Podcasts about Behavioral Science Unit

Fri, 07 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://seesee.podigee.io/s3e15-david-canter 3e6de251ee69733d078e91ed54a1fc8b Have you ever pondered the potential of psychology to facilitate the apprehension of serial killers and rapists? Or the manner in which behavioral patterns exhibited by criminals can serve as crucial evidence that leads investigators to the perpetrator's doorstep? In today's episode, we are delighted to have the privilege of hosting Professor David Canter, a globally renowned applied social psychologist and the pioneering figure behind the field of investigative psychology. This episode promises a deep dive into the mind of a criminal, the psychology behind some of the world's most notorious cases. So, grab a pen, your notebook and follow Professor David Canter through the dark alleys of the minds of serial offenders as he sheds light on how their behavior is mapped and tracked. We'll go back in time to the streets of London as we examine famous cases such as Jack the Ripper, and travel back to the 1980s to learn about Operation Hart, the Metropolitan Police's investigation into the infamous 'Railway Rapist', which Professor Canter played a key role in solving. We will delve into the heart of criminal behavior as we learn about Quantico and the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit, and the truth about criminal profiling. We'll also talk about his revolutionary development of geographical profiling, the study of criminal behavior patterns across locations, the importance of information classification and investigative methods that lead to an arrest, and how these pieces of the puzzle led to the creation of his software, DRAGNETK. But that's not all - Prof Canter will also share his thoughts on why the United States has such a high incidence of brutal shootings and serial killings compared to other nations, and what happens when crime goes unpunished. A pioneer and creator of investigative psychology, Professor Canter is Emeritus Professor at the University of Liverpool and a visiting professor at Liverpool Hope University and Bucks New University. He's also the man responsible for introducing environmental psychology to the UK and Europe in the 1960s, studying how spaces such as offices, schools and hospitals affect our behavior. Professor Canter recently completed a PhD in Music composition. https://www.davidcanter.com X (Twitter): @ProfDavidCanter Blogs: http://tinyurl.com/ybkp6kky Prof. David Canter's latest book Criminal Psychology in Action: A project-based approach is available to order: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/overview-criminal-psychology-through-projects-ready-carry-canter-dglae Examples of Professor Canter's musical compositions are available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTkxt_0qEDE 3 15 full no nvestigative psychology,Criminal profiling,Geographical profiling,DRAGNETK software,Railway Rapist,Quantico FBI Behavioral Science Unit,FBI,Mapping Murder,Jack the Ripper,Serial killers Dr. Cecilia Ponce Rivera

Welcome to Part 1 of our special Christmas Eve episode of Truth, Lies & Work! This isn't your typical holiday episode — we're taking a break from the usual work chatter to bring you something special. Today, we're releasing the full, unedited interview with the one and only Rory Sutherland, Vice Chairman of Ogilvy & Mather and the founder of the Behavioral Science Unit at Ogilvy. Rory's previous episode with us (Episode 83) was one of our most popular, and we're beyond excited to bring you Part 1 of this extended conversation. This interview dives deep into Rory's vast expertise in behavioral science, marketing, and leadership. Rory has been a thought leader in advertising for decades, and his insights on human behavior, creativity, and business strategy are nothing short of enlightening. In today's episode, we talk about: The Future of Work: Insights into the evolving landscape and the need for businesses to adapt and thrive. Rory's Journey: From Ogilvy's Vice Chairman to launching a Behavioral Science Unit within one of the world's largest agencies. Behavioral Science: How understanding human behavior drives success in advertising and leadership. Innovation & Creativity: The role of unconventional ideas in transforming businesses. Personal Reflections: Rory's unique take on work-life balance, career growth, and the power of good storytelling. Resources Mentioned in This Episode: Rory's Books: Alchemy: The Surprising Power of Ideas That Don't Make Sense Connect with Rory Sutherland: LinkedIn Twitter Ogilvy Don't Miss Part 2!! Make sure to catch Part 2 of this interview, available exclusively on our YouTube channel! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3_hIyk9KjxJQ1lZWhiaqDw General Support with Mental Health and Well-being If you have been affected by any of the themes in this episode, or are currently struggling with your mental health, the following resources may be useful. Mind website: https://www.mind.org.uk/information-support/ If you are feeling in distress or despair, including feelings of suicide, please do consider calling the Samaritans for free on 116 123 (UK) or email jo@samaritans.org (Rest of World) Connect with Al and Leanne Join the Conversation on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/truthlieswork/ Connect with Al on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thisisalelliott/ Connect with Leanne on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/meetleanne Email: Hello@truthliesandwork.com Book a Call with Al & Leanne: https://savvycal.com/meetleanne/chat

In this episode of the Policing Matters podcast, we explore the groundbreaking work of the FBI Behavioral Science Unit. Host Jim Dudley interviews retired FBI agent Jana Monroe, who shares her expertise in serial killer profiling and her experience consulting on notorious cold cases in her book, “Heart of Darkness.” Monroe, who is known as the real-life inspiration for Clarice Starling in “Silence of the Lambs,” discusses advancements in forensic science and the importance of ethics in true crime media. As one of the first female agents in the FBI Behavioral Science Unit – now known as the Behavioral Analysis Unit – Jana Monroe was involved in over 850 homicide investigations, helping shape FBI profiling techniques used today. About our sponsor This episode of the Policing Matters podcast is sponsored by OfficerStore. Learn more about getting the gear you need at prices you can afford by visiting OfficerStore.com.

Love the show? Have any thoughts? Click here to let us know!This week, we have a spooky special dedicated to stories that are of particular interest to Lauren! Kenzie's goal is to tell Lauren something she *doesn't* know about these specific stories. First, she will cover the history and crimes of Edmund “Ed” Kemper, also known as the Co-ed Killer. Kemper terrorized the Santa Cruz area in the early 1970s but wasn't the only monster roaming the streets. Then, she will talk about the horrific crimes of Ariel Castro, who kidnapped and tortured his victims for 10 years before they found a way to escape. In each story, we will cover their impact on society and law enforcement. We hope you learn a thing or two after listening to this spooky special! -Domestic Violence Hotline - Call 800-799-7233 - Text BEGIN to 88788 - https://www.thehotline.org/ -National Sex Trafficking Hotline - Call 888-373-7888 - Text INFO to 233733 -https://humantraffickinghotline.org/en/report-trafficking -Gina DeJesus's nonprofit - Missing Cleveland - https://clevelandmissing.org/ 

How does an FBI agent convince a Russian spy to defect? What are the tactics that work, and what are the ones that could get you killed? For decades, the world was paralysed by The Cold War. But, after the cooling of nuclear operations in the US and Russia, governments seemed ready to ease tensions and find a truce.   Beneath the surface though, in the high stakes world of spies and espionage, things were far more dangerous. In the 1990s, Former FBI agent LaRae Quy was deep in the world of covert operations, taking on multiple identities and trying to convince Russian spies to defect, and join the FBI. Larae joins host Brent Sanders to explain her career in the FBI and dissect what it takes to work undercover. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Tonight, we dive into Willie Pickton Part 2. We discuss more missing women, and the Vancouver PD's lack of caring about them. We talk about the RCMP assembling their own version of the Behavioral Science Unit, and how that plan failed. We also discuss 2 people who encountered with Willie Pickton, and lived to tell the tale. We also talk about the infamous bar that Dave Pickton built called Piggy's Palace, and Willie's attempts to reinvent himself. And, we also talk about 2 women who Willie was close to. One, a genuine friend, another, a con artist. So join us as we set the stage for the insane finale of the Willie Pickton saga. Instagram Facebook Twitter(X) YouTube Website We are the #2 mens podcast in Florida on Feedspot!

COLD RED – A true crime podcast series hosted by two of the most well respected criminal profilers in law enforcement history. Ride along with Ray and Fitz as they dive into various cold cases, innocence projects, and some of their classic, high profile, international cases. Raymond Carr https://raymondjcarr.com Ray joined the FBI following college, working the robbery-homicide division. He was soon promoted to the Bank Robbery division in Philadelphia, the city with the 2nd highest bank robbery and armored vehicle robbery rate in the nation. Ray later moved on to the Bureau's Behavioral Science Unit building profiles on serial offenders. He was assigned to lead the Friday Night Bank Robber task force where Ray would build a profile for the most successful bank robber in American History. Upon retirement, Ray wrote the book 30 Years On The Run about the capture and arrest of the robber and has since been featured on various series and documentaries discussing some of his high profile cases such as Homicide City and FBI: Criminal Pursuit on the Investigation Discovery. “Cops don't solve cases, the community does!” “The victim is the most overlooked aspect of the crime by law enforcement.” -Ray Carr James Fitzgerald www.jamesrfitzgerald.com “Fitz” was a former Philadelphia Police Detective who later joined the FBI and was quickly promoted to the Behavioral Science Unit where he partnered up with Ray Carr building profiles on various criminals throughout the US. A forensic linguistics expert, Fitz is known for taking down the Unabomber and working several high profile cases like Jon Benet Ramsey and The DC Sniper. Upon retiring from the FBI, Fitz wrote a series of book volumes titled: Journey to the Center of the Mind and has been featured on numerous television shows including The Discovery Original Series – Manhunt: The Unabomber, where actor Sam Worthington played the role of Fitz. “I lay aw

COLD RED – A true crime podcast series hosted by two of the most well respected criminal profilers in law enforcement history. Ride along with Ray and Fitz as they dive into various cold cases, innocence projects, and some of their classic, high profile, international cases. Raymond Carr https://raymondjcarr.com Ray joined the FBI following college, working the robbery-homicide division. He was soon promoted to the Bank Robbery division in Philadelphia, the city with the 2nd highest bank robbery and armored vehicle robbery rate in the nation. Ray later moved on to the Bureau's Behavioral Science Unit building profiles on serial offenders. He was assigned to lead the Friday Night Bank Robber task force where Ray would build a profile for the most successful bank robber in American History. Upon retirement, Ray wrote the book 30 Years On The Run about the capture and arrest of the robber and has since been featured on various series and documentaries discussing some of his high profile cases such as Homicide City and FBI: Criminal Pursuit on the Investigation Discovery. “Cops don't solve cases, the community does!” “The victim is the most overlooked aspect of the crime by law enforcement.” -Ray Carr James Fitzgerald www.jamesrfitzgerald.com “Fitz” was a former Philadelphia Police Detective who later joined the FBI and was quickly promoted to the Behavioral Science Unit where he partnered up with Ray Carr building profiles on various criminals throughout the US. A forensic linguistics expert, Fitz is known for taking down the Unabomber and working several high profile cases like Jon Benet Ramsey and The DC Sniper. Upon retiring from the FBI, Fitz wrote a series of book volumes titled: Journey to the Center of the Mind and has been featured on numerous television shows including The Discovery Original Series – Manhunt: The Unabomber, where actor Sam Worthington played the role of Fitz. “I lay aw

Step into the gripping narrative of Jana Monroe, a trailblazer who shattered gender barriers in law enforcement. From her early aspirations thwarted by institutional bias to becoming one of the first female FBI agents, Janna's journey is both riveting and enlightening. Delve into her experiences working with notorious serial killers like Ted Bundy and her pivotal role in profiling high-profile cases. 

As of 2022 there are over 200,000 unsolved murders and missing person cases in the United States alone. In the most recent data analysis by the FBI, 50% of murders go unsolved. This unsolved homicide rate is at an all time high since the FBI began collecting the data in the 1960's. COLD RED – A true crime podcast series hosted by two of the most well respected criminal profilers in law enforcement history. Ride along with Ray and Fitz as they dive into various cold cases, innocence projects, and some of their classic, high profile, international cases.

"... Mike DeBardeleben is the best-documented sexual sadist since the Marquis de Sade. He's the one I used as the standard for all others."Awaiting trial for the litany of crimes he'd committed over several years, Mike DeBardeleben couldn't do anything as authorities continued to dig around in his background. They'd learned about all of his failures - his familial relationships, his schooling, his marriages, his business - but now began trying to figure out how that resulted in this career criminal, who stood accused of not just counterfeiting, but assault, rape, kidnapping, and murder.As investigators around the country began linking DeBardeleben to more than a dozen unsolved crimes, members of the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit began analyzing the strange counterfeiter. What they learned was that this was not just a run-of-the-mill criminal. Rather, he was one of the most sadistic individuals they'd ever observed...Research, writing, hosting, and production by Micheal WhelanMusic composed and created by Micheal WhelanAdditional music includes "Unresolved Mysteries" by Ailsa Traves (podcast theme song, end credits)Learn more about this podcast at http://unresolved.meIf you would like to support this podcast, consider heading to https://www.patreon.com/unresolvedpod to become a Patron or ProducerBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/unresolved--3266604/support.

She's analyzed the behavior and words of serial killers like Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, and Ed Kemper. She's received videos from one of the most famous cult leaders to live. She trained Jodie Foster for her role in The Silence of the Lambs. She helped investigate where the 9/11 plan was hatched and who the bombers were. And she brought a new sense of empathy and intelligence to the behavioral science unit at the FBI. This is the story of Jana Monroe, the first female agent who ever worked in the FBI's behavioral science unit. Told in her own words with experiences unimaginable, she details what it was like to break through gender barriers as she made a name for herself as one of the sharpest agents in the bureau.

Watch this episode: https://bit.ly/3ut0R4B In this gritty discussion, Anne Angelo Webb, The Animal Intuitive and licensed therapist, teams up with top-tier psychologists and criminal profilers to dissect the root causes of aggression against humans and animals.

Jana Monroe wanted to be a law enforcement officer ever since she was 13. She would go on to become the first woman to join the FBI's elite Behavioral Science Unit.  She says her motivation is the fact that she loves the freedoms granted by our country and she hates bullies. Jana began her law enforcement work as a probation officer and then joined the Chino California police department.  Women in law enforcement were still rare, and she says she was given a lot of “babysitting” jobs. It took a class action lawsuit to get FBI to change their policies and allow women to become field agents. When Jana applied, her husband told her it was either him or the FBI. Jana chose the FBI. Her first assignment was in the Albuquerque office and many of her cases were on the reservation. This created some challenges as tribal officials at the time would not accept a woman as being in charge. When Jana joined the Behavioral Science Unit, there were only 12 agents working those cases. She says BSU's job is “to search for reason amidst the debris of awful violence”. During her time with the Behavioral Sciences Unit, Jana consulted on more than 850 cases, including those involving some of the worst serial killers. She shares some insights on working with some of these killers. Jana emphasizes that programs like America's Most Wanted and Unsolved Mysteries have played a very beneficial role in helping to solve cases. Jana was selected to consult Jodie Foster on her academy winning role in “The Silence of the Lambs.” She said Jodie was very professional and even suggested changes to the director based upon Jana's feedback. Jana chronicled the story of her time with the FBI in the book “Hearts of Darkness: Serial Killers, the Behavioral Science Unit, and My Life as a Woman in the FBI.' TAKEAWAY: “I did a lot of kicking to break through the glass ceiling but I tried to do the kicking professionally and with my heels on.”

Jana Monroe was a trailblazer who rose through the ranks while at the FBI. Although she investigated some of the country's most notorious serial killers, many are familiar with her work in the movie industry. As the only female at the Bureau's Behavioral Sciences Unit in Quantico, VA, Jana was selected to help Jodie Foster prepare for her iconic role as FBI trainee, Clarice Starling in the film, The Silence of the Lambs. Retired FBI Special Agent Jana Monroe separates FBI fact from Hollywood fiction and provides a look at her behind-the-scenes work on the film. She shares what it was like to provide consultation and shares which killers served as inspiration for the movie's chilling characters. In her memoir, Hearts of Darkness: Serial Killers, The Behavioral Science Unit, and My Life as a Woman in the FBI, Jana provides a detailed look at her incredible career in law enforcement and intelligence analysis.  Follow Emily on Instagram: @realemilycompagno If you have a story or topic we should feature on the FOX True Crime Podcast, send us an email at: truecrimepodcast@fox.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As of 2022 there are over 200,000 unsolved murders and missing person cases in the United States alone. In the most recent data analysis by the FBI, 50% of murders go unsolved. This unsolved homicide rate is at an all time high since the FBI began collecting the data in the 1960's. COLD RED – A true crime podcast series hosted by two of the most well respected criminal profilers in law enforcement history. Ride along with Ray and Fitz as they dive into various cold cases, innocence projects, and some of their classic, high profile, international cases. Raymond Carr https://raymondjcarr.com Ray joined the FBI following college, working the robbery-homicide division. He was soon promoted to the Bank Robbery division in Philadelphia, the city with the 2nd highest bank robbery and armored vehicle robbery rate in the nation. Ray later moved on to the Bureau's Behavioral Science Unit building profiles on serial offenders. He was assigned to lead the Friday Night Bank Robber task force where Ray would build a profile for the most successful bank robber in American History. Upon retirement, Ray wrote the book 30 Years On The Run about the capture and arrest of the robber and has since been featured on various series and documentaries discussing some of his high profile cases such as Homicide City and FBI: Criminal Pursuit on the Investigation Discovery. “Cops don't solve cases, the community does!” “The victim is the most overlooked aspect of the crime by law enforcement.” -Ray Carr James Fitzgerald www.jamesrfitzgerald.com “Fitz” was a former Philadelphia Police Detective who later joined the FBI and was quickly promoted to the Behavioral Science Unit where he partnered up with Ray Carr building profiles on various criminals throughout the US. A forensic linguistics expert, Fitz is known for taking down the Unabomber and working several high profile cases like Jon Benet Ramsey and The DC Sniper. Upon retiring from the FBI, Fitz wrote a series of book volumes titled: Journey to the Center of the Mind and has been featured on numerous television shows including The Discovery Original Series – Manhunt: The Unabomber, where actor Sam Worthington played the role of Fitz.

