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Police Off The Cuff/Real Crime Stories

How the FBI BAU interviews serial killers and gets admissions, and confessions.

Police Off The Cuff/Real Crime Stories

Bill Cannon Police off the Cuff/Real Crime Stories

Law Enforcement, Crime, True Crime, Military

4.4870 Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2026

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

How the FBI BAU interviews serial killers and gets admissions, and confessions  How does the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit interview a serial killer? In this episode of Police Off the Cuff, retired NYPD Sgt. Bill Cannon breaks down the BAU method, with retired FBI profiler Jim Clemente — how profilers study control, manipulation, behavior, and the hidden patterns killers reveal when they think they are in control. This is a practical true-crime breakdown of the tactics, psychology, and interview strategy behind some of the most important serial killer interrogations.

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0:00.0

You know, Jim, I wanted to mention something about his personality.

0:03.0

Here's this guy, 6'4 6, anywhere from 280 to 300 pounds.

0:08.1

But yet, he was a pussy.

0:10.9

When he got confronted when he tried to, well, first, Amber Costello and her pimp,

0:17.4

they did a ruse on him where they ripped him off.

0:20.7

And he called her up because he had a

0:22.8

number and said that wasn't really cool that you did. And when they did the ruse on him, he fled

0:28.3

the house. And this is the six foot six, three hundred pound ogre, as he was described.

0:33.8

He was terrified because there was a man. he ran out and the next day he called me

0:39.3

goes that wasn't really right that you ripped me off could I get a rain check and she met

0:44.0

with him the next night and that was the last time she was ever seen again the other thing

0:48.7

was he targeted small females right because he wanted to be to control. He didn't want anyone to be able to

0:56.9

physically fight him and combat him so that they could perhaps escape or get control of the situation.

1:04.7

Yeah, I think that's part of it. And excuse me. Yeah, I think that's part of it. And the other part of it is

1:10.3

that I believe he was sexually attracted to children.

1:13.2

And he, in his fantasy, saw them as little girls.

1:17.9

And that's why he only, you know, called up and scheduled time with very petite young women.

1:25.9

I believe they found child pornography on his,

1:28.5

on his computer system.

1:31.9

And, you know, the fact is that, you know, yeah, he's a wimp.

1:37.8

He wants to be in control.

1:40.0

If he's not in control, this is all part of his sexual sadism.

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