Marauders and Commuters: Mapping Murder (Enhanced DVD)

Marauders and Commuters: Mapping Murder (Enhanced DVD) explores the criminal practices of marauding and commuting. A marauder is essentially a serial predator who does all of his or her crimes from one centrally placed home base. However, in contrast, a commuter travels to different places in search of victims. It is possible to combine marauding and commuting in a variety of different ways, and many criminals have done just that while committing their crimes. In this documentary, Professor David Canter does a comparison and contrast between marauding and commuting in terms of crime, as well as gives the view or a portrait of two commuter-marauders who committed multiple homicidal assaults on women. These two criminals are Adrian Babb and jacques Plumain, and there are similarities and differences between the way that the two went about their criminal careers and combined the practices of marauding and commuting while they were doing so. Adrian Babb of Birmingham crossed the highway into a different neighborhood in Birmingham in order to commit his crimes, and the French Jacques Plumain, known as the Phantom, marauded in Strasbourg and then marauded some more after crossing the border into the German town of Kehl. These two criminals combined the practices of marauding and commuting in order to commit their respective series of heinous crimes, and the way in which they went about it is explored in detail and the two men are compared in detail as well. This video was released in 2002 and is a part of the "Mapping Murder: Investigative Psychology Meets Geographical Profiling" series. The video is 23 minutes in length.