This episode uses Mindhunter's dramatized conversation between a young FBI agent and Ed Kemper to explore a deceptively simple question: does explaining your own violence in calm, articulate detail mean you actually feel anything about it? Drawing on research into psychopathic communication and impression management, the discussion breaks down why fluent self-analysis can come across as honesty even when remorse is absent. It closes by asking what we're really measuring when we find a killer's account of himself convincing.

When a Killer Explains Himself: Insight, Remorse, or Both?

AN ANALYSIS OF THE NIGHT STALKER RICHARD RAMIREZ

THE RAINCOAT KILLER

THE EYE BALL SERIAL KILLER

THE POCKMARKED KILLER

THE VIRGIN HUNTER- SERIAL KILLER1

MOORHOUSE MURDERS- SERIAL KILLING COUPLE

THE RAILWAY KILLERS

SERIAL RAPIST ATTACKED DOZENS OF WOMEN AND HAD THEM RECORD THE ASSAULT ON THEIR CELL PHONE

WE ANALYZE THE NIGHT STALKER RICHARD RAMIREZ1

FBI PROFILER DISCUSSES THE LONG ISLAND SERIAL KILLER2

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