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Welcome to the consult. I'm Julia Cowley, retired FBI agent and profiler, and I'm joined

today by my colleagues, Angela Serser, Susan Costler Drew, and Bob Drew, who are also retired FBI

profilers. Welcome, everyone. Hi. Hi. Today we're going to be discussing

the case of Annie Lay, who was murdered on September 8th, 2009, on the Yale University campus in New Haven,

Connecticut. And I wanted to cover this case because it demonstrates the assistance that the FBI's

behavioral analysis unit can provide early on in an investigation.

Many, if not, most of the cases that we assist on are cold cases.

And we're providing services after reviewing a lot of different information and coming up with,

for instance, a profile of an unknown offender.

We have developed the victimology.

And in this case, however, BAU was contacted shortly after Annie went missing.

And at that point, foul play was suspected and suspects were being developed. Not many, but a few were being developed and starting to be

prioritized by investigators. And I'll explain that a little bit more as we get into the case summary.

So the request that came in wasn't for necessarily a typical profile of an unknown offender,

but the request was for investigative suggestions as well as statement analysis.

For those of you that listen to our show, you know that we typically start out with the case

summary and then we discuss the victimology.

However, today I want to start with Annie Lay's victimology because at the time that our unit

was helping out on this case, we didn't know a lot about Annie. It was just in the early stages

and we didn't know if she was a high risk victim, if she was a low risk victim.

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