Emotionally weighty memoir from one of the FBI's original
"profilers." Ironically, profilers like Depue have become
contemporary pop-culture archetypes, thanks to the novels of Thomas
Harris and the bestsellers by Depue's former colleague, John
Douglas. This grisly science, though, wasn't on the horizon in
Depue's childhood, when his policeman father was known to keep
order via strong hands and a sympathetic ear. After a typical
"delinquent" adolescence, Depue saw stints in the Marines and as a
small-town cop, experiences that later became his ticket away from
the drudgery and casual violence of the Midwest, circa 1960. His
innovations as a police chief of 26 in hardscrabble Claire,
Michigan, made him an ideal candidate for FBI recruitment. The
bureau was shedding the Hoover era's intellectual myopia: younger
agents like Depue perceived that the drugs and strife of the 1960s
would lead to a spike in violent crime that needed to be countered
proactively. Depue's FBI career began in the Deep South, where he
personally witnessed the injustices perpetrated by the Klan and
their police sympathizers, an experience that prompted his early
support of racial equality. Later, he moved to Washington and
worked extortion, kidnapping, and fugitive cases. When his cohort
at the bureau wondered how to predict the actions of child
molesters, sexual sadists, serial killers, and other irredeemable
types, the unit began interviewing offenders in custody, resulting
in Depue's surreal encounters with figures like Ed Kemper, an
articulate, intelligent, 300-pound psychopath, or the glib and
amoral Ted Bundy. Depue retired as head of the Behavioral Science
Unit and started a private law-enforcement consulting firm that was
called in on, among others, the JonBenet Ramsey and Columbine
cases. When his wife died of cancer, he entered a seminary for
several years and even worked with convicted felons, feeling an
intense need to confront issues of good and evil in a different way
from before. The collaborative prose here is workmanlike, while the
combination of grisly crime story with Depue's personal journey is
quite moving. (Kirkus Reviews)
Between Good and Evil is Roger Depue's retrospective look at a life
spent apprehending criminals - mostly serial killers - as a
small-town police chief, Swat team member, Behavioural Sciences
Unit chief and developer of revolutionary law enforcement
programmes that were the precursor to VICAP. The book also charts a
spiritual odyssey that culminated in Depue becoming a Brother of
the Missionaries of the Holy Apostles. While a seminarian, he
counseled maximum security inmates. Following his time in the
clergy, he re- entered law enforcement and today heads up the
world's most elite forensics think tank, The Academy, which was the
basis for the Chris Carter-created Fox TV show Millennium.
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