John Douglas on chasing serial killers

Not only a national treasure. But a world treasure. It's people like him who should be celebrated.

I've gone down a John Douglas rabbit hole and let me tell you, it is the most awesome rabbit hole ever. Epic.

I'm shocked this interview doesn't have more views because it's one of the best with JD I've seen! I've been following his career since I was way too young to do so (I'm 47 and my dad worked with some of the worst sex offenders in the state of MN if that tells you anything) and I'm going to see him at CrimeCon in a week but he's not only fascinating to listen to but his career covering so many different areas of law enforcement is unreal. The conversational style you brought to the table was fantastic! I'm so excited, this is my Super Bowl to meet him, and this interview was the perfect precursor to going to see him.

His illness was most likely caused by all the toxic evil he was exposed to and the sick evil vibrations. He's paid a high price to do this job. Blessed be John and thank you for your service.💙💙

I cannot imagine being in a room with these monsters, having to hear their crazy. God bless people who run to trouble when everything screams to run away.

What a fascinating guy. A real pioneer! Good interview...

I believe John Douglas and Robert Ressler were pioneers in profiling. What a job to do though, and I can't imagine the stress level.

I wish there was more to watch with John available. John will be one of those guys we ask “why isn’t John around to help?!”

I always wnted to thank John Douglas for raising public knowledge of the correlation of animal cruelty to violence against humans. As a reporter in the 1970s-80s, I became traumatized by hearing Numerous stories of violence committed by ORDINARY farmers in Central Ky., an agricultural zone. I collected stories of farm boys hanging old women on clothes lines to butcher them like rabbits (one was my mom's old 4-H teacher; one was my friend's neighbor!); farmers butchering farm wives; farmers delivering their own children, using tractor chains (to save doctor fees), and then I covered the Todd Ice case, where a teenager cut a child's throat with his farm knife \ hunting knife. There was even a boy using a crossbow to shoot his own father. Then I heard about Bundy, who kept a meat hook over his kitchen table! Why don't people notice this stuff? Since then, a lot of books by profilers and behavior analysts has begun to make people think about the causes of adults hurting children, and helpless animals. I know we have to stop violence agaubst animals, or we may never stop it against children. I don't think you can ever debrief enough from hearing the cases I heard. But you people, law enforcement, SAW the crime scenes. I saw a few things, down on the farm, and a few times is enough to affect you for life. Experts say, you have to tell the stories, but they add, it won't heal you (veterans, cops) until you receive feeling responses from listeners. For this purpose, I want to create a women's storytelling circle on my farm... a good farm, where children get to see animals treated with love and dignity, never skinned alive or cut up😥. You men could do something like that -- set up a man cave -- for little boys to feel safe.

Not me actually crying out of happiness when reading his book. The love and passion plus the hard work is just amazing ❤

I've read Mindhunter and Journey into Darkness. Really enjoyed them. Somehow this is the first time I've seen him in live-action mode... And holy smokes, this guy is fantastic! I would've never gauged his phenomenal personality from reading those books. I'd make a horrible profiler. What a solid dude.

My favorite FBI GUY!💝

Could listen to JD for hours. What a career

John Douglas is Amazing! Fascinating stuff!!

I still have the book “Mindhunter”, which the series is based on, which we were required to have for a “deviant behavior” class decades ago in college.

Met Douglas at a book signing back in the 90's where he signed my copy of Mindhunter. Great guy and still going strong!

If I could go back in time (career wise) and emulate anyone, it would be John. Smart, empathetic, open to the diverse/perverse but, all for the good and betterment of society. An American hero. 🥰

I have read all of John Douglas’ books and studied all the papers he has authored. Watching this I was actually surprised by how badly it was done. He is a wealth of knowledge of the criminal mind and if I had the opportunity to sit down with him and only had 1 1/2 hours I’d have structured my questions differently. Whenever he does a seminar he prepares it basically chronologically to explain the process of how he created the innovative process of profiling. He details his association with Ann Burgess and her husband. The way that the video looked spliced was very distracting. Overall it was a great interview that was more of a fireside chat with these guys. Now I’ve never watched their podcast before and maybe that’s their normal conversation with a guest but with John Douglas there were so many missed opportunities. I can appreciate that these are veterans just like myself and they alluded to being investigators themselves and that may have taken away from some of the things that Dr Douglas could have given insight on. It’s still a very good interview of the man of a thousand stories but I really wish they had more prepared their questions more. His book Mindhunter alone would have given them the map of sorts, to maintain a more cohesive interview. When he explained his experience of almost dying during the Green River case, as an example, should have been at the beginning of his interview because of the profound effect it had on him that’s not in the books. Again I don’t know their podcasts and maybe it’s just how they wanted it because he was very relaxed. Many people would have expected that he speak more on the docuseries vs the truth which he barely touched on. I think they missed a great opportunity to glean insight that others wouldn’t have gotten much like the Biden Trump question. I’m sharing this because it’s still a very good podcast and most people don’t have the information I do so I may be more critical than most. Great job and I really do like the hosts so I’ll check out more of their content.

Just ran across you guys. Enjoyed this forum. Retired military. Seems it suits my ear. Mr. Douglas is certainly noteworthy..

He is fascinating to listen to!