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Ann Burgess is a forensic Nurse and the real life mind hunter and researcher who worked with John Douglas, Robert Ressler and other legendary FBI profilers in profiling some of the most dangerous serial killers ever. Ann and her co-writer Steven Constantine join Mind Over Murder co-hosts Bill Thomas and Kristin Dilley to discuss their new book, "A Killer by Design: Murderers, Mindhunters, and My Quest to Decipher the Criminal Mind."

Ann Burgess is a professor at Boston College:

https://www.bc.edu/bc-web/schools/cson/faculty-research/faculty-directory/ann-burgess.html

A Killer by Design: Murderers, Mindhunters, and My Quest to Decipher the Criminal Mind:

https://www.amazon.com/Killer-Design-Murderers-Mindhunters-Decipher/dp/0306924870/ref=asc_df_0306924870/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=564641513751&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=5650798056441637035&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9003199&hvtargid=pla-1642070355320&psc=1

PCS Magazine: Meet the Female Forensic Researcher Behind Netflix's 'Mindhunter'
The real-life Wendy Carr helped the FBI formulate criminal profiling in the 1970s—and her work with victims isn't over.

https://psmag.com/social-justice/the-female-forensic-researcher-behind-mindhunter

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New Article in Virginia Gazette: 35 Years Later, Victims’ Families in Colonial Parkway Murders Still Searching for Answers, Hope DNA Advances will Solve Case By Em Holter and Abigail Adcox

https://www.dailypress.com/virginiagazette/va-vg-colonial-parkway-murders-anniversary-1024-20211022-76jkpte6qvez7onybmhbhp7nfi-story.html

New Article in Medium: The Colonial Parkway Murders — A Tale of Two Killers? By Quinn Zane

https://medium.com/unburied/the-colonial-parkway-murders-a-tale-of-two-killers-1e8fda367a48

Washington Post: "Crimes of Passion"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1997/08/15/crimes-of-passion/0a38e8f9-6d04-48e4-a847-7d3cba53c363/

New feature article in the Daily Beast: "Inside the Maddening Search for Virginia’s Colonial Parkway Serial Killer" By Justin Rohrlich

https://www.thedailybeast.com/what-happened-to-cathleen-thomas-and-rebecca-dowski-inside-the-hunt-for-the-colonial-parkway-killer

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Washington Post Op-Ed Piece by Deidre Enright of the Innocence Project:

"The FBI should use DNA, not posters, to solve a cold-case murder"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/06/25/julie-williams-laura-winans-unsolved-murder-test-dna/

Oxygen: "Loni Coombs Feels A Kinship To 'Lovers' Lane' Victim Cathy Thomas"

Loni Coombs felt an immediate connection to Cathy Thomas, a groundbreaking gay woman who broke through barriers at the U.S. Naval Academy before she was brutally murdered along the Colonial Parkway in Virginia.

https://www.oxygen.co