“This new [DNA] technology has unlocked the door to identifying suspects that otherwise would not have been identified.”
“They could be a police officer, they could be a pastor in a church, they could be a teacher, they could be a homeless person. They could be all walks of life,” Mohandie said. “But the core of it is that they are living a double life because they’re concealing this offending, and they are engaging in it.”
The forensic psychologist added that when the urge to re-offend becomes stronger the person living a double life can become dangerous again. If the opportunity to re-offend presents itself, criminals might preplan illegal activity.
“There’s a presumption that on the surface of a person who seems live a lifestyle of employment, of advanced education, that somehow that is incompatible with continued offending. And we don’t know that to be the case,” he said.
“If, indeed, this is a person that is ultimately found criminally responsible … we don’t know that there aren’t other victims, which is why they are looking every place that he’s ever been or visited to see if there are any other cases that fit similar patterns.”
