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Biography

Brown was born in New Jersey

New Jersey

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and moved with her family to Virginia at age 9. She has lived in Maryland since 1982.

Education

In 1981, she graduated with a liberal arts degree from the University of the State of New York

University of the State of New York

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. In 2007, she received her master’s degree in criminal justice from Boston University

Boston University

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Career

After having once rented a room to a murder suspect, Brown was moved to become an investigative criminal profiler. By 1996, she'd founded The Sexual Homicide Exchange (SHE). In 2000, she opened The Pat Brown Criminal Profiling Agency. Today, she is one of the few women criminal profilers, assisting police departments and victims' families by analyzing physical and behavioral evidence to make determinations about crime behavior, suspects and motive.

Since it was founded, The Sexual Homicide Exchange has offered profiling and investigative services at no cost to law enforcement. The Sexual Homicide Exchange is also home to The Society for Investigative Criminal Profiling, which works toward deductive profiling and establishing practice standards for criminal profilers.

Brown wrote about her criminological approach in The Profiler: My Life Hunting Serial Killers and Psychopaths with co-author Bob Andelman. She also wrote about the psychology of predators in Killing for Sport: Inside the Minds of Serial Killers. In addition, she is a co-founder of and a regular contributor to Women in Crime Ink

Women in Crime Ink

Women in Crime Ink is an American daily crime aggregated blog founded on March 10, 2008 as "a well of thoughts on crime and media issues from women criminal justice professionals and authors." The site offers original content and coverage of crime, media, books, literature, high-profile criminal...

, described by the Wall Street Journal as "a blog worth reading."

Brown has provided crime commentary, profiling, and forensic analysis on national and international TV and radio. She regularly appears on CNN, MSNBC, FOX, NBC and CBS and is a frequent guest on the "Today," "The Early Show," "Nancy Grace

Nancy Grace

Nancy Ann Grace is an American legal commentator, television host, television journalist, and former prosecutor. She frequently discusses issues from what she describes as a victims' rights standpoint, with an outspoken style that has won her both praise and condemnation...

," Jane Velez-Mitchell, HLN "Prime News," FOX TV’s “America’s Most Wanted,” and “The Montel Williams Show.” For four seasons, she profiled crimes on the weekly Court TV crime show, “I, Detective.” She was the host of Discovery Channel

Discovery Channel

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’s 2004 documentary The Mysterious Death of Cleopatra. And she consulted, as well as appeared as a featured profiler, on "Jack the Ripper" (2010) for The Mystery Files.

Brown was a writer for The Crime Library, and a content contributor for the 2005 home DVD edition of Profiler: Season Two and the 2006 DVD release of Quentin Tarantino’s crime classic Reservoir Dogs.

In May 2010, Ann Curry

Ann Curry

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with NBC's the Today Show interviewed Brown about her latest book, The Profiler.

Books

The Profiler: My Life Hunting Serial Killers and Psychopaths (2010, Hyperion)
Killing for Sport: Inside the Minds of Serial Killers (2008, Phoenix Books)

External links

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