Investigating Sexual Assault Cases

Arthur S. Chancellor began his law enforcement career in 1973 when he enlisted in the US Army as aMilitary Policeman. He remained in the MPs until 1981 when he was accepted into the US ArmyCriminal Investigation Division (CID) program as a Special Agent. As a CID Special Agent, Steveworked on felony crimes at various military posts across the United States and overseas. He latercommanded three diff erent CID units and in 2001 retired as a Chief Warrant Offi cer Four as theOperations Offi cer for a CID battalion where he was responsible for the supervision of fi ve diff erentCID units and covered an eleven- state area of responsibility. Once retired Steve was employed bythe Mississippi State Crime Lab as a senior crime scene analyst and conducted the examination ofviolent crime scenes across the state of Mississippi. In 2004 Steve was transferred from the crimelab to the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation (MBI) as the fi rst director of the MBI Cold CaseUnit, responsible for assisting police agencies across the state working on unresolved homicides.While working at the Crime lab and MBI, Steve helped develop several diff erent training coursesfor the Mississippi State Police Academy covering topics that included basic and advanced crimescenes, death investigations, and adult sex crimes. Steve was also involved in the developmentand as an instructor of the Certifi ed Investigator Program (CIP) at the MS State Police Academy.Steve has a master’s degree and undergrad degrees in criminal justice, is a graduate of the FBINational Academy (Session 185), and has been a college adjunct instructor for Austin Peay StateUniversity, Clarksville, Tennessee; University of Mississippi, Oxford, Mississippi; and ClaytonState University, Morrow, Georgia. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Forensic Science,and a member of the International Association for Identifi cation (IAI), the International HomicideInvestigators Association (IHIA), the North Carolina Homicide Investigators Association, and theSoutheastern Homicide Investigators Association. Steve is also the co- author of the books StagedCrime Scenes: Investigating Suspect Misdirection of the Crime Scene and Death Investigations: 1 stand 2 n d e ditions , and the author of I nvestigating Sexual Assault Cases .Steve has also developed and instructs courses on Staged Crime Scenes, Adult Sex Crimes,Death Investigation, and Basic and Advanced Crime Scene Examination.

• ContentsPreface .................................................................................................................................. xvAcknowledgments .................................................................................................................. xixAuthor Biography ................................................................................................................... xxiContributor Biography .......................................................................................................... xxiiiChapter 1 Introduction to Rape and Sexual Assault .......................................................... 1Chapter 2 Th e Female Victim ............................................................................................. 17Chapter 3 Special Victims I: Th e Elderly, the Intellectually Disabled,and the Deaf ........................................................................................................ 35Chapter 4 Special Victims II: Child, Incest, and Male Victims ...................................... 51Chapter 5 Victimology ................................................................................................... 67Chapter 6 Th e Victim Interview ..................................................................................... 85Chapter 7 Th e Child Interview ...................................................................................... 113Chapter 8 Grooming Child and Adult Victims ................................................................... 135Chapter 9 Online Off enders ............................................................................................. 153Chapter 10 Human Sexuality .............................................................................................. 171Chapter 11 Off ender Typology ........................................................................................... 185Chapter 12 Special Off enders ............................................................................................. 215Chapter 13 Acquaintance and Marital Rape .......................................................................... 237Chapter 14 Suspect Interviews ............................................................................................ 263Chapter 15 Crime Scene and Preliminary Investigation ........................................................ 291Chapter 16 Th e Medical Examination ............................................................................... 315Chapter 17 Th e Latent Investigation .................................................................................. 331Chapter 18 Serial Off enders ............................................................................................. 349Chapter 19 Drug- and Alcohol- Facilitated Sexual Assaults ................................................. 371Chapter 20 Sex and Death ................................................................................................. 397Chapter 21 False Rape Allegations ..................................................................................... 415Chapter 22 Working with Prosecutors and Expert Witnesses ............................................... 445Chapter 23 Common Investigative Mistakes ......................................................................... 473Index ................................................................................................................................. 495