"When I interview I try to visualize what it's like when the victim looks at them," he told. In face-to-face interviews with Charles Manson, David Berkowitz (Son of Sam) and Richard Speck, he gleaned methods to predict the behavior of a serial killer - from the escalation of fantasy to violence and even victim selection. But the child starts crying and wants to go home and they lose that control."ĭouglas, 64, helped develop the FBI's criminal profiling program in the 1970s and then got actively involved in hunting down some of the nation's biggest predators - Wayne Williams, the Atlanta child murderer Gary Ridgway, the Green River Killer and David Carpenter, San Francisco's Trailside Killer. Sometimes they think the victim will be favorable to their advances. "In the fantasy everything works perfectly. "But it never works out that way," he said. "Their wish is to spend hours, days, months, a lifetime with the victim," said Douglas. He discards it later, but keeps one single charm." "He almost gets caught when the detective comes looking around and sees the doll houses," he said. In Harvey's case, it was Susie's charm bracelet. They can't control themselves, and in the break between these crimes, they fuel their fantasies by taking mementos." "They only act out when they feel that things are safe. "He's always on the hunt, looking for potential victims," said Douglas. An elbow, the only part of the child ever found, falls out of his bag as he buries her remains in a sinkhole.ĭouglas calls Harvey a "trap door spider," who stalks his victims in a desire to control. There, he molests her, slits her throat and cuts apart her body. The story unfolds one December day when Susie Ronan takes a shortcut home from her suburban Pennsylvania School and Harvey, a neighbor, persuades her to enter a nearby underground den. He says playing a serial killer was "tough on psychologically." He credits the depth of his film performance to the real-life skills of Douglas, the founder and former chief of the FBI's Investigative Support Unit and one of the pioneers in modern criminal profiling.ĭouglas was the model for the agent Jack Crawford in the 1991 Academy Award-winning thriller, " The Silence of the Lambs," and was originally considered to play the part.įor "The Lovely Bones," Douglas devoted two days to prepping Tucci, engaging in role-play to elicit an authentic performance. 11, is directed by Peter Jackson and stars Mark Wahlberg, Susan Sarandon and Saoirse Ronan as Susie Salmon, the 14-year-old who searches for her killer and watches the psychological fall-out of her murder from heaven.īest known for affable characters like fashionista Nigel in the 2006 film " The Devil Wears Prada" and gourmand husband Paul Child 2009's " Julie and Julia," the 49-year-old Tucci had to get inside the twisted mind of a serial killer.
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