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“The Killer Across the Table” by John Douglas & Mark Olshaker. Content Warning.
John Douglas is best known for being the profiler who created much of what we now know as criminal profiling. He has interviewed many of the most well-known criminals, including Ed Kemper (the Coed Killer), Charles Manson, Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, and Dennis Rader (the BTK Strangler). With these interviews and many others, he and his coworkers created the Crime Classification Manual, which is still revised and used today for training criminal profilers and by all sizes of police forces. Douglas retired after over twenty-five years of service with the FBI and began his later life careers, as a writer, a teacher, a producer, and occasionally an assistant profiler. Even though he is retired, Douglas often gets asked to help with profiling cases for movies, TV shows, books, and other police forces looking for a fresh break in an unbreakable case.
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10 LESSONS FOR STAYS STRONG DURING PANDEMIC
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Facing the NCLEX? Here’s the Real Talk Every Nursing Student Deserves
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Cultural Heritage in Children’s Books
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Modern Filipino Authors to Watch
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Why Local Books Matter
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