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The FOX True Crime Podcast

Inside the Mind of a Killer: The Surprising History of Profiling

The FOX True Crime Podcast

Fox News

True Crime

4.7 • 826 Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2026

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Emily Compagno and journalist and author Rachel Corbett dismantle the myths surrounding the rise of criminal profiling. From the hunt for Jack the Ripper and Ted Bundy to the FBI’s Behavioral Science Unit, Rachel explores why we are obsessed with "psychological fingerprints "and why they often fail to solve cases. Get Rachel Corbett’s book, The Monsters We Make: Murder, Obsession, and the Rise of Criminal Profiling, wherever books are sold. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Throughout history, many have been drawn to the darkest corners of the human mind.

0:43.8

From Jack the Ripper to Ted Bundy, we keep coming back to the same question.

0:50.6

Why? What turns a person into a monster? How does someone cross that line and commit the unthinkable? For decades, criminal profiling has promised answers,

0:55.6

a way to get inside the mind of a killer,

0:58.3

to predict, to understand, maybe even to stop them.

1:02.8

But today, even many investigators will tell you

1:05.8

that while profiling can be useful,

1:08.0

only a small fraction of cases are actually solved because of it. So what are we

1:12.5

really dealing with here? Science or storytelling? I'm Emily Campano and this is the Fox True Crime

1:19.5

podcast. The

1:30.3

The For Rachel Corbett, this question isn't theoretical. It's personal. When she was a child, her mother's ex-boyfriend killed his girlfriend and then himself.

2:04.4

He didn't fit the mold. He wasn't the person you'd expect. He seemed normal, even kind, and that's what made it so unsettling.

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