HeyJaredInside the Criminal Mind with Retired FBI Profiler
A show where a Forensic Psychology Professor and a Retired FBI Profiler join together to better understand the criminal mind.
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- Sep 7, 2026
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- Aug 30, 2026
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Profiling Is Not Mind Reading. Jana Monroe Spent 850 Cases Proving It. (opens the original)
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Jana Monroe was the first female FBI agent in the Behavioral Science Unit and consulted on roughly 850 homicides, including work connected to Jeffrey Dahmer and the Rogers family murders. In Hearts of Darkness and recent interviews, she describes profiling as crime-scene analysis and victimology used to shrink a suspect pool—not as psychic access to a killer’s inner life. That distinction still matters, because television trained the public to expect the wrong kind of certainty.
He Agreed to Talk to the BAU. That Is Not the Same Thing as Understanding Him. (opens the original)
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On April 8, 2026, Rex Heuermann pleaded guilty to strangling eight women whose remains were tied to the Gilgo Beach investigation and admitted an eighth killing he had not even been charged with. As part of the deal he agreed to sit with the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit. That is a rare ending for a serial case, and it is also a trap if you treat the interview as the explanation.
Vigilante Justice What Really Drives People to Take the Law Into Their Own Hands (opens the original)
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a look at vigilantism, Carlos and retired FBI profiler Andrew Bringuel dig into what actually motivates someone to bypass the justice system and act on their own. Using the PEPS model — personal, economic, power/political, and social motives — they break down real cases, including the Bernhard Goetz shooting, to separate the myth of the vigilante from the psychology behind it. The conversation also turns practical, weighing what "good" versus destructive vigilante behavior looks like when commun
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