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The killer across the table, unlocking the secrets of serial killers and predators with the FBI's original Mindhunter, by John Douglas and Mark Olshaker

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The killer across the table

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by John Douglas and Mark Olshaker

unlocking the secrets of serial killers and predators with the FBI's original Mindhunter

The FBI's pioneer of criminal profiling, former special agent John Douglas, has studied and interviewed many of America's most notorious killers, including Charles Manson, Son of Sam Killer David Berkowitz and BTK Strangler Dennis Rader, trained FBI agents and investigators around the world, and helped educate the country about these deadly predators and how they operate. Twenty years after his famous memoir, the man who literally wrote the book on FBI criminal profiling opens his case files once again. He spotlights four of the most diabolical criminals he's confronted, interviewed and learned from. Going deep into each man's life and crimes, he outlines the factors that led them to murder and how he used his interrogation skills to expose their means, motives, and true evil. Douglas recounts the chilling encounters with these four killers as he experienced them - revealing for the first time his profile methods in detail. Going step by step through his interviews, Douglas explains how he connects each killer's crimes to the specific conversation, and contrasts these encounters with those of other deadly criminals to show what he learns from each one. In the process, he returns to other famous cases, killers and interviews that have shaped his career, describing how the knowledge he gained from those exchanges helped prepare him for these. 2019

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