The pioneering psychiatric nurse who helped create the FBI’s blueprint for profiling violent sexual offenders has hit back at the popular Netflix series Mindhunter and its portrayal of characters inspired by her team.
Ann Burgess, who answered the Bureau’s call for consultation in the 1970s as sexual violence spiked against a dearth of law enforcement expertise, told The Independent: “The backgrounds of the three of us [were] totally wrong – and that’s a shame.”
