Mind Hunter Essay - 1648 Words

David McGuire Criminal Investigation 4/3/2013 THE MIND HUNTER BOOK REPORT In the book Mind Hunter, author, John Douglas introduces how the FBI provides learning, education and techniques throughout Local, State and Federal police. John Douglas was a former FBI agent from the FBI at Quantico, VA. Douglas tells about how he and a team of FBI officers formed the Investigative Support Unit. Douglas explains the steps and techniques used in profiling an offender, by putting himself inside the mind of a killer and victim. Douglas has interviews with famous serial killers in prison. Douglas learned a lot about what was going on inside the killer’s mind, with clues he left at a crime scene. In the book Douglas describes†¦show more content†¦Douglas began to act like Speck took away the women that he had raped talking about how he took away eight good â€Å"pussies†. Speck acted like Douglas was crazy saying something in that manner, about these woman. Douglas asked him how he fucked eight women at the same time. Speck told him that he di dn’t and that he only fucked one of them. When Douglas uses this technique he stoops down to the killer’s level and makes him feel like a piece of shit. The majority of the time the killer will then tell investigators what really happened. Douglas also used an investigative technique where he looked thoroughly at the suspect’s handwriting in letters or notes directed to the police. In the first letters his handwriting is neat and organized. Then the letters get harder to read and the killer began to misspell words. When the investigators see this in the letters they understand that he is vulnerable and probably going to slip up soon and make a mistake. For example the Son of Sam parked in front of a fire hydrant, which lead to his final arrest. Another investigative technique that Douglas used regularly used was the homicidal triad. 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