Offender profiling

Subject in True Crime

Offender profiling has come up in 1 episode across 1 podcast in TMT, including Crime Junkie. 1 person has made recorded remarks about it.

What people said

Ashley FlowersCreator and host of the true crime podcast Crime Junkie and founder of Audiochuck

  • Flowers said the profilers' accurate prediction, perhaps partly luck, paved the way for later criminal profiling by winning over doubters.

    “it paved the way for all of the criminal profiling that came after this because it made some of the doubters respect their craft a little bit more”

    Crime Junkie: SERIAL KILLER: David Meirhofer (Jun 1, 2026) · Listen from 48:47

  • Flowers reported that FBI profilers predicted the killer would call the family again on a significant date.

    “They think that he is going to call again. And they think it's going to be on a significant date”

    Crime Junkie: SERIAL KILLER: David Meirhofer (Jun 1, 2026) · Listen from 28:00

  • Flowers described the case as one of the first in which the FBI applied criminal profiling to catch a killer.

    “this would be one of the very first cases where the FBI put their learning to work to catch serial killer David Meyerhofer”

    Crime Junkie: SERIAL KILLER: David Meirhofer (Jun 1, 2026) · Listen from 1:10

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Podcasts

Episodes

  • SERIAL KILLER: David Meirhofer

    Crime Junkie · Jun 1, 2026 · 51 min

    Ashley Flowers and Brit Prawat recount how Montana serial killer David Meirhofer was caught after abducting seven-year-old Susie Jaeger from a campground in 1973.