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The Killer Across the Table: Unlocking the Secrets of Serial Killers and Predators with the FBI's Original Mindhunter
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Overview
Twenty years after his famous memoir, the man who literally wrote the book on FBI criminal profiling opens his case files once again. In this riveting work of true crime, he spotlights four of the most diabolical criminals he’s confronted, interviewed and learned from. Going deep into each man’s life and crimes, he outlines the factors that led them to murder and how he used his interrogation skills to expose their means, motives, and true evil. Like the hit Netflix show, The Killer Across the Table is centered around Douglas’ unique interrogation and profiling process. With his longtime collaborator Mark Olshaker, Douglas recounts the chilling encounters with these four killers as he experienced them—revealing for the first time his profile methods in detail.
Going step by step through his interviews, Douglas explains how he connects each killer’s crimes to the specific conversation, and contrasts these encounters with those of other deadly criminals to show what he learns from each one. In the process, he returns to other famous cases, killers and interviews that have shaped his career, describing how the knowledge he gained from those exchanges helped prepare him for these.
A glimpse into the mind of a man who has pierced the heart of human darkness, The Killer Across the Table unlocks the ultimate mystery of depravity and the techniques and approaches that have countered evil in the name of justice.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780062910646 |
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Publisher: | HarperCollins Publishers |
Publication date: | 05/26/2020 |
Edition description: | Reprint |
Pages: | 352 |
Sales rank: | 19,637 |
Product dimensions: | 5.31(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.79(d) |
About the Author
Mark Olshaker is an Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker and author of ten nonfiction books and five novels, including Einstein’s Brain and The Edge. His books with former FBI Special Agent and criminal profiling pioneer John Douglas, beginning with Mindhunter and, most recently, Law & Disorder, have sold millions of copies and have been translated into many languages. Mindhunter is now a dramatic series on Netflix, directed by David Fincher. He and his wife Carolyn, an attorney, live in Washington, D.C.
Table of Contents
Author's Note xi
In a Small Room in the Big House 1
Introduction: Learning from the Experts 3
I The Blood of the Lamb 11
1 Little Girl Lost 13
2 "I Slept Well" 23
3 Mind of the Killer 31
4 Human Fallout 43
5 What the Psych People Said 51
6 Red Rage and White Rage 61
7 The Bottom Line 79
8 "Substantial Likelihood" 89
9 Joan's Legacy 107
II "Killing for Me Was Just Like Second Nature" 115
10 All in the Family 117
11 The Abandoned Volkswagen 135
12 Inside the Walls 141
13 "The Convenience of the Situation" 151
14 "There were Victims in Between" 165
15 Power, Control, Excitement 177
III Angel of Death 191
16 Playing God 193
17 Working Nights 205
18 The Making of a Killer 217
19 "I Haven't Changed a Bit" 231
20 Fallen Angel 247
IV "No One Made Me Do Anything" 255
21 The Superbike Murders 257
22 What Happened to Kala and Charlie? 263
23 What Made Tood Tick? 271
24 "Good or Bad, I Still Want to Know" 283
25 Organized Versus Disorganized 301
26 Nature and Nurture 309
Epilogue: A Killer's Choice 325
Acknowledgments 337