Mark Olshaker - Mindhunter

PRAISE FOR JOHN DOUGLASS MINDHUNTER

One finally feels that Mr. Douglass keen eye for crime-scene detail and his powerful inductive reasoning cannot be explained any more than one can explain his murderous quarries capacity for merciless savagery.... By the winter of 1981, when Atlanta became the hunting ground of a cunning killer of black children, the FBIs profiles had contributed to the apprehension of so many murderers that Mr. Douglas was willing to endure public scorn by announcing that these killings were not hate crimes perpetrated by the Ku Klux Klan, as some believed, but were the work of a lone black man between twenty-five and twenty-nine years old. He predicted that the culprit would be a police buff, drive a police-type vehicle... He would have a police-type dog, either a German shepherd or a Doberman. When Wayne Bertram Williams, a twenty-three-year-old black man, was taken into custody, he fit our profile in every key respect.... Mr. Douglas sets out to produce a good true-crime book, but because of his insights and the power of his material, he gives us morehe leaves us shaken, gripped by a quiet grief for the innocent victims and anguished by the human condition.

Dean Koontz, The New York Times Book Review

John Douglas is a brilliant man.... And hes a great guy, very articulate, very sweet. I wanted to cast him as Agent Jack Crawford in the movie.

Jonathan Demme, director of The Silence of the Lambs

AN ALTERNATE SELECTION OF Doubleday Book Club The Literary Guild Mystery Guild

John Douglas is the FBIs pioneer and master of investigative profiling, and one of the most exciting figures in law enforcement Ive had the privilege of knowing.... With Mr. Douglas we explore why there are monsters.

Patricia Cornwell, bestselling author of The Body Farm and From Potters Field

A quirky, winning tale of awful crimes and awe-inspiring detective work... Douglas gives us a pair of human eyes through which to view crimes and criminals that are at once grotesque and compelling.... In the end, MINDHUNTER rings the bell because Douglas knows what all the great crime writers knowthat the criminologist must be at least as interesting as the crime. On that score, Douglas fits the profile.

Richard Willing, USA Today

Although Douglass profiles reflect years of experience, theres an uncanniness about their level of detail: He can predict the make and color of a killers car. In the Trailside Killer case in which Northern California hikers were slain in 1979, Douglas rightly predicted the assailant was a stutterer.... Called the FBIs modern Sherlock Holmes, Douglas says he comes up with such details by going into a trancelike state in which he becomes both killer and victim.... Douglass conservative estimate is that there are between thirty-five and fifty serial killers hard at work around the country right now, leaving several hundred dead people in their wake each year.

Deb Price, The Detroit News

In this... fascinating memoir of his twenty-five-year career with the FBI, John Douglas contends that psychopathic serial killers have a warped need to kill.... The key to Douglass approach is to look for the signatureas opposed to the modus operandiof serial killers.... Douglas is at his best describing the terrible crimes that were committed and explaining the logic of his profiling method.

Charles P. Thobae, Houston Chronicle

A fascinating journey into the thrill killers psyche... Douglas seems to have a true gift of instinct. MINDHUNTER is gripping...

Lou Grieco, Dayton (OH) Daily News

Hannibal Lecter may have been a fictional creation, but his counterparts exist in real life, and Douglas has tracked down, testified against or just sat down and talked with dozens of them.... A chilling memoir...

Lynda Hurst, Toronto Star

In his spellbinding new book, the legendary Douglas... delves into much of the gritty how-to of criminal personality profiling.... Hes downright gifted... I defy anyone interested in psychology, detective work, or logic and puzzle-solving, to put MINDHUNTER willingly aside once begun.

Ann G. Sjoerdsma, Virginian-Pilot

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J OHN D OUGLAS is a former special agent with the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, one of the first criminal profilers, and a criminal psychology writer. After retiring from the FBI, where he headed the elite Investigative Support Unit, he helped set up Mindhunters, Inc., with Mark Olshaker, a site that provides information on their writing as well as criminal justice and profiler resources.

M ARK O LSHAKER is an Emmy Award-winning filmmaker and a New York Times bestselling nonfiction author. His nine books with former FBI special agent and criminal profiling pioneer John Douglas have sold millions of copies, been translated into many languages, and, along with his Emmy-nominated PBS film Mind of a Serial Killer , made Olshaker a sought-after speaker and consultant on law enforcement-related issues.

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To the men and women of the FBI Behavioral Science and Investigative Support Units, Quantico, Virginia, past and present fellow explorers, partners on the journey.

Foul deeds will rise,

Though all the earth oerwhelm them,

to mens eyes.

W ILLIAM S HAKESPEARE, Hamlet

This book has been very much a team effort, and it could not have been accomplished without the tremendous talents and dedication of each member of that team. Chief among them are our editor, Lisa Drew, and our project coordinator and executive producer (and Marks wife), Carolyn Olshaker. Right from the beginning, they both shared our vision and provided the strength, confidence, love, and good counsel that nurtured us through the effort to realize it. Our profound gratitude and admiration go equally to Ann Hennigan, our talented researcher; Marysue Rucci, Lisas able, indefatigable, and endlessly cheerful assistant; and our agent, Jay Acton, who was the first to recognize the potential of what we wanted to do and then made it happen.

Our special thanks go to Johns father, Jack Douglas, for all of his recollections and for so carefully documenting his sons career, making organization a breeze; and to Marks father, Bennett Olshaker, M.D., for all of his advice and guidance on issues of forensic medicine and psychiatry and the law. We are both extremely fortunate to have the families we do, and their love and generosity are always with us.

Finally, we want to express our appreciation, admiration, and heartfelt thanks to all of Johns colleagues at the FBI Academy in Quantico. Their character and contribution is what made the career chronicled in this work possible, which is why the book is dedicated to them.

J OHN D OUGLAS AND M ARK O LSHAKER , July 1995

I must be in hell.

It was the only logical explanation. I was tied down and naked. The pain was unbearable. My arms and legs were being lacerated by some kind of blade. Every orifice of my body had been penetrated. I was choking and gagging from something shoved down my throat. Sharp objects had been stuck in my penis and rectum and felt like they were tearing me apart. I was bathed in sweat. Then I realized what was happening: I was being tortured to death by all the killers and rapists and child molesters Id put away in my career. Now I was the victim and I couldnt fight back.