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True Murder: The Most Shocking Killers

LAW AND DISORDER-John Douglas and Mark Olshaker

True Murder: The Most Shocking Killers

Dan Zupansky

True Crime, News Commentary, Documentary, News, Society & Culture

42.7K Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2013

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

For twenty-five years, John E. Douglas worked for the FBI, where he headed the elite Investigative Support Unit. The real-life model for FBI Agent Jack Crawford in "The Silence of the Lambs", he's had a brilliant and terrifying career, getting inside the minds of notorious murderers and serial killers including Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy, and David Berkowitz (Son of Sam). Written with long-time collaborator Mark Olshaker, "Law & Disorder" is Douglas' most provocative and personal book to date. In it, he addresses every law enforcement professional's worst nightmare: those cases where, for one reason or another, justice was delayed ...or even denied. Through a series of character-driven case histories - from the earliest trials in Salem, Massachusetts to the bungled trial of Amanda Knox - Douglas shows what happens when the system breaks down and bias, media coverage, and other influences get in the way of a dispassionate pursuit of the evidence. Here also are Douglas' personal reflections on his ongoing search for the truth - from painful lessons learned early in his career to his controversial findings in the West Memphis Three and Jon Benet Ramsey investigations. Brimming with procedural detail, "Law & Disorder" is an eye-opening insider's account of the exhilaration and frustration that attend the quest for justice. LAW AND DISORDER-Mark Olshaker

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You are now listening to True Murder, the most shocking killers in true crime history,

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and the authors that have written about them.

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Gacy, Bundy, Dahmer, The Night Stalker, DTK, every week, another fascinating author,

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talking about the most shocking and infamous killers in true crime history.

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True Murder, with your host, journalist and author, Dan Zupansky.

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Good evening.

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This is your host, Dan Zupansky, for the program True Murder, the most shocking killers

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in true crime history, and the authors that have written about them.

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For 25 years, John E. Douglas worked for the FBI, where he headed the Elite Investigation

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Support Unit.

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The real-life model for FBI agent Jack Crawford in Silence of the Lamb, he's had a brilliant

1:08.0

and terrifying career, getting inside the minds of notorious murderers and serial killers

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including Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy, and David Berkowitz, none of Sam.

1:18.0

Written with longtime collaborator Mark Olschiger, law and disorder is Douglas' most provocative

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and personal book to date.

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In it, he addresses every law enforcement professional's worst nightmare.

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Those cases where, for one reason or another, Justice was delayed or even denied.

1:35.2

Through a series of character-driven case histories from the earliest trials in Salem

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Massachusetts to the bungled trial of Amanda Knox, Douglas shows what happens when the

1:44.5

system breaks down and bias, media coverage, and other influences get in the way of a dispassionate

1:51.6

pursuit of the evidence.

1:53.9

Here also are Douglas' personal reflections on his ongoing search for the truth from

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