When the Pattern Was There All Along: How AI Would Have Caught the Ski Mask Rapist Sooner

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A Free Webinar for Law Enforcement Professionals | June 11, 2026 | 1:00 PM EDT Between 1978 and 1981, Jon Barry Simonis committed more than 80 assaults across 12 states. The geographic clustering was there. The MO was consistent. The victim profile was unmistakable. The pattern existed, but the investigative capacity to connect it all together did not. Dr. Ann Wolbert Burgess was there. As a key collaborator with the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit, she helped build the profile that ultimately led to Simonis's arrest. In this exclusive webinar, Dr. Burgess joins eSleuth AI Chief Product and Strategy Officer Scot Thomasson to examine the case through the lens of five investigative techniques that AI now automates. And explore what changes when investigators have a platform that sees every case, all at once. What You Will Learn • How geographic clustering, MO linkage, temporal pattern identification, victimology profiling, and pre-offense behavior detection apply to real serial offender investigations • Why patterns go undetected — and how AI eliminates the capacity problem that lets offenders operate across jurisdictions undetected • How the eSleuth AI platform surfaces cross-case associations automatically, delivering the investigative insight that once required years of manual work Featured Speaker Dr. Ann Wolbert Burgess, D.N.Sc., APRN, FAAN Advisory Board Member, eSleuth, Inc. Professor of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing, Boston College Connell School of Nursing Pioneer of Rape Trauma Syndrome | FBI Behavioral Science Unit Collaborator | Inspiration for Netflix's Mindhunter Scot Thomasson, Chief Product & Strategy Officer, eSleuth AI Nationally Recognized Expert in Firearms-Related Violent Crime Reduction | ATF Chief of Firearms Operations | U.S. Congress Advisor on Firearm Crime Policy | ATF Medal of Valor Recipient