Modus Operandi

What is Modus Operandi?

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Categories: Crime Analysis, Modus Operandi

To those who had involved directly or indirectly with investigation, they might know what is Modus Operandi or popularly known as MO.

That word had become the most popular words in my mouth since I join a newspaper’s crime desk as we want the public know if there any similarities with previous case or it a new MO.

If it has similarities with previous cases, the crime might be done by same person or same group – the Criminal still at large. If it a new MO, there are possibilities that it was done by a new player.

I could guarantee most of the authorities and even the communities did not want to hear both of it. Does it done by serial killer or serial burglar? Does the criminal getting expert and gain new and better skills?

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Modus Operandi: Note and Bomb

What Sherlock Holmes would do when he find a note attached with a bomb? What Dr Joseph Bell, also known as the real Sherlock Holmes, would think when he in the Dr James A Brussel’s shoes?

Dr James A Brussel, who being called ‘Sherlock Holmes of the couch’ by reporters, has been given opportunity to look on the Mad Bomber’s file by Inspector Howard E Finney at his office late in 1956, some 16 years after the first bomb discovered.

Mad Bomber’s first bomb was found on November 16, 1940. It wasn’t a well made bomb and it didn’t explode. Workers at the Cosolidated Edison Company’s building on West Sixty-fourth Street, Manhattan, found it on a windowsill, in a toolbox.

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