Special Agent Dana Scully

Case: 2X13/Irresistible

A complete model of our psychological profile of the death fetishist does not 
exist. The compulsion is a result of a complex misplacement of values and a 
deviation from cultural norms and social mores. He is more likely to be white, 
male, and of average to above-average intelligence. Cases of fetishists with 
IQs over 150 have been documented. The progression of the pathology can be traced 
from the fantasy stage to the eventual acting out of the fetishists' impulses, 
including opportunistic homicide. Agt. Mulder believes strongly that the suspect 
in this case is escalating towards this action. Once he begins to murder, it is 
the killing that draws attention away from a deeper motive, a motive which most 
people, including law enforcement professionals, dare not imagine. It is somehow 
easier to believe, as Agt. Mulder does, in aliens and UFOs than in the kind of 
cold-blooded inhuman monster who could prey on the living to scavenge from the 
dead.