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?

THE RAILROAD KILLER

SERIAL KILLER ANALYSIS OF THE SICK RIPPER

FEMALE SERIAL KILLERS1

HOMICIDE DETECTIVE DISCUSSES SERIAL KILLER JOHN CANNADAY1

THE DOODLER SERIAL KILLER

WE DISCUSS THE LONG ISLAND SERIAL KILLER1

I DISCUSS I-5 STRANGLER WITH DR. HICKEY AND MOTIVATIONS

THE I-5 SERIAL KILLER- WE PROVIDE A BRIEF ANALYSIS

WE LOOK AT THE SEATTLE JUNGLE KILLER WITH RETIRED HOMICIDE DETECTIVE MICHAEL CIESYNSKI1

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