Psychology Today

Practitioners of profiling analyzing evidence gathered at a crime scene and statements provided by victims and witnesses in order to develop a description of an unknown offender.

Serial killers are larger-than-life popular culture celebrities due to the efforts of law enforcement authorities and the media which feed the public’s appetite for the macabre.

Is it possible for influential individuals or groups to achieve their goals by either creating or exploiting widespread public fear?

Anger is not a primary emotion. It is a secondary emotion or reaction. Fear or terror is the root of all anger.

State managers, including law enforcement authorities and politicians, define who and what is evil in our society.

White-collar criminals benefit from institutionalized non-enforcement practices, regulatory policies and legal representation not available to street criminals.

The world’s most prolific killers are totally incapable of empathy or remorse. However, they rarely look like the scary monsters we expect them to be.

Power/control killers are patient and they kill their victims slowly in order to prolong their own sadistic pleasure. They derive satisfaction from the suffering of their victims.

The public has an insatiable appetite for the sensationalized tales of serial killers. Some people take their obsession to extreme ends.

It is not true that serial killers want to get caught. Most of them love their work far too much for that to be true.

A serial killer is frequently an unassuming everyman who could easily be a next door neighbor or co-worker.

Charles Manson was convicted of seven counts of first-degree murder for a killing spree in 1969, but he did not actually murder the victims himself.

Watching true crime TV is like eating candy in bed at three o’clock in the morning.

The good news about sociopaths is that due to their volatile personalities, you can typically see them coming