The Profiler: My Life Hunting Serial Killers and Psychopaths »

Pat Brown is a nationally known profiler and founder and CEO of the Sexual Homicide Exchange (SHE) and the Pat Brown Criminal Profiling Agency. She holds a master's degree in criminal justice from Boston University and developed the first accredited Criminal Profiling and Investigative Analysis program in the country for Excelsior College, where she is an adjunct professor. She appears on national television and radio often—more than 1,000 times in the past decade to discuss high-profile cases. Brown lives in Minnesota and Maryland.

Bob Andelman is the author or co-author of several best- selling biographical, business, management and sports books, including Will Eisner: A Spirited Life, The Profit Zone: Lessons of Strategic Genius from the People Who Created the World's Most Valued Companies, and Built from Scratch: How a Couple of Regular Guys Grew The Home Depot from Nothing to $30 Billion. Bob Andelman also produces and hosts the popular "Mr. Media Interviews" podcast on BlogTalkRadio.com and his own site.

In 1990, a young woman was strangled on a jogging path near the home of Pat Brown and her family. Brown suspected the young man who was renting a room in her house, and quickly uncovered strong evidence that pointed to him—but the police dismissed her as merely a housewife with an overactive imagination. It would be six years before her former boarder would be brought in for questioning, but the night Brown took action to solve the murder was the beginning of her life's work.

Pat Brown is now one of the nation's few female criminal profilers—a sleuth who assists police departments and victims' families by analyzing both physical and behavioral evidence to make the most scientific determination possible about who committed a crime. Brown has analyzed many dozens of seemingly hopeless cases and brought new investigative avenues to light.

In The Profiler, Brown opens her case files to take readers behind the scenes of bizarre sex crimes, domestic murders, and mysterious deaths, going face-to-face with killers, rapists, and brutalized victims. It's a rare, up-close, first-person look at the real world of police and profilers as they investigate crimes—the good and bad, the cover-ups and the successes.

Contents

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS....................IX NOTE TO THE READER....................XI
PREFACE....................XIII
INTRODUCTION....................1
1. ANNE: THE MURDER....................5
2. A LIFE CHANGED....................27
3. WALT: THE SUSPECT....................44
4. A NEW CAREER....................69
5. SARAH: MURDER BEHIND THE BAR....................85
6. VICKI: A KNOCK IN THE NIGHT....................117
7. MARY BETH: A METHOD OF OPERATION....................136
8. DORIS: THE UNLIKE LY VICTIM....................163
9. MISSY: A CHILD'S NIGHTMARE....................181
10. JIMMY: WITH FRIENDS LIKE THIS....................201
11. DONNELL: A QUESTION OF MOTIVE....................217
12. SABRINA: THE MIND OF A TEENAGE GIRL....................239
13. BRIAN: WHO PULLED THE TRIGGER?....................247
14. BOB AND CHRISTINE: DOUBLE MURDER....................262
15. LAST WORDS....................279