Description
Mindhunter crossed with American Gothic This chilling story has the ghostly unease of a nightmareMichael Cannell author ofIncendiary The Psychiatrist the Mad Bomber and the Invention of Criminal Profiling
The pulsepounding account of the first time in history that the FBIs Behavioral Science Unit created a psychological profile to catch a serial killer
On June 25 1973 a sevenyearold girl went missing from the Montana campground where her family was vacationing Somebody had slit open the back of their tent and snatched her from under their noses None of them saw or heard anything Susie Jaeger had vanished into thin air plucked by a shadow
The largest manhunt in Montanas history ensued led by the FBI As days stretched into weeks and weeks into months Special Agent Pete Dunbar attended a workshop at FBI Headquarters in Quantico Virgina led by two agents who had hatched a radical new idea What if criminals left a psychological trail that would lead us to them Patrick Mullany a trained psychologist and Howard Teten a veteran criminologist had created the Behavioral Science Unit to explore this new voodoo they called criminal profiling
At Dunbars request Mullany and Teten built the FBIs first profile of an unknown subject the UnSub who had snatched Susie Jaeger and a few months later a nineteenyearold waitress When a suspect was finally arrested the profile fit him to a T
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