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From Barnes & NoblePat Brown's career as a criminal profiler began with some hometown amateur detective work. When a woman was murdered in her community, the Maryland mom became convinced that her boarder had the killer, although he was the boyfriend of a close friend. The police, however, dismissed her housewife help, only to be proven wrong several years later. Since then, Pat has pursued her instincts, earning a Masters Degree in Criminal Justice and becoming one of the nation's leading criminal profilers. The Profiler is her first-person story of how she got there and how she does it. From the Publisher"Pat Brown takes us into the very minds of cold-blooded killers. Most people can't comprehend the 'why' behind murder.
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Pat Brown BiographyPat Brown is a nationally known criminal profiler, television commentator, author, and founder and CEO of The Pat Brown Criminal Profiling Agency and CEO/co-developer of The Pat Brown Method of Investigative Criminal Profiling for Major Crimes Detectives. Pat has profiled cold cases for law enforcement for over twenty years. Her experiences in providing deductive profiling in homicide cases led her to develop the first Criminal Profiling and Investigative Analysis Certificate Program in the United States for Excelsior College which is a major provider of continuing education for military members and law enforcement. Recognizing the importance of criminal profiling as a tool in fresh cases as well as cold cases, Pat joined forces with Police Chief Robert Lee to bring criminal profiling directly to the skill set of major crimes detectives and together they have developed a specific method of investigative criminal profiling to be offered as necessary training for police detectives.During the last decade and a half, Pat has provided crime commentary and forensic analysis in over three thousand television and radio appearances in the United States and across the globe. She has been seen regularly on the cable television news programs, CNN, MSNBC and FOX, and as been a frequent guest of The Today Show, The CBS Early Show, Canada AM, Larry King, Inside Edition, Nancy Grace, Issues with Jane Velez-Mitchell, Joy Behar, and America's Most Wanted. For four seasons, Pat profiled crimes on the weekly Court TV crime show, I, Detective. Pat was the host of the 2004 Discovery Channel documentary, The Mysterious Death of Cleopatra and in the spring of 2006, Pat went inside one of Florida's maximum-security prisons to interview a child murderer for the Discovery Channel series, Evil Minds. In 2010 she profiled a new Jack the Ripper suspect for Investigation Discovery's Mystery Files. Pat contributed special feature content for the 2005 home DVD edition of Profiler: Season Two and the 15th Anniversary Edition, 2006 DVD release of Quentin Tarantino's crime classic, Reservoir Dogs.Pat is the author of six books: The Murder of Cleopatra (Prometheus Books 2013) , The Truth about Book Publishing and Book Publicity (Amazon 2013) , How to Save Your Daughter's Life (HCI 2012) , Only the Truth (Amazon 2012) , The Profiler: My Life Hunting Serial Killers and Psychopaths (Hyperion Voice 2010) and Killing for Sport: Inside the Minds of Serial Killers (Phoenix Books 2003) . Through The Pat Brown Criminal Profiling Agency (www.patbrownprofiling.com) , Pat provides criminal profiling consultation, education, and training to law enforcement, media, attorneys, universities, corporations, and private individuals.Pat specializes in crime scene analysis, behavioral profiling, threat analysis, psychopathy, serial rape and murder, victimology, terrorism, and homicide investigation.Pat holds a Master's Degree in Criminal Justice from Boston
