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How Criminal Profiling Foiled a Serial-Killing Boy Scout

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Stumped by a series of sordid murders in the early ’70s, Montana cops brought in a pair of FBI agents who were pioneering the new science of criminal profiling.

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He was a small-town guy from Manhattan, Montana, population 900. A former Boy Scout, Marine sergeant during the Vietnam War, a carpenter, and a property owner who renovated old houses.

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