How The FBI s Behavioral Science Unit Ties Into The Silence Of The Lambs And Clarice
Real agents of the FBI Behavioral Science Unit, like John Douglas and Patricia Kirby, inspired some of the fictional characters in Clarice and The Silence of the Lambs, including Jack Crawford and Clarice Starling. Rebecca Breeds as Clarice Starling and John Douglas. Photo: Brooke Palmer/CBS; Getty Images
Peering into the mind of killers is the major theme in the universe of Clarice Starling, the fictional FBI agent in “The Silence of the Lambs.” While the characters in those books, films, and TV series are fictional, the depicted federal police arm doing the research is certainly very real.
The veteran cops appear in the new Netflix documentary
Night Stalker: The Hunt for a Serial Killer, directed by Tiller Russell. A grisly, gripping four-episode look into just how Ramirez was captured, the series highlights the popular corner of true-crime dedicated to serial killers, a much-investigated U.S. phenomenon that seems to be relegated to a period between the Seventies and early 2000s. Over those 30 years, Americans who previously left their doors unlocked and hitchhiked with abandon were suddenly caught in the sites of predators like Ramirez and the “Cannibal Killer” Jeffrey Dahmer, who did much of their hunting during the Eighties; and Keith Hunter Jesperson, a.k.a. the Happy Face Killer, a trucker who murdered at least eight women in the early Nineties. But by the early 2000s, the spate of serial killer stories seemed to peter out.
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Well into the 2000s, the news and entertainment media told us incessantly that serial killers were overwhelmingly white, male, 20-45 years old. Blacks still repeat this canard. The father of that false profile: Robert Ressler of the FBI’s behavioral science unit. But Justin Cottrell’s new book,
Cottrell argues that Ressler was afraid of being called a racist. I think Ressler had an appetite for the limelight and simply told the leftwing MSM what they wanted to hear. The MSM reciprocated by making Ressler a star. (Conversely, only VDARE.com notices Immigrant Mass Murder Syndrome at least 37 cases and 337 victims over 20 years).
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