Some later sued the states for what one victim called "sexual murder."

The problems include torture, police repression, sexual murder, and, more recently, news reporter assassinations.

Last month Washington State executed a pedophile for the sexual murders of three little boys.

"You can't say that just because he doesn't have a criminal record he'd not done the sort of crimes that lead to sexual murder.

"One to Another," the series's other exploration of wild youth, is a completely unconvincing sexual murder mystery.

John's voice: All serial murder is sexual murder; that's axiomatic.

During this time Bernardo had moved to another region and committed four additional sexual assaults and two sadistic sexual murders.

As he grew older, Ridgway's fantasies escalated to the point where at age 23, Ridgway committed his first sexual murder by strangling a woman to death.

The continuing sexual murders pose a challenge to Governor Martinez, who is a member of President Ernesto Zedillo's governing party.

During his 22-year affiliation with the New Jersey Diagnostic Center (the state's forensic facility), Revitch published some of the first papers on sexual aggression and sexual murder.

Ms. Chavez was about to retire from her accounting career about the time the sexual murders began here in the early 1990's, and dismayed by officials' indifference, she began to speak out.

Dix's work, like that of Grosz-his friend and fellow veteran-was extremely critical of contemporary German society and often dwelled on the act of Lustmord, or sexual murder.

State officials say only 24 fit a pattern of serial sexual murder, but Ms. Chavez, who keeps detailed lists of the dead on her home computer, says she believes the figure is far higher.

What is not remarked upon, is that Sickert's work represents a corpse, possibly the victim of a sexual murder and it is this particular setting which may be the source of Bomberg's imagery.

Outrage Spreads in Belgium Belgians angered by disclosures of sexual murders and a child pornography ring say the Government has slowed the investigation by dismissing a judge who had vigorously pursued the defendants.

They also published a leading scholarly article for the FBI and violent crime investigators all over the world: "Profiling Killers: A Revised Classification Model for Understanding Sexual Murder".

Timothy Masters was arrested and convicted of sexual murder based on the testimony of a forensic psychologist while the opinion of a Robert R. "Roy" Hazelwood, a retired FBI criminal investigative analyst was ignored.

And as Ralph matter-of-factly describes his highly regimented life - in soliloquies and in prison interviews - what emerges is a systematic mentality that allows him to commit serial sexual murders of little girls as if those crimes were just another hobby.

He worked with Robert D. Keppel, then the chief investigator for the Attorney General's Office in the State of Washington, and together they wrote Profiling Killers: A Revised Classification Model for Understanding Sexual Murder.

In 1983 the Home Secretary imposed restrictions on the release of persons serving life for murders of police- and prison-officers, terrorist killings, murder during robbery, and the sadistic or sexual murder of young children, fixing a minimum of twenty years' imprisonment for these offenders.

Maria Tatar's book Lustmord: Sexual Murder in Weimar Germany analyzes murders in pre-Hitler Germany and their artistic representations, investigating "the chilling motives behind representations that aestheticize violence, and that turn the mutilated female body into an object of fascination."

Sam Dillon (NYT) MEXICO: 5 HELD IN MURDERS - Five men, including several drivers of buses that carry women to factory jobs, have been arrested in connection with sexual murders in Ciudad Juarez.

Examples, she said, include the Federal kidnapping statute enacted after the Lindbergh baby was abducted; "Megan's laws," mandating release of information about sexual offenders, which stemmed from the sexual murder of Megan Kanka, and the three-strikes law in California after the abduction and murder of Polly Klass.

The forensic psychologist developed a psychological profile of a killer using narrative and drawings made by Masters to conclude that Masters' supposed fantasy was the motive and behavioral preparation for the sexual murder, regardless of the fact that the forensic psychologist knew that there was no direct or physical evidence linking Masters to the crime.