The Psychology of Crime and Death Investigation by Autocrit
What makes someone cross the line into murder? What patterns do forensic psychologists look for in crime scenes and death investigations?
Dr. Katherine Ramsland has spent decades studying the psychology of crime—working with FBI profilers, studying real-life serial killers, and consulting on death investigations to uncover what really drives criminal behavior.
With 73 books, 250+ crime documentaries, and real-life experience studying offenders like the BTK Killer, she’s one of the world’s leading forensic psychologists and experts on serial killers. And now, she’s coming to AutoCrit’s Expert Series for an exclusive live session: “The Psychology of Crime and Death Investigations”
Monday, March 3rd | LIVE Q&A – Ask your questions!
Whether you write crime fiction, thrillers, or are simply fascinated by forensic psychology, this is an unmissable opportunity to get inside the mind of a criminal—from someone who has studied them firsthand.
Meet Dr. Ramsland
Dr. Katherine Ramsland teaches forensic psychology and behavioral criminology in the graduate criminal justice program at DeSales University in Pennsylvania. She has worked with several FBI supervisory special agents who were members of the BAU: She co-authored Gregg McCrary’s casebook, The Unknown Darkness and Mark Safarik’s book, Spree Killers: Practical Classifications for Lessons for Law Enforcement and Criminology, and she assisted with research on John Douglas’s book, The Cases that Haunt Us. She has appeared on more than 250 crime documentaries and magazine shows.
She was an executive producer on Murder House Flip, the Wolf Entertainment/A&E four-part documentary Confession of a Serial Killer, and ID’s two-part The Serial Killer’s Apprentice. She consulted for CSI, Bones, Woman of the Hour, and The Alienist. The author of more than 1,500 articles and 73 books, including How to Catch a Killer, The Psychology of Death Investigations, and The Mind of a Murderer, she spent five years working with Dennis Rader on his autobiography, Confession of a Serial Killer: The Untold Story of Dennis Rader, The BTK Killer and three years with Wayne Henley on The Serial Killer’s Apprentice.
In her crime fiction series The Nut Cracker Investigations, Ramsland uses actual cases and forensic techniques to show behavior-based death investigation. She pens the “Shadowboxing” blog at Psychology Today and teaches seminars on extreme offenders and death investigations to coroners and homicide detectives. Her latest book, a novel, is Dead-Handed.