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Often the lone woman in any FBI office or department, Jana Monroe used her own experience to advise the star of “The Silence of the Lambs.”
Jana Monroe is the author of Hearts of Darkness: Serial Killers, the Behavioral Science Unit, and My Life as a Woman in the FBI. She had a distinguished 22-year career in the Federal Bureau of Investigation, where she held a variety of field investigative and operational roles across the United States, including more than five years as a criminal profiler at Quantico, Virginia. She served as special agent in charge in Phoenix, Arizona, and Los Angeles, California, two of the largest FBI field offices in the United States, and was the first assistant director of the FBI Cyber Division. After retiring from the Bureau, Monroe entered the private sector. She lives in Arlington, Texas.