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Robert Kenneth Ressler (February 15, 1937 – May 5, 2013) was an American FBI agent and author. He played a significant role in the psychological profiling of violent offenders in the 1970s and is often credited with coining the term "serial killer", [2] though the term is a direct translation of the German term Serienmörder coined in 1930 by Berlin investigator Ernst Gennat.
Crime Classification Manual: A Standard System for Investigating and Classifying Violent Crimes (1992) is a text on the classification of violent crimes by John E. Douglas, Ann W. Burgess, Allen G. Burgess, and Robert K. Ressler. [1]
After being contacted by local authorities for his input, FBI profiler Robert Ressler was convinced that Crutchley had almost certainly killed before, identifying him as a "serial killer of the organized type". [6] Ressler instigated the second search, which was of much wider scope and detail than the first.
At the FBI's BSU, Robert Ressler and John Douglas began an informal series of ad hoc interviews with 36 convicts starting in early 1978. [14]: 230–231 [26] [15] Douglas and Ressler later created a typology of sexually motivated violent offenders and formed the National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime. [27]
FBI Supervisory Special Agents John E. Douglas, Robert Ressler and Dr. Ann Burgess members of the Behavioral Science Unit, begin work on compiling a centralized database on serial offenders. [3] Douglas and Ressler traveled to prisons across the United States in order to interview serial predators and obtain information about: [3] Motives
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The Blacklist is an American crime drama television series that premiered on NBC on September 23, 2013. Raymond "Red" Reddington (James Spader), a former government agent turned high-profile criminal, who had eluded capture for decades, voluntarily surrenders to the FBI, offering to cooperate on capturing a list of criminals who are virtually impossible to catch.
In 1979, Robert Ressler conducted an interview with Chase at San Quentin. A reason Ressler did this interview was since he wanted to validate the original criminal profile he had made of Chase, while the murders were occurring during 1978. [13]