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2025

• The Athletic Aaron Donald was one of the NFL’s toughest players. A stalker left him living in fear (August 13, 2025)

2024

• Bundeszentrale fur politische Bildung Radikalisierung und Gewalt der Reichsbürgerszene (November 20, 2024)
• Oxford University Press (OUP Blog) In the Spirit of Oswald (November 7, 2024)
• inews.co.uk Inside the mind of an American Shooter (July 20, 2024)

2023

• The New York Times The Signs Were All There.  Why Did No One Stop the Maine Shooter?  (November 2, 2023)
• Justice Trends Mitigating the threat of targeted violence: the Terrorist Radicalization Assessment Protocol (October 19, 2023)
• N1 Documentary (CNN exclusive news channel affiliate in Serbia) Profilisanje školskih ubica: Forenzičar objašnjava koji koraci se mogu preduzeti (July 24, 2023)
• Newsweek Covenant School Shooter Raises Concerns About Mass Shooter ‘Profile’ (March 27, 2023)
• The National Psychologist Charles Manson’s Psychopathy Complicated and Fascinating (March 2023)
• Women’s Health What ‘You’ Season 4 Gets Right And Wrong About Erotomania (March 9, 2023)
• Psychology Today Ferreting Out a Female Co-Worker Psychopath (March 6, 2023)
• Chicago Sun Times Why did Charles Manson order killings? NU psychologist, other experts offer a new take (January 20, 2023)

2022

• LA Times We are a tinderbox’: Political violence is ramping up, experts warn (October 30, 2022)
• Psychology Today Threat Assessment Team Negligence: The Taft Union Case (October 23, 2022)
• Mother Jones How Trump Spread Incitement of Violence Throughout the GOP (November + December 2022 Issue)
• The New York Times What Are the Real Warning Signs of a Mass Shooting? (August 23, 2022)
• CNN Peter Bergen Opinion: Forensic psychologist largely dismisses common talking point that mass shootings are caused by individuals with mental disorders (June 19, 2022)
• National Review Experts Sound Alarm on Heightened Threat to Judges after Foiled Kavanaugh Assassination (June 14, 2022)
• The New Yorker Can Researchers Show That Threat Assessment Stops Mass Shootings? (June 7, 2022)
• The New York Times The Gunman in Uvalde Left Multiple Hints Before His Attack Began (May 27, 2022)
• USA Today ‘It could be you’: Mass shooters often warn people before they kill. What you can do to stop them (May 27, 2022)
• NPR All Things Considered Remembering the victims of the school shooting in Uvalde (May 26, 2022)
• American Psychiatric Association Certain Behaviors Can Warn Clinicians About Impending Mass Shootings, Targeted Violence APA Annual Meeting (May 21-25, 2022)
• NBC Hallie Jackson NOW  Experts Say Mass Shootings are Preventable (May 19, 2022)
• The Online Bodyguard Podcast Dr. Reid Meloy – Threat Assessment (March 8, 2022)
• Thinking Kind Podcast Psychopaths & Crime with Dr. J. Reid Meloy (February 18, 2022)
• American Psychological Association Empowering communities to prevent mass shootings (January 1, 2022)

2021

• Psychology Today The Menu for an Extremist Ideology (October 26, 2021)
• Very Good Light An FBI consultant tells us how to spot a psychopath in the wild (October 18, 2021)
• The New York Times When the Gunman’s Motive Remains a Mystery: Does It Matter? (June 3, 2021)
• Newsweek Mass Shooting Spree Comes at Terrifying Time for Schools (May 4, 2021)
• IndyStar Buster Hernandez, aka ‘Brian Kil’, sentenced in school bombing threats, sextortion case (March 12, 2021)

