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Part autobiography and part true crime, Mindhunter was my first book, and it threw open the door to my second career. As an author, I work hard to live up to your expectations. Being on bestseller lists means a lot of people are spending their hard-earned money on your books. I appreciate all the success you readers have brought me. I hope my true crime and other nonfiction books bring the level of detail, expert examination, and firsthand knowledge that you expect and deserve. I hope each novel delivers a good, fast-paced story based, at least loosely, on the law enforcement life I have known.
My next true crime title will be out next summer - August 2007 from Jossey-Bass. It will be the definitive work on the BTK Strangler, Dennis Rader. As you probably know, I was a part of the Bureau's BTK investigation. Without a doubt, Rader is one of the most disturbing individuals I have ever studied. Other people have taken a shot at analyzing this case, but my book is a profiler's view of the case from its beginnings.
In other news, you'll be glad to know that the Second Edition of the Crime Classification Manual is out. This textbook is the primary source of information about crime for everyone who wants to understand the terminology and the language of criminal justice. The CCM is really the Bible of criminology, and there is a lot of new information in the Second Edition, under topics ranging from cybercrime to biological weapons. And many of the case studies are updated, making them better examples of what they illustrate.
Continue to watch this site for more information and updates. Thanks.
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by John Douglas, Johnny Dodd
This dramatic and compelling true-crime psychological thriller
provides an in-depth, behind-the-scenes narrative of one of
the most bizarre and terrible serial killers stories in US history.
For 31 years a man who called himself BTK (Bind, Torture, Kill)
terrorized the city of Wichita, Kansas, strangling and sexually
assaulting a series of women (and one child), taunting the police
and the community with frequent letters, communications, crime
scene photographs, property stolen from his victims, bragging
about his crimes in correspondence to local newspapers, tv,
and radio stations, describing himself as a "psychotic
and sexual pervert" who claimed that "I can't stop
it." After he seemed to disappear for nine years, he suddenly
reappeared, complaining that no one was paying enough attention
to him, that he had committed crimes for which he had not been
given credit. When ultimately captured, using many techniques
suggested by Douglas himself, BTK was shockingly revealed to
be a 61 year old married man, cub scout leader, President of
his church, with two children, who worked as a Code Compliance
officer for the Wichita city government, harassing citizens
about their lawns and garbage preparation, "a glorified
dog catcher...a bureaucratic bully". John Douglas was first
called into the case as an expert profiler in 1980 and has been
deeply involved in the case and all its principal players ever
since. After Rader was arrested he was able to obtain the only
exclusive interview since sentencing, as well as exclusive interviews
with family, friends, and the police. As a result, he's able
to reveal news-breaking new information about why Rader did
what he did, and why he stopped for a long period before surfacing
again. Douglas tells the whole incredible story and also draws
from it a program for new and improved police methodology to
prevent such serial killers from remaining at large, including
early intervention in childhood development, and more community
involvement in apprehension.
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by John Douglas, Ann W. Burgess,
Allen G. Burgess, Robert K. Ressler
This is the second edition of the landmark book that standardized
the language and terminology used throughout the criminal justice
system. It classifies the critical characteristics of the perpetrators
and victims of major crimes—murder, arson, sexual assault,
and nonlethal acts—based on the motivation of the offender.
The second edition contains new classifications on computer
crimes, religion-extremist murder, and elder female sexual homicide.
This edition also contains new information on stalking and child
abduction, the use of biological agents as weapons, cybercrimes,
Internet child sex offenders, burglary and rape, and homicidal
poisoning. In addition, many of the case studies and crime statistics
have been updated.
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by John Douglas
The story of the internet's first serial killer illustrates
what can go wrong in the virtual world where relationships are
established without the benefit of physical contact. The John
Robinson story is the perfect window into cybercrime and how
mainstream Americans can be drawn into a dark world that can
lead to temptation and end in death. Douglas and Singular will
weave these regional murders into the much larger pattern of
internet sex that is occurring everywhere. A cautionary tale
about trusting strangers and being wary of false intimacy, Anyone
You Want Me to Be is a contemporary, high-tech story of crime
and punishment.
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by John Douglas
This time the chips are truly down for Hollywood Jake Donovan.
A government scientist, Dr. William Rush, has been found dead
in a North Carolina state park; he'd been doing sensitive research
-- possibly a weapons project -- and he'd been brutally murdered.
His colleague, Janice Callahan, is also missing...A crime of
passion? Or a threat to national security? Jake Donovan -- down
on his luck after being mysteriously yanked from the investigation
of an assassination attempt on the First Lady -- and his Broken
Wings team are assigned to the case by their wealthy benefactor
Mrs. De Vries, who also happens to be Janice Callahan's aunt.
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From
Jack the Ripper to Jonbenet Ramsey, the FBI's Legendary Mindhunter
Unravels the Mysteries That Won't Go Away
by John Douglas and Mark Olshaker
Some crimes, solved and unsolved, won’t go away; they
remain the subjects of our collective fascination. Jack the
Ripper, Lizzie Borden, JonBenet Ramsey, and the Lindbergh baby
are good examples, and are among the cases examined and re-investigated
here using modern techniques and Douglas’s own profiling
expertise. The results are gripping, intriguing, and stand to
upset many of our accepted ideas about what might really have
happened.
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by John Douglas and Mark Olshaker
John Douglas’s first novel, written with Mark Olshaker,
introduces us to the Broken Wings, a covert group of “fallen”
agents that includes experts in profiling, crime scene analysis,
forensic medicine, and tactics. With their secret weapon, an
airplane outfitted by their private benefactor as a flying laboratory
and HQ, they can reach any crime scene in a matter of hours.
When FBI Director Thomas Jefferson Boyd turns up dead of an
apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound, the Broken Wings are
called into action.
