A Killer by Design

The author, Ann Burgess, was a key member of the famous “Mindhunter” FBI unit, who created breakthroughs in profiling and tracking down serial killlers (they coined the term, in fact).

While there are rather gruesome descriptions of victim mutilations and deaths, each one contains fingerprints of the killers. Ann provides interesting background on me on framework she developed while working in academia. She further developed and refined this tool to the FBI, which brought formality to the assessment process used in connecting dots between murders and who might have committed them. I also enjoyed getting the author's viewpoint as an outsider (a female from academia in the 1970s and 1980s).