Alexander Horn (case analyst)

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Alexander Horn (born August 14, 1973 in Bad Tölz ) is a German case analyst .

Life

In 1991 Horn began his training as a police commissioner . In 1996 he switched to the criminal police in the department for sexual and violent crimes at the Munich police headquarters . When the pilot project offender profiling was launched at the Munich homicide commission on the initiative of Udo Nagel , Horn was part of the founding team. Since 1998 he has headed the Office for Operative Case Analysis (OFA), Commissioner 16 at the Munich Police Headquarters. In addition to the case analysis and perpetrator profiling, this is also responsible for the operation of the ViCLAS and HEADS databases . Since it was founded in 2001, Horn has been a permanent member of the federal-state project group for the development of quality standards for case analyzes.

In 2006 Horn prepared an operational case analysis for the BAO Bosporus , which had been formed to investigate the Ceska and NSU series of murders of migrants, and was the first to point out a possible right-wing or right-wing extremist background of the perpetrators. However, this analysis encountered contradictions and initially did not lead to any tangible results. It was only confirmed in November 2011 with the discovery of the right-wing extremist terrorist organization National Socialist Underground (NSU), which was responsible for the series of murders . His case analyzes also served to clarify the crime committed against Mareike G. from Waldmünchen . Horn was also instrumental in clearing up the murder and abuse series of the "masked man" Martin Ney in April 2011. With his investigations into Ney and other events, he served as a case analyst in the documentary series Unexplained Murder moderated by Udo Nagel on RTL 2.

From the 67th episode, Lisa Wagner starred as case analyst Christine Lerch for five episodes at the Munich Tatort with the inspectors Batic and Leitmayr , whose role was modeled on Horn. Horn also provides specialist advice to the Munich crime scene series.

Publications

  • with Udo Nagel : ViCLAS - an expert system as an investigation aid. In: Criminology . No. 1, 1998, pp. 54-58.
  • The collaboration between case analysis and forensic psychiatry. In: Cornelia Musolff, Jens Hoffmann (ed.): Perpetrator profiles in violent crimes. Myth, Theory, and Practice of Profiling. 2nd revised and expanded edition, Springer, Heidelberg 2006, ISBN 3-540-33345-2 .
  • The creation of perpetrator profiles: Think like the perpetrator? In: Hans Förstl (Ed.): Theory of Mind. Neurobiology and Psychology of Social Behavior. Springer, Heidelberg 2007, ISBN 978-3-540-27240-3 .
  • with Harald Dern: Operative case analysis in homicides. A criminological and methodological inventory in 2008. In: Kriminalistik . No. 10, 2008, pp. 543-549.
  • with Harald Dern, Christa Dern and Ursula Horn: The Fire Behind the Smoke: A Reply to Snook and Colleagues. In: Criminal Justice and Behavior. Volume 36, 2009, No. 10, pp. 1085-1090.

literature

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Hunt for serial offenders: Profiler: Not a job for the faint of heart. In: Augsburger Allgemeine . May 13, 2012.
  2. ↑ Wolf Schmidt: Police profiler was on the trail of NSU in 2006: German, right, serial offender. In: The daily newspaper . April 21, 2012.
  3. ↑ Joachim Käppner , Tanjev Schultz : Investigations into the Zwickau neo-Nazi cell - my case, my lead, my staff. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . May 15, 2012.
  4. ↑ Michael Kraske: Profiler: The Monster Hunter. In: Zeit Online , October 9, 2012.
  5. ↑ Joachim Käppner: In the footsteps of a child murderer - Who is afraid of the black man. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . October 12, 2004; Sebastian Engel: Dennis murder case: serial killer led disturbing double life. In: Focus . April 15, 2011.
  6. ↑ Lisa Wagner and Ferdinand Hofer complete the main cast. In: press releases. Bayerischer Rundfunk , March 31, 2014, accessed on April 28, 2014 .
  7. ↑ Bayerischer Rundfunk: Why does case analyst Christine Lerch go to the FBI?
  8. ↑ Bayerischer Rundfunk: Staff and cast of the crime scene episode Hardcore
personal data
SURNAME Horn, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German case analyst
DATE OF BIRTH August 14, 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Tölz