Criminal profiling, the technique of deciphering the psychological makeup of offenders, is a crucial part of solving true crime mysteries. By examining patterns, motives and psychological triggers, ...

Profiling, or criminal investigative analysis, as it is called by the FBI, involves the investigation of a crime with the hope of identifying the responsible party, based on crime scene analysis, ...

Not everyone believes in the FBI criminal profiling process that has been popularly depicted in the hit Netflix series Mindhunter. For several decades now, clinical and forensic psychologists have ...