The legendary FBI criminal profiler, number-one New York Times bestselling author, and inspiration for the hit Netflix show Mindhunter delves deep into the lives and crimes of four of the most disturbing and complex predatory killers, offering never-before-revealed details about his profiling process, and divulging the strategies used to crack some of America's most challenging cases.
The FBI's pioneer of criminal profiling, former special agent John Douglas, has studied and interviewed many of America's most notorious killers--including Charles Manson, "Son of Sam Killer" David Berkowitz and "BTK Strangler" Dennis Rader--trained FBI agents and investigators around and the world, and helped educate the country about these deadly predators and how they operate, and has become a legend in popular culture, fictionalized in The Silence of the Lambs and the hit television shows Criminal Minds and Mindhunter.
Twenty years after his famous memoir, the man who literally wrote the book on FBI criminal profiling opens his case files once again. In this riveting work of true crime, he spotlights four of the most diabolical criminals he's confronted, interviewed and learned from. Going deep into each man's life and crimes, he outlines the factors that led them to murder and how he used his interrogation skills to expose their means, motives, and true evil. Like the hit Netflix show, The Killer Across the Table is centered around Douglas' unique interrogation and profiling process. With his longtime collaborator Mark Olshaker, Douglas recounts the chilling encounters with these four killers as he experienced them--revealing for the first time his profile methods in detail.
Going step by step through his interviews, Douglas explains how he connects each killer's crimes to the specific conversation, and contrasts these encounters with those of other deadly criminals to show what he learns from each one. In the process, he returns to other famous cases, killers and interviews that have shaped his career, describing how the knowledge he gained from those exchanges helped prepare him for these.
A glimpse into the mind of a man who has pierced the heart of human darkness, The Killer Across the Table unlocks the ultimate mystery of depravity and the techniques and approaches that have countered evil in the name of justice.
Описание: Dive inside the minds of some of the planet's most notorious serial killers, murderers and criminals in this mammoth true crime collection from acclaimed author Christopher Berry-Dee. Hear from doctors, lawyers, relatives, and psychopaths themselves to see what makes killers tick. "I have a nut ball...he's a real one-off...He's got a woman's breast in his jacket pocket, for Christ's sake." --Phone call about Wayne Adam Ford, "The Killer with a Conscience""The depravity of this murder simply shocks the conscience of this court. One who callously destroys a family to accomplish her own selfish ends must face the most severe consequences that the law can provide." --Sentencing statement for Melanie McGuire, "The Ice Queen""I felt nothin'! ...There was nothing going through my mind until they were already dead...I mean, it was like watching it [on TV]." --Michael Bruce Ross"Killing a broad doesn't make any difference to me. Killing ANY FUCKIN' BODY doesn't make any difference to me." --Kenneth Bianchi, "The Hillside Strangler""He talked about the police searching for bodies in woods and rivers. He gave it, as his opinion, that the best way to get rid of a body was to put it in concrete on a construction site." --Gilly Page on John Cannan"Well, it was me all along. I would have killed and kept on killing...They had all the facts and now even the psychiatrists have got it all wrong." --Peter Sutcliffe, "The Yorkshire Ripper"
