Robert K. Ressler
Robert Kenneth Ressler was an FBI agent and author. He played a significant role in the psychological profiling of violent offenders in the 1970s and is often credited with coining the term "serial killer."
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David Reichert
David Reichert is a a former King County Sheriff who worked as part of the Green River Task Force in the 1980s.
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He was elected to Congress and served from 2005 to 2019, and is running for Governor of Washington in 2024.
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William D. LaRue
William D. LaRue is an award-winning journalist and former reporter and television critic for The Post-Standard in Syracuse, New York. He recently retired as an online producer for newspaper websites owned by Advance Local. A native of Potsdam, New York, he received a bachelor's degree in English from State University College at Potsdam and a master's degree in communications from Syracuse University. His published books include the 2021 true crime story, "A Stranger Killed Katy: The True Story of Katherine Hawelka, Her Murder on a New York Campus, and How Her Family Fought Back," the 2015 biography, "CANDY: True Tales of a 1st Cavalry Soldier in the Korean War and Occupied Japan," co-written with his father, Kenneth J. LaRue; and the 2018
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Ann Rule
Ann Rule was a popular American true crime writer. Raised in a law enforcement and criminal justice system environment, she grew up wanting to work in law enforcement herself. She was a former Seattle Policewoman and was well educated in psychology and criminology.
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She came to prominence with her first book, The Stranger Beside Me, about the Ted Bundy murders. At the time she started researching the book, the murders were still unsolved. In the course of time, it became clear that the killer was Bundy, her friend and her colleague as a trained volunteer on the suicide hotline at the Seattle, Washington Crisis Clinic, giving her a unique distinction among true crime writers.
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Vivien Spitz
Vivien Spitz is an American journalist best known for her coverage of the Nuremberg Trials and her advocacy on behalf of Holocaust awareness.
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Ann Wolbert Burgess
Ann Wolbert Burgess, D.N.Sc., APRN, FAAN, is an internationally recognized pioneer in the assessment and treatment of victims of trauma and abuse. She has received numerous honors including the Sigma Theta Tau International Audrey Hepburn Award, the American Nurses’ Association Hildegard Peplau Award, and the Sigma Theta Tau International Episteme Laureate Award. Her courtroom testimony has been described as “groundbreaking,” and she has been called a “nursing pathfinder.”
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Stanton E. Samenow
Dr. Samenow received his B.A. (cum laude) from Yale University in 1963 and his Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Michigan in 1968. After working as a clinical psychologist on adolescent inpatient psychiatric services in the Ann Arbor (Michigan) area, he joined the Program for the Investigation of Criminal Behavior at St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, D.C. From 1970 until June, 1978, he was clinical research psychologist for that program. With the late Dr. Samuel Yochelson, he participated in the longest in-depth clinical research-treatment study of offenders that has been conducted in North America.
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In 1978, Dr. Samenow entered the private practice of clinical psychology in Alexandria, Virginia. His specialty has continued to -
Manuel Moros Peña
Licenciado en Medicina y Cirugía por la Universidad de Zaragoza y especialista en Pediatría y Áreas Específicas. Ha publicado decenas de artículos en revistas médicas nacionales e internacionales y es autor de los libros como Seres extraordinarios. Anomalías, deformidades y rarezas humanas (2004), Historia natural del canibalismo (2008) o Los médicos de Hitler (2014).
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Fyodor Dostoevsky
Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский (Russian)
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Works, such as the novels Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1869), and The Brothers Karamazov (1880), of Russian writer Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky or Dostoevski combine religious mysticism with profound psychological insight.
Very influential writings of Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin included Problems of Dostoyevsky's Works (1929),
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky composed short stories, essays, and journals. His literature explores humans in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmospheres of 19th-century and engages with a variety of philosophies and themes. People most acclaimed his Demons(1872) .
