She has come face-to-face with the country’s most disturbed killers, rapists and mentally ill criminals.
Dr Rhona Morrison, like the real-life Clarice Starling in Silence of the Lambs, would spend hours alone with the men and women whose crimes shocked Scotland.
As a leading forensic psychiatrist, her expert evidence could determine an accused person’s state of mind and whether they would face jail, a secure hospital or even be set free.