In this special weekend podcast John interviews 2 women who battle corruption and evil. First he speaks to Jana Monroe. She had a distinguished 22-year career in the FBI where she held a variety of field investigative and operational roles, including as a criminal profiler at Quantico. They talk about her career and her new book "Hearts of Darkness: Serial Killers, the Behavioral Science Unit, and My Life as a Woman in the FBI". Then, he chats with Joan Walsh who is the national affairs correspondent for The Nation. They discuss many different cases where corporations have lied to get more money and to get out of trouble. They also talk about her new book "Corporate Bullsh*t: Exposing the Lies and Half-Truths That Protect Profit, Power, and Wealth in America".See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

As of 2022 there are over 200,000 unsolved murders and missing person cases in the United States alone. In the most recent data analysis by the FBI, 50% of murders go unsolved. This unsolved homicide rate is at an all time high since the FBI began collecting the data in the 1960's. COLD RED – A true crime podcast series hosted by two of the most well respected criminal profilers in law enforcement history. Ride along with Ray and Fitz as they dive into various cold cases, innocence projects, and some of their classic, high profile, international cases. Raymond Carr https://raymondjcarr.com Ray joined the FBI following college, working the robbery-homicide division. He was soon promoted to the Bank Robbery division in Philadelphia, the city with the 2nd highest bank robbery and armored vehicle robbery rate in the nation. Ray later moved on to the Bureau's Behavioral Science Unit building profiles on serial offenders. He was assigned to lead the Friday Night Bank Robber task force where Ray would build a profile for the most successful bank robber in American History. Upon retirement, Ray wrote the book 30 Years On The Run about the capture and arrest of the robber and has since been featured on various series and documentaries discussing some of his high profile cases such as Homicide City and FBI: Criminal Pursuit on the Investigation Discovery. “Cops don't solve cases, the community does!” “The victim is the most overlooked aspect of the crime by law enforcement.” -Ray Carr James Fitzgerald www.jamesrfitzgerald.com “Fitz” was a former Philadelphia Police Detective who later joined the FBI and was quickly promoted to the Behavioral Science Unit where he partnered up with Ray Carr building profiles on various criminals throughout the US. A forensic linguistics expert, Fitz is known for taking down the Unabomber and working several high profile cases like Jon Benet Ramsey and The DC Sniper. Upon retiring from the FBI, Fitz wrote a series of book volumes titled: Journey to the Center of the Mind and has been featured on numerous television shows including The Discovery Original Series – Manhunt: The Unabomber, where actor Sam Worthington played the role of Fitz.

Former FBI agent and author Jana Monroe joins us to discuss her new memoir Hearts of Darkness: Serial Killers, the Behavioral Science Unit, and My Life as a Woman in the FBI (Abrams, Oct. 10). Kirkus: “Fans of true crime will find much to enjoy in this absorbing chronicle of criminology.” Then our editors share their top picks in books for the week.

Episode 276. We watched season one of the 2017 Netflix crime thriller Mindhunter, based on true events. In 1977, the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit begins a groundbreaking study into serial killers, traveling the country to interview incarcerated murderers to learn more about their patterns and processes, in the hopes of identifying future killers and stopping them before they start. We discuss the show's own haunting and darkly comedic patterns, making friends with the abyss, and exploding birds.  (00:00) - - Intro (00:04) - - Welcome and banter (04:04) - - Spoiler free thoughts: Mindhunter S1 (15:00) - - Housekeeping (20:19) - - Spoilers!! Mindhunter S1 (01:31:01) - - Bingo check in (01:31:38) - - Recommendations (01:41:03) - - Pitching what we cover next week (01:53:44) - - Outro

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As of 2022 there are over 200,000 unsolved murders and missing person cases in the United States alone. In the most recent data analysis by the FBI, 50% of murders go unsolved. This unsolved homicide rate is at an all time high since the FBI began collecting the data in the 1960's. COLD RED – A true crime podcast series hosted by two of the most well respected criminal profilers in law enforcement history. Ride along with Ray and Fitz as they dive into various cold cases, innocence projects, and some of their classic, high profile, international cases. Raymond Carr https://raymondjcarr.com Ray joined the FBI following college, working the robbery-homicide division. He was soon promoted to the Bank Robbery division in Philadelphia, the city with the 2nd highest bank robbery and armored vehicle robbery rate in the nation. Ray later moved on to the Bureau's Behavioral Science Unit building profiles on serial offenders. He was assigned to lead the Friday Night Bank Robber task force where Ray would build a profile for the most successful bank robber in American History. Upon retirement, Ray wrote the book 30 Years On The Run about the capture and arrest of the robber and has since been featured on various series and documentaries discussing some of his high profile cases such as Homicide City and FBI: Criminal Pursuit on the Investigation Discovery. “Cops don't solve cases, the community does!” “The victim is the most overlooked aspect of the crime by law enforcement.” -Ray Carr James Fitzgerald www.jamesrfitzgerald.com “Fitz” was a former Philadelphia Police Detective who later joined the FBI and was quickly promoted to the Behavioral Science Unit where he partnered up with Ray Carr building profiles on various criminals throughout the US. A forensic linguistics expert, Fitz is known for taking down the Unabomber and working several high profile cases like Jon Benet Ramsey and The DC Sniper. Upon retiring from the FBI, Fitz wrote a series of book volumes titled: Journey to the Center of the Mind and has been featured on numerous television shows including The Discovery Original Series – Manhunt: The Unabomber, where actor Sam Worthington played the role of Fitz.

Let's explore the inside of the FBI from a female perspective. Jana Monore, the first female to earn a spot in the prestigious Behavioral Science Unit, is our guest today. She's written an amazing book filled with stories about talking to serial killers, working undercover, and not letting her  male colleagues see her fear of spiders! She's so down to earth and I can't wait for you to hear from her. But first, I'm going to tell you a little bit about her book. Welcome to another episode of The Unlovely Truth. I'm your host, private investigator Lori Morrison. Join me for another captivating true crime story, where physical, spiritual, and emotional safety takeaways are waiting for us. If you are listening, I believe you have a unique calling—to become a different kind of PI, not a typical private investigator, but a person of impact! This is Season 4, Episode 36. Our book this week is “Hearts of Darkness: Serial Killers, the Behavioral Science Unit, and My Life as a Woman in the FBI” and our guest is its author, Jana Monroe. Being a female in a very male dominated profession can be tough. But not as tough as Jana herself. She began her career in law enforcement at what was called a Youth Training Facility. It was filled with young offenders whose crimes would have landed them in prison if they had been old enough to send them there. Jana spent years rising through the ranks until she was sitting next to serial killers asking them to tell her why they were in prison. Mostly they poured out lies and self-justifications. She said that they had Hearts of Darkness.  Our Bible passage this week is 1 Peter 5:6-9, The Living Bible If you will humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, in his good time he will lift you up. Let him have all your worries and cares, for he is always thinking about you and watching everything that concerns you. Be careful—watch out for attacks from Satan, your great enemy. He prowls around like a hungry, roaring lion, looking for some victim to tear apart. Stand firm when he attacks. Trust the Lord; and remember that other Christians all around the world are going through these sufferings too. This passage has what I think is some of the most practical wisdom for daily life that you'll find anywhere in the Bible, and it dovetails so perfectly with what Jana shared with us today. I hope you'll visit my website to access more episodes, read my blog posts, or check out ways you can financially support the podcast. Together we can impact more people, more families, and more communities. If you would like to contact me about booking me as a speaker, or ask about my consulting and investigative services, please email me at lori@theunlovelytruth.com.  Pre-order “Hearts of Darkness: Serial Killers, the Behavioral Science Unit, and My Life as a Woman in the FBI” today! (and support the Unlovely Truth when you use this affiliate link) Watch Jana talk about working with Jodie Foster on "The Silence of the Lambs"   Show your support!   Share the episode    Write a review of The Unlovely Truth on Apple Podcasts - it reallyhelps!   Follow me on Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn   Let me know how The Unlovely Truth has made a difference in your life. 

Author Ron Franscell joins "Mind Over Murder" co-hosts Bill Thomas and Kristin Dilley to discuss his new book "Shadowman," which covers a series of 1970's Montana murders solved by the team who were first to develop criminal profiling at the Behavioral Science Unit at FBI Quantico. This bonus episode originally ran in January 2023.Penguin: ShadowMan:An Elusive Psycho Killer and the Birth of FBI Profiling By Ron Franscellhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/639738/shadowman-by-ron-franscell/Goodreads: ShadowMan: An Elusive Psycho Killer and the Birth of FBI Profiling By Ron Franscellhttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58284093-shadowmanRon Franscell "Shadowman" Archiveshttps://ronfranscell.com/tag/shadowman/Join us at CrimeCon, Orlando, Florida, September 22-24, 2023https://www.crimecon.com/CC23Join the discussion on our Mind Over Murder and Colonial Parkway Murders pages on Facebook.Mind Over Murder on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mindoverpodcastColonial Parkway Murders Facebook page with more than 15,000 followers: https://www.facebook.com/ColonialParkwayCaseYou can also participate in an in-depth discussion of the Colonial Parkway Murders here:https://earonsgsk.proboards.com/board/50/colonial-parkway-murdersMind Over Murder is proud to be a Spreaker Prime Podcaster:https://www.spreaker.comNew Article in Virginia Gazette: 35 Years Later, Victims' Families in Colonial Parkway Murders Still Searching for Answers, Hope DNA AdJoin the discussion on our Mind Over Murder and Colonial Parkway Murders pages on Facebook.Mind Over Murder on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mindoverpodcastColonial Parkway Murders Facebook page with more than 15,000 followers: https://www.facebook.com/ColonialParkwayCaseYou can also participate in an in-depth discussion of the Colonial Parkway Murders here:https://earonsgsk.proboards.com/board/50/colonial-parkway-murdersFollow Othram's DNA Solves: You can help solve a case. Help fund a case or contribute your DNA. Your support helps solve crimes, enable the identification of John & Jane Does, and bring closure to families. Joining is fast, secure, and easy.https://dnasolves.com/Virginia Gazette: 35 Years Later, Victims' Families in Colonial Parkway Murders Still Searching for Answers, Hope DNA Advances will Solve Case By Em Holter and Abigail Adcoxhttps://www.dailypress.com/virginiagazette/va-vg-colonial-parkway-murders-anniversary-1024-20211022-76jkpte6qvez7onybmhbhp7nfi-story.htmlMedium: The Colonial Parkway Murders — A Tale of Two Killers? By Quinn Zanehttps://medium.com/unburied/the-colonial-parkway-murders-a-tale-of-two-killers-1e8fda367a48Washington Post: "Crimes of Passion"https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1997/08/15/crimes-of-passion/0a38e8f9-6d04-48e4-a847-7d3cba53c363/Daily Beast: "Inside the Maddening Search for Virginia's Colonial Parkway Serial Killer" By Justin Rohrlichhttps://www.thedailybeast.com/what-happened-to-cathleen-thomas-and-rebecca-dowski-inside-the-hunt-for-the-colonial-parkway-killerCitizens! Check out our new line of "Mind Over Murder" t-shirts and other good stuff !https://www.teepublic.com/stores/mind-over-murder-podcast?ref_id=23885Washington Post Op-Ed Piece by Deidre Enright of the Innocence Project:"The FBI should use DNA, not posters, to solve a cold-case murder" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/06/25/julie-williams-laura-winans-unsolved-murder-test-dna/Oxygen: "Loni Coombs Feels A Kinship To 'Lovers' Lane' Victim Cathy Thomas"Loni Coombs felt an immediate connection to Cathy Thomas, a groundbreaking gay woman who broke through barriers at the U.S. Naval Academy before she was brutally murdered along the Colonial Parkway in Virginia.https://www.oxygen.com/crime-news/loni-coombs-feels-a-kinship-to-colonial-parkway-victim-cathy-thomasYou can contribute to help "Mind Over Murder" do our important work:https://mindovermurderpodcast.com/supportFour one-hour episodes on the Colonial Parkway Murders are available on Oxygen as "The Lover's Lane Murders." The series is available on the free Oxygen app, Hulu, YouTube, Amazon, and many other platforms. https://www.oxygen.com/lovers-lane-murders Oxygen" "Who Were The Colonial Parkway Murder Victims? 8 Young People All Killed In Virginia Within 4 Years" https://www.oxygen.com/lovers-lane-murders/crime-news/who-were-the-colonial-parkway-murder-victims Washington Post Magazine: "Victims, Families and America's Thirst for True-Crime Stories." "For Bill Thomas, his sister Cathy's murder is a deeply personal tragedy. For millions of true-crime fans, it's entertainment." https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/magazine/wp/2019/07/30/feature/victims-families-and-americas-thirst-for-true-crime-stories/Daily Press excellent series of articles on the Colonial Parkway Murders: "The Parkway" http://digital.dailypress.com/static/parkway_cottage/main/index.htmlColonial Parkway Murders website: https://colonialparkwaymurders.com Mind Over Murder Podcast website: https://mindovermurderpodcast.comPlease subscribe and rate us at your favorite podcast sites. Ratings and reviews are very important. Please share and tell your friends!We launch a new episode of "Mind Over Murder" every Monday morning, and a bonus episode every Thursday morning.Sponsors: Othram and DNAsolves.comContribute Your DNA to help solve cases: https://dnasolves.com/user/registerFollow "Mind Over Murder" on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MurderOverFollow Bill Thomas on Twitter: https://twitter.com/BillThomas56Follow "Colonial Parkway Murders" on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ColonialParkwayCase/Follow us on InstaGram:: https://www.instagram.com/colonialparkwaymurders/Check out the entire Crawlspace Media network at http://crawlspace-media.com/All rights reserved. Mind Over Murder, Copyright Bill Thomas and Kristin Dilley, Another Dog Productions/Absolute Zero ProductionsThis show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/4847179/advertisement

In this riveting episode of Oklahoma Odyssey, hosts Ashley Bender and Michael Olson dive into the chilling world of criminal profiling with a close examination of the book "Mindhunter." Trigger warning: This episode contains discussions about sensitive topics, including rape and murder. Listener discretion is advised. Join Ashley and Michael as they unravel the pages of "Mindhunter," authored by John E. Douglas and Mark Olshaker. Explore the profound insights of criminal profilers, the genesis of the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit, and the gripping narratives that unfold within the pages. Key Highlights: Criminal Profiling: Delve into the art and science of criminal profiling as depicted in "Mindhunter." FBI's Behavioral Science Unit: Explore the origins and groundbreaking work of the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit. Narrative Analysis: Unpack the compelling narratives that form the backbone of this gripping book. Tune in as Oklahoma Odyssey navigates the complex corridors of criminal psychology, weaving together a narrative that challenges our understanding of the criminal mind.

