272: Mark Safarik – Family Annihilation, Mass Murders

FBI Retired Case File Review

Jerri Williams

True Crime, Interviews, Fiction, History, Fbi, Government, Truecrime

4.6 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2022

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Retired FBI profiler Mark Safarik reviews a family annihilation case that he conducted a behavioral analysis for during the investigation and provided expert testimony during the subsequent trial. The subject murdered his wife, their three young children, and his mother-in-law. Mark served in the FBI for 23 years, 12 as a senior member of the FBI's elite Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU) and an expert in the analysis and interpretation of violent criminal behavior.

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 272 of FBI Retired Case File Review with Jerry Williams.
0:13.4	I'm a retired agent on a mission to show you who the FBI is and what the FBI does through
0:20.2	my books, my blog and my podcast case reviews with former colleagues.
0:25.2	Today, we get to speak to, once again, retired agent Mark Safrik, who served in the FBI for 23 years.
0:35.1	12 of those as a senior member of the FBI's Elite Behavioral Analysis Unit, BAU, where he
0:43.2	established himself as an internationally recognized expert in the analysis and interpretation
0:50.4	of violent criminal behavior.
0:53.0	In this episode, Mark reviews a fascinating family annihilation mass murder case that
1:00.2	he analyzed during the investigation and also provided expert testimony during the subsequent
1:07.6	trial.
1:08.6	It is a unique case because it features behavioral attributes, staging, depersonalization, undoing
1:17.7	and proprietary behavior that are often seen individually but very rarely in combination.
1:26.3	The subject, Vincent Brothers, murdered his wife, their three young children and his mother-in-law.
1:33.9	Mark has appeared on Dateline, court TV, forensic files, new detectives, A&E, oxygen, discovery
1:43.6	ID and many news networks to discuss his cases.
1:48.0	His television series, Killer Instinct, premiered in 2011.
1:52.5	He was a longtime consultant for the popular television shows, CSI Las Vegas, Bones and
1:59.1	the Blacklist and he has two seasons of cold case homicide TV shows in both Sweden and
2:05.5	Denmark.
2:06.5	Now, during the interview, Mark and I also talked about how FBI profilers are portrayed
2:13.1	in crime fiction.
2:14.9	You'll be able to listen to our review during the interview of taking lives, a serial killer
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