Mindhunter is about two FBI agents who interview some
of the most violent criminals in the country in order to get a better
understanding for who they are, and why they did what they did, so they can
develop profiles to help them to catch other violent criminals. The show
is, of course, based on John Douglas book Mindhunter. He was part of the FBI
Behavior science unit. Like in the show, he created the Criminal Profiling
programme which involved the most notorious American Serial- Killers of the
time like Ted Bundy, Charles Manson, the
Boston Strangler and Ed kemper who killed, as a teenager, both of his grandparents
before he went on to murder his mother and her best friend. He was known as the
Co. Ed Killer for his habit of
murdering university students. Groff,
played in the show by a stunning John
Groff, said he came in with research like crazy, and had a very specific
idea of what he wanted to do. He is said to be a polite, intelligent man: “one
of the brightest criminals he ever interviewed. According to his own account, he
regularly engaged in necrophilia and claimed to have consumed the flesh of at least
one of his victims.
The most fascinating part of the series is how
Hott Macallanny as Bill Tench, the man who coined the term serial killer,
developed the best way to hunt the fears and the reasons behind the criminal
minds. But another
question arises; the connection between a given numbers of cases of child abuse
later produces the same number of murderers. So far, the connection between
abuse of children and infants and later acts of murder has scarcely been noted
by criminologists or even by the majority of psychologists. Because, let´s face
it, they were not usually born criminals. So that’s why the series is so
fascinating, not only from the perspective of the main characters- it was about
time for me to write that Anna Torv is
splendid as Wendy Carr, but also from the perspective of the Serial killers
and their motivations.
Like they
say in the States; Crime is revealing
but I never thought that this masterpiece could provide us so many clues for
the better understanding of Serial Killers. Actually I can´t wait for Season 2.
By the way, it´s dark outside and I wonder how many of these monsters are out
there. Creepy. Did you hear that knock on your door?
Sergio
Calle Llorens
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