIntyre death”)

Castillo, Jose

Cater, Nathaniel

Chavez, Jesse

Chavez, Juan “Johnny”

child sexual abuse and murder

Aarau (Switzerland) child murders

Atlanta Child Murders

Christgen, Eric

Cleckley, Hervey

Cohen, William

Collins, Peter

compliant victims

Karla Homolka

hybristophilia

Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow

“Michelle Townsend”

“Complaint Victims of the Sexual Sadist” (Hazelwood/Dietz/Warren)

Contreras, Alfonso

Cosby, Bill

Crist, Harry, Jr.

cross-dressing and serial killers

Cunanan, Andrew

Cuomo, Mario

Dahmer, Jeffrey

Dallas Morning News

Dalton, John H.

Daniels, Anthony

Davis, Debra

Davis, Greg

DeBardeleben, Caryn

DeBardeleben, James Mitchell “Mike” (Mall Passer)

Delgadillo-Pina, Guadalupe

Depue, Roger

Detroit Free Press

Dietz, Park Elliot

Donahue, Phil

Douglas, John

Doyle, Arthur Conan

drug use and serial killers

du Pont, John

Dunleavy, Steve

Duran, Manuel

Egli, Benjamin

Evans, Alfred

FBI

and pornography

and sexual crimes

FBI Academy

Behavioral Science Unit (BSU)

Management Aptitude Program (MAP)

UNSUBs (unknown subjects)

VICAP (Violent Criminal Apprehension Program)

FBI
Law Enforcement Bulletin

Ferguson, Susan

Fernandez, Hector “Crazy”

Ferrari, Werner

fetishism

photos.
See also
Glatman, Harvey Murray

Foos, Dennis