Introduction
Dunblane
Why did he do it?
I just happen to be in Scotland when I hear about the massacre.
It's the morning of Wednesday, March 13, 1996, and I'm in a television studio in
Glasgow as part of a promotional tour for my book Mindhunter, at the
invitation of our British publisher. For the last hour I've been interviewed
about criminal profiling on the ITV television program This Morning by a
very personable team of cohosts named Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan. How did
I begin in the field? they ask. How did I learn what I know, and who did I learn
it from? How did my Investigative Support Unit in Quantico, Virginia, go about
creating and using a profile of an unknown subject or UNSUB, as he is known in
FBI and law enforcement circles? Throughout the tour I've been really pumped up
by the Brits' fascination with the subject and the interest they've shown in my
career of studying and hunting killers, rapists, bombers — men whose evil and
depraved acts challenge the bounds of the human imagination. Fortunately for the
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