Criminal Profiling with Renowned Profiler Mark Safarik

WILDCIDE

Meet the oz behind the curtains. Today, Bailey and Chelsea interview Mark Safarik Supervisory Special Agent, F.B.I. (Ret.). Not only is he awesome in every way, he’s also the GOAT when it comes to behavioral analysis. Listen in as Mark walks us through what criminal profiling actually is and his approach to getting inside criminal minds and catching killers. To access Mark’s Website, click here. To purchase Mark's book, click here.

About Mark:

Mark E. Safarik M.S., V.S.M.

Supervisory Special Agent, Behavioral Analysis Unit - Federal Bureau of Investigation (Ret.)

Director - Forensic Behavioral Services International

Mark Safarik was a senior Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Behavioral Analysis Unit member. During that time, he established himself as an internationally recognized expert in analyzing and interpreting violent criminal behavior. His law enforcement career spans over 31 years, during which time he worked in all levels of policework, from patrol as a beat cop to a detective working homicides. He served 23 years with the FBI – 12 of those as a criminal profiler. He led the consultation efforts on high-profile national and international violent crime cases. He lectured at numerous foreign police forces worldwide, sharing his expertise in analyzing homicide and complex crime scene behavior.

Mr. Safarik has a graduate degree from Boston University and is an adjunct faculty member at Boston College. He is a lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania, a former Armed Forces Institute of Pathology faculty member, and an advisory board member at the Wecht Institute of Forensic Science and Law. He has conducted internationally renowned research on the sexual assault and homicide of elderly females and received the prestigious Jefferson Medal from the University of Virginia for this groundbreaking work. He was awarded the Silver Medal from The Spanish Society of Criminology and Forensic Science, the first non-European to receive this honor. He is a member of the highly respected Vidocq Society, a criminological group that donates its investigative resources to solving cold case homicides. He is well-published in international journals, including the Journal of Forensic Sciences, the International Journal of Homicide Studies, and the Journal of Interpersonal Violence. He has authored numerous book chapters on homicide, including the newest text on sexual homicide, the Routledge International Handbook of Sexual Homicide Studies. His book Spree Killers: Practical Classifications for Law Enforcement and Criminology is hailed as the definitive textbook on this type of multicide.

Mr. Safarik has reviewed and consulted on thousands of national and international crimes of violence, including all types of homicide: serial, mass, spree, and multiple murders, serial sexual assault, and equivocal death analysis. Attorneys in both criminal and civil courts have utilized his expert testimony. He has lent his expert casework to understand many of the world’s most infamous people, including Robert Lee Yates, the Spokane Serial Killer, the Bakersfield mass murderer, the Dating Game Killer Rodney Alcala, serial killer Derrick Todd Lee, female serial killer Sheila LaBarre, family mass murderer Christopher Coleman, Scotland’s World’s End serial killer Angus Sinclair, and high profile staged homicides of police officers.

He has appeared on Dateline, Court TV, Forensic Files, New Detectives, A&E, the History Channel, Oxygen, Discovery ID, and numerous news networks to discuss his cases and analyses. His television series, Killer Instinct, premiered in 2011. He was a longtime consultant for the popular television series CSI: Las Vegas, Bones, and The Blacklist. He has two seasons of Cold Case Homicide television shows in Sweden and Denmark.

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