Some Xtreme Psychological Profiling of the Mad Trapper from 2019, a week before Ben Larson was discovered.

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Starting with the obvious:

 

The officially unidentified subject known as the Mad Trapper and by several aliases is a Spectacle Criminal/Killer. His crime was spectacular in nature like a mass murder or a terrorist act or Spectacle Killings in general so he would have a similar profile as mass murderers, spree killers, spectacle serial killers and terrorists.

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Now the less obvious and pure educated speculations:

 

• First of all, he would profile foremost as an Outsider. This is already assumed since he said he was Scandinavian and from the United States.

 

​• He likely didn't have a good, strong father figure and gravitated toward his mother. He likely immigrated with a parent, possibly mother.

 

• He was likely a mid-westerner growing up on a farm, as he said, having no problem with winter boredom and cabin fever, definitely able to make good money through hard work and had at least some big city exposure like Chicago or Seattle at least.

 

• He was a good builder and navigator, with interests in railroads, boats, and maybe even aircraft, and also exploration and adventure. Jobs that would interest him would be anything to do with transportation, the outdoors, and the creature comfort and aesthetics fields, like trapping furs or prospecting gold.

 

• He was likely just a high strung person who had problems socially in the modern society, feeling he had no place there, and that's why he chose the solitary wilderness life.

 

• He was a single-minded visionary who probably had a dream that he'd make it big in the North, probably by finding a lost gold mine.

 

 

I left out whether I thought he went to war or evaded the draft, because I was undecided. It could have gone either way, although I leaned toward participation in the war. I doubted a draft-dodger would be that territorial although Mark Fremmerlid’s great uncle Sigvald was one, and he seemed to have barricaded himself in his cabin as well. I decided to play it safe with that one.

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But I think I was really going out on a limb with that Aviation profile. This was very early in the Age of Flight, only 14 or 15 years after Orville and Wilbur Wright and Kittyhawk. But I had confidence even then about the Aviation indicator. Only a year earlier, a survey of serial killer professions had listed Aircraft Mechanic and Assembler as the number 1 skilled job of serial killers. So it wasn’t that big a leap.

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I also leaned toward him being an Incel and someone who was an outlaw or was living an outlaw lifestyle in his mind. But I didn't commit to those theories. Fortunately I didn't because they were both wrong. (That's what you get when you listen to the FBI profilers.) He was with Tillie Larson for 9 years before disappearing and she had five kids. He was not an outlaw in any shape or form. Constable William Carter was right—Ben Larson was "a cornered animal" and acted like one. 

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Everything else, we got right. That includes the Aviation profile and participation in the war. He was in the Balloon Companies in WWI. The only thing that we got wrong was that his father was always there and appeared to be a solid father figure and a hard-working farmer and family man.