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Mar 2022
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This week on True Crime Daily The Podcast: In his latest book “When a Killer Calls,” John Douglas details how he caught a child killer with the help of the victim’s older sister. Stay tuned in this installment of “My Favorite Case,” to hear how psychological profiling techniques from the FBI’s Mindhunter are still used to help catch killers.

John Douglas joins host Ana Garcia.

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