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>> My name is Mary Ellen O'Toole and
my career is, was as an FBI agent

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and ultimately as an FBI agent profiler.

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Some of the cases would include Gary
Ridgway, the Green River killer,

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the Baton Rouge serial killer, two of them.

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I worked on the Unabomber case, the Elizabeth
Smart case, the Natalee Holloway case.

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I consulted on the Casey Anthony case,
Monster Florence case in Florence, Italy.

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So those would be some of the highlights.

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My typical day as an FBI agent, FBI agent
profiler was to get up maybe about 5 o'clock

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in the morning and get dressed, bring all, get
all my materials together, drive into the office

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and our offices were just a plain, bland
business building close to the FBI Academy

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and to go into the office and maybe
talk a little bit to my colleagues,

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have a cup of coffee and then go into my
desk, my office and to go through my files

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and see which case was, based on a priority
system, required immediate attention.

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Or maybe pick up from a case I was working on
the night before, certainly return phone calls

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and begin though to look at
those most pressing cases.

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And it may require sitting at the desk quietly
for hours reviewing the case, maybe reaching out

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and talking to the investigators
across country, getting information.

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It may mean having a consultation with visiting
police officers that traveled to Quantico to sit

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down and talk about a case but constantly
reviewing cases, gathering information

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and getting assessments both
in person and on the phone.

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And my days would last upwards of 10 hours.

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The interviews with serial
killers, you just, you don't.

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It doesn't get any better than that.

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I can just tell you from
my perspective that is the,

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I'm passionate about that aspect of the work.

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Some of the interviews I conducted before
the person was charged, so my role would be

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to assist the agency in extracting
information about where the bodies were located

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and that was really most of
the interviews that I did.

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It was the pre-charging phase so it was
really part of the law enforcement effort.

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There were interviews that we did after the
whole case was what we call adjudicated.

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It had gone to court.

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The person had been sentenced and
then we go in and do the interview.

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But the ones that are the most
challenging are the ones that I did as part

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of the active investigation to get
them to tell me why did you do it?

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How did you do it?

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Who were some of your victims
that we have not located?

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Because it's not unusual in a serial
murder case to not have all the victims.

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What was your motive?

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How did you dispose of the bodies?

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All of those questions would have been part of
my interview repertoire with these offenders.