Shadowman

An Elusive Psycho Killer and the Birth of FBI Profiling

Shadowman
Ron Franscell
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Hardback
h228 x 152mm - 304pg
1 Mar 2022 US
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9780593199275
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"Mindhunter crossed with American Gothic. This chilling story has the ghostly unease of a nightmare. "-Michael Cannell, author ofIncendiary- The Psychiatrist, the Mad Bomber and the Invention of Criminal Profiling The pulse-pounding account of the first time in history that the FBI' s Behavioral Science Unit created a psychological profile to catch a serial killer On June 25, 1973, a seven-year-old girl went missing from the Montana campground where her family was vacationing. Somebody had slit open the back of their tent and snatched her from under their noses. None of them saw or heard anything. Susie Jaeger had vanished into thin air, plucked by a shadow. The largest manhunt in Montana' s history ensued, led by the FBI. As days stretched into weeks, and weeks into months, Special Agent Pete Dunbar attended a workshop at FBI Headquarters in Quantico, Virgina, led by two agents who had hatched a radical new idea- What if criminals left a psychological trail that would lead us to them? Patrick Mullany, a trained psychologist, and Howard Teten, a veteran criminologist, had created the Behavioral Science Unit to explore this new "voodoo" they called "criminal profiling. " At Dunbar' s request, Mullany and Teten built the FBI' s first profile of an unknown subject- the UnSub who had snatched Susie Jaeger and, a few months later, a nineteen-year-old waitress. When a suspect was finally arrested, the profile fit him to a T. . .
Praise for ShadowMan "Ron Franscell has written criminal profiling' s origin story, an urgent and obsessive true-crime tale that transcends the genre. ShadowMan ramps up to an almost unbearable pitch, Mindhunter crossed with ' American Gothic. ' This chilling story has the ghostly unease of a nightmare-as atmospheric and unnerving a story as you' ll ever read. "-Michael Cannell, author of Incendiary: The Psychiatrist, the Mad Bomber and the Invention of Criminal Profiling "If any modern crime writer should bear the mantle of the late, great Jack Olsen it is Ron Franscell. He' s one of our most provocative authors in any genre. . . Here, he does his usual splendid job of weaving fear, monstrosity, and place into a vivid, harrowing story about an epic moment in forensic history. Nobody does it better. "-Dr. Vincent DiMaio, celebrated medical examiner and author of Forensic Pathology "A thrill ride through the entangled brutality and brilliance that gave birth to one of the FBI' s most intriguing forensic tools: criminal profiling. "-John Douglas, legendary FBI profiler and author of Mindhunter "A brilliant, long overdue page-turner of a story about the FBI Behavioral Sciences Unit Mindhunters. "-Peter Vronsky, author of American Serial Killers "Ron Franscell has always been in the upper echelon of true-crime authors. ShadowMan is his crowning achievement. Bravo to a master of the genre!"-Gregg Olsen, #1 New York Times bestselling author of If You Tell and The Hive "A thrilling book about the lengths to which investigators went to catch an elusive killer and a pivotal moment in the history of criminal investigation. "-Library Journal
Ron Franscell is an award-winning journalist and the author of eight books of true crime and three novels, as well as eight Crime Buff' s Guides to various locales.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9780593199275
Published: 1 Mar 2022
Published In: United States
Imprint: Bantam USA
Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc
Format: Hardback
Height: 228mm
Width: 152mm
Pages: 304

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