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Dr. Katherine RamslandDr. Katherine Ramsland, professor emerita, teaches forensic psychology and behavioral criminology in the graduate program at DeSales University in Pennsylvania, where she is the Director for the Center for Teaching Excellence. She holds master's degrees in clinical psychology from Duquesne University, criminal justice and creative writing from DeSales University, and forensic psychology from the esteemed John Jay College of Criminal Justice, as well as a Ph.D. from Rutgers University. In 2008, John Jay College of Criminal Justice honored Dr. Ramsland as one of its Distinguished Alumna. DeSales University honored her in 2023 with its prestigious Provost Award for professional development. She has designed courses for a college-level
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private investigator program and for CE credits for various conferences and institutions. She is also on the board of the Cyril Wecht Institute and is a member of the American Association of Suicidology.
Dr. Ramsland has appeared as an expert in criminal psychology on more than 200 crime documentaries and magazine shows, is an executive producer of Murder House Flip, and has consulted for CSI, Bones, and The Alienist. She was the recurring expert on ID’s “American Occult” series and News Nation’s “Most Brutal Serial Killers” series. She has published more than 1,800 articles and blogs, and 71 books, including The Mind of a Murderer, The Human Predator, The Forensic Science of CSI, The Forensic Psychology of Criminal Minds, How to Catch a Killer, Inside the minds of Serial Killers, Inside the Minds of Sexual Predators, Inside the Minds of Mass Murderers, The Criminal Mind, The Devil’s Dozen: How Cutting-edge Forensics Took Down 12 Notorious Serial Killer, The Psychology of Death Investigations, and Confession of a Serial Killer: The Untold Story of Dennis Rader, The BTK Killer. Dr. Ramsland was an executive producer for the Wolf Entertainment/A&E four-part documentary Confession of a Serial Killer, based on the decade she spent talking with Rader. Ramsland pens a regular blog for Psychology Today and is writing a fiction series based on a female forensic psychologist who manages a private investigation agency. I Scream Man and In the Damage Path are in the series.
With Dr. Henry C. Lee and his lab director, Elaine Pagliaro, Dr. Ramsland wrote The Real Life of a Forensic Scientist. With former FBI profiler Gregg McCrary, she co-authored a book on his cases, The Unknown Darkness: Profiling the Predators among Us, and with Professor James E. Starrs, A Voice for the Dead, a collection of his cases of historical exhumations. She was also a research assistant to former FBI profiler John Douglas, which became The Cases that Haunt Us. Former FBI profiler Mark Safarik worked with her on Spree Killers, the most extensive database for spree killers around the world.
Dr. Ramsland consults on death investigations and offers workshops about forensic psychology, investigative issues, and serial murder to law enforcement, psychologists, coroners, hospital personal, judges, and attorneys.
Dr. Ramsland has appeared as an expert in criminal psychology on more than 200 crime documentaries and magazine shows, is an executive producer of Murder House Flip, and has consulted for CSI, Bones, and The Alienist. She was the recurring expert on ID’s “American Occult” series and News Nation’s “Most Brutal Serial Killers” series. She has published more than 1,800 articles and blogs, and 71 books, including The Mind of a Murderer, The Human Predator, The Forensic Science of CSI, The Forensic Psychology of Criminal Minds, How to Catch a Killer, Inside the minds of Serial Killers, Inside the Minds of Sexual Predators, Inside the Minds of Mass Murderers, The Criminal Mind, The Devil’s Dozen: How Cutting-edge Forensics Took Down 12 Notorious Serial Killer, The Psychology of Death Investigations, and Confession of a Serial Killer: The Untold Story of Dennis Rader, The BTK Killer. Dr. Ramsland was an executive producer for the Wolf Entertainment/A&E four-part documentary Confession of a Serial Killer, based on the decade she spent talking with Rader. Ramsland pens a regular blog for Psychology Today and is writing a fiction series based on a female forensic psychologist who manages a private investigation agency. I Scream Man and In the Damage Path are in the series.
With Dr. Henry C. Lee and his lab director, Elaine Pagliaro, Dr. Ramsland wrote The Real Life of a Forensic Scientist. With former FBI profiler Gregg McCrary, she co-authored a book on his cases, The Unknown Darkness: Profiling the Predators among Us, and with Professor James E. Starrs, A Voice for the Dead, a collection of his cases of historical exhumations. She was also a research assistant to former FBI profiler John Douglas, which became The Cases that Haunt Us. Former FBI profiler Mark Safarik worked with her on Spree Killers, the most extensive database for spree killers around the world.
Dr. Ramsland consults on death investigations and offers workshops about forensic psychology, investigative issues, and serial murder to law enforcement, psychologists, coroners, hospital personal, judges, and attorneys.