ShadowMan: An Elusive Psycho Killer and the Birth of FBI Profiling by Ron Franscell
Susie Jaeger's 1973 vanishing in Montana seemed impossible. She was camping with her family and sleeping in a tent with three of her siblings. Then, in the middle of the night, someone slit her tent open and stole her from her sleep without anyone waking up. When her sister discovered her missing very early the next morning--perhaps from the breeze that was flowing through the sliced tent--she was in disbelief. Susie had to be nearby. She had to have just gotten a bit lost in the dark. Right? Tragically, Susie was not lost, but abducted. Before long, the largest manhunt in Montana history was being conducted and led by the FBI. Around the same time, a new way of looking at violent crimes was emerging: criminal profiling. At the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit (BSU), agents worked to learn about unknown subjects based on what was known of the crimes. The thought was that the evidence left as well as the modus operandi by perpetrators could aid agents in identify...