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Ulf Ellervik
Ulf Ellervik (born 1969) is a Swedish professor of bioorganic chemistry at Lund University. Ellervik's main research area is carbohydrates, such as eye drops against the viral disease epidemic keratoconjunctivitis and the carbohydrate xylose as the cure for cancer. Ellervik received his undergraduate training at the Faculty of Engineering (LTH) where he started in 1989. He graduated as M.Sc. in Chemical Engineering in 1993 and began research in organic chemistry in 1994. After presenting his thesis in October 1998 he spent almost two years working at California Institute of Technology as a post-doctoral fellow. From Caltech he went back to Lund University where he now holds a position as professor.
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Karen Kilgariff
Karen Kilgariff is an American writer, comedian, singer, author, actress, television producer, and podcast host. Since 2016 she has co-hosted the true crime comedy podcast My Favorite Murder along with Georgia Hardstark. In 2018 she and Hardstark co-founded the podcast network Exactly Right.
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Known for her biting wit and musical prowess, Karen Kilgariff has been a staple in the comedy world for decades. As a performer, she has appeared on Mr. Show, The Book Group and Conan. She was the head writer for the first five years of The Ellen DeGeneres Show, then transitioned to scripted, writing for shows like Other Space, Portlandia, and Baskets. Her musical comedy album Live At The Bootleg was included in Vulture's Top 9 of 2014 and in Stitcher's -
Max Czornyj
Adwokat, praktykował prawo w Polsce i we Włoszech. Niczym w dowcipie lubi stare wino, spleśniałe sery i samochody bez dachu. W prozie - seryjny morderca. „Grzech” to jego pierwsza zbrodnia.
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"Przez lata pisałem opowiadania, ale na studiach zarzuciłem je i moje natręctwo porządkowania myśli skupiło się na artykułach naukowych, a później siłą rzeczy także na pismach procesowych. Jednak chęć opowiadania historii przez cały ten czas narastała. Jednocześnie wciąż podsycała ją wyobraźnia. Gdy miałem stabilną sytuację zawodową wyobraźnia ciągle upominała się o przelanie na papier. Zamknąłem wszystkie inne sprawy i uznałem, że ten jeden, przy tym ostatni raz, spróbuję zmierzyć się z długą formą. Nie miałem opracowanego planu, rozpisanych wydarzeń ani -
John E. Douglas
John Edward Douglas is a former United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent, one of the first criminal profilers, and criminal psychology author. He also wrote four horror novels in the mid 1990s. -Wikipedia
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During his twenty-five year career with the FBI’s Behavioral Science Unit, a name he later changed to The Investigative Science Unit (Douglas & Olshaker, 1995), John Douglas became the leading expert on criminal personality profiling and the pioneer of modern criminal investigative analysis. Through his research with serial criminal’s, Douglas learned how criminals think and what makes them do the things that they do, and why. Douglas can determine many personal traits and habits of an offender just by examining the crime s -
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Pete Earley
Pete Earley is a storyteller who has penned 13 books including the New York Times bestseller The Hot House and the 2007 Pulitzer Prize finalist Crazy: A Father’s Search Through America’s Mental Health Madness.
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After a 14-year career in journalism, including six years at The Washington Post, Pete became a full-time author with a commitment to expose the stories that entertain and surprise.
His honest reporting and compelling writing helped him garner success as one of few authors with ”the power to introduce new ideas and give them currency,” according to Washingtonian magazine.
When Pete’s life was turned upside down by the events recounted in his book Crazy, he joined the National Alliance of Mental Illness to advocate for strong mental healt -
Sue Russell
Sue Russell is an award-winning journalist and author who writes about crime, criminal justice, forensic science, health, and just about everything under the sun. Sue is the author of "Lethal Intent", a biography of executed serial killer Aileen Wuornos (new edition released Dec. 2013) and co-author, with artist Elizabeth Williams, of "The Illustrated Courtroom: 50 Years of Court Art."