On this episode of Christopher Lochhead: Follow Your Different, we have a riveting dialogue with two of America's favorite crime fighters. The hosts of the Game of Crimes Podcast are here: Morgan Wright and Steve Murphy. Steve Murphy was one of the real DEA Narcos who took down Pablo Escobar. The Netflix series Narcos is based on his work. Morgan Wright spent 18 years in state and local law enforcement is a highly decorated police officers state trooper and detective. He was even trained by the original members of the FBI as Behavioral Science Unit on serial crime profiling, which led him to training spies and spooks at places like the NSA. If you're a crime buff care about justice and or care about the future of the United States, you're going to love this episode. You're listening to Christopher Lochhead: Follow Your Different. We are the real dialogue podcast for people with a different mind. So get your mind in a different place, and hey ho, let's go. How Gangs are extending their Influence in certain parts of America The conversation starts off with Steve Murphy sharing shocking revelations about Mexican gangs and their influence on California laws. He mentions their podcast called "Game of Crimes", which has been running for over two years, and their recent episode about an interview with a former member of the Mexican Mafia, referred to as "Mundo." They emphasize not sharing his real name due to safety concerns, as there is a history of violence associated with such revelations. Steve explains further how criminal groups like the Mexican Mafia manipulate the California penal system and legislators. They work to secure more lenient laws, better prison conditions including improved food, reduced responsibilities, and access to phones for conducting criminal activities from behind bars. The speaker expresses how these criminals mock the California legislators, exploiting their reluctance to confront them, resulting in laws that favor the criminals. This situation is portrayed as detrimental to honest taxpayers in California, who end up losing out. On Gangs using children in their operations The conversation continues as they discuss the disturbing trend of gangs involving children in their criminal operations, particularly in relation to Mexican fentanyl gangs and trafficking. Christopher expresses his shock about the leniency of consequences for minors involved in serious crimes due to certain laws in California. He describes a conversation with a police chief who shared a case of a 14 or 15-year-old who stabbed a rival gang member and received only a three-month ankle bracelet as punishment. They then delve into the concept of gangs using children, mentioning how historically even New York City drug dealers employed young kids as lookouts. Steve Murphy shares insights into the psychology of recruitment, explaining how gangs exploit children's need for attention and affection, particularly in impoverished neighborhoods where parental support may be lacking, and the allure of earning “easy money” even as a child. This dynamic leads to these kids being drawn into gang activities. Morgan Wright adds that Mexican fentanyl gangs are trafficking even children, who are forced into various criminal roles such as drug distribution, human trafficking, and even employment. He highlights the shift in focus for cartels from drug trafficking to human trafficking due to the increased profits and lower risks involved. The term "Minutemen" is mentioned, referencing how quickly kids are released from custody due to relaxed laws, allowing gangs to maintain control over them easily. Keeping children out of jail Morgan Wright then stresses how important it is to keep children out of the streets and jails, so they do not fall further into the machinations of these gangs. “The intervention has to start early and often because if you don't, they'll arrive at a path to where as he could either stay on the good side,

Police ask the FBI to analyze Darlene Hulse's case and how it might connect to two others in the Argos, Indiana area. After the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit provides an analysis on suspect behavior and characteristics, the police are able to break open one of the three cases. Click HERE to sign the petition and demand justice for Darlene Hulse.If you believe you have information about Darlene Hulse's 1984 abduction and murder in Argos, Indiana, please email thedeck@audiochuck.com.To view information and photos referenced in this episode, visit https://thedeckpodcast.com/bring-fbi/Brought to you by CarMax. Car buying reimagined. Find a car you'll love at CarMax.com. Find more of The Deck Investigates on social media.Instagram: @thedeckpodcast | @audiochuckTwitter: @thedeckpodcast_ | @audiochuckFacebook: /TheDeckPodcast | /audiochuckllcThe Deck Investigates is hosted by Ashley Flowers. Instagram: @ashleyflowersTikTok: @ashleyflowerscrimejunkieTwitter: @Ash_FlowersFacebook: /AshleyFlowers.AFText Ashley at +1 (317) 733-7485 to share your thoughts about the case, discuss all things true crime, get behind the scenes updates, and more!

Andrew Lawless coaches consultants to grow and scale their businesses without the grind.He is certified in High Performance Coaching and a finalist for the Kolbe Professional Award, which recognizes him as one of the world's leading experts in human instincts coaching.Andrew served as a consultant to the FBI's legendary Behavioral Science Unit, leading life science companies, and top 10 global technology leaders. As a consultant to the World Bank, he set up new operations in countries, such as Argentina, Cameroon, China, Jamaica, Mozambique, and Russia. He discussed his work with the White House, and testified before the US Senate on the importance of professional development to the US Economic Security.He is a former adjunct professor at the University of Maryland. Learn more about Andrew here!Learn more about Path to Podcast Success here!

Author Ron Franscell joins "Mind Over Murder" co-hosts Bill Thomas and Kristin Dilley to discuss his new book "Shadowman," which covers a series of 1970's Montana murders solved by the team who were first to develop criminal profiling at the Behavioral Science Unit at FBI Quantico.Penguin: ShadowMan:An Elusive Psycho Killer and the Birth of FBI Profiling By Ron Franscellhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/639738/shadowman-by-ron-franscell/Goodreads: ShadowMan: An Elusive Psycho Killer and the Birth of FBI Profiling By Ron Franscellhttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58284093-shadowmanRon Franscell "Shadowman" Archiveshttps://ronfranscell.com/tag/shadowman/Join the discussion on our Mind Over Murder and Colonial Parkway Murders pages on Facebook.Mind Over Murder on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mindoverpodcastColonial Parkway Murders Facebook page with more than 15,000 followers: https://www.facebook.com/ColonialParkwayCaseYou can also participate in an in-depth discussion of the Colonial Parkway Murders here:https://earonsgsk.proboards.com/board/50/colonial-parkway-murdersMind Over Murder is proud to be a Spreaker Prime Podcaster:https://www.spreaker.comNew Article in Virginia Gazette: 35 Years Later, Victims' Families in Colonial Parkway Murders Still Searching for Answers, Hope DNA AdJoin the discussion on our Mind Over Murder and Colonial Parkway Murders pages on Facebook.Mind Over Murder on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mindoverpodcastColonial Parkway Murders Facebook page with more than 15,000 followers: https://www.facebook.com/ColonialParkwayCaseYou can also participate in an in-depth discussion of the Colonial Parkway Murders here:https://earonsgsk.proboards.com/board/50/colonial-parkway-murdersFollow Othram's DNA Solves: You can help solve a case. Help fund a case or contribute your DNA. Your support helps solve crimes, enable the identification of John & Jane Does, and bring closure to families. Joining is fast, secure, and easy.https://dnasolves.com/Virginia Gazette: 35 Years Later, Victims' Families in Colonial Parkway Murders Still Searching for Answers, Hope DNA Advances will Solve Case By Em Holter and Abigail Adcoxhttps://www.dailypress.com/virginiagazette/va-vg-colonial-parkway-murders-anniversary-1024-20211022-76jkpte6qvez7onybmhbhp7nfi-story.htmlMedium: The Colonial Parkway Murders — A Tale of Two Killers? By Quinn Zanehttps://medium.com/unburied/the-colonial-parkway-murders-a-tale-of-two-killers-1e8fda367a48Washington Post: "Crimes of Passion"https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1997/08/15/crimes-of-passion/0a38e8f9-6d04-48e4-a847-7d3cba53c363/Daily Beast: "Inside the Maddening Search for Virginia's Colonial Parkway Serial Killer" By Justin Rohrlichhttps://www.thedailybeast.com/what-happened-to-cathleen-thomas-and-rebecca-dowski-inside-the-hunt-for-the-colonial-parkway-killerCitizens! Check out our new line of "Mind Over Murder" t-shirts and other good stuff !https://www.teepublic.com/stores/mind-over-murder-podcast?ref_id=23885Washington Post Op-Ed Piece by Deidre Enright of the Innocence Project:"The FBI should use DNA, not posters, to solve a cold-case murder" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/06/25/julie-williams-laura-winans-unsolved-murder-test-dna/Oxygen: "Loni Coombs Feels A Kinship To 'Lovers' Lane' Victim Cathy Thomas"Loni Coombs felt an immediate connection to Cathy Thomas, a groundbreaking gay woman who broke through barriers at the U.S. Naval Academy before she was brutally murdered along the Colonial Parkway in Virginia.https://www.oxygen.com/crime-news/loni-coombs-feels-a-kinship-to-colonial-parkway-victim-cathy-thomasYou can contribute to help "Mind Over Murder" do our important work:https://mindovermurderpodcast.com/supportFour one-hour episodes on the Colonial Parkway Murders are available on Oxygen as "The Lover's Lane Murders." The series is available on the free Oxygen app, Hulu, YouTube, Amazon, and many other platforms. https://www.oxygen.com/lovers-lane-murders Oxygen" "Who Were The Colonial Parkway Murder Victims? 8 Young People All Killed In Virginia Within 4 Years" https://www.oxygen.com/lovers-lane-murders/crime-news/who-were-the-colonial-parkway-murder-victims Washington Post Magazine: "Victims, Families and America's Thirst for True-Crime Stories." "For Bill Thomas, his sister Cathy's murder is a deeply personal tragedy. For millions of true-crime fans, it's entertainment." https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/magazine/wp/2019/07/30/feature/victims-families-and-americas-thirst-for-true-crime-stories/Daily Press excellent series of articles on the Colonial Parkway Murders: "The Parkway" http://digital.dailypress.com/static/parkway_cottage/main/index.htmlColonial Parkway Murders website: https://colonialparkwaymurders.com Mind Over Murder Podcast website: https://mindovermurderpodcast.comPlease subscribe and rate us at your favorite podcast sites. Ratings and reviews are very important. Please share and tell your friends!We launch a new episode of "Mind Over Murder" every Monday morning, and a bonus episode every Thursday morning.Sponsors: Othram and DNAsolves.comContribute Your DNA to help solve cases: https://dnasolves.com/user/registerFollow "Mind Over Murder" on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MurderOverFollow Bill Thomas on Twitter: https://twitter.com/BillThomas56Follow "Colonial Parkway Murders" on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ColonialParkwayCase/Follow us on InstaGram:: https://www.instagram.com/colonialparkwaymurders/Check out the entire Crawlspace Media network at http://crawlspace-media.com/All rights reserved. Mind Over Murder, Copyright Bill Thomas and Kristin Dilley, Another Dog Productions/Absolute Zero Productions

Known for his work in criminal psychology, FBI Special Agent John Douglas was the mastermind behind understanding the sick and twisted minds of serial killers. His methods have become commonplace in the approach of developing criminal profiles and hunting down the worst of the worst. In this episode of EDM, we learn about how John got his start at the Behavioral Science Unit and some of the disturbing cases he worked on. 

It's holiday gift time! If you're not sure what to get the true crime aficionado in your life, never fear! Mind Over Murder has you covered!GIFT OF BOOKS:1) A Killer by Design: Murderers, Mindhunters, and My Quest to Decipher the Criminal Mind-- Ann Burgess and Steven Constantine.If you're a fan of David Fincher's colossal hit MINDHUNTER, you won't want to miss the story of the real-life Wendy Carr, the brilliant psychiatric nurse who worked alongside Robert Ressler, John Douglas, and the other pioneering FBI agents in Quantico's Behavioral Science Unit. Even if you think you're familiar with the early days of the BSU from Douglas and Olshaker's books, trust me, you don't know the half of it! This book is a treat for anyone who wants more on the development of profiling.PAIR THIS WITH: Any of the initial books from Douglas and Olshaker; a viewing of Fincher's MINDHUNTER; or the Audible presentation of the book, beautifully read by Gabra Zackman.We interviewed Ann and Steven about their book on Mind Over Murder on our episode from July 18, 2022.2) Frozen in Fear: A True Story of Surviving the Shadows of Death-- Jane Carson-Sandler.Jane is one of the surviving victims of the Golden State Killer and she is one tough-as-nails lady! This short memoir details her life both before and after the attack and discusses how she put her life back together to both survive and to thrive in spite of her trauma.PAIR THIS WITH: Michelle McNamara and Paul Haynes “I'll Be Gone in the Dark”; the HBO mini-series of the same name; XG Productions Audible Original “Evil Has a Name.”3) When a Killer Calls-- John Douglas and Mark Olshaker.I'm an unabashed John Douglas fan; everything he and Mark Olshaker have ever written lives somewhere on my true crime bookshelves. But this is by far the best of their work and that is really saying something! The kidnapping and murder of Shari Smith is horrifying, but even more so is the behavior of the offender. It is so audacious and cruel that it sounds like something from a movie. John's work on the case will break your heart… but it is the work of a profiler at the top of his game!PAIR THIS WITH: Anything this dynamic duo have previously written! You will never get a boring or poorly written book from these guys!We interviewed Mark Olshaker about this book on Mind Over Murder on February 14th and February 21st, 2022.4) Journey to the Center of the Mind Books 1-3-- James Fitzgerald.Grab a hot drink, snuggle under a warm blanket, and leave yourself plenty of time to binge! Jim “Fitz” Fitzgerald's career as both a uniformed cop and then an FBI profiler is full of ups and downs, which he skillfully and entertainingly details in his books. Get all 3 books if you want the full and unabridged Fitz story, though book 3 is my favorite as that's where we learn all about the Unabomb case and linguistic profiling. Make sure you check out his website for books and other merch (www.jamesrfitzgerald.com) including autographed posters.PAIR THIS WITH: Fitz's podcast The Fitz Files (which features a cameo from Kristin); the original drama MANHUNT: UNABOMBER; and the XG Productions Audible original “Where the Devil Belongs.”We interviewed Fitz on Mind Over Murder about the Unabomber and his books on June 30 and July 7, 2022.5) ShadowMan: An Elusive Psycho Killer and the Birth of FBI Profiling-- Ron Franscell.The story of Howard Teten and Patrick Mullany's profile of the Susie Jaeger kidnapping case was all new to me, but it's an absolutely enthralling story. These are the two men who started the BSU—the profiling legends we know today (Rob Ressler, John Douglas, Judd Ray) learned the ropes from Teten and Mullaney. The unsub at the heart of this story is your classic “nice guy next door” and it will definitely make you reevaluate what you think you know about your neighbors! It's a pulse pounding read!PAIR THIS WITH: If you're in the mood for a history of the early days of the BSU, start here, progress to Ann Burgess's “A Killer by Design”, then move on to the earliest Douglas and Olshaker collabs “Mindhunter” and “Journey into Darkness.” Take time for Robert Ressler's book “Whoever Fights Monsters” as well.6) Madman in the Woods—Jamie Gehring.What was it like to live literally next door to Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber? To have him show up at your door and even have him over for dinner? Jamie Gehring could tell you. She lived next to him in Montana. If you ever wanted to know who Ted Kaczynski was and how he evolved into the Unabomber, Jamie's book will bring you as close as you'll ever come, short of having a conversation with him yourself. This is a stunner of a memoir. I can't recommend it enough.PAIR THIS WITH: Jim Fitzgerald's JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE MIND, book 3; a viewing of MANHUNT: UNABOMBER; Audible original “Where the Devil Belongs”; the Audible version of this book, read by Jamie herself.We interviewed Jamie on Mind Over Murder on June 27th, 2022.7) Keeping On—Gemma Hoskins.You knew her and loved her on THE KEEPERS! But do you know the real Gemma Hoskins? You can by reading her book! Gemma's memoir is by turns funny, poignant, and insightful. There's plenty of info on Sister Cathy Cesnik's case and yes, there are some bombshells you won't want to miss!PAIR THIS WITH: A re-watch of THE KEEPERS! It's been a few years since it first aired, so it's more than time to give it another viewing! Pop some popcorn, grab a fuzzy blanket, and be prepared to give up a few hours of your life in a binge of epic proportions.We interviewed Gemma on Mind Over Murder on July 28th and August 4th.8. Trailed: One Woman's Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders—Kathryn Miles.This labor of love from Kate Miles is one of the best true crime reads in recent memory, tying together the murders of Julie Williams and Lollie Winans in the Shenandoah National Park with other missing and murdered women in Virginia. She discusses some compelling theories as to who may have murdered the women back in 1996 and sheds light on major issues within the NPS during that time period. It's thought-provoking and sensitive reporting. Highly recommended!PAIR THIS WITH: “The Cold Vanish” from Jon Billman (which we featured on last year's gift guide), which also explores disappearances and murders in national parks.We interviewed Kate on Mind Over Murder on May 16th and May 23rd of 2022.9) How to Catch a Killer and I Scream Man—Dr. Katherine Ramsland.We couldn't pick just one book out of Dr. Ramsland's whopping catalogue; you'll never get a bad book from this talented, astute, and prolific writer. But we opted for her two most recent releases—How to Catch a Killer is about the hunt for and capture of the world's most notorious serial killers including Rodney Alcala (the Dating Game killer); GSK; Aileen Wuoronos; and many more. This is part of the Profiles in Crime series, so if you love this one, there's more to come.And we couldn't neglect Dr. Ramsland's fiction debut … I Scream Man, featuring protagonist Annie Hunter who seems to be quite a bit like the good doctor herself! It's an excellent first book in a new series and we are looking forward to more! Check out all of Dr. Ramsland's books at www.katherineramsland.net.PAIR THIS WITH: Any of her 70 other books! I recommend the two that tie in to CSI and CRIMINAL MINDS.We interviewed Dr. Ramsland on Mind Over Murder on July 4 and July 11 of 2022.10) The Babysitter—Liza Rodman.Imagine, if you will, learning that your beloved childhood babysitter was a sadistic psychopath who was murdering women when he wasn't watching you. That's precisely what happened to Liza Rodman when she learned that Tony Costa, handyman and her childhood babysitter, was the ghoul responsible for murdering and dismembering four women in the Truro woods near Provincetown. The premise on its own is enough to make your skin crawl … learning what Tony Costa was actually doing made me want to sleep with the lights on! This pairs perfectly with HELLTOWN by Casey Sherman, which covers Tony Costa's crimes.PAIR THIS WITH: HELLTOWN, below!11) Helltown—Casey Sherman.Liza Rodman's childhood babysitter, Tony Costa, was a horrific serial killer who haunted the Cape Cod and Provincetown area, murdering and dismembering women. His horrific crimes and his court case are covered expertly in the book. Also explored is the pull the case had over two enigmatic local writers—Kurt Vonnegut and Normal Mailer. This meticulously researched and brilliantly crafted book was one of my favorite true crime reads of this year.PAIR THIS WITH: THE BABYSITTER, above!We interviewed Casey on Mind Over Murder on September 19th 202212) American Demon—Daniel Stashower.There's so much more to Eliot Ness than his time with the Untouchables. This deep dive into Ness's time in Cleveland and his work trying to solve the series of brutal slayings by the Butcher of Kingsbury Run is masterful. Stashower has a wonderful touch with historical crimes … they seem to come alive on the page. The book is meticulously researched, gorgeously written, and will keep you turning pages.PAIR THIS WITH: THE BEAUTIFUL CIGAR GIRL, Stashower's book about the murder of Mary Rogers and Edgar Allan Poe's involvement in it.We interviewed Dan on Mind Over Murder on October 31st, 2022.GIFTS OF SERVICE:1) You can help to solve a crime in one of two ways by going to DNASolves.com. You can either help to fund a case (or two or three) in any dollar amount, large or small, or you can follow the instructions on how to provide your own DNA to help grow the searchable law enforcement database.2) We know you love the work that Othram does as much as we do! They are absolutely smashing cold case solves! Did you know they have a ton of great merchandise to offer as well? Happy Holidays from Kristin and Bill!

Mindhunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit (1995) by John Douglas (with Mark Olshaker) Read and listen to "Mindhunter" on Amazon! We're very excited to announce our books “Sexual Magnetism,” “The WASM Dating Handbook” and “Secrets of Sensual Massage” are now available! Follow these links to get your copies of "Sexual Magnetism," "The WASM Dating Handbook" and "Secrets of Sensual Massage" on Amazon.com. Want more great books? Check out our MUST READ LIST! Overview of “Mindhunter: Inside the FBIs Elite Serial Crime Unit” A very brief description of “Mindhunter” (4 minutes) 00:00-04:00The no-holds-barred description of John E. Douglas' twenty-five-year career in the FBI Investigative Support Unit, where he used psychological profiling to delve into the minds of the country's most notorious serial killers and criminals.What Douglas sets out to do / Purpose of the bookTo teach people about how criminals and serial killers work, how we can catch them and how we can protect ourselves and our loved ones from becoming a victim.The intended audience of the book / Who will benefit mostPeople who loved Silence of the Lambs (Thomas Harris, the author of SotL, based his character Jack Crawford, head of the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit, on John Douglas) People who love true crime and/or horror storiesPeople who want to understand how - and why - serial killers do what they doPeople who want to make sure they don't become a victimPeople who don't like sleeping (this book is not for the faint of heart!)Who probably WON'T like this book?People who don't want to think about real life horror that lives nearbyPeople who can't handle explicit descriptions of violent and sexual crimeHonestly, most people will have trouble reading this bookHow does this book specifically benefit Men? As Men it is our job to protect the people in our lives. As difficult as it is to accept, there are deranged, sick criminals out there who enjoy inflicting pain and killing other people. If we're going to take care of our loved ones we need to educate ourselves first and then educate them - as well as be prepared to protect them if the situation calls for it.Is this book Easy, Average or Difficult to read? / How long is it? (1 minute) 04:00-05:00Mindhunter is very well written but it's INCREDIBLY difficult to read. The subject matter is so dark and twisted that it's highly possible this will be the most disturbing book you'll ever read in your life.445 pages, (Audiobook is 15 hours and 24 minutes)What are the overall book reviews? Is the book well-known? Popular? Significant?9,971 ratings, 4.7 stars#6 in Law Enforcement#7 in Criminology#22 in Biographies & Memoirs of CriminalsAudible#5 in Crime & Criminal Biographies#16 in Murder & Mayhem True Accounts#91 in MemoirsBook-To-Movie Translation Since its publication in 1995, Mindhunter (and the other books in this series by John Douglas) have been THE reference books for any kind of serial killers in novels, movies or television shows.Some of the most famous fiction inspired by John Douglas includes the “Hannibal Lechter” books by Thomas Harris, the “Alex Cross” books by James Patterson, the “Dexter” books by Jeff Lindsay, the show “Criminal Minds” and many, many others.There is a new Netflix show based directly on this book and the creation of the FBI's Serial Crime Unit Bio of John Douglas Douglas was born in Brooklyn in 1944 and grew up in Hempstead, New York.He enlisted in the United States Air Force in 1966 and served for four years.Douglas received his bachelor's degree from Eastern New Mexico University, a master's degree from the University of Wisconsin, and a doctorate from Nova Southeastern University.Douglas joined the FBI in 1970 and his first assignment was in Detroit, Michigan. In the field, he served as a sniper on the local FBI SWAT team and later became a hostage negotiator. He transferred to the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit (BSU) in 1977 where he taught hostage negotiation and applied criminal psychology at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia to new FBI special agents, field agents, and police officers from all over the United States. He created and managed the FBI's Criminal Profiling Program and was later promoted to unit chief of the Investigative Support UnitWhile traveling around the country providing instruction to police, Douglas began interviewing serial killers and other violent sex offenders at various prisons. He interviewed some of the most notable violent criminals in recent history as part of the study, including David Berkowitz, Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy, Charles Manson, Edmund Kemper, James Earl Ray and Richard Speck. He used the information gleaned from these interviews to create the FBI's new Crime Classification Manual (CCM). Douglas's work together with the FBI's Investigative Support Unit has helped catch thousands of serial criminals and bring them to justice. The insights learned from their research are now taught around the world and have transformed our understanding of why violent criminals do what they do and how to find them and stop them. Breakdown of Themes in Mindhunter Nature vs NurtureA serial criminal may be predisposed to perform certain acts but it is invariably the horrible things that happen during childhood that shape their ultimate actionsLoss Of InnocenceEveryone that comes in contact with a disturbing crime is permanently scarred - families, friends, neighborhoods, local police and FBI agentsIn many cases, even the serial criminals themselves are seriously troubled by what they have doneCourage in the Face of EvilEven though horrible things are happening, some people choose to stand up and fight back. A great example of this is the family of Karla Brown. After Karla's murder, her sister Dawn worked extensively with police and FBI to talk to the murderer - and even agreed to allow herself to be used as “bait” - to bring him to justice. Sometimes the Dragon WinsThe struggle against evil is ongoing and not every criminal is caught.The only way to truly make a difference is to keep fighting, to keep pushing for communities to spend the time, money and resources to keep criminals on the run and to bring justice to the families of the dead victims.

Dr. Ann Burgess helped shape criminal profiling at the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit in the 1970s; Dr. Burgess has long been recognized as one of the leaders in the field of victimology. In their book, Dr. Ann Burgess and Steven Constantine focused on the victims, but also profiled the killers. Written, researched, and hosted by Kate Winkler Dawson/producer Alexis Amorosi/mixer Ryo Baum/sound designer Andrew Eapen/composer Curtis Heath/web designer Ilsa Brink    Buy my books: katewinklerdawson.com    If you have suggestions for historical crimes that could use some attention, email me: info@tenfoldmorewicked.com  Follow me on social: @tenfoldmore (Twitter) / @tenfoldmorewicked (Facebook and Instagram)    2022 All Rights ReservedSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The beautiful song that Buffalo Bill plays while dancing around in his robe, “Goodbye Horses,” also appears in Married to the Mob, the film Jonathan Demme made prior to Silence of the Lambs. It appears in a scene in which Michelle Pfeiffer's character is wearing a robe. The Silence of the Lambs is Jonathan Demme's 1991 horror/thriller film, which is based on Thomas Harris' 1988 novel of the same name. It's about an ambitious, promising young FBI trainee, Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster), who has been recruited by Jack Crawford (Scott Glenn), head of the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit, to assist with the pursuit of serial killer Jame Gumb (Ted Levine), known as Buffalo Bill, who kidnaps, kills, and skins young women. Starling's assignment, which involves interviewing another serial killer, Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins), gains greater urgency when Buffalo Bill abducts his latest victim, Catherine Martin (Brooke Smith), the daughter of Tennessee Senator Ruth Martin (Diane Baker). Though the scene discussed here is typically called the Buffalo Bill Dance Scene, it's as much about Catherine Martin as it is about Jame Gumb/Buffalo Bill. Occurring during the film's final act, it comprises a series of crosscuts focusing on the two characters and their very different aims: Gumb, as he immerses himself in his fantasies of sexual desirability and transformation, Catherine, as she executes a plan to gain a bargaining chip and save her own life by luring Precious, Gumb's beloved dog, into the basement pit where Gumb has imprisoned her. This scene serves several purposes within the film. It gives the audience a brief but illuminating glimpse into Jame Gumb's inner life and aspirations, an aspect of the novel that was largely sacrificed for the film adaptation. It also underscores the depth of Catherine's peril in the face of Gumb's strong motivations to cut her up in service to his fantasies, highlights Catherine's determination and resourcefulness, sets the clock ticking for her as she puts her plan into motion, and ratchets up the tension. The dance scene is not in Thomas Harris' novel or Ted Tally's screenplay, though it was inspired by a moment early on in the book when Gumb stands in front of a mirror and tucks his penis between his legs. The dance was the result of an on-set collaboration between Jonathan Demme and Ted Levine. Demme filmed two versions. The one used in the film is set to Q. Lazzarus' Goodbye Horses, a song about transcendence and an appropriate choice given Gumb's aims. The alternate version showed Levine performing a striptease to Bob Seger's Her Strut. There is no doubt that Demme made the right choice for the film, but I'd be lying if I said I didn't want to see the latter. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Ron Franscell is the acclaimed author of 18 books and has been hailed as one of America's best narrative nonfiction writers. A journalist who has covered war and natural disasters abroad, he wrote the international true-crime bestsellers "The Darkest Night" and the 2017 Edgar finalist "Morgue: A Life in Death."His new book, "ShadowMan: An Elusive Psycho Killer and the Birth of FBI Profiling" delivers an account of the first time in history that the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit created a psychological profile to catch a serial killer.

"The pulse-pounding story of the first time in history that the FBI Behavioral Unit created a profile to catch a serial killer. On June 25, 1973, a seven-year-old girl went missing from the Montana campground where her family was vacationing. Somebody had slit open the back of her tent and snatched her from under their noses. None of them saw or heard anything. Susie Jaeger had vanished into thin air, plucked by a shadow. The largest manhunt in Montana's history ensued, led by the FBI. As days stretched into weeks, and weeks into months, Special Agent Pete Dunbar attended a workshop at FBI headquarters in Quantico led by two agents who had hatched a radical new idea: What if criminals left a psychological trail that would lead us to them? Patrick Mullany, a trained psychologist, and Howard Teten, a veteran criminologist, had created the Behavioral Science Unit to explore this new voodoo they called "criminal profiling." At Dunbar's request, Mullany and Teten built the FBI's first profile of an unknown subject: the UnSub who had snatched Susie Jaeger and, a few months later, a 19-year-old waitress. They deduced that he was a white twentysomething who'd grown up without a father; an intelligent, local loner who had served in the military. They predicted he would contact Susie's parents on the anniversary of her murder, and when caught would attempt suicide. When David Meirhofer was arrested fifteen months after Susie's abduction, and confessed to four murders, the profile fit him to a T"--

On June 25, 1973, a seven-year-old girl went missing from the Montana campground where her family was vacationing. Somebody had slit open the back of their tent and snatched her from under their noses. None of them saw or heard anything. Susie Jaeger had vanished into thin air, plucked by a shadow. “ShadowMan,” by Ron Franscell, is a pulse-pounding account of the first time in history that the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit created a psychological profile to catch a serial killer. Ron Franscell joins me on Murder Most Foul.

How did a forensic and psychiatric nurse transform the way that the FBI studies, profiles, and catches serial killers? In this week's episode of Book Dreams, Julie and Eve speak with Dr. Ann Wolbert Burgess, the inspiration for the psychological expert, Wendy Carr, on one of Eve and Julie's favorite Netflix series, “Mindhunter,” as well as her co-author Stephen Matthew Constantine. In the 1970s a small team of agents in the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit decided to interview convicted serial killers in an attempt to begin to understand their motives. However, the agents weren't trained in research methods or psychology, and there was concern that all they had were recordings of “a bunch of sickos fantasizing about their crimes and not offering much else.” Impressed by Dr. Burgess's revolutionary research into the offenders and victims of sexual crimes, they sought her advice. Initially the only woman in the unit, she directed their methodology and spent the next two decades helping to develop what became the FBI's system of criminal profiling. Ann and Steven discuss her new memoir, which Steven co-authored, A Killer by Design: Murderers, Mindhunters, and My Quest to Decipher the Criminal Mind. They talk about some of the earliest instances–and validating successes–of profiling serial killers like BTK; how the team's methods allowed them to predict key characteristics of the killers with astonishing detail; and why a focus on the victim often plays a pivotal role. Ann also describes what serial killers are like in person and how she was able to overcome the gruesome nature of the crimes and remain focused on the work. Dr. Ann Wolbert Burgess is a leading forensic and psychiatric nurse who worked with the FBI for over two decades. She's received numerous awards nationally and internationally for her professional work. She's currently a professor at the Boston College Connell School of Nursing, and she lives in Boston, Massachusetts. Stephen Constantine is the assistant director of marketing and communications at the Boston College Connell School of Nursing. He holds an MFA from the Bennington College Writing Seminars, and he lives in Boston, Massachusetts. Find us on Twitter (@bookdreamspod) and Instagram (@bookdreamspodcast), or email us at contact@bookdreamspodcast.com. We encourage you to visit our website and sign up for our newsletter for information about our episodes, guests, and more. Book Dreams is a part of Lit Hub Radio and the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. For more information on how The Podglomerate treats data, please see our Privacy Policy. Since you're listening to Book Dreams, we'd like to suggest you also try other Podglomerate shows about literature, writing, and storytelling like Storybound and The History of Literature. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The pulse-pounding account of the first time in history that the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit created a psychological profile to catch a serial killerOn June 25, 1973, a seven-year-old girl went missing from the Montana campground where her family was vacationing. Somebody had slit open the back of their tent and snatched her from under their noses. None of them saw or heard anything. Susie Jaeger had vanished into thin air, plucked by a shadow.The largest manhunt in Montana's history ensued, led by the FBI. As days stretched into weeks, and weeks into months, Special Agent Pete Dunbar attended a workshop at FBI Headquarters in Quantico, Virgina, led by two agents who had hatched a radical new idea: What if criminals left a psychological trail that would lead us to them? Patrick Mullany, a trained psychologist, and Howard Teten, a veteran criminologist, had created the Behavioral Science Unit to explore this new "voodoo" they called “criminal profiling.”At Dunbar's request, Mullany and Teten built the FBI's first profile of an unknown subject: the UnSub who had snatched Susie Jaeger and, a few months later, a nineteen-year-old waitress. When a suspect was finally arrested, the profile fit him to a T...Shadowman: An Elusive Psycho Killer and the Birth of FBI Profiling-Ron Franscell

Rabbi Cary Friedman, Associate Director of the Law Enforcement Survival Institute and consultant to the FBI’s Behavioral Science Unit, discusses the role of spirituality in first response, including how to refill your depleted reservoirs. For Your Information: Cary’s books: Spiritual Survival for Law Enforcement https://spiritualsurvivalbook.com/ Wisdom from the Batcave https://batwisdom.com/ The Superhero Handbook for Cops Write your own credo: https://chaplainusa.org/the-credo-project copsalive.com lawenforcementsurvivalinstitute.org

