Most Spectacular Profiler: Thomas Harris
Jun 3, 2024 15:56:52 GMT -5
Post by Inimda on Jun 3, 2024 15:56:52 GMT -5
The Tooth Fairy was based on BTK before he was caught. It's almost like a profile of the killer.
Francis Dolarhyde
Inspiration
Harris loosely based Francis Dolarhyde on the then-unidentified serial killer known as "BTK" (Bind, Torture, Kill), who at
the time of the book's publication was terrorizing Kansas with a series of murders, beginning with the murder of an
entire family in their own home. Like Dolarhyde, BTK engaged in necrophiliac acts with his victims' bodies; he also wrote
letters to the police alluding to an abusive childhood and being under the control of an outside influence, which he
referred to as "Factor X". Harris had consulted with FBI Agent John E. Douglas prior to writing the book, and Douglas had
served as a consultant on the BTK case for Kansas police. Harris was so impressed with Douglas that he borrowed
aspects of his life story and personality for Will Graham and Jack Crawford.
I think Douglas should be impressed with Harris. He had the animal abuse, B&E, photography with a Polaroid. Annette
Funicello fixation versus woman clothed in the sun from the Red Dragon painting.
Roy Hazelwood did the profile on the BTK Killer not Douglas but I guess John Douglas endorsed it.
Thomas Harris consulted with Douglas on the case. I don't know if he might have added his own thoughts to
Hazelwood's which might have been incorporated into Red Dragon.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/11/12/dangerous-minds
The final profile of BTK is hard to find with only major points posted online. The poems sent to the media and the police
don't seem to figure in the profile. Maybe Douglas told Thomas Harris about the poems as I don't think any of them
were released to the public. It was a good guess to put an obsession with William Blake in Red Dragon if the Tooth Fairy
based on his idea of what the BTK would be like. Blake was a poet as well as an artist.
Sometimes people do things right and they don't know they're doing it right.
Hazelwood had - interest in psychology and criminology - and outdoorsman right.
Harris had animal abuse, Breaking and entering, the military, and photography and poetry right. And Harris wasn't even
profiling BTK. He was writing a fictional adaptation.
Maybe he got something from John Douglas that wasn't made public or used by Hazelwood in the profile. I saw in the
link that Douglas mentioned possible military in the discussion. But I saw him in the features of Red Dragon and he
dismisses Harris' characters, especially Hannibal as fictional dramatic creations
Francis Dolarhyde
Inspiration
Harris loosely based Francis Dolarhyde on the then-unidentified serial killer known as "BTK" (Bind, Torture, Kill), who at
the time of the book's publication was terrorizing Kansas with a series of murders, beginning with the murder of an
entire family in their own home. Like Dolarhyde, BTK engaged in necrophiliac acts with his victims' bodies; he also wrote
letters to the police alluding to an abusive childhood and being under the control of an outside influence, which he
referred to as "Factor X". Harris had consulted with FBI Agent John E. Douglas prior to writing the book, and Douglas had
served as a consultant on the BTK case for Kansas police. Harris was so impressed with Douglas that he borrowed
aspects of his life story and personality for Will Graham and Jack Crawford.
I think Douglas should be impressed with Harris. He had the animal abuse, B&E, photography with a Polaroid. Annette
Funicello fixation versus woman clothed in the sun from the Red Dragon painting.
Roy Hazelwood did the profile on the BTK Killer not Douglas but I guess John Douglas endorsed it.
Thomas Harris consulted with Douglas on the case. I don't know if he might have added his own thoughts to
Hazelwood's which might have been incorporated into Red Dragon.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/11/12/dangerous-minds
The final profile of BTK is hard to find with only major points posted online. The poems sent to the media and the police
don't seem to figure in the profile. Maybe Douglas told Thomas Harris about the poems as I don't think any of them
were released to the public. It was a good guess to put an obsession with William Blake in Red Dragon if the Tooth Fairy
based on his idea of what the BTK would be like. Blake was a poet as well as an artist.
Sometimes people do things right and they don't know they're doing it right.
Hazelwood had - interest in psychology and criminology - and outdoorsman right.
Harris had animal abuse, Breaking and entering, the military, and photography and poetry right. And Harris wasn't even
profiling BTK. He was writing a fictional adaptation.
Maybe he got something from John Douglas that wasn't made public or used by Hazelwood in the profile. I saw in the
link that Douglas mentioned possible military in the discussion. But I saw him in the features of Red Dragon and he
dismisses Harris' characters, especially Hannibal as fictional dramatic creations