Mark Safarik
Mark Safarik was a senior member of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s elite Behavioral Analysis Unit, during which time he established himself as an internationally recognized expert in the analysis and interpretation of violent criminal behavior. His law enforcement career spans over 31 years, during which time he worked in all levels of policework, from patrol as a beat cop to a detective working homicides. He served 23 years with the FBI – 12 of those as a criminal profiler. He led the consultation efforts on many high profile national and international violent crime cases and lectured at numerous foreign police forces around the world, sharing his expertise in the analysis of homicide and complex crime scene behavior. He has helped capture, interview, and understand some of the world’s most infamous people including Robert Lee Yates, the Spokane Serial Killer, the Bakersfield Mass Murder, the Dating Game Killer Rodney Alcala, serial killer Derrick Todd Lee, female serial killer Sheila LaBarre, family mass murderer, Christopher Coleman, Scotland’s World’s End serial killer, Angus Sinclair and three unusual California police homicides.
Mr. Safarik has a graduate degree from Boston University and is adjunct faculty at Boston College. He has conducted internationally renowned research on the sexual assault and homicide of elder females and received the prestigious Jefferson Medal from the University of Virginia for this groundbreaking work. He has authored numerous book chapters on homicide including in the newest text on sexual homicide, the Routledge International Handbook of Sexual Homicide Studies. His new book, with co-author Katherine Ramsland, Spree Killers: Practical Classifications for Law Enforcement and Criminology has been hailed as the definitive textbook on this type of multicide. He has appeared on “Dateline,” “Forensic Files,” “The New Detectives,” Oxygen, Court TV, A&E, Discovery, ID and numerous news networks to discuss his cases and analyses. His television series, “Killer Instinct,” premiered in 2011. He was a longtime consultant for the popular television series “CSI: Las Vegas,” “Bones” and “The Blacklist.” He has two seasons of Cold Case Homicide television shows in both Sweden and Denmark.