Gregg McCrary

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Gregg O. McCrary (born September 10, 1945) is a former FBI agent who served from 1969 to 1995, an expert witness and consultant,[1] an author and an adjunct forensic psychology professor at Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, and at Marymount University in Arlington, Virginia. McCrary was a contributing author to the 1992 Crime Classification Manual.[2]

In 2003, he published The Unknown Darkness, a book detailing those cases which he found most important.[citation needed] During his tenure with the FBI, McCrary was a criminal profiler and threat analyst in Quantico, Virginia. He was a member of the "Criminal Investigative Analysis" subunit of the National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime (NCAVC),[3] serving the center from its foundation in 1985.[2] Since retiring from the FBI, McCrary has served as an expert witness.[4]

British author Colin Wilson dedicated his 1990 book The Serial Killers to Agent McCrary.[2]

References[]

  1. ^ http://www.behavioralcriminology.com/
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b c "Gregg O. McCrary". Behavioral Criminology International. Archived from the original on 10 April 2013. Retrieved 20 November 2010.
  3. ^ Wright, Stuart A. (1995). Armageddon in Waco: critical perspectives on the Branch Davidian conflict. University of Chicago Press. p. 290. ISBN 978-0-226-90845-8.
  4. ^ Ebisike, Norbert (October 2008). Offender profiling in the courtroom: the use and abuse of expert witness testimony. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 94. ISBN 978-0-313-36210-1.


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