The true stories of how professional profilers help catch serial killers.
Profiling
reveals the confidential arsenal of tactics that real-life FBI investigators used to solve some of the most horrific murders in modern history. It begins with an overview of how profiling was first developed as a viable technique, followed by illustrated chapters that describe the specific parts of the profiling process:
The FBI's crime scene analysis procedure
Crime scene facts and evidence
The organized and disorganized classifications of violent serial offenders
Geographical profiling
Types of rape and the clues they leave
A serial killer's crime signature
Identifying child abductors and abusers
Profiling criminals through written documents
How profilers work with other investigators and interrogators
focuses on 50 notorious true crimes to explain profiling, describing how crime scene evidence is processed and revealing the psychological clues and how the profilers helped to solve the case. Some of these headline-grabbing cases are:
The Black Dahlia murder investigation
David Carpenter, the Trailside Killer
Robert Hansen, a highly organized killer who abducted prostitutes and left them in the Alaska wilderness so he could hunt them with a rifle
Ted Bundy
Jeffrey Dahmer
is the gripping behind-the-scenes story of a topic that has had fans of
Criminal Minds
and the
CSI
series glued to their television screens for many years.