Ep 273: Profiling and Preventing Mass Shooters with Katherine Schweit

Crime Analyst

Laura Richards

True Crime

4.9 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2025

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Laura interviews retired FBI Special Agent Katherine Schweit who created and led the agency’s active shooter program after the shootings at Sandy Hook in 2012. In the wake of the Minneapolis shooting on August, 27 2025 where two children, 10-year-old Harper Moyski and 8-year-old Fletcher Merkel were murdered, Laura and Kate share the characteristics of mass shooters, the behaviour that reveals they are preventable, the connection with domestic abuse, coercive control and the deep seated motivation for power and control. Listen to this life saving and changing conversation and learn what went wrong at Uvalde when police waited more than an hour before confronting and killing the gunman, who shot dead 19 children and 2 adults as well as how to talk with your child(ren) as a parent. Join Laura and Kate for a Ringleader live event in the Crime Analyst Squad on September 24 2025 to discuss her new book, Women Who Talk to the Dead: www.patreon.com/CrimeAnalyst    #MassShooting #Prevention #Profiling #ActiveShooter #Minneapolis #Education #Behaviour #MaleEntitlement #Patriarchy #Psychology #PowerAndControl #WomenWhoTalkToTheDead #HiddenHomicides #CrimeAnalyst #TrueCrime #Podcast #HighRisk #WarningSigns #CrimeAnalystSqaud Clip https://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/video/victims-identified-in-minneapolis-school-shooting-246038085596 Find more from KateSocials: @kateschweit https://www.katherineschweit.com/it-starts-with-knowledge FB: Katherine Schweit, Author LinkedIn: Katherine Schweit Consulting: https://www.schweitconsulting.com/ Kate’s Books Stop the Killing: How to Prevent Mass Shooting: https://a.co/d/aKZJNxD How to Talk About Gun’s With Anyone: https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/fbi-releases-study-on-active-shooter-incidents Women Who Talk To the Dead: https://a.co/d/22Q6Y4Y Sources   Kate’s Ted Talk: https://youtu.be/fqnq0Br-UEg?si=P6dr1eYwzVmjOMP_ https://www.businessinsider.com/uvalde-fbi-shooter-policy-author-questions-hesitant-police-response-2022-5 https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/30/opinion/uvalde-school-shooting.html https://www.thelaurarichards.com/resources/coercivecontrol   https://www.thelaurarichards.com/resources/stalking https://www.thelaurarichards.com/resources/books https://www.thelaurarichards.com/my-two-cents/serial-and-high-risk-stalkers-and-domestic-abusers Thank You to Crime Analyst Sponsors Who Make the Show Possible. Support The Show Through the Sponsor: Head on over to Rula.com/CRIME to get started today. REGISTER For Laura’s 2025 Masterclasses – September Sale – Book one course and save 50% off your second. Profiling Behaviour, Preventing Murder and Suicide in Slow Motion, DASH, DASH Train the Trainer, Coercive Control and Stalking: https://bit.ly/LRMasterclassRegistration More Training Info: www.dashriskchecklist.com    www.thelaurarichards.com    Crime Analyst YouTube, Socials and Website   YouTube @crimeanalyst    Facebook Crime Analyst Podcast   Instagram @crimeanalyst @laurarichards999   Threads @crimeanalyst   X @thecrimeanalyst @laurarichards999    TikTok @crimeanalystpod   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:30.0	Maggie, I cannot imagine what those parents have been going through over the last 24 hours.
0:36.0	Tom, it's been incredibly excruciating.
0:38.6	And just breaking here in the last few minutes, we just got confirmation of the 10-year-old
0:42.1	girl who was killed here yesterday.
0:44.9	Harper Moisek, described by her family as bright, joyful, and deeply loved.
0:50.1	And also late today, the father of the eight-year-old boy who died here speaking out yesterday a coward decided to take our eight-year-old
1:01.0	your old son fletcher away from us tonight a father's grief on full display confirming his son
1:08.4	fletcher merkel was one of the two children killed in yesterday's mass shooting in Minneapolis.
1:13.6	We will never be allowed to hold him, talk to him, play with him. We love you, Fletcher. You will always be with us.
1:24.6	We're also learning the name of the second victim, the family of 10-year-old Harper Moiski,
1:30.3	confirming their daughter was killed, saying their hearts are broken and calling it an
1:34.9	unimaginable loss.
1:39.9	This as cell phone video shows the horror inside enunciation Catholic Church.
1:45.1	We were about to start the prayer and then we heard the, uh, these big loud noises.
1:50.1	Nine-year-old June Helene was in that church, diving for cover, then running after they had
1:55.1	just finished singing.
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