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JOHN DOUGLAS: Super Bowl Sunday, January, 1972, Detroit,

Michigan.

J. Edgar Hoover wanted 1,000 arrests

made in the United States.

The Super Bowl is one of the most lucrative betting

events in sports.

But back in 1972, most NFL bets were illegal.

Illegal gambling was rampant throughout the United States,

primarily run by the organized crime families.

But meanwhile, back in Detroit, now I'm

about 26 years of age, my first office of assignment.

The FBI took advantage of Super Bowl

Sunday to do a cross-country gambling raid

and catch illegal bookmakers in the act.

My assignment that day was to arrest two or three

of these characters here.

The second guy I arrested, got him into the car,

and it's raining that day.

Good-looking guy.

He looked like-- to me, he looked like Paul Newman,

kind of a young Paul Newman.

And I said, Frank, man--

I said, Frank, why are you doing this stuff, man?

Why are you doing it?

And I said, how old are you, kid?

26.

You don't get it, kid.

You don't understand.

And I said, what do you mean?

And he looks over the right side of the pane of glass,

and he says, you see those two raindrops over there

off to the side?

I said, yeah.

I said, I bet you the one on the left

gets down to the pane of glass before the one on the right.

He said, OK, let's go.

Not betting any money.

OK.

Let's go.

So here go to the drops.

They come down.

He wins.

And he looks over back at me, and he said, see what I mean?

I said, what?

You just beat me in a raindrop race.

What are you talking about?

He says, we don't need a Super Bowl.

No.

All we need are two raindrops.

Because we are who we are.

Crime is in our heart and our soul.

And whatever you do, we're going to keep doing it.

When he said that, I started thinking,

if they are who they are, if they're not going to change,

it's predictable.

If they are who they are, we may be

able to predict their behavior and cut them off at the pass.

It was on that rainy day in Detroit

that the idea of criminal profiling took hold.

And I never let it go.

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I'm John Douglas.

I was in the FBI for 25 years, developed an investigative tool

called criminal profiling.

Some of the bigger cases in my career

were the Atlanta child murders, the Green River Killer,

the Unabomber case, the Trailside Killer,

and the BTK Strangler case out of Wichita, Kansas.

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I'm going to teach you some of the techniques I've

used as a FBI agent, as a criminal profiler working

thousands upon thousands of cases.

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In 1990, I got a call from director Jonathan Demme.

He's got this movie called "Silence of the Lambs,"

and he's going to be filming that down at the FBI Academy.

And he hired actor Scott Glenn to portray me in the movie.

They will recreate my office elsewhere

because when they came down to my office,

they saw really how depressing it really was.

We were 60 feet underground.

We would say we were 10 times deeper than dead people

being 60 feet underground.

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1995, I'm eligible to retire.

I end up with a book called "Mindhunter."

"Mindhunter" becomes the "New York Times" number one

bestseller.

And then about 2014, I got a call

telling me actress Charlize Theron is

interested in adapting "Mindhunter."

She took me down to Malibu to meet director David Fincher.

And that turned into a hit show on Netflix.

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There's been so many TV shows that

have misinterpreted what I do, like you

have to be some kind of psychic phenomena

to recreate these cases in your mind.

Our criminal profilers go through two years

of extensive training before they fly solo.

It's really experience working a lot of cases,

seeing these cases over and over again,

where you develop the skill.

It was difficult for me to deal with crimes like this day in

and day out.

And my own stress at my job spilled over into my family.

I have two daughters and one son.

I would take my daughters for a pony ride,

and I'm watching a guy who's taking pictures.

My youngest daughter, Lauren, gets off the pony ride.

I say, Lauren, you see this guy over here?

I bet he doesn't have a child on that pony ride.

And sure enough, it ends, the ride ends,

and he's taking pictures.

I said, let's tail this guy.

Let's tail this guy.

Here I am with a six-year-old.

Let's tail this guy.

We followed him, and sure enough, he

didn't have a child--

a life lesson for Lauren, but not the last for my kids.

As they got older and they started dating,

that's when I really put everyone

through the ringer, but particularly the date.

I was nice, but I think I made my wife nuttier.

My one daughter, Erica, she came in with this really nice guy.

And my wife's modus operandi would

be, what does your picture on your driver's license

look like?

Want to see mine?

Mine looks like this.

It's a horrible picture.

Let me see yours.

She would offer a drink.

The reason she's offering a drink

is because she wants latent fingerprints off

of that can of soda that we could process this

later on if something happens.

In this class, you're going to get exclusive access

to an unpublished manuscript that my daughter and I put

together.

And in this, it was some very, very good advice

in everyday life type of situations

that will be applicable to you.

There'll be a lot of learning points here--

how not to become a victim, how to develop your intuition,

how to spot a liar, how to use empathy

to put yourself in someone else's shoes,

how to identify a cult leader or a narcissist,

how to effectively interview people,

and how to avoid bad people.

You'll be able to pick up these little traits

and characteristics of these individuals

so you have a better understanding of them.

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I'm John Douglas, and this is MasterClass.

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