MindhunterMindhunter
Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit
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Current format, Downloadable Audiobook, , Available.The head of the FBI's investigative unit dealing with serial killers describes the agency's methods for analyzing the criminal mind.
He has hunted some of the most notorious and sadistic criminals of our time: TheTrailside Killer in San Francisco, the Atlanta Child murderer. He has contronted,interviewed and researched dozens of serial killers and assassins -- includingCharles Manson, Richard Speck, John Wayne Gacy, and James Earl Ray -- for alandmark study to understand their motives. To get inside their minds.He is Special Agent John Douglas, the model for law enforcement legend JackCrawford in Thomas Harris's thrillers Red Dragon and The Silence of theLambs, and the man who ushered in a new age in bahavorial science andcriminal profiling. Recently retired after twenty-five years of service, JohnDouglas can finally tell his unique and compelling story. With journalist MarkOlshaker, he gives us a behind the scenes look at his fascinating career,revisiting his journeys into the dark recesses and calculated madness presentonly in our worst nightmares. This is the true-crime work everyone has beenwaiting for -- by the Mindhunter himself.
During his twenty-five year career with the Investigative Support Unit, Special Agent John Douglas became a legendary figure in law enforcement, pursuing some of the most notorious and sadistic serial killers of our time: the man who hunted prostitutes for sport in the woods of Alaska, the Atlanta child murderer, and Seattle's Green River killer, the case that nearly cost Douglas his life. As the model for Jack Crawford in The Silence of the Lambs, Douglas has confronted, interviewed, and studied scores of serial killers and assassins, including Charles Manson, Ted Bundy, and Ed Gein, who dressed himself in his victims' peeled skin. Using his uncanny ability to become both predator and prey, Douglas examines each crime scene, reliving both the killer's and the victim's actions in his mind, creating their profiles, describing their habits, and predicting their next moves. Now, in chilling detail, the legendary Mindhunter takes us behind the scenes of some of his most gruesome, fascinating, and challenging cases -- and into the darkest recesses of our worst nightmares.
He has hunted some of the most notorious and sadistic criminals of our time: TheTrailside Killer in San Francisco, the Atlanta Child murderer. He has contronted,interviewed and researched dozens of serial killers and assassins -- includingCharles Manson, Richard Speck, John Wayne Gacy, and James Earl Ray -- for alandmark study to understand their motives. To get inside their minds.He is Special Agent John Douglas, the model for law enforcement legend JackCrawford in Thomas Harris's thrillers Red Dragon and The Silence of theLambs, and the man who ushered in a new age in bahavorial science andcriminal profiling. Recently retired after twenty-five years of service, JohnDouglas can finally tell his unique and compelling story. With journalist MarkOlshaker, he gives us a behind the scenes look at his fascinating career,revisiting his journeys into the dark recesses and calculated madness presentonly in our worst nightmares. This is the true-crime work everyone has beenwaiting for -- by the Mindhunter himself.
During his twenty-five year career with the Investigative Support Unit, Special Agent John Douglas became a legendary figure in law enforcement, pursuing some of the most notorious and sadistic serial killers of our time: the man who hunted prostitutes for sport in the woods of Alaska, the Atlanta child murderer, and Seattle's Green River killer, the case that nearly cost Douglas his life. As the model for Jack Crawford in The Silence of the Lambs, Douglas has confronted, interviewed, and studied scores of serial killers and assassins, including Charles Manson, Ted Bundy, and Ed Gein, who dressed himself in his victims' peeled skin. Using his uncanny ability to become both predator and prey, Douglas examines each crime scene, reliving both the killer's and the victim's actions in his mind, creating their profiles, describing their habits, and predicting their next moves. Now, in chilling detail, the legendary Mindhunter takes us behind the scenes of some of his most gruesome, fascinating, and challenging cases -- and into the darkest recesses of our worst nightmares.
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