In yet another case of reality trumping its popularization as entertainment, Ann Burgess tells the vivid story of her role in the creation of the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit (very thinly veiled on the long-running "Criminal Minds" series as its Behavioral Analysis Unit)—a role that transformed the way the FBI studies, profiles, and catches serial killers. With reported cases of sexual assault and homicide rising in the 1970s and 1980s, the FBI created a specialized team—the “Mindhunters”—to track down America's most dangerous criminals. Dr. Burgess's pioneering research on sexual assault and trauma soon caught their attention, and steered her right into the middle of a chilling serial murder investigation in Nebraska. Over the next two decades she helped identify, interview and track down dozens of notoriously violent offenders, including Ed Kemper ("The Co-Ed Killer"), Dennis Rader ("BTK"), Henry Wallace ("The Taco Bell Strangler"), and Jon Barry Simonis ("The Ski-Mask Rapist"). As one of the first women trailblazers at the FBI, Burgess knew she was expected to crack under pressure—to recoil in horror. But she was determined to protect potential victims at any cost. Burgess provides deep insights into the minds of deranged criminals, and of their victims, and paints a revealing portrait of the FBI on the brink of a seismic scientific and cultural reckoning. She also directly confronts the age-old question that plagues every criminal justice system: “What drives someone to kill, and how can we stop them?” MLF ORGANIZER George Hammond NOTES MLF: Humanities SPEAKERS Ann Burgess Professor, Boston College Connell School of Nursing; Forensic and Psychiatric Nurse; Worked with the FBI for over two decades; Author, A Killer By Design: Murderers, Mindhunters, and My Quest to Decipher the Criminal Mind Steven Constantine Co-Author, A Killer By Design: Murderers, Mindhunters, and My Quest to Decipher the Criminal Mind In conversation with George Hammond Author, Conversations With Socrates In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, we are currently hosting all of our live programming via YouTube live stream. This program was recorded via video conference on January 20th, 2022 by the Commonwealth Club of California. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In yet another case of reality trumping its popularization as entertainment, Ann Burgess tells the vivid story of her role in the creation of the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit (very thinly veiled on the long-running "Criminal Minds" series as its Behavioral Analysis Unit)—a role that transformed the way the FBI studies, profiles, and catches serial killers. With reported cases of sexual assault and homicide rising in the 1970s and 1980s, the FBI created a specialized team—the “Mindhunters”—to track down America's most dangerous criminals. Dr. Burgess's pioneering research on sexual assault and trauma soon caught their attention, and steered her right into the middle of a chilling serial murder investigation in Nebraska. Over the next two decades she helped identify, interview and track down dozens of notoriously violent offenders, including Ed Kemper ("The Co-Ed Killer"), Dennis Rader ("BTK"), Henry Wallace ("The Taco Bell Strangler"), and Jon Barry Simonis ("The Ski-Mask Rapist"). As one of the first women trailblazers at the FBI, Burgess knew she was expected to crack under pressure—to recoil in horror. But she was determined to protect potential victims at any cost. Burgess provides deep insights into the minds of deranged criminals, and of their victims, and paints a revealing portrait of the FBI on the brink of a seismic scientific and cultural reckoning. She also directly confronts the age-old question that plagues every criminal justice system: “What drives someone to kill, and how can we stop them?” MLF ORGANIZER George Hammond NOTES MLF: Humanities SPEAKERS Ann Burgess Professor, Boston College Connell School of Nursing; Forensic and Psychiatric Nurse; Worked with the FBI for over two decades; Author, A Killer By Design: Murderers, Mindhunters, and My Quest to Decipher the Criminal Mind Steven Constantine Co-Author, A Killer By Design: Murderers, Mindhunters, and My Quest to Decipher the Criminal Mind In conversation with George Hammond Author, Conversations With Socrates In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, we are currently hosting all of our live programming via YouTube live stream. This program was recorded via video conference on January 20th, 2022 by the Commonwealth Club of California. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

WGN Radio’s Karen Conti is joined by Dr. Ann Wolbert Burgess, to talk about how she helped shape the Behavioral Science Unit of the FBI, and how that unit’s research lead to the catching of several serial killers. You can buy Burgess’ book, Killer By Design, here.

In Episode 41, Gregg welcomes Dr. Carla Groom. She is a "behavioral science pioneer" who works as Deputy Director for the Behavioral Science Unit in the Department of Work and Pensions in the United Kingdom. She received her doctorate in social psychology from Northwestern University, during which she realized there was a serious structural problem with how the methods-based approach to empirical research framed issues in psychological science. She went on to become a leading thinker in policy and organizational decision-making. In this conversation, she recounts her narrative, which includes major policy successes in the UK, and she and Gregg converse about why the empirical, methods based approach to behavioral science is flawed and how an approach grounded in the ontology of human mental behavior mapped by UTOK affords a radically different, and more helpful view.   --- ℹ️ Find out more about Carla ℹ️ --- LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/carla-groom-5bb77031 Twitter: https://twitter.com/carla_groom --- ℹ️ Find out more about Gregg Henriques ℹ️ --- Psychology Today: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/contributors/gregg-henriques-phd Medium: https://gregghenriques.medium.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/henriqgx ---

James discusses the origins of the Cold Case Foundation with Greg Cooper and Dean Jackson, exploring why the case of Robert Ben Rhoades became so integral to the Foundation's creation and how solutions to serial offending can be built from the learning it provides. This episode includes discussions of the complex issues of trust in policing arising from the tragic murder of Sarah Everard and the conviction of her killer, serving police officer Wayne Couzens. Some listeners may find this episode distressing and we advise additional caution. You can join Cold Case Live from just $2.99 per month to access exclusive podcasts, videos, articles, blogs, and our training academy. Subscriptions directly support the Cold Case Foundation. Join Cold Case Live at: https://coldcase.live/join Find us on social media at: Twitter: https://twitter.com/coldcaselive Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/coldcaselive Instagram: https://instagram.com/coldcaselive LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cold-case-live/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgt7OSsfZs9bvBODssso78A Presented By: Out Of The Cold is presented by James Patrick, an intelligence specialist who served as a police officer for a decade. On leaving Scotland Yard he was commended by the British Parliament. He now focuses on threat mitigation and intelligence analysis, specialising in the digital and information landscapes. James is the Director of Intelligence at the Cold Case Foundation. (https://www.coldcasefoundation.org/james-patrick---director-of-intelligence.html) With Special Thanks: Greg Cooper, Dean Jackson, and the Cold Case Foundation (https://coldcasefoundation.org) for providing unique insight and background materials not available elsewhere. Find them on social media: Twitter: https://twitter.com/coldcaseFNDN Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/coldcasefoundation/ Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cold-case-foundation/ Reference Material for this episode: 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_Science_Unit#cite_note-:3-5, Behavioural Science Unit, Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 2. https://www.missingkids.org/content/dam/missingkids/pdfs/publications/nc70.pdf, Child Molesters: A Behavioural Analysis, National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, 2010, Kenneth V. Lanning 3. Men Who Rape: The Psychology Of The Offender, Springer, 1979, A. Nichloas Growth and H. Jean Birnbaum 4. http://www.crimelibrary.org/criminal_mind/profiling/hazelwood/2.html, Crime Library, Roy Hazelwood: Profiler of Sexual Crimes, Katherine Ramsland 5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_in_Japan, Suicide in Japan, Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 6. https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/west-memphis-three-3039/, West Memphis Three, Encyclopedia Of Arkansas 7. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/01/paris-serial-killer-of-80s-and-90s-was-ex-police-officer-dna-shows, Paris serial killer of 80s and 90s was ex-police officer, DNA shows, The Guardian, October 1st 2021, Angelique Chrisafis  Production: Out Of The Cold is produced for Cold Case Live by Cynefin Digital Limited in association with AJJ Entertainment LLC Note: We experienced a minor sound quality issue with this episode, affecting the quality of James' voice due to illness. We apologise if this caused an adverse listening experience. Music: Final Destination by Sascha Ende Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/439-final-destination License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Prosecution, action, trumpets by Sascha Ende Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/19-prosecution-action-trumpets License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Dark Hours  by Rafael Krux Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/5626-dark-hours- License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Horizon Flare by Alexander Nakarada Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/4837-horizon-flare License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Today we're taking the train to a land of paradise. Warm climate, great surf, beautiful women, and…. the Honolulu Strangler? That's right we're taking a trip to Hawaii and the land of unsolved murders. You know how we like our unsolved crimes here at the midnight train! So without further ado… Let's get into what we do know about the case and see if we can solve it like we do with so many other things.    So the Honolulu Strangler was a serial killer who was active between 1985-1986. He tortured and killed 5 women. The five victims were found with their hands bound behind their backs, sexually assaulted and strangled. The strangler's victims ranged in ages between 17 and 36 and came from different walks of life. The police had several suspects including one that… Well… is most likely the killer but… You know, the police let him go. Well get to him in a bit. First we are going to discuss the victims and then the few suspects they had. There's not a huge amount of information out there. Every source has the same information so we'll give you what we have found.     Let's start with the victims.    The first victim was Vicki Gail Purdy. She was an attractive, petite 25 year old blonde who was a transplant from North Carolina. She lived in Miliani with her husband Gary. Gary was stationed in Hawaii as a helicopter pilot for the U.S. Army. Vicki worked at the Wahiawa Video Rental store, which was a point of contention between her and Gary. Gary Purdy had long objected to his wife's place of work, for the video store was known to sell pornographic films. The police found that Vicki liked to go dancing at clubs with her friends. On May 29 Vicki went to a club with a couple friends in Waikiki. Gary was expecting her back around 9. When she did not return home Gary started to page Vicki and continued to page her throughout the night. For you young kids out there, a pager is what you used to get ahold of someone before there were cell phones. You'd get a page and then you'd have to find this thing called a pay phone to call the number back. A PayPhone is typically a coin-operated public telephone, often located in a telephone booth or in high-traffic outdoor areas, with pre-payment by inserting money (usually coins) or by billing a credit or debit card, or a telephone card.… It was nuts! At any rate… the next morning Gary finds his wife's car in the parking lot of the Shorebird Hotel. Police were contacted by a cab driver who said he had dropped Vicki off there the night before sometime around midnight. Vicki's body was found the morning of may 30th on an embankment near Keehi Lagoon. She was found with her hands tied behind her back. She had been raped, then strangled, and then killed. At first the police checked out any possible connection to the video store. On top of Gary not liking her working there, the store had a bit of a reputation already. In December of 1984, two women, a worker and the co-owner of the store, were stabbed to death at the store. Police initially took the angle that a porn obsessed man had stalked and killed Vicki. After investigation though police could find no link to the video store and the crime. They were back to square one. Her husband, Gary Purdy was a chief warrant officer with the 24th Aviation Battalion. At six feet tall and 165 pounds, he could obviously handle his own. He told media Purdy she had once “knocked the —- out of me” during an argument. He believed it would have taken two people to nab her.    Victim number two was 17 year old Regina Sakamoto. Regina was petite like Vicki, but moreso. She was only 4'11" and weighed only 105lbs. Also like Vicki, Regina was a transplant. She was originally from Kansas. People said Regina was a shy quiet girl who had planned on attending college in Hawaii in the fall. Regina's father was a military serviceman stationed in Hawaii. On January 14,1986 Regina spoke with her boyfriend at around 7:15am. She had told him that she would be late as she was not catching her usual bus. She would be missing for about a month after this. In February her body was found. She had been bound with her hands behind her back, raped and strangled just like Vicki. Oh and she was found near Keehi Lagoon as well… Same as Vicki.    After the discovery of Regina's body, homicide detectives became convinced they had a serial killer on their hands. Due to the fact that both women were found with their hands tied behind their backs, both had been raped, and both had been strangled, police surmised the cases were linked. Add to that they were both found in the same area, and it was all but assured.  The Keehi Lagoon area was part of an urban beach park. There was ready access to the ocean and it was dotted with tiny islands. It was fairly secluded and made for a good dumping ground for the killer.    Two weeks after Regina Sakamoto disappeared, but before her body was found, the killer struck again. This time it was 21 year old Denise Hughes that was the victim. Denise was a native of Washington state. Like Regina, she was also used to using the bus system and regularly took the bus to and from work. Denise failed to show up to work at her job as a secretary for a phone company. Police suspect she met the killer at the bus stop or on the bus. In February, three fishermen would find her body. There were a few differences between her body and the first two. First off she was found near Moanalua stream and not by Keehi Lagoon. Second, her body was wrapped in a blue tarp. Despite these differences and the fact that the body was pretty decomposed, they were able to assess that it was the same killer, due to the fact that she'd been bound the same way and strangled. Regina's brother would later do an interview with khon2.com and say              “She was late for school that day,” “It was in Waipahu. She was sitting at the bus stop in front of Diners in Waipahu.”   Her brother was in 5th grade at the time. He would go on to say:          "I used to look up to her. She'd babysit me and stuff like that", adding that she was “very bookish, smart, fun loving, everybody's friend, that kind of thing.”    When asked about revisiting the case, her brother says he wished they could test for DNA. Unfortunately they could only test for blood type at the time.    “It's kind of sad that both my parents, you know, they're not here to, even if it does get resolved, they're not here to see it,” Omar Sakamoto said. “I just want, what is that, closure.”   This interview was about 5 years ago when there was talk of reopening the case or at least revisiting some of the evidence.    The killings prompted the Honolulu Police Department to form a task force that included an FBI profiler who helped put together a profile of the person they believed could be the suspect.   He was described as a Caucasian male in his 30s to 40s with no criminal record. The profiler also suspected the killer targeted women near where he lived or worked.   “He's an individual who may be, at this particular juncture, may be experiencing girlfriend or marital problems and the selection of victims is probably the result of opportunity or chance encounters,” former Honolulu Police Chief Douglas Gibb said back in 1986.   Former homicide lieutenant Gary Dias was the head of HPD's homicide detail at the time. “DNA could've been a much greater asset for us in that particular case,” Dias said, “and it's useless in today's age, because 82 percent of the world are types O and A.”   “Digital evidence is extremely important toward the advancement of investigations,” Dias said. Unfortunately back then, there was no cell phone video, and surveillance video wasn't common.    The next victim was 25 year old Louise Medeiros. According to a newspaper article we found from Hawaii from 1986, Louise J. Medeiros was a young woman who had lived much of life before she knew how to live it anyway. She'd left her large family on Kauai as a teenager, opting for independence and uncertainty on her own on Oahu. In six years, she'd returned to Kauai once, for a bowling tournament, and then only called home. She'd been on welfare, gotten in trouble with the law and lived with beach people at Makaha. Three months pregnant when she was killed, the 25-year-old had never married, had three children and a daughter in a foster home. But most of the family worries about their prodigal sister were soothed when Louise came home in March for a reading of her mother's will. The family found her centered and motivated, no longer the alienated rebel. Then the day after the reunion she was gone... abducted, police assume, from a bus stop near the airport on the evening of March 26. "She was finally happy. She had found peace within herself," recalled her eldest sister, Brenda Durant, of the last visit. "We were lying in my bedroom. She'd laugh and laugh." On March 26, 1986, Medeiros boarded a red-eye flight to Oahu. From there, Medeiros told her family that she planned to take a bus to Waipahu in order to meet them following the tragic death of their mother. Medeiros was last seen alive leaving the plane after it landed in Honolulu.   Medeiros's body was found by construction workers on April 2 near the Waikele Stream. Like the other four victims, Medeiros was found partially clothed. (The  killer always removed the pants and undergarments and left his victims nude from the waist down.) She had also had her hands tied behind her back. Medeiros had been sexually assaulted and strangled.   In order to catch the killer, the HPD began sending their female officers undercover to the Honolulu International Airport and to Keehi Lagoon. By now, it was clear that the killer favored out-of-town victims or those with limited connections to Hawaii.   The killer's last known victim was 36 year old Linda Pesce. Her roommate would be the last person to see her alive. Her roommate said she saw Linda when she left home on the morning of April 29, 1986.  The next morning the roommate was informed that Linda had not shown up for work. This was odd to the roommate. She was informed a little later that Lindas car had been found near a viaduct on route 92/interstate H-1. It was at this point the roommate reported her missing to the police.  Motorists claimed that on the evening of April 29 they saw the car's emergency lights flashing, indicating it had stalled. They also described a Caucasian or mixed ancestry man in his 30s or 40s, of medium build, and a cream-colored, american made van with letters on its rear windows, both beside Pesce's vehicle.    In May of 2018, the TV show Breaking Homicide returned to the case and the show's investigators suggested that the Honolulu Strangler may have also killed 19-year-old Lisa Au in 1982. Au was last seen alive just after midnight on January 21, 1982. Her car was later found near Kapaa Quarry Road. Ten days later, on January 31, 1982, a jogger found Au's nude, decomposing body on Tantalus Lookout in Waikiki. Police were never able to officially list Au's cause of death.   Ok, now… This is where shit kinda gets crazy! Depending on the source things get a little mixed up. We've found at least two different accounts of what happened next but they both involve the same man, a man who most people think is the killer.    The first story we found was that an unidentified(at the time) 43 year old white male came to the police claiming that a psychic (also unidentified) told him where Linda Pesces body was. He said the psychic informed him the body was located on Sand Island. The man then led police to a spot on the island but Pesces body was not there. Police decided to search the entire island and then found her body. She had been strangled and her hands were bound with parachute cord like the other victims. From what I've encountered on this particular part of the story, he purposely did not go near the spot where they eventually found her body. Sounds sus af. And that just sounded weird coming from me. Moving on.   OK so that's the first version of the story. We found another version that goes a little something like this:   The as yet unidentified mean first came to police attention when Linda Pesce's body had not yet been found. He voluntarily presented himself to the authorities claiming he had found some bones on Sand Island. When investigators processed the bones they discovered they were from a pig. The man was put under surveillance and, on May 9, was arrested due to circumstantial evidence linking him to the serial killings.    So we found both of these stories in several different places and wanted to present them both. From here on out everything pretty much lines up through most sources.    So who the hell is this guy? Well it would come out much later that the mans name was Howard Gay Dutcher. So who was Howard Gay and why was he considered the prime suspect even though he'd helped find the body of Linda Pesce? Let's have a look at this guy shall we?    Gay was born in 1943 in Buffalo, New York. Not much is known about his personal history other than he joined the army and was stationed at George Air Force Base, a 30-minute drive from Apple Valley, California, where he lived for fifteen years. He was eventually discharged in 1965. Gay attended Victor Valley College, received his associate degree, and was employed by Continental Telephone in Victorville, where he held jobs as a lineman and teletype repairman. In the same year as his discharge, he married Rita Thompson, his college sweetheart, and fathered two children with her: Justin and Jason. In 1968, he was employed by Flying Tiger Line at Los Angeles International Airport. Gay's role was to train cargo aircraft mechanics around the world and, in 1980, he was relocated to Daniel K. Inouye International Airport, in Honolulu, Hawaii. Howard lived in a rented three-bedroom home in Ewa Beach. He divorced from his wife in 1983. One day, his family decided to surprise him by traveling to Honolulu, but when they showed up he was upset and even refused to let them in his home. He made them stay in a hotel and shipped them back to California two days later. His neighbors told reporters he was a gentleman, always willing to help others. A female assistant manager who worked at La Mariana Sailing Club in 1986 recognized Gay as a man who routinely stared at her, asked her to accept rides from him, and once reacted furiously when she once again refused.    The FBI's Behavioral Science Unit profiled the Honolulu Strangler as being a Caucasian male in his late 30s or early 40s who had no prior criminal record and may have been experiencing marital or girlfriend problems at the time. It said the killer may have lived or worked in the area between Sand Island and Waipahu. He was also an opportunist who cruised for victims and struck when opportunity presented itself, rather than a stalker who chose his victims. And due to prior witnesses, they had suspected the killer drove a cream colored van with words on the back.    All of these things fit Gay to a T.  On May 9th 1986, police arrested Gay. Gays girlfriend had started to police the he like bondage sex and would routinely tie her up with her hands behind her back, like the victims. Another way he fit the profile and the police thought him to be a viable suspect is that his ex wife told police that each killing coincides with a domestic dispute the couple had. The ex wife says that Gay would leave the house after the fights and would not return until the next day.  On top of that he was connected to all the crime scenes since he worked at the airport (near where most of the victims were dumped) and lived in close proximity to Waipahu, where two victims disappeared and Louise Medeiros' body was found. He also drove a cream-colored, american made van with letters on its rear windows, had a vasectomy like the man who raped three of the victims, and possibly had access to parachute cord due to his job. If that were not enough, Linda Pesce's boss claimed she had written down Gay's phone number on a note pad on the day she disappeared, since at that time Linda was looking for customers in the airport area. Gay offered to take a polygraph examination which (depending on the source)  gave an inconclusive result, or a failure result, and consented to a search at his home.  Despite all the elements against him, he was released after being held and questioned for ten hours, since prosecutors Peter Carlisle and Michael McGuigan decided they had insufficient evidence to win a case.    Two months after the arrest a woman came forward to claim she'd seen Linda chatting with a man the night she disappeared. The woman was brought in and shown a lineup and picked Gays photo out of the line up. The woman said she did not want to be a witness as she was scared because the man had seen her as well.    So what happened to Gay after this. Well… We'll tell ya. The killings stopped after Gay's arrest and release. After his release he stated, “The police have released me, that's all I know. They (the investigators) have plenty of good cause. They're doing their job”..Gay returned to California in June 1986 to see his son, Jason, graduate from high school. Three days later, Jason was killed in an automobile accident, while changing a tire on the side of the road which prompted Howard to become a born-again Christian. Gay later worked for FedEx in Memphis, Tennessee, presumably when the latter acquired Flying Tiger Line, in 1988. He died of kidney failure in November of 2003.    We found his obituary… Not one mention of his time in Hawaii...it reads as follows:    Howard Gay lived in Apple Valley, California, for fifteen years. He was stationed at George Air Force Base, where he was honorably discharged in 1965. He attended Victor Valley College, where he received his associate degree. Howard was employed at Continental Telephone in Victorville, California, as a lineman and later a teletype repairman. In 1968, he was employed by Flying Tiger Lines at LAX, and later Federal Express in Memphis, Tennessee. Howard traveled throughout the world, training aircraft mechanics on airframe and powerplant systems on large cargo planes.   Interesting….   At any rate, police spoke to many people and followed other leads on cream colored vans and things like that. Nothing solid ever came from anything else other than the Howard Gay stuff. Police that worked the case spoke years later and they all are certain that Gay was the killer. Unfortunately since he is dead and since no DNA evidence is available we may never actually get a solid answer on this case, despite there being a reward of $25,000. 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Hey ya'll. It's been a minute. Today's episode is about the first season of Mindhunter. Minhunter is a Netflix show that focuses on serial killers and why they kill. It follows Agents Holden and Bill as they travel the country interviewing convicted serial killers on assignment for the Behavioral Science Unit for the FBI. Feel free to follow the podcast and support this podcast as well. https://anchor.fm/ivebeenmeaningtowatchthat/support Thank you so much for listening. If you have any suggestions, feel free to send them dulciom@hotmail.com . --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ivebeenmeaningtowatchthat/support

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Serial Killer Ted Bundy Kenneth Allen McDuff ranks among the most heartless and sadistic serial killers in American history. But what creates the McDuff's and Ted Bundy's of this world? Two former FBI profilers, who were among the founders of the Behavioral Science Unit based at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia, gave me invaluable insight.  I met profilers John Douglas and Roy Hazelwood after they had retired from the bureau.  At that time, they were not widely known outside of law enforcement circles. Today, the Netflix crime drama Mindhunter is loosely based on John Douglas's role in pioneering profiling at the FBI. His fellow profiler Roy Hazelwood became the world's leading expert on the strangest, most dangerous of all aberrant offenders, the sexual criminal. Hazelwood is now deceased. He coauthored landmark books about the minds of sexual predators with Stephen Michaud. Michaud is a friend and fellow investigative reporter who used to be based here in Dallas. Stephen Michaud is the expert on Ted Bundy.   He tape-recorded 150 hours of audio with the serial killer when Bundy was imprisoned in a Florida State Prison.  In 1983, Michaud and another giant of investigative reporting, Hugh Aynesworth wrote the book, The Only Living Witness; The True Story of Serial Killer Ted Bundy. In 2019, NetFlix premiered a four-episode docuseries based on Michaud's tapes titled Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes. Michaud and I discuss what goes on inside the minds of serial killers.   FOLLOW the True Crime Reporter® Podcast SIGN UP FOR my True Crime Newsletter THANK YOU FOR THE FIVE-STAR REVIEWS ON APPLE Please leave one – it really helps. TELL ME about a STORY OR SUBJECT  that you want to hear more about

Kenneth Allen McDuff ranks among the most heartless and sadistic serial killers in American history. But what is it that creates the McDuff's and Ted Bundy's of this world? I received an invaluable understanding from two former FBI profilers who were among the original founders of the Behavioral Science Unit based at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia.  I met profilers John Douglas and Roy Hazelwood after they had retired from the bureau.  At that time they were not widely known outside of law enforcement circles. Today the Netflix crime drama, Mindhunter is loosely based on John Douglas's role in pioneering profiling at the FBI. His fellow profiler Royal Hazelwood became the world's leading expert on the strangest, most dangerous of all aberrant offenders, the sexual criminal. Hazelwood is now deceased. He coauthored landmark books about the minds of sexual predators with Stephen Michaud. Michaud is a friend and fellow investigative reporter who used to be based here in Dallas. Stephen Michaud is the expert on Ted Bundy.   He tape-recorded 150 hours of audio with the serial killer when Bundy was imprisoned in a Florida State Prison.  In 1983, Michaud and another giant of investigative reporting, Hugh Aynesworth wrote the book, The Only Living Witness; The True Story of Serial Killer Ted Bundy. In 2019, NetFlix premiered a four-episode docuseries based on Michaud's tapes titled Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes. Michaud and I discuss what goes on inside the minds of serial killers. Please Share This Link With Your Friends To Subscribe. True Crime Reporter™ Podcast Follow us on social media: Facebook Instagram Twitter LinkedIn YouTube P.S. If you like this podcast, we invite you to listen to our Justice Facts Podcast -- True Crime Is Stranger Than Fiction. Click here to subscribe to Justice Facts. Bill Johnston, the federal prosecutor featured in "Free To Kill" and Investigative Reporter Robert Riggs, the host of True Crime Reporter™ talk about criminal cases from their careers and dissect cases making news. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Kenneth Allen McDuff ranks among the most heartless and sadistic serial killers in American history. But what is it that creates the McDuff’s and Ted Bundy’s of this world? I received an invaluable understanding from two former FBI profilers who were among the original founders of the Behavioral Science Unit based at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia.  I met profilers John Douglas and Roy Hazelwood after they had retired from the bureau.  At that time they were not widely known outside of law enforcement circles. Today the Netflix crime drama, Mindhunter is loosely based on John Douglas’s role in pioneering profiling at the FBI. His fellow profiler Royal Hazelwood became the world’s leading expert on the strangest, most dangerous of all aberrant offenders, the sexual criminal. Hazelwood is now deceased. He coauthored landmark books about the minds of sexual predators with Stephen Michaud. Michaud is a friend and fellow investigative reporter who used to be based here in Dallas. Stephen Michaud is the expert on Ted Bundy.   He tape-recorded 150 hours of audio with the serial killer when Bundy was imprisoned in a Florida State Prison.  In 1983, Michaud and another giant of investigative reporting, Hugh Aynesworth wrote the book, The Only Living Witness; The True Story of Serial Killer Ted Bundy. In 2019, NetFlix premiered a four-episode docuseries based on Michaud’s tapes titled Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes. Michaud and I discuss what goes on inside the minds of serial killers. Please Share This Link With Your Friends To Subscribe. True Crime Reporter™ Podcast Follow us on social media: Facebook Instagram Twitter LinkedIn YouTube P.S. If you like this podcast, we invite you to listen to our Justice Facts Podcast -- True Crime Is Stranger Than Fiction. Click here to subscribe to Justice Facts. Bill Johnston, the federal prosecutor featured in "Free To Kill" and Investigative Reporter Robert Riggs, the host of True Crime Reporter™ talk about criminal cases from their careers and dissect cases making news.

Join my Reader Team to get the FBI Reading Resource - Books about the FBI, written by FBI agents, the 20 clichés about the FBI Reality Checklist, and keep up to date on the FBI in books, TV, and movies via my monthly email. Join here.   Jerri Williams, a retired FBI agent, author and podcaster, attempts to relive her glory days by writing and blogging about the FBI and hosting FBI Retired Case File Review, a true crime/history podcast. Visit her website to check out her books, available as audiobooks, ebooks and paperbacks wherever books are sold.  In this episode of FBI Retired Case File Review, Terry Kerns and Bryanna Fox review their investigation of Rick Van Thiel, accused of practicing medicine without a license. Terry and Bryanna and members of the Las Vegas Joint Terrorism Task Force gathered evidence and witness statements that “Dr. Rick” was performing surgical procedures, including abortions. A former porn actor, he preferred to be nude while treating his patients/victims. He was also a follower of the sovereign citizen movement, which believes members are not subject to any government statutes, laws, or proceedings. The case had a surprising twist ending. Retired agent Terry Kerns served in the FBI for 21 years. Terry, who has a Master's of Science in Nursing and a PhD concentrated in emergency management, worked an array of programs in the FBI; health care fraud, weapons of mass destruction, hazardous materials/bombing, and terrorism investigations. Her last assignment before her retirement was as the supervisor on the Joint Terrorism Task Force in Las Vegas, focusing on domestic terrorism investigations.   Former agent Bryanna Fox served in the FBI for four years, 3 years as a research fellow in the FBI’s Behavioral Science Unit in Quantico, Virginia, and one year as a special agent. As a first office new agent, she completed a rotation that placed her on the Joint Terrorism Task Force and the Transnational Organized Crime Squad in the Las Vegas field office. Currently, Bryanna, who earned her PhD from the University of Cambridge, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Criminology at the University of South Florida in Tampa.

Jeff and Colleen review Mindhunter, Dirty John and Teenage Bounty Hunters TV Show. Mindhunter Premise Mindhunter revolves around FBI agents Holden Ford (Jonathan Groff) and Bill Tench (Holt McCallany), along with psychologist Wendy Carr (Anna Torv), who operates the FBI’s Behavioral Science Unit within the Training Division at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia. They... The post Mindhunter, Dirty John and Teenage Bounty Hunters TV Reviews – Ep. 72 appeared first on Ride Along with Jeff and Colleen.

The FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU), was first formed in 1972 under the name the Behavioral Science Unit. The foundation of the unit was agents Robert Ressler and John Douglas. Ressler and Douglas wanted to bring in elements of psychology to help develop a profile of unidentified spree or serial killers, which they called Unknown Subjects, or UNSUBs. Ressler is also credited with coining the term “serial killer.”

David Kilgour was Secretary of State for Canada from January 2002 until December 2003, David served as Secretary of State (Asia-Pacific). Prior to that time, David served as Secretary of State for Africa, the Caribbean and Latin America (1997-2002). Andrew (Andy) Bringuel, II, was an FBI Agent Supervisor Instructor/Researcher at the FBI Academy’s Behavioral Science Unit and had over 27 years of investigative and management experience before retiring in April 2017.Mr.Bringuel is the Executive Director of the Behavioral Science Unit, LLC a private training, consulting, and research firm located in central New York.

Before the 1900s, solving a murder was done using conjectural theories or flimsy psychological notions of what makes a killer a killer. That all changed with the development of forensic techniques employed at crime scenes, but few know the origin story of these now taken-for-granted methods of solving murders and other misdeeds. It all changed with the revolutionary contributions of Edward Oscar Heinrich who pioneered many of the forensic techniques used today. Today’s guest is Kate Dawson, author of the book American Sherlock, who gives Heinrich his due with an account of his work on some of the most perplexing and notorious cases of the first half of the twentieth century. The press at the time dubbed Edward Oscar Heinrich ‘America’s Sherlock Holmes’ thanks to his brilliance in the lab, his cool demeanor at crime scenes, and his expertise in the witness chair. He invented new forensic techniques. A CSI in the field and inside the lab before the acronym existed. And he was a nascent innovator of criminal profiling fifty years before the FBI’s Behavioral Science Unit invented its methodology.Never a member of a police force, Heinrich was brought in to consult on many high profile cases, including the legendary rape and manslaughter trial of movie comedian Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle (a case the prosecution ultimately lost when the jury neglected to accept Heinrich’s finger print evidence). Bloodstain pattern analysis, ballistics, the use of UV rays to detect blood, hair and fiber evidence, handwriting analysis—all were virtually unheard of methods that Heinrich employed to bring criminals to justice. Often the cutting-edge techniques that Heinrich engaged in the lab and brought to the courtroom as an expert witness would rile the authorities, even as they galvanized the public. Edward Oscar Heinrich quietly and unassumingly offered a revolutionary approach—the immutable proof that science and reason could provide to the thrilling, often messy world of crime solving.

