An introduction and concluding chapter explain the goal, planning, process, and conclusions of the symposium, as well as the history of offender. These discussions note that each symposium participant received a different set of documents concerning a German criminal case that involved two killings, the kidnapping of a child, and extortion. These documents provided differing background information scenarios to simulate how profilers can be included in a case as consultants at different times and with differing levels of information. Participants used different methods to analyze the case, and varied in their qualitative, quantitative, intuitive, empirically confirmed, behaviorally oriented, or interpretive emphases. Eleven papers analyze the case from varying perspectives; the 12th paper presents a solution regarding the preparation for the crime, the criminal methods used, evidence indicating the involvement of the perpetrator and his wife in other crimes, and biographical and psychological reports on the perpetrator. Figures, footnotes, chapter reference lists, and author biographies