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4/16/08 - 6:30pm
SUNY-Brockport
Criminal Justice Association
Seymour College Union Ballroom, College
Brockport, NY
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Welcome to my website. If you're looking for solid information and insights based on my experience as an FBI profiler, and if you want a good forum for discussions about crime and the criminal mind, you've come to the right place.
If you're looking for the kind of profiling you see on TV, the kind involving trances, visions, and talking corpses, you should probably visit someone else's website. Likewise if you're after sensationalism, exploitation, or victim-bashing. I'm not that guy and never have been.
I'm extremely proud of my work. As an FBI agent, I hunted for some of the most vicious predators in American history, including the Atlanta child murderer, the Green River Killer, and San Francisco's Trailside Killer. Profiling was in its infancy when I got started. It was an exciting, emerging science - with a lot of skeptics and much work yet to be done. I learned as I went, conducting face-to-face interviews with Ed Kemper, Charles Manson, David Berkowitz, Richard Speck, and many violent serial criminals whose single positive contribution to society was the window they gave me and my colleagues into the criminal mind. By talking with and observing them, we learned how they thought, from the escalation of their violent acts to victim selection. We learned how to predict their behavior. Most importantly, we learned how they revealed themselves through their crimes. That's the basis of profiling. You look at the evidence - from crime scene to forensics to victimology - and find in the thousands of pieces of information the behavioral indicators from which you put together a picture of the perpetrator.
Profiling went from theory to science during my years at Quantico, and my unit turned it into a tried-and-true investigative tool. It's now an essential part of complex investigations. That's something I'll always take pride in. And although I retired from the Bureau just over ten years ago, my work as a profiler hasn't ended. I make my living through book publishing and speaking engagements, but much of my time is spent doing pro bono work for victims of violent crime and their families, advising pardon and parole boards, and speaking to law enforcement groups about the value of profiling in their work.
Life is busy, but I stay personally involved with this site. For the record, it really is me posting responses on the bulletin board. I take it seriously and I appreciate your participation. It helps the site evolve. So be sure to come by often. I look forward to your input.
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