2020

• Protective Intelligence Podcast with Fred Burton What makes someone predisposed to stalking and the shifting threat landscape with Dr. Reid Meloy (December 16, 2020)
• IACP Police Chief Magazine Redirecting the Pathway: Using Multidisciplinary Threat Assessments to Prevent Targeted Violence (June 2020)
• Podcast with Adam Dorsay, PsyD, CPCC (June 2, 2020)
• A&E Real Crime Who Was the ‘Hollywood Ripper’ and What Was His Connection to Ashton Kutcher? (April 9, 2020)
• Psychiatric Times Mass Shooters and the Psychopathology Spectrum (February 17, 2020)
• Psychiatric Times The Mass Shooter and His Mental Functioning (February 17, 2020)

2019

• Houston Chronicle Gov. Abbott wants to identify mass shooters before they strike.  Researchers are skeptical. (October 31, 2019)
• American Diagnosis by Dr. Celine Gounder Podcast Gun Violence in America | The Psychology of Mass Shooters (September 5, 2019)
• PoliceOne.com Calif. PDs fear ‘suicide by cop’ cases. So they’ve stopped responding to some calls (August 11, 2019)
• Vice How Getting Online Death Threats Are Things No One Can See (July 23, 2019)
• The Mercury News Threats to Schools in Bay Area are a Daily Occurrence.  Here’s how Authorities Head Them Off (April 20, 2019)
• German State Television DW Columbine School Shooting 20 Years Ago (April 19 2019)
• Knack A Dutch Publication (April 17, 2019)
• The New York Times Terror in Real Time: How the New Zealand Gunman Used Social Media (March 17, 2019)
• The New York Times Massacre Suspect Traveled the World but Lived on the Internet (March 15, 2019)
• Tonic Why Stalkers Behave the Way They Do (February 28, 2019)
• ABC Radio Podcast Understanding Assassination on Rear Vision (February 16, 2019)
• NPR When Teens Threaten Violence, A Community Responds with Compassion (February 13, 2019)
• NPR  School Shooters: What’s Their Path To Violence?  (February 10, 2019)

2018

• Wall Street Journal One Year Later, Experts Dig Deeper to Find Vegas Shooter’s Motive (September 30, 2018)
• Global Institute of Forensic Research Global Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Analytics leader will now be the exclusive source for an innovative counter-terrorism protocol designed specifically for lone actor terrorists (September 25, 2018)
• AP News Psychiatrist: Much is Still Hidden in Theater Shooter’s Mind (August 5, 2018)
• The New York Times Why Gunmen Record Video Manifestos (May 31, 2018)
• The New York Times Do Serial Killers Just Stop? Yes, Sometimes (April 26, 2018)
• The Wall Street Journal Most Guns Used in School Shootings Come From Home (April 5, 2018)
• The New York Times Mass Shooters are all Different.  Except for One Thing: Most are Men. (February 17, 2018)
• The Wall Street Journal Florida Shooter: When Social Media Foretells a Mass Shooting (February 16, 2018)
• The New York Times The Things we Know about School Shooters (February 15, 2018)
• The Forensic Files Icon Intimidation and Sexual Predation (January 16, 2018)

2017

• USA Today Rancho Tehama: Why do mass shooters target children, strangers? (November 15, 2017)
• The New York Times Are Mass Murderers Insane? Usually Not, Researchers Say (November 8, 2017)
• The Forensic Files Mass Murder in the Entertainment Capital of the World (October 30, 2017)
• NPR Trying To Better Detect Potential Mass Shooters After Las Vegas (October 6, 2017)
• NPR Las Vegas Shooter’s Life Comes Into Focus, But Not His Motive (October 6, 2017)
• Mother Jones The Las Vegas Shooter Didn’t Just “Snap.” They Never Do. (October 4, 2017)
• KPBS Gunman Who Killed More Than 50 At Las Vegas Concert Was Retired (October 2, 2017)
• Mother Jones Anti-Trump Rage May Not Adequately Explain the Congressional Shooting (June 15, 2017)
• The Huffington Post How We Cover Mass Shootings Affects How Many There Will Be (June 14, 2017)
• The Huffington Post Mass Killers Often Begin Their Reign Of Terror At Home (March 29, 2017)

