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John Edward Douglas (born June 18, 1945) [1] [2] [3] is an American retired special agent and unit chief in the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). He was one of the first criminal profilers and has written and co-written books on criminal psychology, true crime novels, and his biography.
Aug 25, 2019 · The show's main protagonist, Holden Ford, is loosely based on former FBI special agent John E. Douglas, who was one of the bureau's first criminal profiles.
Jan 12, 2022 · John Douglas is the pioneer of criminal profiling. The former FBI agent’s autobiographical book Mindhunter — now a critically acclaimed Netflix series by the same name — explains how he assisted in murder investigations by getting inside the heads of some of the world’s worst serial killers.
John Douglas. Photo courtesy of Masterclass. FBI Special Agent: 25 years at the FBI, and the founder of the FBI’s elite serial crime unit, John is known as ‘The Architect of Criminal Profiling’.
Legendary Profiler & FBI Investigative Support Unit Founder. As an innovator at the FBI in the late 1970s, John Douglas developed new investigative techniques for hunting serial killers, sex offenders, and other violent offenders.
The bestselling true story and inspiration behind the hit Netflix show of how one underfunded FBI team became the first to explore the dark world of serial murderers. John Douglas is a former FBI Special Agent and expert in criminal profiling and behavioural science.
- John Douglas, Mark Olshaker
Jan 18, 2023 · John Edward Douglas is a former FBI agent and one of the world’s premier criminal profilers. He worked to bring numerous serial killers to justice and to understand what leads some people to commit such brutal murders in the first place.
Oct 20, 2022 · Netflix’s “Mindhunter” was inspired by the FBI’s first criminal profiler, John Douglas. As chief of the National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime, he...
May 29, 2019 · John Douglas was a groundbreaking FBI profiler and interviewed the world's worst killers. Now, he looks back at the darkest cases.
Jan 31, 2022 · Renowned profiler John Douglas almost died in 1983. Douglas, whose work with the FBI inspired an entire new methodology for studying criminal behavior and was the inspiration for Netflix’s Mindhunter series, was working on the Green River Killer file when he passed out in his hotel room.
