Author's Note xi
Introduction: It Starts with a Test 1
Chapter 1 When the FBI Calls 7
Chapter 2 The Bomb Shelter 28
Chapter 3 Profiling the Profilers 48
Chapter 4 Reading the Crime Scene 67
Chapter 5 A Female Killer 82
Chapter 6 My Best Friend Missy 109
Chapter 7 Victimology 101 129
Chapter 8 Beneath the Mask 141
Chapter 9 "There's No Cookbook" 160
Chapter 10 A Deeper Look 166
Chapter 11 Fantasy or Reality, You Can't Have Both 185
Chapter 12 Patterns of Dismemberment 198
Chapter 13 Reading Between the Lines 217
Chapter 14 Bind Them, Torrure Them, Kill Them 227
Chapter 15 Ego Will Be Your Downfall 241
Chapter 16 Gazing into the Abyss 253
Chapter 17 The Monster Within 279
New Bonus Chapter: Proof of Concept 290
Acknowledgments 309
Sources 313
Index 314