Analyzing the Oklahoma Beheading Crime Scene

At approximately 1600 hrs. on September 24, 2014 30-year-old Alton Nolen was fired at Vaughan Foods in Moore, Oklahoma. He immediately drove to the front of the business, struck a vehicle and walked into the front office area. He attacked 54-year-old Colleen Hufford with a knife until he severed her head. Then he began attacking 43-year-old Traci Johnson with the same knife. He would have severed Ms. Johnson’s head if Mark Vaughan, an Oklahoma County reserve deputy and a former CEO of the business, hadn’t taken him down with three gunshots. Both Hufford, who was pronounced dead at the scene, and Johnson, who suffered multiple knife wounds, were random victims.

Nolen had a history of violence. He was convicted in January 2011 of multiple felony drug offenses, assault and battery on a police officer and escape from detention. But it was the murder MO and the fact that Nolen had recently converted to Islam and had been trying to convert people at Vaughn Foods to Islam that prompted the local police to call the FBI to assist in the investigation.

Nolen’s conversion to Islam, digital footprint and most significantly his decision to not just kill but behead his victim has prompted a heated debate over whether this crime is a case of workplace violence or lone wolf terrorism. Distinctions between the two are not based solely on the motivation for the murder. Forensics, victimology, weapons and crime scene indicators factor into classifications of violent crimes. Aspects that are consistent with workplace violence are that the incident occurred at a work place, was triggered by Nolen being fired, the victims were employees and that Nolen probably intended to die at the scene.

There are notable aspects of the homicide that are inconsistent with workplace violence. Nolen did not target the person who fired him or others who he perceived wronged him, he did not take hostages, the attack was not mission oriented and most significantly he did not use multiple firearms. Workplace homicides typically involve active shooters with an abundance of weapons (semiautomatic assault weapons), ammunition and other gear to support a sustained attack. Similarly lone wolf terrorist attacks typically are highly organized, involve specific targets, are preplanned paramilitary type operations and usually involve firearms and/or explosives. The victimology, crime scene, weapons, trauma and offender characteristics of the Oklahoma homicide technically do not neatly fit into either workplace violence or lone wolf terrorism categories.

The Crime Classification Manual (CCM), the standard system for investigating and classifying homicides and other violent crimes, has specific categories for every type of homicide. Workplace violence almost always is classified in the category of Personal Cause Homicide which is described as motivated from interpersonal aggression resulting from an underlying emotional conflict and is not sanctioned by a group. The most common workplace violence homicide subcategories are Authority Murder and Domestic Homicide. Lone wolf terrorist attacks are classified under the category of Group Cause Homicide which is described as motivated by ideas based on a particular political, economic, religious or social ideology. Lone wolf terrorism subcategories include Extremist Religious Homicide and Extremist Political Homicide. Although the motivation for this homicide category applies to the Oklahoma incident, Group Cause Homicide generally involves multiple offenders, multiple crime scenes and multiple victims. The Boston Marathon bombings were a classic example of lone wolf terrorism in the category of Extremist Religious Homicide.

According to the Crime Classification Manual (CCM) the murder of Colleen Hufford is a textbook case of Individual Extremist Religion Inspired Homicide which describes the motivation for the murder as based on a fervent devotion to a cause or system of beliefs and to further the goals and ideas of the group. The victims may be strangers or acquaintances of the offender and since many religious killings are relatively spontaneous, victims are most frequently opportunistic targets. A disorganized crime scene reflects the spontaneity and distress of the perpetrator. The homicide is intended to communicate some message on behalf of the group and the forensics demonstrate the calling card or signature aspect of the group. The killing may have ritualistic features such as religious symbolism, messages and particular corpse defacement and frequently involves uncommon weapons that have a relationship to religious symbolism. The offender may not be outwardly devout, but often evidence of traditional observance is found in the suspects home, including literature, pamphlets, symbols, writings and videotapes pertaining to the offenders belief system. Suspects may have experienced a recent loss or loss of self-esteem due to rejection. Committing the murder in the name of religion is a method to restore a sense of significance and respect.

