I am sick to death of retellings of the founding and rise of the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit that completely ignore the contributions of a key female player in the interview project. Her name is Dr. Ann Wolbert Burgess - she worked with Douglas and Ressler to analyze their interviews and create a standardized set of questions for their subjects, allowing more concrete data to be gained from the interviews. She's so important, her work remains incredibly important to this day and yet, in many accounts including the one Raftery has given here, she is completely omitted.

There's a documentary called Mastermind: To Think Like A Killer (2024) about her that lays out her story very well. She's also written a lot of books - most are forensic textbooks, but A Killer By Design: Murderers, Mindhunters, and My Quest to Decipher the Criminal Mind and Expert Witness: The Weight of Our Testimony When Justice Hangs in the Balance are written for a public audience. She is portrayed by the incredible Anna Torv in the 2017 Netflix crime drama Mindhunter.