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Manhunters
Manhunters: Criminal Profilers and Their Search for the World?s Most Wanted Serial Killers | Colin Wilson
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Author Colin Wilson opens this illuminating psychological discussion with the development of the 1977 Behavioral Science Unit, which was set up in order to answer the many questions surrounding serial killers: How does someone become a serial killer? How do they choose their victims, and why do they not feel remorse? How are they caught? Wilson interviews FBI Special Agent Robert Ressler, coiner of the term serial killer and one of the pioneers of criminal profiling, as well as Ted Bundy and Charles Manson in order to figure out the motives behind their grisly actions. In Manhunters, by tracking the BSUs development of psychological profiling and genetic fingerprinting, Wilson reveals the forensic investigations that caused the seizure and arrest of some of the most vile and villainous people in the world, including Jeffrey Dahmer, William Heirens, Peter Sutcliffe, John Duffy, Jerry Brudos, Wayne Williams, and many more. As he divulges the details of each case, the murderers fantasy worlds, sadistic motives, and monstrous psychological tendencies emerge.
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I mean of course I‘d love this book! How could I not!? Anyway I think it might be because of my job that the psychology behind people‘s behaviors are so interesting to me

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Got this book from the Alcatraz East Museum in TN. Picking it as my “true crime” book.

Skipping ahead because my #4 is in my “holds” on Libby and my #5 is at home. So yeah.