John Douglas
Birthday: 1945-06-18
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Biography: John Douglas is an American author and retired FBI special agent. He began his career in the FBI as a special agent in the Detroit and Milwaukee field offices in the early 1970s. In 1977, he joined the FBI’s Behavioral Science Unit at Quantico. In 1985, he created the Criminal Profiling Program for the National Center as part of the Analysis of Violent Crime (NCAVC). Since his retirement in 1995, he has remained active as an author, speaker, and independent investigator.
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The Atlanta Child Murders
The Atlanta murders of 1979–1981, sometimes called the Atlanta child murders, were a series of murde...
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The Secret Identity of Jack the Ripper
A panel of experts examines the five main suspects in the Jack the Ripper murders and determines whi...
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West of Memphis
The documentary tells the hitherto unknown story behind an extraordinary and desperate fight to brin...
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Page to Screen: 'The Silence of the Lambs'
Documentary about the adaptation of the 1988 novel by Thomas Harris into the 1991 film directed by J...
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The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs'
This brief throwback piece focused on interview snippets from Hopkins, Demme, Glenn, Foster, FBI age...
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