


or an elaborate masturbatory fantasy gone awry? Is he the victim of a bizarre, ritualistic murder. His clothes are neatly folded by the entrance and a stopwatch lies in the grime beneath him. * A teenager's corpse is found hanging in a storm sewer. Who committed this heinous crime? And why? Andrew's Cross and mutilated beyond description. Her body is later found in a field, strapped to a makeshift St. * A young woman disappears from the convenience store where she works. The cases he describes are as shocking as they are perplexing their resolutions are as fascinating as they are innovative: These are sexual sadists, serial rapists, child molesters, and serial killers. Hazelwood has helped track down some of the most violent and well known criminals in modern history in Dark Dreams he takes readers into his world-a sinister world inhabited by scores of dangerous offenders for every Roy Hazelwood who would put them behind bars.

He also catalogs the innovative and remarkably effective techniques-techniques that he helped pioneer at the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit-that allow Law Enforcement agents to construct psychological profiles of the offenders who comit them. In Dark Dreams he reveals the twisted motives and perverse thinking that go into the most reprehensible crimes. Profiler Roy Hazelwood is the world's leading expert on the strangest and most dangerous of all aberrant offenders-the sexual criminal.
