Criminal profiling — getting inside the minds of killers — has always been fascinating to me. That's why my Tivo is programmed to record every episode of Law and Order: SVU. Enter Robert Charles Browne — possibly one of the worst serial killers in American history. He claims to have buried the bodies of dozens of victims in 17 states across the country. Former CIA and FBI agent Charlie Hess had unique access to Browne: over the course of several months, he exchanged letters with Brown, and eventually met him, in an attempt to find the truth. Hess, co-author of Hello Charlie: Letters from a Serial Killer, joins us today to tell us what he discovered.
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Does anyone remembers the fiasco of Henry Lee Lucas whose multiple confessions led to 213 cold cases being supposedly "closed"? He later recanted the confessions, stating the Texas Rangers led him with their material, even allowing him to read police reports, and that he only participated to improve his living conditions and make a fool of the Texas Rangers.
Did Robert reveal anything of his upbringing and do you think it had anything to do with how and why he became a serial killer?
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