FBI Profilers to Seek Clues in Denver Slayings
A team of FBI profilers whose unit inspired the best-selling book and movie “The Silence of the Lambs” will help police sift through clues to a series of slayings of homeless men in Denver, officials said Friday.
Seven men have been murdered since September, and three teens have been charged in the murder of one of the victims.
Denver Mayor Wellington Webb asked U.S. Atty. Gen. Janet Reno if the FBI could help local police solve the murders, which have terrified homeless people in Denver. Members of the FBI’s National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime were assigned to help.
The 25 police investigators working on the case were following every lead, including whether the killings could be tied to the Freight Train Riders of America, an obscure group that sometimes targets people near train stations, said Sgt. Tony Lombard of the Denver Police Department.
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