The Moore Oklahoma murder meets all the criteria of Individual Extremist Religion Homicide. A symbolic analysis of the crime scene confirms the religious motivation. Colleen Hufford and Traci Johnson were not just employees they were also uncovered non-Muslim women, hence to a jihadist, legitimate targets. If the women were wearing hijab he would have moved on to other victims. Colleen Hufford was ritually murdered. Nolen picked up a 10 inch filet knife to stab her in the throat. He did not grab a hammer or pipe to inflict blunt force trauma he grabbed a standard knife used by employees and chose to completely sever her head from her body. Beheading in the context of Islam is symbolic of jihad. Witnesses heard Nolen shouting in Arabic while killing her. He most likely was saying “Allahu Akbar.” Shouting Arabic phrases is highly symbolic and one of the calling card signature aspects of the crime. Quoting the Quran or praising Allah ritualizes and justifies the violence as a religious execution sanctioned under Islam. Body positioning, mutilation or dismemberment is an extremely significant identifier when analyzing crime scenes. Nolen may have taken a few seconds to position her head on the back of her body which is the Al Qaeda in Iraq/Islamic State forensic signature. This crime was tactically, symbolically and forensically different than other disgruntled employee homicides.

This is neither workplace violence, nor lone wolf terrorism; this is a new tactic in the global jihad that I have previously referred to as a Jihad murder M.O. The distinction between lone wolf terrorism and Jihadist murder is important particularly when investigating active and cold case homicides that are not immediately recognizable as having links to Islamist jihadists. Homicides with similar forensic trauma have gone unsolved and unrecognized such as the triple ritual murder of Brendan Mess, Erik Weissman, and Raphael Teken in Waltham, MA by Tamerlan Tsarnaev, one of the Boston bombers, and Ibragim Todashev. The case was initially investigated as a drug deal gone wrong although all three victims were nearly decapitated on September 11, 2011. The reason these cases are difficult to solve directly corresponds to the prohibitions on law enforcement training that banned any references to Islamic jihad or Islamism as the underlying ideology motivating crimes. So when evidence involves writings such as “Sharia law is coming!!!” that Nolen posted on his Facebook page, officers have no idea what that means and cannot perform an accurate threat analysis.

Further impediments to homicide investigations is that there is no training in Jihadist murders and little if none in Islamist terrorist identifiers, although similar to gangs, they have emblems, symbols, hand signs, flags, graffiti, headbands and clothing. Nolen’s Facebook page has a photo of him standing between two men dressed in Muslim garb throwing the ‘Tawheed’ hand sign, the index finger pointing up that is the most popular hand sign of Salafi Jihadists. It represents the doctrine of Tawheed (monotheism) and their willingness to die as martyrs to attain paradise. Even tattoos, one of the most prevalent law enforcement identifiers have been compromised by political correctness and lack of training in Islamist ideologies. Nolen’s conversion from Christianity to Islam is written on his body. His tattoos include an image of Jesus Christ on his chest, RIP Lil Kris, Judah tattooed on his left arm, an image of praying hands on his right arm and tattooed on his abdomen as-salaamu alaikum, Arabic for “peace be with you.” His religious tattoos are symbolic of a spiritual seeker who was ripe for recruitment. His Facebook page demonstrated that his radicalization was complete. His new Islamic identity included changing his name to Jah’Keem Yisrael and glorifying the ideals of global jihad.

Nolen was not simply a disgruntled employee seeking revenge, he envisioned himself as a Mujahideen warrior who was publicly dishonored by infidel unbelievers. Islamist propaganda that continually reminds young recruits like Nolen that they do not have to suffer the humiliation of non-believers prompted the murder. The shame of being fired triggered overwhelming emotions of disrespect that could only be alleviated by restoring his honor through violence. Nolen understood that whether he lived or died beheading would increase his status and reputation among jihadists worldwide. The murder of Colleen Hufford transformed an ex-con loser who can’t hold down a job into a Mujahideen rock star who will be hailed as a hero on jihadist forums and by the Islamic State. This will inspire more Jihadist murders not more workplace violence.

Colleen Hufford Memorial Page on Facebook has a few pix:

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Colleen-Hufford-Memorial-Page/786153654779890

I have not seen any pix or information on the 2nd lady — the one who survived and is/was in the hospital.

I was in a cell phone store here in Houston yesterday. I wasn’t wearing my hearing aids and yet I could clearly hear loud talking coming from the other side of the walls. I asked the clerk (clearly a muslim guy) what the noise was. He responded that it was the praying from the prayer room. There is a mosque next door to the cell phone store. The door is not marked in any way to indicate it is a mosque. I decided I did not need anything from this store as I will not have any profits from my purchases used to possibly support terror.

‘I would never hire a Muslim in my business.”

And if you happened to do so, think twice before firing him.

They are failures and they know it. So hate is all they have.

