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this big, so that helped.' On one occasion, his cameraman had captured the name of a person of interest penned on the Macro headquarters board. 'The coppers knew we were shooting the image, but this bloke was so litigious, he'd have used every avenue he could to attack the police. We chose to reshoot instead.'
    But Haw's efforts weren't always appreciated. Known as a gentleman in an industry that has more than its fair share of unscrupulous reporters, Haw was approached to run a news item regarding the mystery caller whom Don Spiers had desperately willed to call back. The upcoming news item was advertised in television news breaks for it to gain maximum effect, and Haw was startled when confronted later by a furious Spiers at an outdoor concert, accusing him of ruining Don's chances of hearing from the man because advertise-ments for the story had scared the caller away. It was a verbal attack that stung. 'I was trying to do the right thing, getting maximum exposure for the story,' Haw recalls, 'but it wasn't perceived that way. I wanted to write Don a letter trying to explain that, but I decided against it. He is so full of intense sorrow that it takes nothing to upset him and I didn't want to make it worse. It was a volatile time for police, media and, most particularly, victims' families.'

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    Shortly after the discovery of Jane Rimmer's body, criminal profiler Claude Minisini is invited to Perth by the Macro team to decipher any clues found at the scene of her disposal site. Minisini, a colleague of Commissioner Bob Falconer and founding member of the Victoria Police Rape Squad, had undergone a 12-month fellowship at the FBI's Behaviour Science Unit in Quantico, Virginia, made famous by the movie The Silence of the Lambs . During his sojourn in the United States, Minisini interviewed notorious serial killers Ed Kemper – who, amongst his other victims, murdered his mother and put her voice box in the blender to finally 'shut her up' – and Jeffrey Dahmer, who killed at least 15 men and on whose character Hannibal Lecter was partly based. Returning to Australia after 13 years in the police force, Minisini left and co-founded the Forensic Behavioural Investigative Services (FBIS).
    Criminal profiling is based on behaviour clues that are left behind at the crime scene and offers pointers to the offender's personality and the relationship, if any, that they had with the victim. It analyses the victim, why and how they may have caught the attention of the offender, and the similarity between each serial crime. Carefully studying the crime scene, the criminal profiler then layers the clues to put together a composite picture to help police. But profiling never replaces the hard investigative slog of good police work.
    The profile that started the technique was that of New York's so-called 'Mad Bomber' in the 1950s. In open letters to a newspaper, he taunted police with clues to his identity. Psychiatrist Dr James Brussels examined both the bomber's handwriting and the bombs, shaped like a penis, to draw conclusions about his personality. This man, he advised police, was obsessively neat. He went further. When the bomber was caught, he said, he would be dressed in a buttoned-up, double-breasted suit. Brussels's profile proved uncannily accurate: as he walked out of his home on the day of his arrest, George Metesky wore a buttoned-up, double-breasted suit.
    Minisini – a meticulous dresser who favours white shirts and cufflinks and sports an Inspector Clouseau moustache – flies into Perth with the city's expectations resting on his shoulders. The stakes are high, as are the public's hopes for a speedy arrest. Examining the site where Jane Rimmer's body is found, he maps out a profile of the killer. This person, he tells police, is organised and the murder was controlled, careful, planned. This is not the work of a disorganised killer with a dishevelled mind.
    Paul Ferguson calls a press conference to spell out to the public