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Mindhunter : inside the FBI's elite serial crime unit

Douglas, John E., (author.). Olshaker, Mark, 1951- (author.).

Summary:

"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."--Page 4 of cover.

Record details

ISBN: 9781501191961
ISBN: 1501191969
Physical Description: xxviii, 420 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustraitons ; 23 cm
Edition: First Gallery books trade paperback edition.
Publisher: New York, NY : Gallery Books, [2017]
Copyright: �1995

Content descriptions

General Note:

"Now a NETFLIX original series"--Cover.

"With a new introduction by the authors"--Cover.

"Media Tie-in"--The publisher.

Includes index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Twenty years later -- Prologue: I must be in hell -- Inside the mind of a killer -- My mother's name was Holmes -- Betting on raindrops -- Between two worlds -- Behavioral science or BS? -- Taking the show on the road -- The heart of darkness -- The killer will have a speech impediment -- Walking in the shoes -- Everybody has a rock -- Atlanta -- One of our own -- The most dangerous game -- Who killed the All-American girl? -- Hurting the ones we love -- "God wants you to join Shari Faye" -- Anyone can be a victim -- Battle of the shrinks -- Sometimes the dragon wins.