They also have that satanic book that tells them what to do with that hate and who to do it to.

Companies never learn. A fired individual must not be allowed back in the building. Invalidate his badge. What? you don’t have a badge system?
Then post a guard at the entrances with his picture.
What? you were afraid because he belongs to two certified victim groups?

“Some of the newsies were running an interview with a female officer who had a run-in with the perp alleged perp on an earlier occasion. She tried to take him down, but he damaged her hand and got away. She said she wished now that she would have shot him. “

Female cops/firemen/combat soldiers/secret service agents are useless. Why hire a small weak female when for the same cost you can have a larger stronger, faster male.

I doubt he would have even been fired if hadn’t converted to islam...

I read that he was fired because he was arguing with women at the plant about stoning women to death as a legitimate “punishment” in accordance with sharia law.

"Islam Denial" is forced throughout the system because the country at the top is run by Moslems who are accomplishing Jihad in America the way it must be done while Moslems with the Sultan in Washington at the very top are a very small minority. We might call it "stealth" jihad.

If there is a change of majority in the Senate then a new president in two years, nothing will change. The Democrats and Republicans are totally wedded to the politically correct all-systems- are-morally-equal principle and will not change even when some of them get beheaded.

A white female real estate agent was kidnapped and murdered by a white male on Thursday of last week...her picture has been in the paper...even after they recovered her body.

This one has the media running for cover and for good reason...they have blood on their hands for going PC with islam and giving cover to the black race hustlers.

I banned my wife from going to a Moslem doctor 15 years ago when the first ones started practicing in the area. I was a child for several years in Istanbul and have paid attention to Turkey and with it, Islam, ever since. I have had experiences with Moslems ostensibly seeking friendship. I knew a long time ago that they are inherently dangerous people, either individually or in the mass.

FB is not the LSM media...the ones who are guilty of giving aid and comfort to islamists and the black race hustlers by “ignoring” stories like this.

I’m not that macabre that I need to see the pic of the victim...but dammit, the LSM is complicit in perpetrating the lie that whites are responsible for the racism and blacks are completely innocent...I’ll bet you a doughnut that if this had been a white supremacist killing a black female all hell would have broken loose in the media and Dept. of Just’us...

...and most significantly his decision to not just kill but behead his victim has prompted a heated debate over whether this crime is a case of workplace violence or lone wolf terrorism.

Jihad - almost by definition - is 'lone wolf'. It's often an individual action and decision - not a group activity. Jihad doesn't require a notarized club membership. IF that's what the FBI is looking for - they might be looking forever...

In Christianity we're told to 'do good works'... but it's not necessarily a group thing. Random acts of kindness aren't always 'organized'. Same with acts of evil... which doesn't mean they're not part of a larger "evil" or part of a larger "good"... inspired might be the term or inspired by...

Islamic countries do not ever have sufficient resources on their own to rise beyond subsistence for the huge majority and opulence for a tiny ruling class. The average person knows it is futile to try to materially improve his lot because the Sultan/Imam/Bey/etc. will confiscate everything he produces beyond barely enough for subsistence. Any surplus beyond that must and will go for Jihad. The Western countries provide copious amounts of the necessary surplus for Jihad by buying oil and gas from Moslem countries and by flat out giving Moslems Money through foreign aid and bad loans. The west buys the bullets that are fired against Westerners.

Islam has operated the same way since Mohammed was raiding camel caravans.

Obama behaves as an Ottoman Sultan. He has total power in his system but turns over actual administration and rule to a Vizier (prime minister) who, in this case, appears to be Valery Jarrett. The Sultan still retains that total power and should the Vizier displease him, unlikely so long as his authority is not questioned, he will have the Vizier killed, classically that would be by strangulation or by "halving" in the case of the Mamelukes of Egypt.
In the meantime the Sultan spends his time hunting and frequenting his summer palaces and vacation retreats or, in the modern world, golf.

Yazidi woman is shocked that the Muslim neighbors she had known all her life, turned on her people as soon as ISIS showed up:

"They will drink tea in your house one minute and stab you in the throat (literally) the next minute."

They may not take friends from among the Christians and Jews. It’s in the book. Ostensible friendship with infidels is only permitted for the purpose of converting them or, failing that, killing or enslaving them.

Not long ago some female cop was escorting a criminal to court. in an elevator he overpowered her, got her gun and shot up the place.

But then, the unarmed gals in the movies can whip a dozen bad guys and not even be out of breath when it is over!

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