In this edition of the Managing Uncertainty Podcast, Bryghtpath Principal & Chief Executive Bryan Strawser and Consultant Bray Wheeler, take on the new report by the United States Secret Service on targeted school violence. Just published in November 2019, this report analyzes more the forty targeted school violence attacks in the United States and provides a detailed base of facts about school violence, as well as an updated methodology and practical guidelines for prevention. The full report can be downloaded from the Secret Service's National Threat Assessment Center (NTAC) through this link. Related Episodes & Blog Posts Blog Post:  Diving into the Secret Service's Report on School Threat Assessment Teams Episode #30: Threat Management in Educational Institutions Episode #51:  School Threat Assessment Teams Bryghtpath:  Education Industry - Services & Results //static.leadpages.net/leadboxes/current/embed.js Episode Transcript Bryan Strawser: Hello and welcome to the managing uncertainty podcast. This is Bryan Strawser, principal and chief executive here at Bryghtpath. Bray Wheeler: This is Bray Wheeler, consultant here at Bryghtpath. Bryan Strawser: And on this week's episode we're discussing the Secret Services recent report published in November 2019, titled Protecting America's Schools, a United States Secret Service Analysis of Targeted School Violence. This report is available online and we will link it in the show notes. It's a fascinating report that goes deep into 41 incidents of targeted school violence that occurred in K through 12 schools in the United States from 2008 to 2017. And they cite that these findings will help prevention efforts for schools and law enforcement across the country as communities work to develop threat assessment protocols that are geared towards preventing school violence tragedies. Some basic info that I think was shared or some basic info that kind of kicked the report off, and then I want to get to the meat of this, which is really about the warning signs of potential targeted school violence. Bryan Strawser: But of the 41 attacks that are profiled in the report, all but two occurred in public schools. So only two occurred in charter or private schools. 73% of these attacks were carried out in grades nine through 12, so in high schools. Most of those schools that had a targeted violent attack had implemented some type of physical security measure and 66% of them had either full or part-time school resource officers on the campus. So, police officers on the campus. The most commonly used physical security measure was a school walk down procedure, followed by security cameras, followed by alert systems that notified community members via text or phone calls. 61% of the attacks used firearms, 39% use knives. Shocking. The attackers were predominantly male, 83%, and white, 63%. And by shocking, I mean not shocking, because most violent perpetrators are male. 17% of the attackers were female. Their ages range from 12 to 18. The average age was 15 years old. Bray, any initial reaction to that information? Bray Wheeler: Unfortunately that sounds a lot like what we've seen and heard, both in the news and just historically, sort of sense. This kind of came on the national radar via Columbine, Parkland and others in between. The MO holds pretty strong to that kind of description of what's happened and who committed it. Bryan Strawser: Yeah. I would point out the sample size is pretty small. 41 attacks over a nine year time period. I believe, I don't have the report in front of me at the moment, but I believe that the report is inclusive of all targeted school violence attacks and they have a definition for what that means in the report. I don't think these were cherry-picked. I was a little surprised. I expected the number of male offenders to be higher than 83% because it's almost... You look at violent crime, it's almost all male that occurs. Bray Wheeler: Yeah. Yeah. That is a little bit kind of noticeable in terms of the number there that it is as low as it. Bryan Strawser: It's a little lower, yeah. So in the reports there were 10 warning signs that were highlighted of things that can be observed prior to a school attack that I think are worth speaking to. The first one is that there is no single profile of a student attacker or a profile for the type of school targeted. Attackers varied in age, gender, race, grade level, academic performance and social characteristics, and the schools varied in size, location and teacher to pupil ratio. The Secret Service's conclusion here is that rather than focusing on a set of traits of characteristics, threat assessment processes should focus instead on gathering information about a student's relevant behaviors, situational factors and circumstances in order to assess risk. Bryan Strawser: I think we knew this. This lines up by the way with the FBI's recent publication of their mass shooting, Active Shooter reports, where the Behavioral Science Unit went into like what are the warning signs, what are the pre attack indicators? And the Bureau's conclusion is essentially there was no single profile that said, "Yes, this is a person who was going to commit targeted violence." It was a combination of things. [crosstalk 00:05:11]. Bray Wheeler: And I think to their point, it's really about the behaviors and noticing people that are around these potential actors, differences in their behaviors and their- Bryan Strawser: It was about their [crosstalk] it was about their behavior. Bray Wheeler: What are they doing? There's a difference, and what is that difference? And does that difference raise any sort of red flag for you? And if it does, being able to communicate that. Bryan Strawser: Take action on that. Number two, on the warning signs, attackers usually had multiple motivations for their attack. The most common, however, involve a grievance with classmates, faculty or staff. Bray Wheeler: Yeah, I mean it's the different motivations and oftentimes that tends to be kind of the thing in their life that starts to set off some of that. I don't want to call it the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back because there's probably a multitude of factors there, but it typically manifests there that they want to take action and that feels probably like the path of least resistance to be able to take an action when they've gone kind of that far in the mindset. Bryan Strawser: Number three is that most attackers used firearms and those firearms were most often acquired from the home. That many attackers were able to gain access to unsecured firearms in their place of residence. Others were also able to gain access to firearms that were in a secured safe. For example, in the Sandy Hook shooting, that individual actually killed his mother in order to gain access to the firearms that were in a safe. I don't know if there was a combination or key or certainly how that worked, but his homicide of her enabled him to gain access to the firearms that were secured in a safe. Bryan Strawser: Knives were used in lesser number of attacks. 39% I believe was the number recited earlier. Threat assessment teams should explore if a student has access to any weapons, particularly weapons that are stored at home. Bray Wheeler: That's almost one of those, you can get into the merits of it and kind of the political conversation of it, but reality is reality. People have those firearms in their homes and that again, that's the path of least resistance to acquire something. High school students aren't probably- Bryan Strawser: They're not walking into a gun shop to buy a gun because they can't. Bray Wheeler: Or is likely to try and get one off the street, based on the profile of these individuals that we're talking about in here. Certainly, gang-related violence and things like that tend to be kind of classified and talked about a little bit different and very much a threat nonetheless. But in terms of these school shootings, that's the path of least resistance to get that. And that's typically where those people have gone. Bryan Strawser: Number four, most attackers had experienced psychological, behavioral or developmental symptoms prior to their act of targeted violence. Bray Wheeler: Yeah, I mean that gets to be it... Again, it's back to some of that's just reality. It's also a sensitive discussion topic. Well, because what constitutes... What, how severe, who's doing the classification? Has there been- Bryan Strawser: What's the actual behavior that's been observed? Bray Wheeler: Right. Has there been anything in terms of action by the state government, the federal government, local government around said behavior? Has the school done anything around different behaviors that the student has exhibited in the past? I mean, it becomes a very key factor, but it's also a piece that can vary slightly and is open to interpretation. It's a little bit subjective in terms of how other people interpret. Bryan Strawser: Totally agree. Yeah, you can't see me nodding, but I've been nodding while Bray's been talking. I think this reinforces the need to make sure that students and parents are aware of what resources are available to them for mental health assistance, social services counseling, substance abuse treatment. To your point, if we do get into a dicey situation here, like what kind of behavior are we really seeing? Is it psychological, is it behavioral, is it developmental, is it an addiction? There's a lot of possibilities for what causes some of these. The point is, how do we make sure that they have access to resources that can help them in this situation. Bryan Strawser: Number five is that half of the attackers had an interest in topics related to violence or as the report says, they displayed unusual or concerning interest in violence and weapons. Bryan Strawser: That feels like a little bit of a stereotype. It made me think about the Columbine, it was the Trench Coat Mafia and dark stories and Dungeons and Dragons or whatever. Forgive me, because I don't remember the particulars now, it's been 20 years. But you had what I thought was kind of this irrational stereotyping of that. I wrote some violent things when I was in is cool because I mean, what did I watch? I liked Star Wars and Star Trek and we were shooting people with phasers and cut them in half of the lightsabers. It's kind of violent. Bray Wheeler: Well, again, it gets back to the little bit of the subjective nature of it. The open to interpretation, the fact that some of these things can be pretty obvious in that segment, but that doesn't necessarily... There's to your point, there's lots of kids participating in those different activities and to varying degrees and what degree is- Bryan Strawser: What's concerning? Bray Wheeler: Concerning- Bryan Strawser: And what's not? Bray Wheeler: ... to what person. Bryan Strawser: Right. Bray Wheeler: So, mom and dad's level of concern may be very different than teacher's concern may be very different than coaches concern may be very different than employer's concerns. Bryan Strawser: So again, we see, for a threat assessment team, it's important to be holistic and look at the various dimensions of this and where does this fit in light of other factors for risk that should be considered as a part of that? Bryan Strawser: Number six. All of the attackers experienced social stressors involving their relationships with their peers and/or romantic partners. That every attacker in this study experienced at least one social stressor most frequently related to bullying. Other stressors include family, academic, or school discipline. Bray Wheeler: Yeah, I don't know what my reaction to this one is necessarily in particular because it, I don't want to make light of those pieces, but we're also talking, if we're talking the average age is 15, which means more likely we're in that middle school, high school range. Bryan Strawser: There's a lot of social stressors. Bray Wheeler: There is a lot of social stressors, and so I think part of, kind of back to the theme that you're touching on, Bryan is, there's a lot of factors at play. We can't just extrapolate one of these things that we've talked about as a case in point for, you're going to be an attacker, we need to watch you. Because I mean, to be fair across the board here, that one in particular for this age range, that's just reality. Bryan Strawser: I agree. Bray Wheeler: They're trying to learn their way in the world and especially in that middle school range where your hormones and your physiological and mental development is all over the place and emotional development. So I think the key piece there is where do those things lie? To what degree are those things being put to the forefront in terms of their behavior or their conversations or their actions, what they're displaying in relation to some of these other things that we talked about? Bryan Strawser: Number seven. Nearly every attacker experienced negative home life factors. That negative home-like factors included parental divorce or separation, drug use or criminal charges amongst family members, or domestic abuse. There's probably more, I think those were some of the major factors. Absence of one parent or the other because of divorce, imprisonment or separation was also a factor here. And I don't know, I mean, I think lots of folks have a negative home life factor to some extent. I was fortunate to have both of my parents growing up and we had a pretty stable nuclear family, but my aunts and uncles were alcoholics and drug addicts and that was all something I was exposed to. So definitely there was some negative... If I personalize this, there was some home negative influence in my broader family. I don't think that's necessarily unusual. Bray Wheeler: No and I think, I mean again, not trying to minimize, but it definitely speaks to, I think the last four that we've talked about are all very related. They're not necessarily unique in terms of grievance with a classmate or something like that. That's a pretty common thing. These all speak to kind of the mental, emotional, environmental factors that a student, the child is kind of surrounded in, whether by their choice or by other people's choosing. And I think that certainly these four definitely play a role, but they're not common, so you have to take them as kind of the collective, which has been a theme we've been beating on here, but... Bryan Strawser: Number eight. Most attackers, so more than a simple majority, were victims of bullying, which was often observed by others. The study found that in many cases the school was aware that the attacker experienced bullying, but the responses to bullying varied. In some cases the school did little to intervene or intervened in a way that increased the bullying of a student. And I think just like the others, this is another one where either you have to take this in light of the whole holistic view of what's going on with this individual, and the combination of those risk factors. It's not just that they were bullied, but it's going to be a combination of this and other factors that will raise the risk in that case. Bray Wheeler: When I think for schools and communities and things like that, getting clear on what bullying is and is not, and not throwing it around loosely, but also taking it seriously in terms of putting in different intervention programs, making sure that kids have access to other resources within the school, making sure that there are programs, processes, things like that, that are in place, that you're not caught off guard. Because I think one of the things that is kind of in here that's not necessarily explicitly stated in the schools and the communities that these are happening in aren't a particular type of school or community that it's happening in it. It varies from very suburban to little bit more rural to- Bryan Strawser: Right. There was no profile [crosstalk] That's right. Bray Wheeler: And that community. So it happens everywhere. So you have to assume this can happen here. One of the cool programs at my kid's school that I thought was kind of cool is, so they have a couple of counselors, and they have different things for different needs of different students. Whether that's kind of anxiety, or they've got some personal stuff going on at home in terms of a sick parent or sibling or something like that. But one of the groups they have is just geared around kids who may need a forum to make some friends or to engage in more friendly kind of interactions with students, regardless of whether or not they're aggressive or things like that. Bray Wheeler: Sometimes those kids are just in a kind of in a funky spot. And so that's an opportunity for them to get together and just talk and hang out and play different games and stuff like that. And fortunately one of my kids is able to experience that and has been having an awesome time, and he's not one that doesn't make friends easy. He's pretty personable, he makes a lot of friends. But in terms of some of the stuff that he's in, it's a good forum for him to get together with different kids and not only help them through, but talk through it. So I mean it's programs like that, that really can help shape and build a community and build a culture within the school too of no tolerance. Bryan Strawser: Right. Bray Wheeler: That other kids are starting to stand up for other kids and kind of self-policing a little bit. Not to put the responsibility on the students, but that is part of it. I mean, if that's the world we want to live in, then got to start somewhere. Bryan Strawser: Number nine. Most attackers had a history of school disciplinary actions, and many shooters had prior contact with law enforcement. I should say, attackers, not shooters. Many attackers had prior contact with law enforcement. Most attackers had a history of receiving a school disciplinary action resulting from a range of inappropriate behavior. And those actions included being suspended, being expelled, or having interactions with law enforcement. Bryan Strawser: I think after Parkland, this doesn't surprise us. In the Parkland incident, that individual had, I believe he had been expelled from school, but he wasn't permitted back on school property, whatever the result was. But law enforcement had 35, 36 interactions with him prior to his attack at the Parkland school. Bray Wheeler: If like we've talked about you're taking these other kind of key findings and the consideration around that, it's probably not surprising that there is disciplinary action within the school. Whether or not that's prompted by that person or as a result of conflicts with people who are bullying that individual or there was grievances between classmates, things like that, the interactions with law enforcement, those can come in any manner of ways in terms of, as we talked about, interest in violent topics or firearms and weapons or just home life interactions with different things that are going on. So, not surprising given some of the other key findings we've talked about that would be a thing that's a finding as well. Bryan Strawser: Right. Number 10, and the last one, all attackers exhibited concerning behavior prior to the attack. Most elicited concern from others and most communicated their intent to attack. Bray Wheeler: And that is probably the biggest one in there. Bryan Strawser: Yeah. It states that the initial indicators of a student in distress or exhibiting concerning behavior were most often observed by peers, school staff, family members or others in the community, some of whom took action and reported, and some did not. And those that did report action, was not always taken on their reports. And I think we know this to be true. We've seen this in coverage of other targeted violence in schools and out of schools, that a lot of times people aren't willing to call and report behavior. And also that when their behavior is reported, law enforcement or other services don't always take the actions that we expect them to take, or sometimes don't even follow through on the report at all. Or in a lot of cases. Bray Wheeler: Or even other organizations. So if a student goes to school and the school blows it off, doesn't take action, thinks a different approach is preferred, I mean, that is the biggest probably piece in here, the biggest lesson learned or takeaway for everybody, is when you do see those things and it does raise those red flags and you're serious enough about it to report it, follow up. Make sure that those things are getting communicated and if you don't feel like it's sufficient, communicate it again to a different audience. Escalate those things. Don't let these things get lost in the shuffle because ultimately, the intent here hopefully for people is to help that individual, intercede before things continue to escalate down a road. Most of the time these are people that are close to the individual, whether that's friends or family members or things like that. They're the ones that are going to probably notice that behavior first and be most concerned about it and probably want to help. Bryan Strawser: Well, I think the first indication right, I mean, or the first motivating factor, I should say, for when something is reported to you that you want to help the individual that's in need. I've never worked in a school, but if I worked in a school and someone came to me with a report of concerning behavior, I don't know that my first reaction would be, my God, we needed to deter the attack. I'd think it's, how do I help this student or someone else that needs help in this case and the deterring and the attack isn't necessarily something conscious that I'm doing. I'm taking action to help somebody that I have this connection to you as a staff or faculty member of a school. Bray Wheeler: Or if it's the organic prevention of that attack, to your point, that you're not first going there, although probably some people do go immediately there. That's probably not the most helpful either, but also speaks to some of the seriousness that people can take with some of these reports. But I think to your point, the need to help that individual in whatever way, whatever shape or form, that's really the initial intent there. And so that should be taken seriously across the board and escalated and pieced together in terms of some of these other factors around that behavior, putting that right context in place so that the appropriate escalation is happening as well. Bryan Strawser: And I think this goes back to kind of to a twofold thing we've been emphasizing throughout the podcast and that is that we believe that school threat assessment teams, this interdisciplinary group that's been trained to evaluate risk and threats and be able to take a coordinated response to help the student and protect the school, are a really effective way of managing these situations. Particularly you're looking at the holistic view of what's going on with that student and all of the possible risk factors that are at play. And the Secret Service recommends this in the report. In fact, last year, I think it was late 2018, they had a report from their National Threat Assessment Center just about how to use threat assessment teams effectively in the K through 12 education environment to mitigate the risk of an attack and to help the student that's in need. Bryan Strawser: But second, I think this also just goes back to the point we had earlier that when suspicious or concerning behavior is reported to the school or to another body entity that's out there, that you have to take these seriously, that you really have to follow up on that report in order to understand what's going on with that student. And having a threat assessment team helps you kind of formalize that process and get multiple folks looking at the situation and providing their own trained view, but also the view from their discipline. You should have folks that have a security and law enforcement background, a counseling background, teachers and faculty that are a part of this, so that you get that well rounded view, holistic view of what's going on with the student. Bray Wheeler: Well, I think it speaks to the other kind of sub team we've been talking through is no one person in that student's life can necessarily see all of these different factors that have been outlined here. Nobody's got that view. Parents can say if they're really on top of it that they absolutely know. I know my son or daughter. Not doubting that, but it's also, you're not walking in their shoes with them all day every day. You've allowed them to go out into the world. They're in the classroom. Bryan Strawser: How they are in the classroom might not be what you see at home? Bray Wheeler: Yep. Because I've gone to plenty of teacher's conferences where my kids are all well behaved and I go, "I want some of that at home." I just signed my daughter's report cards this morning. They're six and eight, so there's not a lot of serious academic stuff going on there yet. They're learning how to read and write and spell and all the basic stuff. But they both had comments about that, like that they're such a sweet, caring kind girl who helps others. And I'm like, "Where is this person?" Because that's not what I have around the house. Bryan Strawser: But, it's right. I mean, we might laugh at that, but the truth is your child might act differently at school than what you're used to seeing in home, good or bad. Bray Wheeler: Or bad. And I think that's the important pieces. As a parent, you should be your child's biggest advocate, but again, recognize that you don't see them everywhere. And so there might be factors, that's not to say that they have the poor discipline or poor behavior or things like that, but things might be happening to them that they're not sharing or they're blowing off or that are building, that they don't know how to communicate. So having that team at school, having engaged parents, or an engaged village, that community of people surrounding that student, when those things surface in terms of some of these findings that the Secret Service has laid out here, kind of bubble up or people report to say, "This is really different. I don't feel good about this with John or Jane." That hose things are, like we've said, addressed and addressed in a way that is holistic and reasonable and escalates as appropriate, to make sure that that student is getting what they need. And by hopefully by consequence, organically solves the problem of really violent behavior later. Bryan Strawser: So we'll link the report in the show notes so you can take a look at that. And I believe we have an episode a few months back on another Secret Service report that's kind of related to this. We'll link that as well. I think that was the one about threat assessment teams and their recommendations. We'll link that up so you can go back and take a look at that episode. Bryan Strawser: That's it for this edition of the Managing Uncertainty podcast. We'll be back next week with another new episode. Thanks for listening.

