 She finally expressed remorse for her crimes when she apologized to the victims' families in a video in 2005.Some authorities believe that Coleman and Brown (who are both African-American) usually selected black victims because they knew they would blend in better in the black community, noting that their crimes lacked a racial motive.However, on page 184 in "The Anatomy of Motive", John E. Douglas, a retired FBI profiler, states that Coleman, in the middle of a vicious sexual assault, "went into a practically incoherent tirade about how blacks were forcing him to rape and murder other blacks, as if that could somehow explain and justify his actions."