Incendiary

The Psychiatrist, the Mad Bomber, and the Invention of Criminal Profiling

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  • Long
  • before
  • the
  • specter
  • of
  • terrorism
  • haunted
  • the
  • public
  • imagination,
  • a
  • serial
  • bomber
  • stalked
  • the
  • streets
  • of
  • 1950s
  • New
  • York.
  • The
  • race
  • to
  • catch
  • him
  • would
  • give
  • birth
  • to
  • a
  • new
  • science
  • called
  • criminal
  • profiling.Grand
  • Central,
  • Penn
  • Station,
  • Radio
  • City
  • Music
  • Hall—for
  • almost
  • two
  • decades,
  • no
  • place
  • was
  • safe
  • from
  • the
  • man
  • who
  • signed
  • his
  • anonymous
  • letters
  • “FP”
  • and
  • left
  • his
  • lethal
  • devices
  • in
  • phone
  • booths,
  • storage
  • lockers,
  • even
  • tucked
  • into
  • the
  • plush
  • seats
  • of
  • movie
  • theaters.
  • His
  • victims
  • were
  • left
  • cruelly
  • maimed.
  • Tabloids
  • called
  • him
  • “the
  • greatest
  • individual
  • menace
  • New
  • York
  • City
  • ever
  • faced.”In
  • desperation,
  • Police
  • Captain
  • Howard
  • Finney
  • sought
  • the
  • help
  • of
  • a
  • little
  • known
  • psychiatrist,
  • Dr.
  • James
  • Brussel,
  • whose
  • expertise
  • was
  • the
  • criminal
  • mind.
  • Examining
  • crime
  • scene
  • evidence
  • and
  • the
  • strange
  • wording
  • in
  • the
  • bomber’s
  • letters,
  • he
  • compiled
  • a
  • portrait
  • of
  • the
  • suspect
  • down
  • to
  • the
  • cut
  • of
  • his
  • jacket.
  • But
  • how
  • to
  • put
  • a
  • name
  • to
  • the
  • description?
  • Seymour
  • Berkson—a
  • handsome
  • New
  • York
  • socialite,
  • protégé
  • of
  • William
  • Randolph
  • Hearst,
  • and
  • publisher
  • of
  • the
  • tabloid
  • The
  • Journal-American—joined
  • in
  • pursuit
  • of
  • the
  • Mad
  • Bomber.
  • The
  • three
  • men
  • hatched
  • a
  • brilliant
  • scheme
  • to
  • catch
  • him
  • at
  • his
  • own
  • game.
  • Together,
  • they
  • would
  • capture
  • a
  • monster
  • and
  • change
  • the
  • face
  • of
  • American
  • law enforcement.
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