Christopher Berry-Dee is a Bornin 1948, Christopher Berry-Dee is descended from Dr. John Dee, CourtAstrologer to Queen Elizabeth I, and is the founder and former Directorof the Criminology Research Institute (CRI), and former publisher andEditor-in-Chief of The Criminologist , a highly respected journal on matters concerning all aspects of criminology from law enforcement to forensic psychology. Christopherhas interviewed and interrogated over thirty of the world's mostnotorious killers--serial, mass and one-off--including Peter Sutcliffe,Ted Bundy, Aileen Wuornos, Dennis Nilsen and Joanne Dennehy. He wasco-producer/interviewer for the acclaimed twelve-part TV documentaryseries The Serial Killers , and has appeared on television as a consultant on serial homicide, and, in the series Born to Kill? , on the cases of Fred and Rose West, the Moors Murderers and Dr. HaroldShipman. He has also assisted in criminal investigations as far afieldas Russia and the United States. Notable book successes include: Monster (basis for the movie of the same title, about Aileen Wuornos); and the internationally bestselling Talking with Serial Killers and Talking with Psychopaths series. world-renowned investigative criminologist, and the editor of The New Criminologist magazine.

He does not shy from visiting prisons to interview some of the most disturbed murderers who are behind bars, gaining their trust and delving into the depths of their minds.