The Path to Profiling: Part 2

Killer Psyche

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True Crime, Exhibit C

4.6 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

In part 2 of this 2 part episode, former FBI agent and criminal profiler Candice DeLong discusses how she joined the FBI and started as a profiler.

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0:00.0	Hey, Prime members, you can listen to Killer Siky add free on Amazon music.
0:05.3	Download the app today.
0:09.3	A listener note, this episode contains adult content and is not suitable for everyone.
0:15.3	Please be advised.
0:25.0	I do a lot of public speaking and some of it is on college campuses.
0:29.7	Usually one of my questions from the audience is, how can I be you?
0:34.5	And the answer is, well, you can't.
0:36.9	You can only be you and take your own path.
0:39.7	But if a person means that they want to be a criminal profiler,
0:43.1	the first thing I do is take off their rose colored glasses.
0:47.5	It is not Hollywood.
0:49.2	Hollywood, what have you think that being a profiler is a glamorous life
0:53.5	and being flown around in FBI jets and solving cases in a week?
0:58.8	Well, this is just not reality.
1:01.9	Being a profiler is hard work, long hours, and we use commercial airlines.
1:09.2	Cases are not solved overnight.
1:12.2	There can be a lot of trial and error.
1:15.4	The first profile that I did was, well, 90% accurate,
1:19.7	but that 10% was a major 10%.
1:22.7	In fact, it was probably the most important part of the profile.
1:26.4	But we still got our guy.
1:28.9	When we develop a profile of an unknown offender,
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