When John Douglas first became an FBI agent, the bureau was using interrogation techniques and negotiation tactics of a bygone era. After spending time as a hostage negotiator and teacher at the FBI Academy in Quantico, the young investigator began interviewing convicted killers and rapists hoping for insight into the criminal mind.
Along with fellow agent Robert Ressler, who coined the term “serial killer,” and Dr. Ann Burgess who’d taken a similar approach to interviewing survivors of sexual assault, Douglas developed the process of criminal profiling and began applying these evolving techniques in police investigations across the US.
David Fincher’s Mindhunter brings Douglas’ influential book to life while exploring the time period in which the group’s theories were developed. Holden Ford (Jonathan Groff), Bill Tench (Holt McCallany), and psychologist Dr. Wendy Carr (Anna Torv) approximate these three progressive thinkers in cases pulled from their extensive case file. In the latest episode of Bloody FM’s Murder Made Fiction, Jenn and Joe explore this powerful show and Fincher’s talent for exploring the best of our collective humanity by exposing the horrors we try to hide. They’ll start by diving into Douglas’ source material in a primer on Mindhunter: Inside the FBI’s Elite Serial Crime Unit.
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