Episode
Behind the Behavioral Science Unit: Jana Monroe on the Science of Profiling
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- Forensic Psychology
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- Sep 7, 2026
- Duration seconds
- 199
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Summary
Jana Monroe, the first female FBI agent in the Behavioral Science Unit, spent her career applying crime-scene analysis and victimology to roughly 850 homicide cases — work she describes as systematic suspect-pool reduction, not psychic access to a killer's inner life. This episode unpacks that distinction and why it matters, since decades of television have trained the public to expect a kind of certainty profiling was never designed to deliver. It's a grounded look at the actual methodology behind forensic behavioral analysis, straight from someone who built a career practicing it.