Shadowman

By Ron Franscell,

Book cover of Shadowman: An Elusive Psycho Killer and the Birth of FBI Profiling

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"Mindhunter crossed with American Gothic. This chilling story has the ghostly unease of a nightmare." (Michael Cannell, author of Incendiary: 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…

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1 author picked Shadowman as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Most people don’t know the surprising story of the first FBI profile, but I think it’s one of the best examples of how the method works.

I love that the FBI’s Behavioral Science Unit’s founders, Howard Teten and Patrick Mullaney, get their due since they’ve been eclipsed by other profilers’ books.

For the first time, we get the full story of a deadly kidnapping in Montana, told by someone who grew up in the area. I find Ron Franscell’s true crime books to have literary qualities that others lack while also delivering a solid story. In addition, the kidnapper turned…

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