American FBI agent and a founding figure of criminal profiling, credited with coining the term serial killer, who lectured on the then-unidentified BTK offender years before Dennis Rader's arrest and correctly profiled his background.
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Birth YearSourced to the subject's own account Death YearSourced to the subject's own account BirthplaceSourced to the subject's own accountChicago, Illinois, U.S. 1 NationalitySourced to the subject's own account Defining ContributionSourced to the subject's own accountA founding figure of FBI criminal profiling, credited with coining the term serial killer. 2 Notable WorkSourced to the subject's own accountSexual Homicide: Patterns and Motives (1988); Whoever Fights Monsters (1992) 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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BTK Case, Landmark Cases Ressler lectured on the then-unidentified offender years before Rader's arrest and correctly profiled his background.
Developed criminal profiling methodology as a Supervisory Special Agent in the unit from the mid-1970s.
Robert Ressler, a founding FBI Behavioral Science Unit profiler, worked alongside ViCAP in its early years as part of the FBI's behavioral analysis effort.
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1. Wikipedia: Robert Ressler
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February 21, 1937
1. Wikipedia: Robert Ressler
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May 5, 2013
1. Wikipedia: Robert Ressler
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Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
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Whoever Fights Monsters: My Twenty Years Tracking Serial Killers for the FBI
2. Wikipedia: Dennis Rader
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At a lecture at WSU, former FBI agent Robert Ressler correctly assumed the killer was a graduate student in the criminal justice field.
2. Wikipedia: Dennis Rader
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At a lecture at WSU, former FBI agent Robert Ressler correctly assumed the killer was a graduate student in the criminal justice field.
Wikipedia: Behavioral Science Unit
Associated With: FBI Behavioral Science Unit, History - 1976 sectionQuote, Associated With: FBI Behavioral Science Unit, History - 1976 section
FBI Supervisory Special Agents John E. Douglas, Robert Ressler and Dr. Ann Burgess members of the Behavioral Science Unit, begin work on compiling a centralized database on serial offenders
Wikipedia: Behavioral Science Unit
Wikipedia: Offender Profiling
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