Author: Ann Burgess and Steven Constantine
Narrated by Gabra Zackman
Duration: 9 h 2 m 4 s
Unabridged
Would I recommend it ? Yes , but I will say that the author does give the readers a completely list of taggers that are in her book, so this might not be for anyone.
Would I read more by this author? Yes
Would I listing more to this narrator ? Yes
Like always I want to say a huge thank you to the publisher Hachette Audio, the authors Ann Burgess & Steven Constantine as well as to Nita Basu and Jasmine Normall for their hard work and to anyone else I forgotten .The author brings to life the understand of the criminal mind , and in do so Ann and the agents had to get inside of minds of thirty six serial killers, a number that they would add to later.She talked about how the BSU or as its now known as the BAU came to be, how in the 70s rape was looked at differently , and how the victims themselves was blamed for what happened, she also talks about each case and how the case was worked and solved . She brought a face back to them so even though their cases was solved they would never be forgotten . And she gives names and faces to the ones that made the BAU what it is today. It was cool just to set here and listing as the narrator told the story and talked about who was who and how they each placed an very important in what would become part of our history ,she did an phenomenal job in reading , and not once did I want to stop and turn off the audiobook , and pick something up but I did when I got to 43% in it and that was just the first day of the book.
vivid behind-the-scenes look into the creation of the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit and the evolution of criminal profiling, written by the pioneering forensic nurse who transformed the way the FBI studies, profiles, and catches serial killers.
Lurking beneath the progressive activism and sex positivity in the 1970-80s, a dark undercurrent of violence rippled across the American landscape. With reported cases of sexual assault and homicide on the rise, the FBI created a specialized team—the “Mindhunters” better known as the Behavioral Science Unit—to track down the country's most dangerous criminals. And yet narrowing down a seemingly infinite list of potential suspects seemed daunting at best and impossible at worst—until Dr. Ann Wolbert Burgess stepped on the scene.
In A Killer By Design, Burgess reveals how her pioneering research on sexual assault and trauma caught the attention of the FBI, and steered her right into the middle of a chilling serial murder investigation in Nebraska. Over the course of the next two decades, she helped the budding unit identify, interview, and track down dozens of notoriously violent offenders, including Ed Kemper ("The Co-Ed Killer"), Dennis Rader ("("BTK"), Henry Wallace ("The Taco Bell Strangler"), Jon Barry Simonis ("The Ski-Mask Rapist"), and many others. As one of the first women trailblazers within the FBI’s hallowed halls, Burgess knew many were expecting her to crack under pressure and recoil in horror—but she was determined to protect future victims at any cost. This book pulls us directly into the investigations as she experienced them, interweaving never-before-seen interview transcripts and crime scene drawings alongside her own vivid recollections to provide unprecedented insight into the minds of deranged criminals and the victims they left behind. Along the way, Burgess also paints a revealing portrait of a formidable institution on the brink of a seismic scientific and cultural reckoning—and the men forced to reconsider everything they thought they knew about crime.
Haunting, heartfelt, and deeply human, A Killer By Design forces us to confront the age-old question that has long plagued our criminal justice system: “What drives someone to kill, and how can we stop them?
