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Journey into darkness, follow the FBI's premier investigative profiler as he penetrates the minds and motives of the most terrifying serial killers, John Douglas and Mark Olshaker

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Journey into darkness

John Douglas and Mark Olshaker

follow the FBI's premier investigative profiler as he penetrates the minds and motives of the most terrifying serial killers

Follow the FBI's premier investigative profiler as he penetrates the minds and motives of the most terrifying serial killers. In "Journey into Darkness," Douglas profiles vicious serial killers, rapists, and child molesters. He is straightforward, blunt, often irreverent, and outspoken, but takes pains not to glorify any of these murderers. Douglas delves into other cases, including Polly Klaas' abduction and murder by Richard Allen Davis, the tragedy that lead to the creation of Megan's Law; the abduction and murder of six-year-old Cassandra Lynn Hansen, who was snatched from an evening church service; and the vicious murder and sexual assault of Nancy Newman and her two daughters, eight-year-old Melissa and three-year-old Angie in Anchorage, Alaska. He also explores the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman, focusing on the double homicide purely from a behavioural perspective. Douglas examines what the facts at and surrounding the crime scene told about the killer from a behavioural point of view. From Douglas's profile, the only viable suspect to date is O.J. Simpson. With "Journey into Darkness, " Douglas provides more than a glimpse into the minds of serial killers; he demonstrates what a powerful weapon behavioural science has become

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