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In my 20-year career with the FBI, I was lucky enough to work on my share of high-profile cases.

These were cases that captured national attention and were on the news at night. But the case that I considered to be the most important in my professional life garnered no press.

In fact, the story is very seldom told. On June 6, 1996, we had received a hot tip from the Portland FBI office. There was a kidnap child that was being trafficked through the Oakland bus station and we were being tasked to rescue him.

This is a dream for most FBI agents. Well, most law enforcement officers in general to be able to save someone's life, especially a child's and to make a difference in the world.

Hollywood would have you think that FBI agents rescue kidnap victims all the time, but the truth of the matter is that's simply not accurate at all.

Rescuing a kidnap victim is a rarity. In more than 90% of non-custody related abductions, the child is molested and then soon released.

But for the children that go missing for more than 24 hours, fewer than 50% ever make it home.

In this particular case, the victim was an 11 year old boy named Tony, but here was an opportunity to prevent this kid from becoming a statistic.

This is the story of the most wonderful moment in my professional career.

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From Wondry and Tree Fort, I'm Candace DeLong and this is Killer Psychie.

I've spent five decades studying people's minds through my work as an FBI profiler and psychiatric nurse.

I've interviewed dozens of murderers including serial killers and the question of why they did it is what I get asked time and time again.

I want to give you a satisfying answer so I'm diving deep into the mindsets of these criminals to give you my best analysis of what made them do what they did.

Last week my producer Julie and I talked about how I got into the FBI. This story is an example of why I wanted to get into the FBI.

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