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. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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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 Defining ContributionSourced to the subject's own accountA founding figure of FBI criminal profiling, credited with coining the term serial killer. 3 Notable WorkSourced to the subject's own accountSexual Homicide: Patterns and Motives (1988); Whoever Fights Monsters (1992) 1 Connections
Associated With
BTK Case, Landmark Cases Ressler lectured on the then-unidentified offender years before Rader's arrest and correctly profiled his background.
Source Wikipedia: Dennis Rader
Developed criminal profiling methodology as a Supervisory Special Agent in the unit from the mid-1970s.
Source Wikipedia: Behavioral Science Unit
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.
Source Wikipedia: Behavioral Science Unit
Disciplines Pioneered
Source Offender Profiling (Wikipedia)
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Robert Ressler
WikipediaInfobox, birth date
February 21, 1937
Infobox, death date
May 5, 2013
Infobox, birthplace
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Works/Bibliography section
Whoever Fights Monsters: My Twenty Years Tracking Serial Killers for the FBI
View the Source 2. Wikidata: Robert Ressler
Wikidata Q1207524, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source 3. Wikipedia: Dennis Rader
Profile and investigation section
At a lecture at WSU, former FBI agent Robert Ressler correctly assumed the killer was a graduate student in the criminal justice field.
Associated With: BTK Case, Profile section, Ressler lecture
At a lecture at WSU, former FBI agent Robert Ressler correctly assumed the killer was a graduate student in the criminal justice field.
View the SourceWikipedia: Behavioral Science Unit
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
- Associated With: Violent Criminal Apprehension Program
View the SourceOffender Profiling (Wikipedia)
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