Criminal profiling, the technique of deciphering the psychological makeup of offenders, is a crucial part of solving true crime mysteries. By examining patterns, motives and psychological triggers, ...

Born in 1936, Ann Burgess grew up at a time when the career choice for women was teacher or nurse. So she became both, a kind of super woman—a professor of psychiatric nursing who was also wife, ...

The FBI formed its Behavioral Science Unit in 1974 to study serial predators. Since then, the art and craft of criminal profiling have become the subject of numerous books, TV shows and iconic films ...

We have all seen criminal profiling on hit TV shows and films like Criminal Minds, The Silence of the Lambs, Cracker, and Mindhunter, and heard the legendary tales of “profilers” catching elusive ...