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FBI Profilers: Criminal Archives

By: Jim Clemente, Kathy Canning-Mello, James Bruce, John Meroney
Narrated by: Jim Clemente, Kathy Canning-Mello
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Jim Clemente and Kathy Canning-Mello are both former FBI Profilers. They worked together for more than a decade in the FBI’s legendary Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU), where they analyzed, researched and consulted on some of the most terrifying violent and sexual crimes across the country.

As FBI Profilers, they used victimology, the study of the victim, because an offender’s choice of victim unwittingly reveals information about that offender. They identified patterns in offender behavior to zero-in on suspects. And they used indirect personality assessments to figure out a killer’s motivations and, at times, to get them to interact with law enforcement, which could ultimately lead to their identification and capture.

In an ordinary police department, officers might only come across the worst types of cases once or twice in their careers. So when terrible crimes happen, they might not have the experience to crack the case. That’s where the BAU comes in. Jim and Kathy worked on everything from cold cases to active serial killer investigations, marshalling all their expertise to capture violent offenders and to prevent future crimes.

In this series, Kathy and Jim revisit the cases that haunted them most over the course of their FBI careers. They bring you along every step of the way in their investigations, to reveal what they learned about some of the most infamous crimes in history and demonstrate the profiling that helped to find the offenders…and bring justice to the victims.

This series contains mature themes and is not appropriate for all audiences. Listener discretion is advised.
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Episodes
  • Episode 1: Spangler

    Episode 1: Spangler
    Jul 11 2024
    Robert Spangler is one of the most unique serial killers that Jim and Kathy encountered in their careers in the Behavioral Analysis Unit. Spangler killed multiple wives and two of his children over the course of two decades, and had never even been considered a suspect in the death investigations. But then the FBI used criminal behavioral analysis to crack the cases all at once and get Spangler to confess to being a serial killer.
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    44 mins
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  • Episode 2: Devlin

    Episode 2: Devlin
    Jul 11 2024
    Ben Ownby was a 13-year-old boy who was kidnapped after he got off his school bus one afternoon in a small town in Missouri. Both Jim and Kathy worked this case along with the FBI’s Child Abduction Rapid Deployment Team. This case would result in the most incredible ending out of all of the cases that Jim and Kathy worked over their careers.
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    40 mins
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  • Episode 3: Keyes Part 1

    Episode 3: Keyes Part 1
    Jul 11 2024
    Israel Keyes was one of the most criminally sophisticated serial killers the world has ever known. He’d been killing for more than a decade and no one even suspected his victims were murdered by a serial killer. This case has so many twists and turns, it took Kathy and Jim two episodes to tell the story…
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    36 mins
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About the Writer and Executive Producer

Jim Clemente is a podcast host, writer, producer, and retired FBI agent and Profiler. Jim is a host of the podcasts Real Crime Profile and Best Case Worst Case. For 15 seasons he was a technical adviser then writer and producer for the TV series Criminal Minds. Jim was the co-creator and co-writer of the Audible Original Audiobook Bluebeard and the TV limited series Manhunt: Unabomber. He was an executive producer of the reboot of America’s Most Wanted, a co-author of the Audible Original series Call Me God and Evil Has a Name, and the author of the novel Without Consent. Before his writing and producing career, Clemente was a prosecutor for the New York City Law Department and then a supervisory special agent and Profiler for the FBI with a focus on serial killers, child abductions, and other violent and serial crimes. He has investigated some of the highest-profile criminal cases in US history, including the Unabomber, JonBenet Ramsey, Amanda Knox, the DC Snipers, and 9/11 attacks.

About the Performer

Kathy Canning-Mello is a 31-year veteran of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Her vast experience in the field includes investigations in violent crime, white-collar crime, cybercrime, counter-terrorism, and transnational organized crime. During her 10-year assignment as a Profiler in the FBI's renowned Behavioral Analysis Unit, she also consulted and taught thousands of criminal justice professionals around the world on investigating crimes against children. Kathy’s service included international assignments in Canada, Greece, and Hong-Kong, and then as the FBI Legal Attaché to the Republics of Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan. Kathy currently serves as a professor of criminal justice at the University of North Carolina in Wilmington.

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Very addicting

Amazing look into an FBI profilers world with actual profilers. Very addicting from the first story on!

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I can’t stop listening—it’s that good!

Incredible, fresh, and professional. Brilliant minds with kind hearts! I can't wait for more episodes!

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Fabulous podcast!

For a real crime buff and ex law enforcement, this is such an excellent listen. Xx keep giving us content team!

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Fascinating

I've always been curious about the psychology of murder. this was well put together and so informative!

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Very good

Entertaining and informative. Good historical coverage of horrible intriguing events. Scary at how random some of the victim choices were.

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True experts of the criminal mind

Mr. Clemente is at his best. They are both engaging and great story tellers. love it

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Great podcast!

Really enjoyed the detail into these cases and wish there were more episodes! Patiently awaiting them and now searching for something close to this one.

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Profiling is fascinating

Jims profile of the killer(s) and knowing how they act and what they would do based on the crime is facilitating.

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Good listenable series

This series gets right to the point, offers a wide variety of crimes, and the episodes don't drag out too long. It's been a good listen. It has taught me a few things about victims, perpetrators, and about the FBI. One interesting thing I had never considered is that suicidal people are actually dangers not only to themselves but to others because their feelings of worthlessness about themselves does extend to other humans. Some of the recordings of the actual perpetrators were hard to hear, but they were a nice addition to hear the actual words and tone of voice of the people who committed these crimes.

One thing I disliked about this series was what I learned about the FBI profilers. I guess I had them up on more of an educational pedestal than they deserve. The male narrator calls two of the perps "losers" at some point (and calls others names as well) and that seems very unprofessional in that these FBI people are supposed to be sort of "scientists" who know about the brain and mental states of people who commit violent crimes. To just label them "losers" doesn't demonstrate any knowledge of the plethora of things that happen in people's lives to create the types of people who would commit such crimes, and that is disappointing. Also noteworthy is that the same narrator mentions that one of the perp's fathers was a "very strict disciplinarian" but that it was nothing out of the ordinary - meaning that the FBI professional thinks that parents who are overly controlling and regularly hit their kids rather than teaching their children to use reasoning skills - are not messing their kids up at all. Science of the brain and child development is a lot further ahead than this FBI professional. I really expected more from the FBI. I have hope for the upcoming younger generations of professionals to understand the brain better. But the podcast helped me pass some time and was interesting to listen to.

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Interesting and informative

I like that this is written and narrated by the profilers themselves. Clear descriptions and good pacing. Hoping for more content like this.

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