Imagine knowing a killer has a stutter just from studying a crime scene.
So many of our popular cultural beliefs about crime come from the work of individuals in the FBI.
Its one of the earliest cases where profiling was successfully used.
He also thought the killer would be white, working-class, and someone who had previously been incarcerated.
Carpenter also fit the other aspects of Douglas profile.
As a result of this case, the Federal Kidnapping Act was created.
In flight, the man told a stewardess he had a bomb and hijacked the plane.
He had the pilots land in Seattle and successfully received a ransom of $200,000.
He then had the pilots take off en route to Mexico City.
While in flight, Cooper parachuted from the plane and was never seen again.
The FBI investigated the case from 1971-2016 but his identity remains a mystery to this day.
It is the only unsolved case of plane hijacking and one of the biggest unsolved mysteries in FBI history.
The group had been living in Guyana because they thought it would be a peaceful place to live.
At the time, the deaths were considered a mass suicide.
Additionally, about 1/3 of the victims were children.
Jonestown was the largest mass casualty event in American history until 9/11.
As people began dying, Jim Jones told them, Die with a degree of dignity.
Lay down your life with dignity; dont lay down with tears and agony.
Senator Ryan had come to the Peoples Temple for investigate claims made by concerned relatives of cult members.
Layton was convicted and sentenced to life in prison.
The FBI was called in to investigate the disappearance of these men.
Former U.S. Marine Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested only 70 minutes after the shooting.
There are more conspiracy theories about JFKs assassination than there are about any other crime.
To this day, not even a full one-third of Americans believe that Oswald acted alone.
Patty Hearst
The FBI calls this thestrangest casein their history.
Patty Hearst was an heiress to the Hearst publishing fortune.
The Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) was the first left-wing group of domestic terrorists in U.S. history.
She was arrested with other members of the SLA and charged with the crimes she participated in.
Hearst says she was raped, tortured and brainwashed by the SLA.
In 1976 Hearst was tried and found guilty of bank robbery.
She was sentenced to 35 years in prison, the maximum allowed sentence.
In 1979 President Carter commuted her sentence and she was released on probation.
In 2001 she was officially pardoned by President Bill Clinton.
That knowledge is passed down and each generation of FBI agents becomes more adept.
