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Within the #1 "NY Times" bestseller "Mindhunter," John Douglas, who headed the FBI's elite Investigative Support Device, told the storyplot of his brilliant and terrifying career tracking down a few of the most heinous criminals in history. Using behavioral profiling and legal investigative analysis to get into the top and psyche of both the criminal and sufferer -- to feel what they experienced at the critical moment -- Douglas helped split many visible cases, including the Trailside Killer, the Atlanta child murders, and the Tylenol murders. Now, working again along with his co-author Mark Olshaker, Douglas delves further into the criminal head with a series of chilling new instances in "Journey into Darkness" Follow the FBI's premier investigative profiler as he penetrates the heads and motives of the very most terrifying serial killers.

In "Journey into Darkness," Douglas profiles vicious serial killers, rapists, and child molesters. He's easy, blunt, often irreverent, and outspoken, but requires pains never to glorify these murderers. A number of the unique instances Douglas discusses include:

The Clairemont killer -- Six women were found stabbed to fatality in NORTH PARK, three in the same apartment complex. In each circumstance, the killer got into via an unlocked door or windows in the late morning to early afternoon. A think was in guardianship, linked with one of the murders by way of a DNA match. Douglas was called upon to utilize his profiling techniques to link the other five murders to the think. Douglas looked at the "signature" of the killer, and discovered that all the murders were determined by the same man. The prosecution used the profile to push the jury to find the defendant guilty of most six murders, if indeed they experienced he was guilty of the one murder. Celophus Prince was found guilty on all counts.

The schoolgirl murders -- What became Canada's "trial of the century." Several schoolgirls vanished in 1992; their physiques were dumped several weeks later, beaten and sexually attacked. Canadian authorities agencies contacted the FBI for help on the case and get a profile on the killer and, regarding to witnesses, his accomplice. Following a advice of the Investigative Support Device in Quantico, Canada aired a television set special entitled "The Abduction of Kristin France," allowing agent Gregg McCrary to spell it out the killer's profile on air. Realizing that the murderer and his accomplice would be watching, he designed to confront the unknown killer, assuring him he'd be trapped. Paul Bernardo was arrested on Feb 17, 1993, converted in by his wife and spouse in criminal offense, Karla Leanne Homolka.. The profile was lifeless on the amount of money.

Richmond's First Serial Murderer -- In 1987, Richmodd, Virginia, was struck by the serial rapist/murderer. The Richmond authorities called upon the Investigative Support Device in Quantico to constitute a profile of the perpetrator. The offences and profile beared a impressive resemblance to a string of burglaries, rapes and murders in Alexandria, Virginia, several years before. Agent Steve Mardigian then formulated a intricate strategy that trapped the killer who fit the profile to a tee. Along the way he helped free a wrongly convicted man, who due to his low cleverness level, got become baffled and confessed to the criminal offense.

The brutal and sadistic murder of Suzanne Marie Collins, a beautiful young Sea on the verge of an excellent career. The culprit was trapped and confessed to her getting rid of, but his history was completely different than what really happened. By delving into Sedley Alley's head, Douglas helped bring the murderer to justice, recreating the evening from the point of view of an sadistic and irritated man. Suzanne Collins' horrifying end haunts Douglas to this day.

Douglas delves into other instances, including Polly Klaas' abduction and murder by Richard Allen Davis, the tragedy that lead to the creation of Megan's Regulation; the abduction and murder of six-year-old Cassandra Lynn Hansen, who was simply snatched from an evening church service; and the vicious murder and erotic 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, concentrating on the two times homicide strictly from a behavioral point of view. Douglas examines what the facts at and adjoining the crime field told about the killer from a behavioral viewpoint. From Douglas's profile, the only viable suspect thus far is O.J. Simpson.

With "Journey into Darkness, " Douglas provides greater than a glimpse into the heads of serial killers; he shows what a powerful tool behavioral science has become. Profiling thieves helps not only to capture them, but also helps modern culture know how these predators work and what you can do to prevent them from dazzling again. Douglas focuses especially on pedophiles and child abductors, fully describing what drives them, and the way to keep children from them. As he highlights, "The ultimate way to protect your children is to learn your enemy." He includes eight rules for security, a set of steps parents may take to prevent child abduction and exploitation, tips on how to detect erotic exploitation, basic rules of security for children, and a chart, based on age group, which details the security skills children should have to protect themselves.

In his review for "Mindhunter" in "THE BRAND NEW York Times Book Review, " Dean Koontz said, "Because of his insights and the energy of the materials, he leaves us shaken, gripped by the tranquil grief for the innocent patients and anguished by the human condition." Trip into Darkness carries on this perilous trip into the psyche of the serial killer, but also offers a glimmer of desire that profiling may allow police to start to see the indicators of an serial killer's head and intervene before he eliminates, or eliminates again.