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"The Illustrated Courtroom," which features the work of five award-winning artists from trials spanning five decades, has won a dozen awards and honors. Among them: the 2016 Eric Hoffer Book Award, Best in Academic Press and two 2015 eLit gold medals. It also was named to the Times Literary Supplement's "Books of the Year 2014" and to Kirkus Reviews' "Best Bo -
Bill Schutt
Bill Schutt's latest nonfiction book "Bite: An Incisive History of Teeth, from Hagfish to Humans" received a rave review in The New York Times Books https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/13/bo..., a starred review in Kirkus Reviews https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-re... and raves from Publisher's Weekly (https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781...) and elsewhere. "Bite" debuted on August 13, 2024 and can be purchased or ordered anywhere books are sold.
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Bill is currently working on "Desi the Vampire Bat" his first children's book, as well as a popular science book on the natural history of feet.
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Stephen B. Seager
Stephen Seager was born in Ogden, Utah, descended from Mormon pioneers. He grew up in Daly City, California, a San Francisco suburb. Seager graduated from University of California at Davis and received his MD degree from Hahnemann Medical College in Philadelphia. He worked as an Emergency Room physician for ten years which inspired his first two books, and then returned to residency training for four years and became a psychiatrist. Seager wrote of his internship in Psychward: A Year Behind Locked Doors. Seager is a board-certified psychiatrist employed at Napa State Hospital in Napa, California. From this experience comes his newest book to be released September 16, 2014, entitled "Gates of Gomorrah; A Year with the Criminally Insane".
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Lionel Dahmer
Lionel Dahmer graduated from University of Wisconsin in 1959, in 1962 he finished Marquette University, receiving Master of Science. In 1966 he became a graduate of Iowa State University, obtaining Doctor of Philosophy. He served as a senior research chemist at PPG Industries, Barberton, OH, 1960-1962, and research supervisor in analytical chemistry, since 1968. Later he has mainly worked as a writer.
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Lionel Dahmer is known for his work A Father's Story. But he gained a fair measure of unwanted media attention as the father of Jeffrey Dahmer, a serial killer who was convicted in the early 1990s of murdering fifteen youths in the Milwaukee area. -
John E. Douglas
John Edward Douglas is a former United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent, one of the first criminal profilers, and criminal psychology author. He also wrote four horror novels in the mid 1990s. -Wikipedia
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During his twenty-five year career with the FBI’s Behavioral Science Unit, a name he later changed to The Investigative Science Unit (Douglas & Olshaker, 1995), John Douglas became the leading expert on criminal personality profiling and the pioneer of modern criminal investigative analysis. Through his research with serial criminal’s, Douglas learned how criminals think and what makes them do the things that they do, and why. Douglas can determine many personal traits and habits of an offender just by examining the crime s -
Robert D. Hare
Robert D. Hare, C.M. (born 1934 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada) is a researcher in the field of criminal psychology. He developed the Hare Psychopathy Checklist (PCL-Revised), used to assess cases of psychopathy. Hare advises the FBI's Child Abduction and Serial Murder Investigative Resources Center (CASMIRC) and consults for various British and North American prison services.
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Peter Vronsky
PETER VRONSKY is an author, filmmaker, and forensic-investigative historian. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto in the history of espionage in international relations and criminal justice history.
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Peter Vronsky is the author of a series of books on the history serial homicide: Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters (2004); Female Serial Killers: How and Why Women Become Monsters (2007); Sons of Cain: A History of Serial Killers From the Stone Age to the Present (2018)- a New York Times Editors' Choice; and most recently, American Serial Killers: The Epidemic Years 1950-2000 (2021).
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Richard Logan
Richard D. Logan is a nationally recognized expert in the psychology of solitary survival.
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Logan is a retired professor emeritus of Human Development (Anthropology) at University of Wisconsin -Green Bay.
A self-professed adventurist, Logan has appeared on A&E and Discovery Channel programs on survival.
Logan has taught at the University of Nairobi, Vassar College, the University of Kent in England, and the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay.
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Jason M. Moss
American attorney and author of a book about serial killers.
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While studying for his honors thesis Moss established relationships with John Wayne Gacy, Richard Ramirez, Henry Lee Lucas, Jeffrey Dahmer, and Charles Manson.
