Dr Ann Burgess looked out at an audience of 40 FBI members – all of them men – and started talking about rape. “The one question they would always say to me: ‘Were you raped?’” Burgess recalls in the new documentary Mastermind: To Think Like A Killer. “They thought rape was just sex: women secretly wanted it or they were out there and asked for it.”
The three-part series, executive produced by Dakota and Elle Fanning, traces the life and career of Burgess, a pioneer in the FBI’s Behavioral Science Unit who helped develop the agency’s modern playbook for profiling serial killers.
