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Robert Ressler - The Man Who Lives with Monsters (2001)
TV Special | 53 min | Documentary, Crime

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Robert Ressler - The Man Who Lives with Monsters (2001)

TV Special | 53 min | Documentary, Crime

In the early 1980s, Ressler helped to organize the interviews of thirty-six incarcerated serial killers in order to find parallels between such criminals' backgrounds and motives. He was also instrumental in setting up Vi-CAP (Violent ...See moreIn the early 1980s, Ressler helped to organize the interviews of thirty-six incarcerated serial killers in order to find parallels between such criminals' backgrounds and motives. He was also instrumental in setting up Vi-CAP (Violent Criminal Apprehension Program). This consists of a centralized computer database of information on unsolved homicides. Information is gathered from local police forces and cross-referenced with other unsolved killings across the United States. Working on the basis that most serial killers claim similar victims with a standard method (modus operandi) it hopes to spot early on when a killer is carrying out crimes in different jurisdictions. This was primarily a response to the appearance of nomadic killers who committed crimes in different areas. So long as the killer kept on the move, the police forces in each state would be unaware that there were multiple victims and would just be investigating a single homicide each, unaware that other police forces had similar crimes. Vi-CAP would help individual police forces determine if they were hunting for the same perpetrator so that they could share and correlate information with one another, increasing their chances of identifying a suspect. Written by Story House Productions See less

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7 cast members

Name	Known for
Robert K. Ressler Self / Criminal Profiler Self / Criminal Profiler See fewer	Murder: No Apparent Motive (1984)
Gerald P. Boyle Self / Defense Lawyer Self / Defense Lawyer See fewer	Jami Floyd: Best Defense (2006)
Jeffrey Dahmer Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Dateline NBC (1992)
Lionel Dahmer Self Self See fewer	Everyman (1977)
Shari Dahmer Self Self See fewer	Everyman (1977)
Philip Koslowski Self Self See fewer	Robert Ressler - The Man Who Lives with Monsters (2001)
Joseph Kozenczak Self (as Joe Kozenczak) Self (as Joe Kozenczak) See fewer	Psychic Investigators (2006)