Fidel Valera Warden

Lo que hacemos en la vida tiene su eco en la eternidad.

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@MissHina1278 7

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@native_history_ Happy Birthday

[Lost Temples™ @LostTemple7]

His mother was too tired to keep her eyes open. As she slept on the subway, her little boy quietly stayed awake, gently protecting her from every bump and stop. Love doesn't wait for you to grow up. 🥹❤️

[pictoline @pictoline]

Para no variar, la ciencia apenas encontró algo donde no había mirado 🩸

#salud #ciencia #pictoline

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@ListinDiario Billetes y vias, Don Leo, billetes y vias.

[CDN 92.5 @CDNRadio]

Adolfo Salomón cuestiona rapidez del Congreso para algunas leyes y estancamiento en otras

[Maestro Jota @elmaestrojota]

—He sentido una gran conmoción en la Fuerza. Como si de pronto millones de personas gritasen de terror.

—Son familias aterrorizadas porque comienzan las vacaciones de verano de sus hijos, maestro.

—Qué bien viven los maestros, joven Luke.

[Libertario 🟨⬛ @QuotesforGoal]

"Llegará el día en que será preciso desenvainar una espada para afirmar que el pasto es verde"

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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@dahiamarinez Eso era canela

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

The FBI had boxes full of serial killer confessions they couldn’t actually use.

Hours of interviews.
Detailed admissions.
Direct conversations with some of the most violent men in America.

And none of it was scientifically useful.

Then a 42-year-old psychiatric nurse walked into Quantico and changed criminal investigation forever.

Her name was Ann Burgess.

1975.

FBI agents Robert Ressler and John Douglas had spent months traveling across the country interviewing imprisoned serial killers. They believed understanding offenders could help solve future crimes.

But when Ann Burgess listened to the tapes, she immediately saw the problem.

“This isn’t research,” she told them.
“These are just stories.”

The room went silent.

“You’re asking them to talk about themselves,” she said. “But every interview is different. There’s no structure. No methodology. You can’t compare one offender to another.”

Then she asked a question nobody else in the room had thought to ask:

“Tell me about the women they killed.”

Not the killers.

The victims.

Who were they?
How old were they?
Where were they approached?
What made them vulnerable?
How did the offender gain control?

The agents were confused.

Ann Burgess explained something revolutionary:

“If you truly study the victims, you’ll understand the offender.”

At the time, Burgess was already a groundbreaking trauma researcher. In 1974, she had co-authored one of the first major studies proving rape caused lasting psychological trauma — at a time when courts barely acknowledged it.

She helped create the term “rape trauma syndrome.”

Now she brought that same scientific rigor to the FBI.

She redesigned the interviews.
Created structured questionnaires.
Introduced victimology as the foundation of profiling.
Distinguished between a killer’s “MO” and their “signature.”
Mapped escalation patterns.
Explained that sexual violence was about power and control — not desire.

Suddenly, the FBI’s Behavioral Science Unit had something it had never truly possessed before:

Methodology.

And it worked.

In 1983, young boys began disappearing in Nebraska.

Using Burgess’s framework, investigators built a profile:
A young white male.
Slight build.
Someone trusted around children.
Likely connected to scouting or youth activities.
A person who kept souvenirs and detective magazines.

Police arrested John Joubert.

The profile was astonishingly accurate.

Almost overnight, criminal profiling became legitimate law enforcement science.

And yet most of the credit went elsewhere.

The public celebrated the FBI agents.
Books were written.
Movies and television series followed.

Ann Burgess became a footnote.

When Netflix released Mindhunter, they based a character on her — but changed nearly everything.

They made her a psychologist instead of a nurse.
Changed her personal life entirely.
Most viewers never even realized she was based on a real person.

Meanwhile, the real Ann Burgess kept working.

Teaching.
Publishing.
Consulting.
Testifying in court.
Training professionals around the world.

More than 150 academic publications.
Multiple landmark books.
Decades of pioneering work.

And through all of it, one truth remained:

Modern criminal profiling exists in large part because a psychiatric nurse walked into a room full of FBI agents and told them they were asking the wrong questions.

Not:
“Why did the killer do this?”

But:

“Who were the victims?”

That shift changed criminal investigation forever.

Ann Burgess is 88 years old now.

Still teaching.
Still working.
Still brilliant.

And finally receiving recognition not as a side character in someone else’s story —

But as herself.

The woman who taught the FBI how to truly understand predators by first understanding the people they harmed.

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@ErrorGramatica Marzo

[Pepo Garrido | Psicopedia @psicopedia]

Idealizar el trauma para vender resiliencia es el nuevo modelo de negocio. No eres más fuerte por haber sufrido más. A veces las cosas malas solo son eso, cosas malas que te rompen, no lecciones de vida camufladas. Y está bien estar enfadado por ello.

[Saganism @Saganismm]

"Most people learn nothing from experience, except confirmation of their prejudices."

– Bertrand Russell

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@ErrorGramatica 7503

[Pepo Garrido | Psicopedia @psicopedia]

El perdón no es obligatorio para sanar, digan lo que digan los gurús. Se puede avanzar, reconstruir tu vida y volver a estar bien sin perdonar a quien te dañó deliberadamente. La paz mental requiere poner límites y procesar el dolor, no santidad ni amnesia.

[Libertario 🟨⬛ @QuotesforGoal]

"Muchas personas quieren que el gobierno proteja al consumidor. Un problema mucho más urgente es proteger al consumidor del gobierno"

Milton Friedman

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@zoomafrika1 Chicharrón

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