Tracker: Hunting Down Serial Killers, Dr. Maurice Godwin with Fred Rosen Thunder’s Mouth Press, Release Date: October 15, 2004

(PRWEB) September 7, 2004

Tracker presents former police officer Maurice Godwin’s method of psychological and geographic profiling which is revolutionizing the way police track and capture serial killers. Forget Silence of the Lambs; Hannibal Lecters, and Clarice Starlings do not exist.

The public believes that the FBI is protecting us from this most deadly of human predators, but the FBI profilers never caught a serial killer. The profiles they turn out are based on interviews with thirty-six convicted killers, out of which only twenty-five were serial killers. Conducted in 1978, the study has since been condemned as statistically and demographically invalid.

Recently courts have begun throwing out some profilers’ testimony, with judges ruling that the profiles amount to little more than voodoo. In contrast, Maurice Godwin uses inductive analysis, environmental psychology, behavioral psychology, crime site information, and other factors to create the most accurate psycho-geographical profiles available.

In Tracker, we learn that "[Godwin's] work is based on the collection and critical analysis of over 100,000 data points and 200 different crime scene actions that could be used to profile the killer." Godwin explains, "Instead of relying on interviews with murderers, I studied specific pieces of behavioral information available from the crime scene or case file to develop a psychological profile of the killer and to pinpoint where he lives." Godwin further states, “I’m more interested in getting in the killer’s shoes rather than his mind.”

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