He did so by researching what would appeal to his subjects the most and then casting himself in the role of disciple, admirer, surrogate, or potential victim, as necessary.
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Tomasz Kozioł
Urodzony w Warszawie, w 1988 roku. Poszedł do klasy matematyczno-fizycznej, by później zmienić na humanistyczną. Wybrał Politechnikę Warszawską i jeden z jej nielicznych wydziałów nietechnicznych. Zawodowo zaczynał jako redaktor, by później przejściowo być księgowym i ewoluować ostatecznie w analityka i architekta hurtowni danych. Przez blisko połowę życia pisał o popkulturze, by w końcu skończyć z tym nałogiem i spróbować sił z napisaniem własnej powieści. Próba się powiodła, a jej owocem jest debiutancki horror „Dziewczyna, która klaszcze”. Aktualnie za dnia zajmuje się przetwarzaniem i wizualizacją możliwie dużych zestawów danych. Wieczorami zaś pisze bajki dla dzieci oraz opowieści dla znacznie starszych odbiorców. W nocy czasem śpi.
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Karen Conti
Karen Conti is one of Chicago’s most prominent lawyers and legal analysts. She is a dynamic speaker, writer, and media personality with over 30 years of experience in national and local radio and television.
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Karen has produced and hosted award-winning radio shows, entertaining, edifying and empowering people for almost three decades. Her dynamic talk show, “Legally Speaking” won several Achievement in Radio awards, including Best Public Affairs Show and Best Afternoon Drive Time. Karen has the unique skill to simplify complex legal issues as well as make them engaging, while being unbiased and factual.
She is currently the host of “The Karen Conti Show” on Chicago’s 50,000-watt station, WGN, where she comments on current events, social issu -
Bill Powers
Bill Powers has been active in the Massachusetts law enforcement community since he joined the Massachusetts State Police in 1974. Over time he rose through the ranks and was promoted to the rank of Detective Lieutenant. He commanded the State Police Detective Units (SPDU) in both Middlesex and Suffolk Counties, where he had direct oversight and involvement in more than one hundred homicides. His State Police career came full circle when he was named Commandant of the Recruit Training Academy. He retired as the director of the Media Relations Section. Following his retirement, Bill was appointed as an Assistant Professor in the graduate program for forensic sciences at the Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM). For the next seven year
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Anne Serling
Anne is the author of AS I KNEW HIM: My Dad Rod Serling.
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Excerpts of this memoir have appeared in Salon and NPR'S Snap Judgement.
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Manuel Moros Peña
Licenciado en Medicina y Cirugía por la Universidad de Zaragoza y especialista en Pediatría y Áreas Específicas. Ha publicado decenas de artículos en revistas médicas nacionales e internacionales y es autor de los libros como Seres extraordinarios. Anomalías, deformidades y rarezas humanas (2004), Historia natural del canibalismo (2008) o Los médicos de Hitler (2014).
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Harold Goldberg
Harold Goldberg is the author of ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US: How 50 Years of Video Games Conquered Pop Culture, a narrative history of video games, coming on April 5, 2011 from Random House. It has been excerpted in Vanity Fair and featured on NPR's Morning Edition.
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He is the founder of the New York Videogame Critics Circle, a group comprised of New York's finest videogame journalists.
He currently writes for G4TV and Boys' Life about games, and has written for the New York Times and Vanity Fair about other topics. He is also the co-writer of the best selling My Life Among The Serial Killers and is featured in Sidney Lumet: Interviews." -
Micki Pistorius
Micki Pistorius, who has a doctorate in psychology, spent six years as a profiler with the South African Police Service. As head of their investigative psychology unit, she was involved in more than thirty serial killer cases and participated in the training of more than a hundred detectives in the investigation of serial homicides. She is regularly invited to lecture in France and still acts as a consultant to different South African agencies.
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She is the author of Catch me a Killer, Strangers on the Street, Fatal Females, and Profiling Serial Killers and other crimes in South Africa,all published by Penguin. Her first novel, Sorg, was published by Penguin in 2006.
Micki’s official website is available at www.mickipistorius.co.za.