The Profiler: My Life Hunting Serial Killers and Psychopaths by Pat Brown; Bob Andelman

Author:Pat Brown; Bob Andelman [Andelman, Pat Brown; Bob]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Autobiography, Private investigators, Murder, Social Science, USA, Forensic Psychology, True Crime, Violence in Society, Entertainment & Performing Arts, General, United States, Biography & Autobiography, Personal Memoirs, Serial murder investigation, Psychology, Law Enforcement, Specific Groups - General, Biography And Autobiography, Women's Studies, Biography, Criminology
ISBN: 9781401341268
Publisher: Voice
Published: 2010-09-15T09:01:41+00:00

fellow—gullible,

actually.

The

police could have led him into

saying anything if they pushed hard

enough. He was a teddy bear, and

he was a person under great duress,

an emotional wreck who found his

fiancée, the woman he planned to

marry, dead. The brain does not

think

straight

under

such

circumstances.

Sam had slept only a couple of

hours before he woke and found

Mary Beth’s body. I can’t believe

when he got to the hotel he jumped

into bed and got a blissful eight

hours of sleep. By the time he was

interviewed for the second time on

Saturday evening, he had been up

for

almost

forty-eight

hours.

Seriously

exhausted

and

emotionally

devastated,

an

easygoing, guileless personality is a

sitting duck for manipulation by

clever, seasoned detectives. He just

might make a confession that he

didn’t really mean. He was so

confused that he didn’t know what

he was saying anymore. He had no

family present, no attorney to guide

him. He wasn’t a fast-talking con

man, so he answered their questions

as honestly as he could and he

eventually gave the police what they

wanted. Like many a person who

has

confessed

after

lengthy

interrogation, he just wanted the

questions to stop, he wanted to not

talk about the horrible incident

anymore, he just wanted to lie

down. He simply reached a point

where he was too tired to care

anymore.

I was not convinced that Sam had

the personality to kill. He had no

violent background and no motive

—there was no life insurance from

which he or even Mary Beth’s son

could have gained, for example.

There was not any great equity in

the condo that she owned alone, and

her death left Art responsible for an

$86,000 mortgage. Mary Beth’s son

said that Sam and his mother got

along fabulously. There was nothing

there, no reason for him to kill his

fiancée.

I could not envision such a docile

man becoming so angry that he

smacked his fiancée. I found it even

harder to believe he would have

strangled her. Then, for him to be so

unbelievably clever and calm that

he could place her body in the

closet, remove items to stage a

burglary, drive the car to a black

area of town to throw the blame on

someone else, destroy the clutch so

it would look like the car had been

driven by someone unable to use a

stick…no, no, not this man.

Sam Bilodeau did not have a

motive or the personality or the

opportunity to commit this crime.

IN MY INVESTIGATION , I put Sam

aside and looked at the crime itself.

The first thing that struck me was

that the Townsend condominium

was out of the way. It wasn’t a

location a criminal would pick

purely by accident. It wasn’t an

isolated house that would catch

one’s eye, it wasn’t an easily

accessible end unit, it wasn’t even a

condo on the first floor. The killer

wouldn’t be someone who just

happened upon Mary Beth’s condo

and thought, Oh, I think I’ll just

slide over to that door and try the

handle. What we know happened at

the crime scene was that there was

a burglary; someone came into her

apartment and took things that

belonged to Mary Beth. He took her

jewelry, he took rolled quarters that

were set aside for future laundry

use, and he took her vehicle.

The police said she was not

raped, but neither Art nor I saw the

autopsy report, so there was no way

to know if that was true or not.

When Sam found her in the closet,

Mary Beth was not entirely dressed.

It appeared she might

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