The real Mindhunters: why ‘serial killer whisperers’ do more harm than good
by Tom Seymour from Science | The Guardian on (#4NG99)
The psychological profiling at the heart of Netflix's acclaimed drama make for great TV but, say experts, it's better left in the fiction section
Uncork the chianti, serve up the fava beans, have an old friend for dinner: the second season of Mindhunter has returned to Netflix, allowing us to chill with history's worst serial killers.
Plenty of true crime dramas claim that the misdeeds they depict actually happened, just so. But Mindhunter, which stars Jonathan Groff as special agent Holden Ford and Holt McCallany as his partner, Bill Tench, goes further. David Fincher's series is based on the theories and career of John Douglas, founder of the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit and so-called "serial killer whisperer".
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