FBI心理分析官―異常殺人者たちの素顔に迫る衝撃の手記

被害者の血を飲む殺人鬼、バラバラにした死体で性行為にふける倒錯者、30人以上を殺害したシリアル・キラー… 異常殺人者たちを凄惨な犯罪に駆り立てたものはなにか? FBI行動科学課の特別捜査官として数々の奇怪な事件を解決に導き、「プロファイリング」という捜査技術を世界中に知らしめて『羊たちの沈黙』や「X‐ファイル」のモデルにもなった著者が、凶悪犯たちの驚くべき心理に迫る戦慄のノンフィクション。
This book is an overview of the career of the FBI man who nearly single-handedly created the system for personality profiling of violent offenders. If there's a big-time multiple murderer from about 1950 until now who hasn't been interviewed by Robert Ressler, he probably refused the honor. Indispensable reading for serial killer mavens, and better written than John Douglas and Mark Olshaker's Mindhunter, this book is packed with fascinating details from dozens of cases: The killer John Joubert, for example, started his life of cruelty as a kid one day when he was riding his bike with a sharpened pencil in his hand. He rode up next to a little girl who was walking, and stabbed her in the back with the pencil. Ouch!