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Were the good guys inspired by actual FBI agents?
Below, we separate fact from fiction to explain whats real and what isnt inMindhunter.
Tench was inspired heavily by Robert K. Ressler, a Chicago-born FBI agent who joined the Bureau in 1970.
He worked on major serial-killer cases, including the searches for Jeffrey Dahmer and Ted Bundy.
Ressler died in 2013.
She still teaches at Boston College.
The Serial Killers
Dennis Rader
The ADT man from Wichita isMindhunters most elusive character.
Kemper killed his grandparents as a teenager but was later released from a mental hospital at age 21.
Kemper is still incarcerated at the California Medical Facility, and his next parole hearing in scheduled for 2024.
He is currently incarcerated for five life sentences.
He died in prison in 2006.
However, Specks crimes are different from most others on this show.
Speck died of a heart attack in 1991.
Even the drama of the passed polygraph test comes from the real story.
William Pierce Jr. And to show how Mallomars can make someone talk.
In fact, Hance was a former Marine.
Whats perhaps most interesting about Mansons presence in the fifth episode ofMindhunteris how Ford reacts to him.
Both details are re-created on the show.
Almost none of it.
Bateson was freed on parole in 2003 after 24 years in prison, though his current whereabouts are unknown.
First, Bateson can be spotted inThe Exorcistplaying a radiological technician.
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