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Criminal Shadows: Inside the Mind of the Serial
Killer 
David Canter
Copyright © David Canter 1994
The right of David Canter to be identified as the author of this work has been
asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act,
1988.
First published in the United Kingdom in 1994 by HarperCollins.
This edition published in 2015 by Endeavour Press Ltd.
Table of Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Chapter One – A Better Net
Chapter Two – First Principles
Chapter Three – Enriching Intuition
Chapter Four – Criminal Maps
Chapter Five – Consistent Clues
Chapter Six – Distinguishing Actions
Chapter Seven – Objects of Murder
Chapter Eight – Stories We Live By
Chapter Nine – Limited Narratives
Chapter Ten – Narratives of Evil
Chapter Eleven – Deciphering Criminal Shadows
Afterword
Chapter Notes and References
Foreword
In the bloody world of crime fighting, scientists often are unwelcome problem-
solvers. Among case-hardened detectives, instinct, hunches and experience
frequently overrule scientific theory. But once in a while, along comes someone
whose theories are so profound, and the research so convincing we can no longer
dare to look the other way.
Dr. David Canter is such a man.
In the late 1980s, when he first began using “psychological profiles” to help
catch rapists and murderers, it was a novel idea. Only senior police officers and a
few psychologists had heard of deriving clues about an assailant’s personality
and lifestyle from a careful, behavioral examination of the crime and the scene.
Few formal studies had been done until Canter painstakingly picked through
crime-scene information, and scrutinized details, not as a criminologist, but from
his perspective as a psychologist.
In less than a decade Canter’s well-documented theories, along with some not-
so-authentic copycat versions, are generally accepted today by a growing
number of police forces throughout the world — theories as profound as reading
crime patterns to determine where a criminal actually lives.
Thanks to Canter’s laborious studies, investigators now have a set of practical
behavioral principles to help precisely predict an unknown criminal’s domestic
circumstances, employment and character, and to catch culprits who might
otherwise allude police for years.
Canter’s original work now forms the foundation for a number of systematic
studies on criminal profiling underway by psychiatrists and psychologists,
worldwide. He has pushed investigators’ understanding about violent criminal
behavior beyond personal insights and intuition to a new level of scientific

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