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Profiles in Murder: An FBI Legend Dissects Killers and Their Crimes |
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Amazon Sales Rank: 788033
Publication Date: 2001-01-09
Release Date: 2001-01-09
Publisher: Dell
ISBN: 0440235529
Type: Mass Market Paperback
Number Of Pages: 317
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A victim is stabbed nineteen times but left in a peaceful, resting position. Was her killer a raging psychotic, or as timid as she was?
In a charred house a partially clothed woman is found in her bed with a pornographic magazine and a mirror. Did she die in the fire--or at a sex killer's hands?
Before it was immortalized in The Silence of the Lambs, the FBI Behavioral Science Profiling Unit was pioneered by Russell Vorpagel. Now the legendary profiler takes you into the most intriguing cases of his career--actual cases of serial killings, sex crimes, celebrity murders, and hostage takings. Showing how profiling turns the chaos and blood of a crime scene into a psychological snapshot of a suspect--his age, his personality, even the model car he drives--Vorpagel illuminates the twisted minds of the most vicious criminals of our time. From the vampire murderer Richard Trenton Case--who consumed the blood of his victims--to Vorpagel's own duel with an assassin on the island of St. Croix, Profiles in Murder is the chilling real-life story of the human monsters who share our streets--and the men and women who hunt them down.
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Review: 2008-01-28
A stagey, contrived narrative
This ghostwritten book uses a stagey narrative device: it consists of direct quotes of Russell Vorpagel, the "author", and students in his criminology class. The result is contrived and non-believable.
Chapter 3, for example, begins with an alleged verbatim transcript of a classroom exchange:
"'The Richard Trenton Chase case,' Vorpagel [the author] said, 'went a long way in establishing the credibility of profiling.'
Gary [a student] said, 'That's the first time I've heard of a real vampire case."
'They are rare. Yet, at almost the same time as the Chase case, another man with bloody habits was captured."
'Another vampire?' Marcus [another student] asked.
'A joker name Crutchley started a rampage in West Virginia that ended in Florida. etc. etc.'"
Come on. Was the ghostwriter taping hours, days and weeks of classroom exchanges between Vorpagel and his students, then transcribing him for this book? I don't think so. This narrative device is supposed to convey a feeling of authenticity, but it comes across as phony as a three-dollar bill.
Moreover, the book is not a thoughtful summary of the science of criminal profiling. It's a series of bloody stories of heinous crimes. If that's what you want to read, fine. If you want significant insights into the purported subject of the book, forget it.
Review: 2007-05-12
excellent book
I would suggest this book to anyone to read it is a excellent book
Review: 2005-10-17
Profiles in Murder
While this book outlined in detail the experiences of the profiler, it was set in a classroom type format. This was distracting to me because I wanted more information on serial killers. Having profiling explained over and over detracts from the information; I got it the first time around. I did enjoy the book and learned about how profiling got its start.
Review: 2003-08-28
a profile in stellar crime-fighting
I believe I've read all the books by Douglas, Ressler, and all the others writing about psychological profiling, yet I still found this an absorbing and fascinating book. Vorpagel presents a number of cases in which the crime scene is not always what it appears to be, and the unexpected (but plausible) explanations are more surprising than the rabbit-out-of-the-hat endings of 99.9% of crime fiction. The story of the training exercise in Chapter 7 alone is worth the price of the book. Highly recommended.
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