Retired agent Joe Navarro served in the FBI for 25 years. During his Bureau career, he worked as an agent and supervisor in counterintelligence and counterterrorism. In this episode of FBI Retired Case File Review, Joe reviews the case of Rod Ramsay, an  Army veteran living in Tampa, Florida, suspected of committing espionage while stationed in Germany. While interviewing Ramsay forty-two times, Joe recorded the evidence to prove that the spy handed the Soviets vital military secrets that could destroy the US. Joe wrote about the case in his book - Three Minutes to Doomsday: An Agent, a Traitor, and the Worst Espionage Breach in U.S. History. Through his work on this case and others, Joe Navarro was able to study, refine, and apply the science of nonverbal communications. His expertise in the body language field and his success as a spy-catcher led Joe to begin training FBI agents and the intelligence community at the FBI Academy’s Behavioral Science Unit. He reveals some of the myths about reading body language and what different nonverbal cues indicate. Retiring from the FBI in 2003, and meeting overwhelming demand for his notable insights into human behavior, Joe has dedicated himself to speaking and consulting with major corporations worldwide. He is recognized as one of the world’s foremost authorities on reading nonverbal communications and he has interviewed on programs such as NBC’s Today Show, Fox News, ABC’s Good Morning America, CBS’ Early Show, BBC News, and for publications such as The Washington Post, South China Morning Post and Psychology Today.  Join my Reader Team to get the FBI Reading Resource - Books about the FBI, written by FBI agents, the 20 clichés about the FBI Reality Checklist, and keep up to date on the FBI in books, TV, and movies via my monthly email. Join here.   Jerri Williams, a retired FBI agent, author and podcaster, attempts to relive her glory days by writing and blogging about the FBI and hosting FBI Retired Case File Review, a true crime/history podcast. Her new book FBI Myths and Misconceptions: A Manual for Armchair Detectives is available as an audiobook, ebook and paperback wherever books are sold.   

The Mindhunter Companion Podcast Season 1 Episode 10: (Directed by David Fincher) Demons come to roost, both for Agent Ford and the Behavioral Science Unit. Ed Kemper makes an appearance. Mindhunter, produced by Netflix, is a smart and beautifully made true-crime series, based on the real-life development of the FBI profiling unit tasked with catching serial killers.

While informal criminal profiling has been around for centuries, in 1974 the FBI formed its Behavioral Science Unit to study serial predators. Since then, the art and science of criminal profiling has been the subject of books and TV shows, including the popular Netflix series Mindhunter. Today, criminal profilers analyze crime scenes and witness statements to develop a basic description of an unknown offender that can include psychological traits, demographic variables, psychopathologies and likely behavioral patterns. In this episode, Dr. Joni Johnston talks to former FBI profiler Pete Klismet about the myths and realities of criminal profiling – what it is, how profilers do it, how it can help law enforcement in the apprehension and prosecution of serial offenders, and when it can lead them astray. Pete Klismet is a former Ventura (CA) police officer, and holds a master's degree in criminal justice from California Lutheran University and another in public administration from the University of Southern California. He is a retired Special Agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and was one of the first formally-trained psychological profilers in the bureau. He served in law enforcement for over thirty years before joining the faculty at Pikes Peak Community College as an associate professor of criminal justice, going on to chair the department. He is an award-winning author, and is the founder and director of Criminal Profiling Associates, a law enforcement consulting company.

Mindhunter Season 2 Heads South This week on the podcast Brian and Johnny step back into the minds of the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit to see what kind of Ford, Tench, and Carr have gotten themselves into this time. Mindhunter Season 2 Cast & Crew Cast Jonathan Groff (Holden Ford) Holt McCallany (Bill Tench) Anna Torv (Dr. Wendy Carr) Cameron Britton (Ed Kemper) Joe Tuttle (Gregg Smith) Sonny Valincenti (Dennis Rader) Stacey Roca (Nancy Tench) Sam Strike (Monte Rissell) Directors David Fincher Andrew Dominik Carl Franklin Executive Producer(s) Beth Kono Charlize Theron Joe Penhall Ceán Chaffin Joshua Donen David Fincher Courtenay Miles Producer(s) Jim Davidson Mark Winemaker Liz Hannah Cinematography Christopher Probst Erik Messerschmidt Editor(s) Kirk Baxter Tyler Nelson Byron Smith Eric Zumbrunnen Grant Surmi Running time 34–73 minutes Production company(s) Denver and Delilah Productions Distributor Netflix Mindhunter Season 2 Episodes Episode 1 Bill Tench is working 65 hours this week, but his wife Nancy is still insisting he put on a good face for a cookout she's throwing. She's trying to get in good with another couple in the area, and also has real estate aspirations and is using this cookout as a network time. Tench just wants to...

In this two-for-one episode of FBI Retired Case File Review, retired agents Jim Siano and Tom Baker, both first office agents at the time, review the kidnapping investigation of Barbara Jean Mackle and the arrests of her kidnappers Gary Steven Krist and Ruth Eisemann-Schier. Barbara Jean was buried alive in a wooden coffin-like box for 82 hours during the harrowing incident. Jim Siano also reviews an airplane hijacking case where the pilot was shot in the stomach by the hijacker, Arthur Barkley. Jim Siano narrowly escaped the same fate when the hijacker’s gun, pointed directly at Jim, jammed.   Jim Siano served with the FBI for 20 years. He was initially assigned to the Jacksonville and Alexandria Divisions where he worked criminal matters.  Later in his career, he was assigned to the Behavioral Science Unit at Quantico as a hostage negotiator instructor, FBI Headquarters and the Dallas Field Office as a Supervisor on a criminal squad. Jim Siano was also the Supervisor of the President’s Task Force for Organized Crime and Drugs for four years. Thomas J. Baker served in the FBI for 33 years. During his career, he served in a variety of leadership positions dealing with terrorist and criminal challenges. He has extensive experience with police management and training issues, having served as a management instructor at the FBI academy in Quantico, Virginia. Tom Baker served as the Legal Attaché in Canberra, Australia, and Paris, France. Currently, he’s an international law enforcement consultant, and advises law enforcement agencies in the U.S. and worldwide on innovations in forensics, communications, and identification systems. He has been published in professional journals on aspects of biometrics, major case management, and police training and has also presented before national and international forums, and on television and radio, concerning these topics.   Join my Reader Team to get the FBI Reading Resource - Books about the FBI, written by FBI agents, the 20 clichés about the FBI Reality Checklist, and keep up to date on the FBI in books, TV, and movies via my monthly email. Join here.   Jerri Williams, a retired FBI agent, author and podcaster, attempts to relive her glory days by writing crime fiction about greed and hosting FBI Retired Case File Review, a true crime/history podcast. Her novels—Pay To Play and Greedy Givers—inspired by actual true crime FBI cases, feature temptation, corruption, and redemption, and are available on Amazon. 

Part one of the inaugural podcast of A Dark Tale, where Joe and James go over the life of Ed Kemper.  The infamous "Co-Ed Killer" who famously cooperated with the FBI as they developed the Behavioral Science Unit, giving us insight into the twisted minds of societies worst offenders.  

And just like that, it’s the Suspect season finale. Time flies when you’re talking about murder and justice! This episode’s a shorty, focusing on the things that give Allie and Cat hope in this wild, murderous world. Plus, the first woman in the FBI’s famous Behavioral Science Unit, Jana Monroe, talks about being the real … Continue reading Ep. 08 | Restoring Some Hope →

Retired agent John Mindermann served in the FBI for 20 years. During his career, he was a firearms and defensive tactics instructor, and leader of the first Washington Field Office SWAT Team. In this episode of FBI Retired Case File Review, he reviews his assignment on C-2, the Miscellaneous Crimes Squad assigned to the Watergate investigation. He reveals little-known facts about the case, including the circumstances leading to the interview of a key witness and the FBI shutdown of the Presidential business offices in the White House. Later in his career, he was assigned to the Behavioral Science Unit in Quantico, Virginia, where  he specialized in violence avoidance, and created and taught Crisis Intervention and Police Stress programs. Prior to retiring, he transferred back to his hometown, San Francisco, where he supervised an Organized Crime and Narcotics Squad. Joh Mindermann is the author of In Pursuit: From the Streets of San Francisco to Watergate,  a gripping tale of a defining moment in American history—the Watergate scandal—told for the first time by the FBI agent who was coincidentally on weekend duty when the burglary occurred.   Join my reader team and keep up to date on the FBI in books, TV, and movies. Jerri Williams, a retired FBI agent, author and podcaster, attempts to relive her glory days by writing crime fiction about greed and hosting FBI Retired Case File Review, a true crime/history podcast. Her novels—Pay To Play and Greedy Givers—inspired by actual true crime FBI cases and featuring temptation, corruption, and redemption, are available at amazon.com. 

Hello everyone and welcome back. It's Memorial Day. Thank you to all the brave men and women who have and continue to defend this great country. In this episode, Patrick welcomes Andrew Bringuel.  Andrew is a retired Supervisory Special Agent (SSA) and an Agent Supervisor Instructor at the FBI Academy. He has over 27 years of investigative, management, research, and academic instructor experience.  Andrew's investigative accomplishments include finding a key piece of evidence used in a bomb that killed Federal Judge William Vance.  His other vast experience includes a long working history wtih the United States Military participating in red cell exercises, collaborative writing, and training military personnel from the Pentagon to Ft. Bragg, Quanico, Camp LeJeune, and Camp Pendleton. Mr. Bringuel has published articles and books on the topics of terrorism and policing and has been awarded the Thomas Jefferson award for research by The University of Virginia. Patrick and Andrew have a great discussion on a wide variety of issues. Enjoy! Check out his company, Behavioral Science Unit, LLC here: http://behavioralscienceunit.org/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-bringuel-ii-b3072635/   Find this and other great episodes at www.cjevolution.com   Patrick  

This is Episode 37 of the State of the Theory Podcast. Politics. Power. Popular Culture. And other stuff, probably. In this series, we’re like super nerdy philosophical DJs: mashing up Serious Academic Questions with the most topical news and trends in pop culture. Each week, we’ll tackle a new topic and collide it with ‘critical theory’ (we’re pretty loose with our definitions, though, so expect the unexpected). Our aim is to destroy the stuff we know, explore the stuff we don’t and unsettle everything we think we know about the world. We take the obvious, the commonsensical, the certain, and then we rip it all to shreds. We are your theory doctors and we are always on call. In this episode, we look at the Netflix show "Mindhunters" and examine how in its depiction of the Behavioral Science Unit of the FBI and its investigations of serial killers, it can be seen to be performing what Michel Foucault terms discourse. We examine the show, its depiction of insanity, criminality, university, and the FBI, in an effort to learn more about the nuances of Foucault’s ideas. Our theme music is "The Face of God" by The Agrarians (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/The_Agrarians/The_Jovial_Shepherd/The_Face_of_God) State of the Theory is brought to you by Hannah Fitzpatrick and Anindya Raychaudhuri Find us on Facebook (www.facebook.com/stateofthetheorypodcast) or Tweet us @drhfitz and @DrAnindyaR

Rundown: We review the new Netflix series MINDHUNTER. The 10-episode series is executive produced by David Fincher. Is amazing like ZODIAC or lame like THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON? You’ll have to listen to find out. For our second segment, we have a quick little chat about what we’re dorking out about this week. And finally, Chris talks two week’s worth of STAR TREK: DISCOVERY with Alexandra August and Jeff Bond. Topic 1: David Fincher's Mindhunter You may have noticed we don’t talk much about cop shows on TV. That’s because the police procedurals is one of the oldest genres in the medium, and  it’s been so picked over and redone, with your Dragnets, your Adam 12s, your Hill Street Blues, your Law and Orders, your CSIs, your Southlands and your True Detectives, there is very little new to do. The most interesting, engaging things on TV tend to not be cop shows. Argue with me on Twitter if you must. So when David Fincher announced plans to adapt Mindhunter, the non-fiction book by pioneering FBI Criminal Profiler John Douglas about the early days of the FBI’s famous Behavioral Science Unit, I was not sure what to expect. I love Fincher like a lot of modern fanboys, and am with their consensus he’s one of the best directors working today. But he is a very particular taste. And of late, he has mentioned the comic book pressures of modern Hollywood are making it tougher to get the kinds of projects he likes off the ground. So is the new Netflix show, also called Mindhunter just a cash-in retread of Seven, Zodiac and Girl with the Dragon Tattoo? Or has Fincher found a patch of untilled soil in the cop show fields and given us something unique and interesting while still having as his subject FBI agents and serial killers?   Topic 2: What We’re Dorking Out About This Week Potpourri Sonia talks about recent scary movies she's been loving, and Chris dips his toe into movies hoping for Oscar gold in 2018. Topic 3: Status Check, Star Trek: Discovery Returning today to talk about Star Trek: Discovery Ep06, "Lethe" and Ep07 "Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad" is my favorite living critic, Jeff Bond, author of The Art of Star Trek: The Kelvin Timeline as well as a forthcoming book on Seth MacFarlane's The Orville. Alexandra August, huge Star Trek fan, writer for Geek Magazine as well as host of GOT Thrones and the new DiscoTrek, will return to this segment next week.   Find The Dorking Out Show here...Dorking Out Show Bloghttp://dorkingoutshow.com/ Dorking Out Show Twitterhttps://twitter.com/dorkingoutshow Dorking Out Show YouTubehttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3ufLeNHiA59ANCMPlAdAOQ Dorking Out Show Facebookhttps://www.facebook.com/dorkingoutshow Dorking Out Show Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/DorkingOutShow Sonia’s Twitterhttps://twitter.com/TheSoniaShow The Sonia Show Bloghttp://www.thesoniashow.com/ The Sonia Show Facebook Pagehttps://www.facebook.com/TheSoniaShow Chris’ Twitter:https://twitter.com/JettJergens The Jett Jergens Bloghttps://jettjergens.com/ Jett Jergens Facebook Pagehttps://www.facebook.com/JettJergens/

Gregory M. Vecchi, Ph.D., retired from the FBI in February 2014 after 29 years of combined service in the military and as a federal agent. During his career, Dr. Vecchi investigated Russian organized crime, international drug trafficking, international and domestic terrorism, and violent crime. Dr. Vecchi was formerly the Chief of the FBI's legendary Behavioral Science Unit and an FBI crisis and hostage negotiator. Dr. Vecchi is currently a Reserve Deputy Sheriff with the Buchanan County, Missouri Sheriff's Department. Dr. Vecchi is an Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at Missouri Western State University (MWSU), where he teaches law enforcement topics in criminal justice at the undergraduate and graduate levels, as well as police cadets at the MWSU Law Enforcement Academy. Dr. Vecchi also conducts behavior-based research, training, and consultation in firearms, use-of-force, business negotiation, hostage negotiation, crisis intervention, interview and interrogation, deception detection, conflict resolution, behavioral analysis, case analysis and investigations, threat and risk assessment, personal protection, and crisis management. Dr. Vecchi is published in many of these areas and he travels around the world to deliver consultation and training solutions.

Join Dr. Carlos Vazquez as here explores the psychology of FBI profiling with Former FBI agent Pete KlismetStep into the shoes of an FBI agent working cases in the field.Walk along the path as he is selected to be one of the original FBI "Profilers"Take an inside view of the extraordinary and groundbreaking training received by this 'new breed' of FBI agents, made famous by the renowned Behavioral Science Unit.Work along with him and see what he's thinking as he analyzes facts and develops profiles in several murder cases he investigates."Pete has a fascinating story to tell, and the reader is fortunate to have been invited to listen. Read and enjoy."-Legendary FBI Profiler Roy Hazelwood - best selling author of Dark Dreams and The Evil That Men DoThe stories he shares of his days in the FBI and the years he spent as one of the agency's first profilers are incredibly engaging. After reading this book, all I can say is 'I'm sure glad Pete was on our side!'"Retired FBI Agent Pete Klismet is yet another of Houdini s Award Winning writers. Pete s books FBI Diary: Profiles of Evil, and FBI Animal House have garnered national awards in non-fiction categories.

Hettienne Park stars as Beverly Katz in “Hannibal”. A member of the Behavioral Science Unit, specializing in fibers, Beverly never handles Will (Hugh Dancy) with kid gloves, a trait appreciated by Will.