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I hate to do it! I was not brought up to be a television person, but I guess I’ve become one, in a manner of speaking. (Like most of us who weren’t brought up on television, I have a hard time ignoring one that’s been turned on.) One of my favorite television shows recently is Criminal Minds – I have a penchant for crime drama (CSI, NCIS, Law and Order SVU), which I guess matches up with my liking for murder mystery novels. Anyway. Criminal Minds is about the FBI’s criminal profiling unit, the BAU (Behavioral Analysis Unit). Well, somehow I got drawn to a book called The Cases That Haunt Us, by John E. Douglas and Mark Olshaker. John Douglas founded the original incarnation of what is now the BAU, and just about invented the field of criminal profiling. This is a compilation of his analyses of unsolved crimes including those of Jack the Ripper, JonBenet Ramsey, and the Lindbergh baby, among others.

So I’m a little ashamed to admit that this book interest was piqued by television, but so be it.

I’m well into Jack the Ripper, and scared myself proper last night and had to be comforted by the Husband. (The Husband is responsible for my newfound ability to, gasp, read with the television on.) All I can say so far is that I’m hoping to be a more well-educated watcher of Criminal Minds, which may be the wrong reason to read, except that there’s never a wrong reason to read.

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