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John Edward Douglas (born June 18, 1945) [1] [2] [3] is an American retired special agent and unit chief in the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).. He was one of the first criminal profilers and has written and co-written books on criminal psychology, true crime novels, and his biography.
Dayle Hinman (born September 21, 1952) is a retired, FBI-trained criminal profiler.She starred in a television series on TruTV (earlier known as CourtTV).The program, Body of Evidence: From the case files of Dayle Hinman, documented some of the cases she worked while a Special Agent at the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE), as well as some other cases.
Candice DeLong (born July 16, 1950) is an American former FBI criminal profiler [1] and bestselling author. [2] DeLong was the lead profiler in San Francisco, California, and worked on the Unabomber case. [1]
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.
How a Criminal Profiler Works - Interview with Pat Brown. Staci Wilson. Updated July 14, 2016 at 9:04 PM. In 1990, a young woman was strangled on a jogging path near the home of Pat Brown and her ...
Offender profiling, also known as criminal profiling, is an investigative strategy used by law enforcement agencies to identify likely suspects and has been used by investigators to link cases that may have been committed by the same perpetrator. [2] The originator of modern profiling was FBI agent Robert Ressler. He defined profiling as the ...
How did a Boston nurse end up developing the FBI's modern day psychological profile for serial killers? Hulu's "Mastermind: To Think Like a Killer" shares 87-year-old Dr. Ann Burgess' story of ...
The work of Burgess, seated, along with FBI agents John Douglas and Robert Kessler, was featured in the 1986 FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin (Boston College/FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin)