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The Investigative Team of Netflix’s Mindhunter – and the real people they are based on

Agent Holden Ford and Agent John Douglas

The author of the original ‘Mindhunter’ FBI agent John Douglas has proved to be the inspiration for many fictional characters, including The Silence of the Lambs’ Jack Crawford and Criminal Minds’ Agent Rossi and now most recently: Mindhunter’s Agent Holden Ford.

Douglas began working in the FBI’s Behavioural Sciences Unit in 1977, teaching hostage negotiation at the FBI Academy. Alongside his partner Robert Ressler, Douglas traveled across the United States instructing local law enforcement.

Douglas retired from the FBI in 1995, after the stress of working on the case of the Green River Killer (later discovered to be Gary Ridgway) took a toll on his health. Douglas has remained an active consultant since then however, most notable on the case of the murder of Jon Benet Ramsey.

Agent Bill Tench and Agent Robert K. Ressler

Robert Ressler was a US army veteran who joined the FBI in 1970. Ressler was the first person to coin the term “serial killer” and worked with his partner Agent Douglas to organise the interviews of 36 incarcerated serial killers.

Together Ressler and Douglas interviewed Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy, Richard Speck, Ed Kemper, Dennis Rader, Lawrence Bittaker and many more notorious killers.

Ressler was also integral in the creation of the FBI’s Vi-CAP program designed to co-ordinate information on unsolved violent crimes. Ressler worked on several infamous serial killer cases including that of Jeffrey Dahmer and the Vampire of Sacramento Richard Chase before his retirement in 1990.

Doctor Wendy Carr and Doctor Ann Wolbert Burgess

Doctor Burgess is currently teaching forensic science at Boston College, but once worked closely alongside Agents Douglas and Ressler. Doctor Burgess co-authored and published ‘Sexual Homicide: Patterns and Motives’ alongside Ressler and Douglas in 1988.

Burgess also co-founded a counseling program for victims of sexual violence at the Boston City Hospital. She has also worked closely with sociologist Doctor Lynda Holmstrom to highlight the symptoms caused by rape trauma syndrome.

I made a post similar to this for the serial killers of Mindhunter so it felt right to research and post about the good guys too.

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The Killers of Netflix’s Mindhunter & Their Real Life Counterparts

Co-Ed Killer Edmund Kemper

Standing at an enormous 6′9″, Ed Kemper was responsible for ten murders between 1964 and 1973. Kemper was the first serial killer interviewed by Agent Ford in Mindhunter and remains alive in prison at the California Medical Facility aged 73. The real life inspiration for Agent Ford, FBI profiler John Douglas described Kemper as: “among the brightest prison inmates”. This is reinforced by Kemper’s high

IQ of 145.

Richard Speck

Richard Speck was a mass murderer who killed 8 female students on one night in 1966. Speck was a married father himself, but was by all accounts an alcoholic and abusive husband. Speck spent the remainder of his life in prison after his crimes, dying of a heart attack the night before his 50th birthday in 1991. FBI profiler John Douglas described his meeting Speck:

“As he saw us approaching his jail cell, he went crazy, he went nuts like an animal”.

Lust Killer Jerry Brudos

Jerome Henry Brudos was a serial killer responsible for the murder of at least four women between 1968 and 1969 in Oregon. Like Speck, Brudos was a married father. Brudos also had an intense obsession with women’s feet and shoes. Jerry Brudos died of liver cancer aged 67 in 2006. Having served over 37 years in prison, he was the longest incarcerated inmate in the Oregon penal system.

BTK Killer Dennis Rader

Although only teased in Mindhunter, Dennis Rader is one of America’s most notorious serial killers. As shown in Mindhunter, Rader worked for the ADT security company in Wichita, Kansas. He was also responsible for the murder of ten people between 1974 and 1991. A majority of his murder victims were female, amongst them being the entire Otero family. Rader broke into the home of the Oteros in January 1974 before systematically torturing and murdering Joseph and Julie Otero as well as their 11 year old son and 9 year old daughter. Rader remains alive in the Kansas El Dorado Correctional Facility aged 72.

I’ve posted about Mindhunter before but not in such detail, I was rewatching it and thought this would be an interesting post to make. It’s a really great series and I’m looking forward to season two a great deal.