Julia Cowley

Hi, I'm Julia Cowley, a retired FBI profiler and host of the true crime podcast, The Consult, Real FBI Profilers.

If you're fascinated with true crime and criminal profiling, then join us as we discuss real cases and examine the behavior exhibited before, during, and after the commission of the crime.

You can listen to The Consult wherever you get your podcasts.

It's as close as it gets to being in the room with the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit.

Thank you for having me again.

I always enjoy talking with both of you.

Yes, I have been following it, as have my colleagues on the show.

Yes, of course.

I follow all these big cases in the news, just like everybody else.

Sure.

Yes.

I spent 22 years in the FBI and I was a regular agent for many years.

I worked public corruption and civil rights.

I know that seems like it might not be conducive to going into criminal profiling, but I also had a violent crime background.

Prior to joining the FBI, I was a forensic scientist.

And so I worked in a crime lab, but I also went out

to crime scenes, processed crime scenes.

And then when I joined the FBI as part of my extra duties, I was a member and a team leader on the FBI's evidence response team.

I was also an instructor at the FBI laboratory for

agents who were new to the evidence response team and they were going through the two-week basic course so i was an instructor for that and then after about 11 years i joined the fbi's behavioral analysis unit and i joined the crimes against adults unit i was also a supervisor in a resident agency out of boston so i know what it's like to be in a smaller office and supervise people and have to work