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The
FBI's Legendary Mindhunter Explores the Key to Understanding
and Catching Violent Criminals
by John Douglas and Mark Olshaker
The question most of us ask when we hear about a brutal crime
is: Why? Examining cases from his own legendary career, and
analyzing the crimes committed by Ted Kaczynski, Timothy McVeigh,
and others, Douglas unlocks the secrets in the dark hearts of
violent criminals. Douglas shows us why our question is the
right one, as motive is a critical element in the investigative
equation “why + how = who.”
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The
FBI's Legendary Profiler Probes the Psyches of Killers, Rapists,
and Stalkers and Their Victims and Tells How to Fight Back
by John Douglas and Mark Olshaker
With his trademark approach, which offers insights into the
minds of criminals and their prey, Douglas this time focuses
on sexual predators and their victims. Among others, he uses
as horrifying examples the cases of Ronnie Shelton, the serial
rapist who terrorized Cleveland, and New York's infamous Preppie
Murder. Douglas’s commitment to and compassion for the victims
of such crimes is evident throughout, as he teaches us how common
these crimes are, why we should never blame the victim, and
how we might protect ourselves from danger.
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by John Douglas and Mark Olshaker
Douglas’s second book picks up where his first, MINDHUNTER,
left off. Here he offers a deeper look into the psyches of serial
killers, rapists, and child molesters, and offers his analyses
of recent cases, including the Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron
Goldman murders, Canada’s “Schoolgirl Murders,”
and the abduction and murder of Polly Klaas.
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Inside
the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit
By John Douglas and Mark Olshaker
In this, his first book, profiler John Douglas gives us firsthand
accounts of some of the most disturbing and fascinating cases
of his legendary twenty-five years with the FBI’s Investigative
Support Unit. Among these cases are the Atlanta child murderer,
the Trailside Killer, and the Green River Killer. The stuff
of nightmares, these accounts take us inside the minds of the
most infamous, prolific, and sadistic serial killers of our
times-including John Wayne Gacy, Robert Hansen, and Ed Kemper.
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Patterns
and Motives
by W. Burgess and John E. Douglas
The culmination of a long-term FBI-sponsored study of thirty-sex
convicted and incarcerated serial killers, this book provides
in-depth information about the motives, methods, and patterns
in the murders they committed. Data about these men, from facts
and statistics to the results of psychological evaluations,
tell a larger story about those who commit such heinous and
brutal acts.
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Complete
Guide to the Skills and Education Required to be a Top FBI Candidate
by John Douglas
The FBI is incredibly selective. Douglas’s comprehensive
guide to the preparation necessary to becoming a viable candidate
for the Bureau is based on his years of experience as a Special
Agent. He offers valuable information to help prospective
agents prepare themselves for the difficult, stringent application
process.
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Your
Complete Guide to Becoming a Police Officer
by John Douglas
Every candidate for a career in law enforcement must pass the
police exam given in the area they wish to serve. John Douglas
offers advice on preparing for these exams, including sample
tests and strategies for getting the best score you can, and
relates insights from real police officers about their demanding
careers and their lives.
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A lot could've gone wrong in Red Dragon, but the movie exceeds
expectations. Replacing the acclaimed Manhunter as an "official"
entry in the Hannibal Lecter trilogy, this topnotch thriller
returns to the fertile soil of The Silence of the Lambs, serving
as both prequel and heir to the legacy of Lecter as portrayed,
with mischievous menace, by the great Anthony Hopkins. Familiar
faces and locations reappear (along with Lambs screenwriter
Ted Tally) as Lecter coaches FBI profiler Will Graham (Edward
Norton) in tracking the horrific "Tooth Fairy" killer
(Ralph Fiennes), whose transformative killing spree is inspired
by a William Blake painting. By dutifully serving Harris's
potent material, Tally and director Brett Ratner craft a suspenseful
film worthy of its predecessors, bringing Hopkins full circle
as one of the cinema's all-time greatest villains. With overtones
of Psycho and a superb supporting cast, Red Dragon succeeds
against considerable odds.
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This terrifying film by Jonathan Demme really only contains
a couple of genuinely shocking moments (one involving an autopsy,
the other a prison break). The rest of the film is a splatter-free
visual and psychological descent into the hell of madness, redeemed
astonishingly by an unlikely connection between a monster and
a haunted young woman. Anthony Hopkins is extraordinary as the
cannibalistic psychiatrist Dr. Hannibal Lecter, virtually entombed
in a subterranean prison for the criminally insane. At the behest
of the FBI, agent-in-training Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster)
approaches Lecter, requesting his insights into the identity
and methods of a serial killer named Buffalo Bill (Ted Levine).
In exchange, Lecter demands the right to penetrate Starling's
most painful memories, creating a bizarre but palpable intimacy
that liberates them both under separate but equally horrific
circumstances.
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Yes, he's back, and he's still hungry. Ten years after The Silence
of the Lambs, Dr. Hannibal "the Cannibal" Lecter (Anthony
Hopkins, reprising his Oscar-winning role) is living the good
life in Italy, studying art and sipping espresso. FBI agent
Clarice Starling (Julianne Moore, replacing Jodie Foster), on
the other hand, hasn't had it so good--an outsider from the
start, she's now a quiet, moody loner who doesn't play bureaucratic
games and suffers for it. A botched drug raid results in her
demotion--and a request from Lecter's only living victim, Mason
Verger (Gary Oldman, uncredited), for a little Q and A. Little
does Clarice realize that the hideously deformed Verger--who,
upon suggestion from Dr. Lecter, peeled off his own face--is
using her as bait to lure Dr. Lecter out of hiding, quite certain
he'll capture the good doctor.
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