geographic profiling

The Buzz About Serial Killers

Geographic profiling techniques can be used to hunt for psychopaths or for bees

Bumblebees are being used to help capture serial killers -- and not by being trained to find and sting the culprits. Researchers have found that by analyzing a bee's geographic pattern as it goes around poking into flowers, they can deduce where the bee lives.

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