Books Details
Author : Robert K. Ressler Pages : 292 pages Publisher : St.
Martin's Griffin Language : ISBN-10 : 0312304684 ISBN-13 :
9780312304683
Books Descriptions
Face-to-face with some of America's most terrifying killers,
FBI veteran and ex-Army CID colonel Robert Ressler learned form
then how to identify the unknown monsters who walk among us--
and put them behind bars. Now the man who coined the phrase
"serial killer" and advised Thomas Harris on The Silence of the
Lambs shows how is able to track down some of today's most
brutal murderers.Just as it happened in The Silence of the
Lambs, Ressler used the evidence at a crime scene to put
together a psychological profile of the killers. From the
victims they choose, to the way they kill, to the often
grotesque souvenirs they take with them--Ressler unlocks the
identities of these vicious killers of the police to
capture.And with his discovery that serial killers share
certain violent behaviors, Ressler's gone behind prison walls
to hear the bizarre first-hand stories countless convicted
murderers. Getting inside the mind of a killer to understand
how and why he kills, is one of the FBI's most
