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Aug 2024
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Episode 649: Dr. Ann Burgess - A quest t...

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She was the inspiration behind the character of Dr.Wendy in the hit Netflix show Mindhunter.


Dr.Ann Burgess began her career in trauma nursing before she went on to work with the FBI in the behavioral science unit where she helped to develop a method for profiling sexual serial killers.


Speaking to Clodagh Meaney at CrimeCon, Dr. Ann Burgess tells us about her work and her book A Killer by Design murders mindhunters and my quest to decipher the criminal mind.



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