2016

• U.S. News & World Report 9 Ways to Stay Safe at a Huge New Year’s Eve Party (December 29, 2016)
• The Washington Post ‘Angry and personal’: Social media is fueling attacks on celebrities, new study finds (October 12, 2016)
• WacoTrib.com Social media threats made by ‘creepy clowns’ no laughing matter for 4 area school districts (September 30, 2016)
• The New York Times ‘In-Betweeners’ Are Part of a Rich Recruiting Pool for Jihadists (September 22, 2016)
• Take Two, 89.3 KPCC Radio Using psychology to stop the next terrorist attack (September 21, 2016)
• The Daily Beast ISIS Jihadists, Mass Shooters: What’s Happening to the World (July 26, 2016)
• Houston Chronicle Explained: the ‘contagion effect’ in mass killings (July 18, 2016)
• The New York Times Religion’s Wicked Neighbor (June 17, 2016)
• Mother Jones The Orlando Mass Shooter Checked Facebook for News of His Attack As He Killed (June 17, 2016)
• The Washington Post Most mass shooters aren’t mentally ill. So why push better treatment as the answer? (May 17, 2016)
• Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Identifying Warning Behaviors of the Individual Terrorist (April 8, 2016)
• Modern Psykologi 2016 (Sweden) Plotsliga massmord pa allman plats har blivit en vardagsnyhet i USA
• The Washington Post Are mass shootings contagious? Some scientists who study how viruses spread say yes. (March 8, 2016)
• The Washington Post In Kalamazoo, an agonizing wait for a mass shooter’s motive (February 24, 2016)
• OurWindsor.ca  After mass shooting, let victims’ friends and neighbours lead on healing, says expert (January 24, 2016)

2015

• People Magazine Preventing the next School Shooting (December 28, 2015)
• Psychology Today  Mass Murder Trending (December 10, 2015)
• Diverse Connecticut Community Colleges Arming Security Personnel (December 3, 2015)
• KPBS San Bernardino Shootings: What We Know, One Day After (December 3, 2015)
• O Globo EUA tiveram mais de 350 ataques em massa só este ano In Portuguese (December 3, 2015)
• Los Angeles Times Frequency of mass shootings paradoxically boosts public’s sensitivity — and resignation (December 2, 2015)
• National Journal How Does Someone Become a School Shooter? (October 21, 2015)
• New York Times Experts See Mass Killings as a Kind of Contagion (October 7, 2015)
• New Scientist How to Spot the Warning Signs and Prevent Mass Shootings (October 7, 2015)
• NPR ‘Mother Jones’ Report Examines Copy Cat Effect in Mass Shootings (October 6, 2015)
• BBC News Oregon Shooting: The Mass Killing ‘Contagion Effect’ (October 3, 2015)
• Mother Jones Inside the Race to Stop the Next Mass Shooter (November/December 2015 Issue)
• New York Times Virginia Shooting Spotlights Riddle of Workplace Safety (August 27, 2015)
• USA Today Murder on Social Media: Killer Wanted the World to Watch (August 26, 2015)
• Defense One Why Lone Wolf Attacks are So Hard to Predict (July 22, 2015)
• CNN The Birth of a Psychopath (June 16, 2015)
• The New York Times ‘Batman’ Killer Studied Brain Disorders Before Mass Murder (April 26, 2015)
• Los Angeles Times As Trial’s Penalty Phase Begins, Boston Marathon Bomber Remains a Mystery (April 20, 2015)
• New York Times The Mind of Those Who Kill, and Kill Themselves (April 6, 2015)
• New York Times Germanwings Crash Raises Questions About Shifting Ideas of Pilot Fitness (March 28, 2015)
• Los Angeles Times Why Do We Love to Watch Psychopaths? (March 25, 2015)
• Psychology Today: The Forensic Files Allahu Akbar!  A Psychological Abstract for Mass Murder? (January 8, 2015)

