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, ...

Connell School of Nursing Professor Ann Wolbert Burgess received a phone call at her Boston College office in 1978 that would alter the course of her career and lead to a seismic shift in the practice ...

Dr. Ann Wolbert Burgess is a celebrated criminal psychologist. For centuries the world has been fascinated by serial killers. Who are they? What makes them tick? What do they choose to kill? To try to ...

Mindhunter is a crime thriller show that follows FBI agents Holden Ford and Bill Tench, along with psychologist Wendy Carr, who pioneer criminal profiling and behavioral science together, in the late ...

Profiling, or criminal investigative analysis, as it is called by the FBI, involves the investigation of a crime with the hope of identifying the responsible party, based on crime scene analysis, ...

It would give birth to criminal profiling as the commanding officer of the NYPD's bomb squad tapped a psychiatrist and his then-unconventional investigative technique to hone in on the man known to ...

Viewers who watched the critically praised Netflix drama, “Mindhunter,” may think they have at least some general knowledge about the early days of the FBI’s work in serial-killer profiling and the ...