1996_01 The Daily Collegian January 1996

              THE DAILY
COLLEGIAN
Wednesday, January 31,1996
News
News Editor: Heather Hartman
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Hickey: Professor assists unabomber manhunt
Continued from page 1.
Hickey says investigators use
him to find out what goes on in the
mind of someone like the
Unabomber and where a person like
this might live or what his occupa¬
tion could be.
Hickey said that with the help
of a television special being made
with his assistance, the Unabomber
will be lured out and caught Hickey
added that he does not believe the
Unabomber's front of anti-techno¬
logical jargon, but that instead he
is a publicity hound that likes to be
in the limelight
"They'll probably catch him
with a large collection of newspa¬
per clippings," Hickey said.
Hickey got started after working
with sex offenders and psychopaths
and at an institution for the men¬
tally insane. Soon after, he read a
statistic given by the FBI that there
were 5,000 people who became se¬
rial killer victims per year.
Following up on this, he began
to research the topic and has
steadily expanded from there. He
later found that the FBI's number
was an exaggeration given to help
secure funding from congress.
"The actual number was three to
four hundred," Hickey said. "It took
me about 10 minutes of looking at
their numbers to find out what was
wrong. They lied."
"Who's going to question the
FBI?" Hickey added.
Despite the problem of misinfor¬
mation Hickey works frequently
with all law enforcement agencies.
He is contacted when unusual mur¬
ders happen, or when there is a sex
crime.
He often does 'profiling' for the
FBI, helping them to figure out
what type of person the killer could
be, based upon the case evidence.
"I get up in the morning and say
'yeah.' I love what I'm doing,"
"I get up in the morning and say 'yeah.' I love
what I'm doing."
— Eric Hickey
Professor of Criminology
Hickey said.
"I like a lot of variety in my life."
In addition to teaching, writing
and consulting, Hickey helps train
correctional officers and teaches a
criminal personality class at the
California School of Professional
Psychology.
Hickey likes being able to tell
his classes about a serial killer he
recently interviewed, and he likes
having the special type of knowl¬
edge he has about the subject he
teaches. /
Hickey is careful to explain the
differences between a sociopath
and a psychopath. While'a socio¬
path is usually the 'weird' guy who
defies normal society norms and
rules, a psychopath is typically
manipulative, and has no remorse
and no conscience.
"The whole issue of a psycho¬
path is control," Hickey said.
"I would much rather be around
a weird guy with a beard and biker
attitude than a psychopath. Often
you can not tell who they are. They
aren't different physically, but they
are psychopaths, and they would
kill you soon as look at yoi.\"
Hickey has also surmised that
most serial killers have below av¬
erage intelligence.
"Most would have done more
damage but they weren't smart
enough," Hickey said. He added
that some were the exception to the
rule, like Ted Bundy, who acted as
his own lawyer.
Hickey is also interested in mov¬
ies depicting serial killers. He felt
the academy award winning movie
"Silence of the Lambs" was unre¬
alistic, and that psychopathic can¬
nibals do jiot have mystical mind
powers.
He did however like the recent
movie "Seven." He felt that the de¬
scriptions of the murders have
much the same physical and psy¬
chological information that mur¬
ders do in real life, and that it was
the best movie on serial killers yet.
Although Hickey works with
law enforcement frequently, he
does not have any plans to hold a
position with any organization like
the FBI. He says FBI agents have
to fit a certain mold, and that he.is
, just a little too laid back for that
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