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VIRTUAL: Encounters with Killers with True Crime Author & Professor of Forensic Psychology Katherine Ramsland

January 27 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

In this virtual program, Dr. Katherine Ramsland will recount her most memorable interactions with serial killers, and describe how these experiences have shaped her career in forensic psychology.  Notorious criminals A Pied Piper, two Coed Killers, a Candy Man’s handyman, and BTK, among others, have left their marks on her research and writing, both fiction and nonfiction.
 
This program is sponsored by the Friends of the Ashland Public Library and is in collaboration with the Chelmsford, Groton, and Tewksbury Libraries and is in partnership with a multitude of MA & NH libraries. 
 

 

 

About the Author:

Dr. Katherine Ramsland taught forensic psychology and criminology at DeSales University in Pennsylvania, where she was the Assistant Provost.  She has appeared as an expert in criminal psychology on more than 250 crime documentaries and magazine shows, is an executive producer of Murder House Flip, and has consulted for CSI, Bones, and The Alienist.  Katherine has written more than 1,800 articles and 73 books, including The Forensic Science of CSI, The Forensic Psychology of Criminal Minds, How to Catch a Killer, The Psychology of Death Investigations, The Serial Killer’s Apprentice, and Confession of a Serial Killer: The Untold Story of Dennis Rader, The BTK Killer.  She was also co-executive producer for the Wolf Entertainment/A&E four-part documentary based on the years she spent talking with Rader.  Katherine consults on death investigations, pens a blog for Psychology Today, and is currently writing a fiction series based on a female forensic psychologist who manages a private investigation agency.  Dead-handed is book #3.

About Dead-Handed:

Forensic psychologist Annie Hunter runs the Nut Crackers investigation agency. They accept unique, twisted, and complex cases, including those with paranormal aspects. As an expert, she performs psychological autopsies and court assessments, but she can also evaluate a psychic, exhume a body, and connect with any forensic expert she might need for her cases.  

If you’d like to purchase a signed copy of Katherine’s book, you can do so through Aesop’s Fable.  In the comment section of checkout, note that you would like your book to come with a signed bookplate.

 

Details

Date:
January 27
Time:
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
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Bacon Free Library
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508-653-6730
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Bacon Free Library
58 Eliot Street
Natick, MA 01760 United States
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