James Earl Ray, assassin of Reverend Dr. John Wayne Gacy, the serial killer that killed 33 people. Sirhan Sirhan, the assassin of Robert F. Interviews John Douglas has conducted hundreds of interviews with some of the world’s most notorious serial offenders, which include: - Charles Manson, and three members of the Manson clan. Douglas can determine many personal traits and habits of an offender just by examining the crime scene it’s evidence and victimology (Douglas & Olshaker, 1995). Through his research with serial criminal’s, Douglas learned how criminals think and what makes them do the things that they do, and why. Wikipediaĭuring his twenty-five year career with the FBI’s Behavioral Science Unit, a name he later changed to The Investigative Science Unit (Douglas & Olshaker, 1995), John Douglas became the leading expert on criminal personality profiling and the pioneer of modern criminal investigative analysis. He also wrote four horror novels in the mid 1990s. John Edward Douglas is a former United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent, one of the first criminal profilers, and criminal psychology author. John Douglas knows more about serial killers than anybody in the world - Jonathan Demme, Director of The Silence of the Lambs With the fierce page-turning power of a bestselling novel, yet terrifyingly true, Mindhunter is a true crime classic.

The man who was the inspiration for Special Agent Jack Crawford in The Silence of the Lambs and who lent the film's makers his expertise explains how he invented and established the practice of criminal profiling what it was like to submerge himself mentally in the world of serial killers to the point of 'becoming' both perpetrator and victim and individual case histories including those of Jeffrey Dahmer, Charles Manson, Ted Bundy and the Atlanta child murders. Now retired, Douglas can let us inside the FBI elite serial crime unit and into the disturbed minds of some of the most savage serial killers in the world. THE BESTSELLING TRUE STORY THAT INSPIRED THE MAJOR NETFLIX SERIESįBI Special Agent and expert in criminal profiling and behavioural science, John Douglas, is a man who has looked evil in the eye and made a vocation of understanding it.

Mind Hunter by John E. Douglas