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Chargement... Inside the Mind of BTK: The True Story Behind the Thirty-Year Hunt for the Notorious Wichita Serial Killerpar John Douglas, Johnny Dodd
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Legendary Former FBI Profiler John E. Douglas recalls the detailed account of tracking one of the most notorious serial killers. This is told of course, from a law enforcement perspective as Douglas takes us behind the scenes of police, investigators, and FBI often reflecting on his own experiences over the the 30 year hunt. Very throughly researched, and written by one of the top profilers in the field. The author also discusses the heavy price he paid for delving so deeply into this career, and the toll it took on his body. I had to skip a few pages when the author included the killer's diary, which was full of details and his excitement over his deeds. Just couldn't read those parts and not have nightmares for the rest of my life. The one thing I was really interested in was the killer's family, and how much did they know. They did know quite a bit, but apparently just never put it all together, which the author says was more of the law enforcement's failure in a way because of how tightly controlled the information was back then. If they had released certain information sooner, the family or friends might've picked up on the connections sooner. It's a crapshoot basically, but definitely a must read for those interested in what makes serial killers do this. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
A dramatic and compelling true-crime psychological thriller This incredible story shows how John Douglas tracked andparticipated in the hunt for one of the most notorious serialkillers in U.S. history. For 31 years a man who called himself BTK(Bind, Torture, Kill) terrorized the city of Wichita, Kansas,sexually assaulting and strangling a series of women, taunting thepolice with frequent communications, and bragging about his crimesto local newspapers and TV stations. After disappearing for nineyears, he suddenly reappeared, complaining that no one was payingenough attention to him and claiming that he had committed othercrimes for which he had not been given credit. When he wasultimately captured, BTK was shockingly revealed to be Dennis Rader, a 61-year-old married man with two children. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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However, Douglas just rubs me the wrong way as a writer and a law enforcement professional. I've also read his other book, "The Cases That Haunt Us," and also came away with a bad taste in my mouth just because of his tone. He comes across almost as narcissistic and self-important as the serial killers he writes about; he goes out of his way to mention his own accomplishments while subtly minimizing and/or criticizing the incredibly talented people he's worked with that have contributed just as much, if not more, to solving the cases he worked on. For a book about something as seriously grisly as the BTK Strangler, I found myself actually rolling my eyes and snorting out loud over the number of times Douglas wrote things like, and I'm paraphrashing, "I was a young officer on the force (and actually the youngest ever hired)", "I won't even consider my 'wannabes' at Quantico as experts until they've been under my watch for 5 years," and "I was introduced to BTK as an FBI consultant who'd been specially flown in to meet with him, and his eyes told me how important that made him feel." On numerous occasions he goes out of his way to pat his own back, while providing strangely critical vignettes of the very people who did the footwork in arresting Dennis Rader (such as Casarona and Landwehr, both of whom were absolutely active and instrumental in solving the BTK murders yet described as checked-out and relatively incompetent in Douglas's opinion.)
Overall, solid info about BTK and his perversions, and the paraphrased discussions with BTK were some of my favorite as I'd never read anything like it before (I'm just assuming they are accurate.) Skip over the sections where Douglas talks about himself and his history/training, they have nothing to do with BTK and only serve to establish his "credibility" and stroke his own ego, ironically much like the serial killers he profiles. ( )