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“The point is, serial killers and violent predators, whatever is going on inside, do not look or act like monsters in everyday life. If they did, it would be much easier to identify and catch them. Their advantage is that we tend to look right through them.”
― John E. Douglas, When a Killer Calls

“Often, I’d found that local law enforcement was not particularly thrilled to have us consulting on a case. Either they were wary of the Bureau’s reputation for moving in and then claiming all the credit because they wanted to control the investigation on their own, or they were worried our analysis wouldn’t conform with the theory both the police and the community had firmly in mind.”
― John E. Douglas, When a Killer Calls

“What was apparent to me at that moment was that Dawn herself had become a profiler of sorts, analyzing what the offender said and laying it out for him, probing, looking for any clue to what could have led him to destroy her family, yet giving him a sense that she actually cared about his feelings.”
― John E. Douglas, When a Killer Calls

“Bob and I were soon joined, always on an informal basis since they were officially tied up with teaching and research, by Roy Hazelwood, a brilliant agent whose special area of expertise was interpersonal violence and who had gone down to Atlanta with me four years before to work ATKID-Major Case 30: the Atlanta Child Murders, and the equally brilliant Kenneth Lanning, who focused on crimes against children.”
― John E. Douglas, When a Killer Calls