Greg Cooper (Retired FBI profiler)
Appearances
Dateline NBC
The Terrible Night On King Road
He functions under the cloak of darkness. That's where he's comfortable. Nobody can see him. He doesn't have to worry about being identified.
Dateline NBC
The Terrible Night On King Road
He's on the hunt to begin with. He wants to understand the level of his own risk that he's going to be taking just to experience and prepare for what he has planned to do.
Dateline NBC
The Terrible Night On King Road
He can't achieve that level of power, domination, and control within his own life. And so he looks to those that emulate those characteristics of success that he's determined to follow and has decided, I can do this.
Dateline NBC
The Terrible Night On King Road
What he's doing is testing what the protocol is for the police officer and comparing that to what his experience was.
Dateline NBC
The Terrible Night On King Road
Does that mean anything to you? Interesting, isn't it? These are all themes of power, domination, and control.
Dateline NBC
The Terrible Night On King Road
These are what we refer to as precipitating stressors. and triggering events.
Dateline NBC
The Terrible Night On King Road
She was very professional. She didn't challenge him. She didn't make him feel subordinate to her.
Dateline NBC
The Terrible Night On King Road
He's researching. He's understanding, becoming more familiar with psychopathic characteristics.
Dateline NBC
The Terrible Night On King Road
She's bothered by the noise. She opens the door and sees this individual coming down the hallway.
Dateline NBC
The Terrible Night On King Road
She knows something's wrong. She's under the influence of alcohol. She's between being awake and asleep.
Dateline NBC
The Terrible Night On King Road
Definitely. His primary objective now is to get out of there and not to get caught.
Dateline NBC
The Terrible Night On King Road
There's a shower behind him. He's now into new clothes. And now he's celebrating.
Dateline NBC
The Terrible Night On King Road
That's right, a very likely place that he could have discarded it. It would be very difficult to retrieve that.
Dateline NBC
The Terrible Night On King Road
Well, it is. I've got a case in another state. The bedroom... is the crime scene of a double homicide. It looks like a butcher shop. And there's no way that the individual would have been able to remove themselves without being immersed in a lot of blood. But there's not a speck of blood on the outside of that room. So does it happen? Is it possible? Absolutely.