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Mindhunter: The serial killer interviews that inspired new Netflix series

The chilling interviews with the notorious murderers featured in the acclaimed crime series

Jacob Stolworthy
Friday 20 October 2017 06:42 EDT
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The first season of new crime series Mindhunter only recently arrived on Netflix with many already hailing it as one of the streaming service's must-watch shows.

Based on the book by Mark Olshaker and John E. Douglas, produced by David Fincher and directed by Asif Kapadia, the series has some big credentials - and fortunately characters and a story to back it up. Inspired by real like criminal profilers - who interviewed a large number of America's most notorious serial killers as part of the FBI's Behavioural Science Unit in a bid to delve into their psyches to solve pending investigations.

While Jonathan Groff and Holt McCallany play FBI agents inspired by these profilers, the show features several serial killers who are based on real-life figures including the murderer and necrophiliac Edmund Kemper.

Below, as highlighted by IndieWire are clips of some of the real chilling interviews with these very criminals as well as the FBI agents who conducted them.

Read our review of 'Mindhunter' season one's first two episodes here.


Edmund Kemper (played by Cameron Britton)


Richard Speck (played by Jack Erdie)

Dennis Rader (played by Sonny Valacenti)

Rader is merely credited in the show as ADT Serviceman - he's the character who features in a series of cold opens potentially teasing a direction for the already-confirmed season two.

Jerome Henry “Jerry” Brudos (played by Happy Anderson)


Mindhunter is available to stream on Netflix now

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