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Dr. de River was the subject of a chapter entitled "S-X
Marks the Crime" in Edward Radin's "12 Against
Crime", the true stories of a dozen crime experts and the
cases they helped solve long before CSI. In "12 Against
Crime", Radin describes Dr. de River as a "suave new kind of detective, the
first psychiatrist to work directly with the police force of a
major American city".
Radin discovers that Dr. de River's predictions concerning the
murderer responsible for the killing of three little girls (in
Los Angeles circa 1937) were all substantiated when Albert Dyer confessed to the
brutal crime.As the first official police psychiatrist with
the rank of Captain, Dr. de River established a system of
recording and classifying information on convicted sex
offenders. Thus was born the Sex Offense Bureau, the first in
the nation. Dr. de River was recognized as a distinguished
profiler, because of his accuracy in describing the mental and
physical characteristics of sexual criminals.
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