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?

RETIRED FBI AGENT JEFFREY RINEK DISCUSSES ONE OF HIS MOST TOUGHEST CASES THAT DEALT WITH A SERIAL KI2

THE ELECTRIC TOWER SERIAL KILLER1

FBI PROFILER ANALYZES THE ZODIAC KILLER2

WE DISCUSS RECENT SERIAL KILLER ARRESTED IN MEXICO

THE CASTELLON KILLER OF SPAIN

THE MOTORCYCLE SERIAL KILLER

SERIAL RAPIST RELEASED EARLY RAPES AGAIN

FBI PROFILER LOOKS AT THE SERIAL KILLER KNOWN AS THE DOODLER1

WHO DO SERIAL KILLERS TARGET

THE TORSO KILLER CONFESSES TO TWO MOREMURDERS, WE PROFILE THIS SERIAL KILLER3

Society & Culture

Science

Social Sciences

Government

Inside The Criminal Mind

Share Inside The Criminal Mind

Sign up to save your podcasts

Inside The Criminal Mind

Inside The Criminal Mind episodes