Mr. Cruel after Karmein Chan, profile of intruder for Jonbenet Ramsey killer

A profile of Mr Cruel, prepared by Spectrum detectives after many hours interviewing victims and consulting police experts, including some from the FBI, suggested Mr Cruel was probably in steady employment, possibly in a management job or self-employed, with freedom of movement.

It said those who know him would not regard him as a monster.

He would probably be considered a good neighbour and might be involved in community projects.

He would have an obsessive, compulsive character — the type who would immediately wipe his hands if soiled.

The profile said Mr Cruel would have taken a great deal of interest in media coverage, though he probably tried to disguise it.

It said he would go for unexplained drives or walks. He would have expressed sexual fantasies or shown sexually dysfunctional behaviour.

His sexual arousal and gratification would probably be dependent on his partner playing specific roles, such as dressing like a schoolgirl in uniform.

He used terms like “bozo” “worry wart” and “missy” when speaking to some of his victims.

He could be married or living with a woman who goes away around school holidays, when some of the attacks occurred.

The profile suggested Mr Cruel would be intelligent and well-organised. He would seem genuinely interested in and dedicated to children.

He would have displayed behavioural changes about the time of the offences and on anniversaries or when publicity was renewed.

Those changes would include such things as sleeping disorders, reluctance to go to work, distraction or different eating and drinking habits.

He would disguise his stress with abnormally rigid behaviour.

Serial predators like Mr Cruel don’t usually stop offending until they are caught or die.

Yet there is no evidence that Mr Cruel has stepped out of line since he killed Karmein Chan in 1991.

The then Commander Sprague told the Herald Sun in 2003 that he believed the reason Mr Cruel didn’t strike again after murdering Karmein was because he was one of the thousands of men interviewed by Operation Spectrum.

“I honestly think we got very, very close and scared the crap out of him. So close that he stopped,” he said.

His sexual arousal and gratification would probably be dependent on his partner playing specific roles, such as dressing like a schoolgirl in uniform.

MurderMysteryReader wrote:That is so unfortunate about no place to post your Mr. Cruel theory if the blog closes down. I think about this website and where I will read and post about the JonBenet case. I agree that Mr. Cruel does have an advantage over the less experienced criminals like him.