Whoever Fights Monsters: My Twenty Years Tracking Serial Killers for the FBI

Robert K. Ressler

St. Martin's Press, Mar 15, 1993 - True Crime - 289 pages

Face-to-face with some of America's most terrifying killers, FBI veteran and ex-Army CID colonel Robert Ressler learned form then how to identify the unknown monsters who walk among us--and put them behind bars. Now the man who coined the phrase "serial killer" and advised Thomas Harris on The Silence of the Lambs shows how is able to track down some of today's most brutal murderers.

Just as it happened in The Silence of the Lambs, Ressler used the evidence at a crime scene to put together a psychological profile of the killers. From the victims they choose, to the way they kill, to the often grotesque souvenirs they take with them--Ressler unlocks the identities of these vicious killers of the police to capture.

And with his discovery that serial killers share certain violent behaviors, Ressler's gone behind prison walls to hear the bizarre first-hand stories countless convicted murderers. Getting inside the mind of a killer to understand how and why he kills, is one of the FBI's most effective ways of helping police bring in killers who are still at large.

Join Ressler as he takes you on the hunt for toady's most dangerous psychopaths. It is a terrifying journey you will not forget.

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While some aspects of this work have become outdated in the twenty-odd years since it was published, it still deserves its spot as one of the foundational works in criminal profiling. Ressler offers ...

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About the author

Robert K. Ressler retired as a supervisory special agent of the FBI as a reserve colonel in the U.S. Army's Criminal Investigation Division (CID). He resides outside of Fredericksburg, Virginia, and is director of Forensic Behavioral Services, a business dedicated to training, learning, consulting, and expert witness testimony.

Tom Shachtman is also coauthor with Robert Ressler of Justice is Served. He lives in New York City.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Whoever Fights Monsters: My Twenty Years Tracking Serial Killers for the FBI; St. Martin's True Crime Library
• Author: Robert K. Ressler
• Contributor: Thomas Schachtman
• Edition: illustrated, reprint, reissue
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press, 1993
• ISBN: 0312950446, 9780312950446
• Length: 289 pages
• Subjects: Law / Forensic Science; True Crime / General; True Crime / Murder / General