A Day in the Life of a Forensic Psychologist
A forensic psychologist’s job is to express expert psychological observations in legal terms that courts can readily understand. This job is complex and requires a forensic psychologist to research...
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1. Pogo the Clown Between the years of 1972 and 1978, family man John Wayne Gacy raped and murdered over 30 adolescent boys. He disposed of the bodies by hiding them in his crawl space, burying them in...
View ArticleCompetent or Crazy: The Case of the Meat Cleaver Murderer
It looked like a robbery gone bad. 42-year-old David Tarloff told New York City police that he planned to rob psychiatrist Dr. Kent Shinbach of $50,000 and use the money to get his mother out of a...
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Why Mothers Kill: A Forensic Psychologist’s Casebook
Headlines of mothers killing their own children always shock us. We wonder what must be going through the minds of murdering moms like Susan Smith and Andrea Yates? Why does this horrific crime happen...
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