Talk:Richard Walter (psychologist)

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Richard Walter is one of the creators of modern criminal profiling and a co-founder of the Vidocq Society.

Danny Devito's production company has optioned a movie about Richard and the Vidocq Society http://www.usatoday.com/careers/dream/2001-march-forensic-movie.htm Best-selling author Mike Capuzzo was given a multi-million dollar advance to write about Richard and the Vidocq Society "In the Arms of Angels": http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA256951.html?pubdate=11%2F4%2F2002&display=archive

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{{EditProtected}} done. CMummert · talk 17:40, 24 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Sources for the section: Notable Cases

John List Case [1]

Scott Dunn Case [2] [3]

Hudson, Wisconsin Case [4]

15:04, 15 April 2007 (UTC) buzzle45

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Should this hagiography be revised to include some actual facts?

"[A]nyone with an internet connection should know he is a fraud."

This rather reverent, indeed worshipful, bio may need revision, to include the claims in this recent article (from a definitely RS) describing Walter as a "fraud":

The Case of the Fake Sherlock: Richard Walter was hailed as a genius criminal profiler. How did he get away with his fraud for so long?

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/richard-walter-criminal-profiler-fraud.html 24.186.244.240 (talk) 18:14, 11 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I looked over a handful of the sources.

Source 1, Criminal profiling: an introduction to behavioral evidence analysis, is entirely about Walter's ethical lapses. It certainly does nothing to bolster the claims made in the introduction.

Source 2 and 7 (the same source repeated twice), The Casebook of Forensic Detection, is inaccurate. It describes a Dr. Richard Walter, but Walter holds no doctorate, medical degree, or similar qualification.

Source 5 purports to show that "Walter was the first to develop a matrix as a tool of investigation using pre-crime, crime and post-crime behaviors to help develop suspects." This paper was written in part by Walter himself so I would not rely on it to show his primacy, but even taking it at face value it does not seem to support the claims in the article. The paper extends an existing framework for classifying rapists to include sexual murders, hardly possible if Walter was the first to develop such a tool. Also, the meaning of the term "matrix" in this context is not explained. I see no mention of the word "matrix" in the paper and the paper seemingly does not rely on matrices in the mathematical sense (as a means of defining linear transformations.)

The link for Source 8 is dead and is not available on archive.org (as far as I can tell), but I found what purports to be a copy.

https://www.bishop-accountability.org/news2012/01_02/2012_02_05_Stohlberg_DoubleMurder.htm

I see mention of Richard Walter's involvement. I would prefer, of course, to find an archive of the Star-Observer's website.

The sources are generally low-quality and do not support (or even directly contradict) the claims in the article. 32.209.42.137 (talk) 13:45, 14 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Be more bold. Don't wait for other people to edit this article for you, because more often than not nobody will. If you see a relevant detail that merits being added here, do you can do so as soon as you want. Also, consider taking off the "factual accuracy" tag when you are done editing the article, though the citation needed tags may stay. 🔥 22spears 🔥 12:31, 2 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]