108. What We Get Wrong About Forensic Psychology with Dr. Paige Wilcoxson
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🗓️ 29 October 2025
⏱️ 70 minutes
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In this episode, Dr. Paige Wilcoxson joins the show to discuss what true crime often gets wrong about forensic psychology. Dr. Wilcoxson worked as a clinical and forensic psychologist, and her experience spans training in forensic hospitals, working in high-and maximum-security prisons, and serving as a professor in both the U.S. and the U.K. While working on her doctorate, she spent time in the FBI’s BAU, where she contributed to the serial homicide research project. Dr. Wilcoxson now dedicates her career to work in the non-profit sector.
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| 0:00.0 | In the consult, we discuss cases involving violence, sexual violence, abduction, and murder. |
| 0:09.0 | Sometimes the cases we discuss involve children. |
| 0:13.0 | Listener discretion is advised. |
| 0:19.0 | Welcome to the consult. I'm Julia Cowley, retired FBI agent and profiler. And before we get started, I want to give a big thanks to our Patreon members who support our show. And if you'd like early and add free access to our episodes, you can join at patreon.com |
| 0:41.1 | slash the consulpod. And there's also a Facebook fan page called Unsubs, which you can join for |
| 0:49.7 | discussion about our episodes and other true crime topics. And that was created by fans for fans of the |
| 0:57.5 | consult. So I appreciate the listeners that run that page. So today, I have a special guest, |
| 1:06.0 | Dr. Page Wilcoxson. Paige and I met at this year's true crime podcast festival that was held in Boston. |
| 1:14.6 | Well, actually we met before because we met on Zoom when we were preparing for this, but we were part of a panel discussion about forensic psychology. |
| 1:24.6 | And as creators of true crime podcasts, what are we getting wrong in our coverage? |
| 1:31.5 | And I found pages, insights, incredibly valuable. So I invited her to come on the show to kind of |
| 1:39.3 | recreate our discussion and continue our discussion because while we had three days to talk, it apparently |
| 1:45.9 | wasn't enough for us. We had a lot to talk about. I just, I really enjoyed getting to meet you in |
| 1:52.1 | person, doing the panel with you, and then continuing the discussions that we had off the panel. |
| 1:58.7 | And so I just, I invited you to come on the show for those reasons. So welcome, |
| 2:02.8 | Paige. Thank you. Thank you so much. I am, yeah, I was thrilled when you invited me on and I'm |
| 2:08.4 | very happy to be speaking with you again today. Yeah. So I want to give a little bit of background. |
| 2:13.4 | I think most of our listeners know or the regular listeners of our show know that my background |
| 2:20.0 | is in chemistry and forensic science. And while my colleagues on the show have advanced |
| 2:27.9 | degrees in psychology and we have some training in forensic psychology as FBI profilers. |
| 2:36.2 | What we don't have is the actual work experience in forensic psychology. |
| 2:42.2 | Our backgrounds come from our education and from being investigator. |
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