2014

• Psychology Today: The Forensic Files The Lone Terrorist in the Workplace (December 16, 2014)
  
• Washingtonian Crazed Attacks on the White House Will Probably Increase—Thanks to Omar Gonzalez (October 1, 2014)
• New York Times Before Brief, Deadly Spree, Trouble Since Age 8 (June 1, 2014)
• Deutschlandfunk Manuskript Teil 1: Taterprofile (In German, April 2014)
• Psychology Today: The Forensic Files Seven Myths of Mass Murder (April 21, 2014)
• Los Angeles Times Tamerlan Tsarnaev Sought to Rename Himself After Militant (April 2014)
• GQ Magazine The Last Sail of the Adventure Seekers (February 2014)
• Monitor on Psychology Threat Assessment In Action (February 2014)
• Psychiatric Times Seven Myths of Mass Murder (January 24, 2014)
• Nature Workplace Violence: Caught on Campus (January 8, 2014)

2013

• New York Times Broader Approach Urged to Reduce Gun Violence(December 12, 2013)
• New York Times Signs May Be Evident in Hindsight, but Predicting Violent Behavior Is Tough (September 18, 2013)
• Details The Killing of Justin Bieber (April 2013)
• GlobalPost Blog Q&A: Should mental health be part of the gun control debate? (February, 21,2013)
• Los Angeles Times Focus on Mental Health Laws to Curb Violence is Unfair, Some Say (January 31, 2013)

2012

• Los Angeles Times Mass Killings Often Planned, Not Spontaneous, Experts Say (December 16, 2012)
• OUP Blog – The Seven Myths of Mass Murder (September 28, 2012)
• The New York Times –Before Gunfire, Hints of ‘Bad News’ (August, 26 2012)

2011

• THE CHRONICLE – On Death Threats, Pushback, and the Hounding of Frances Fox Piven (February 10, 2011)
• Psychiatric News – Those Who Protect British Royals Learn Who Presents Greatest Threat (January 21, 2011)
• Wired.com – Secret Service Study Probes Psyche of U.S. Assassins
  (January 13, 2011)
• The New York Times – Real Threats Are Said To Rarely Give Warning (January 12, 2011)
• The New York Times – Threats to Lawmakers Rarely Lead to Charges (January 11, 2011)

2010

• The New York Times – In Family’s Death, Trying to Fathom the Unfathomable (July 23, 2010)
• TheDailyBeast.com – What Was Jennifer’s Stalker Thinking?  (July 23, 2010)

2009 and prior

• The New York Times – Is Madoff Wall Street’s Greatest Villain? (March 12, 2009)
• The New York Times – The Talented Mr. Madoff (January 25, 2009)
• The New York Times – Despite Laws, Stalkers Roam on the Internet (April 17, 2006)
• The New York Times – Love Potion No. 9 (March 7, 2004)
• The New York Times – THE HUNT FOR A SNIPER: THE KILLER; Sniper Play a Contrary Game of ‘Catch Me If You Can’ (October 23, 2002)
• The New York Times – RETRACING A TRAIL: THE ROLE OF RELIGION; Impact of Suspects’s Faith On Action Is Unclear (October 27, 2002)
• The New York Times – Loner, Teenager or Hunter?  Experts Offer Three Profiles (October 16, 2002)
• The New York Times – They Threaten, Seethe and Unhinge, Then Kill in Quantity (April 9, 2000)
• The New York Times – How Youngest Killers Differ: Peer Support (April 9, 2000)
• The New York Times – Researchers Unravel The Motives of Stalkers (August 25, 1998)

Radio Segment:

• Interview with Dr. Meloy on Norwegian Public Radio: May 2, 2012, concerning Anders Breivik:

Television Segments:

• Dateline: Too Close for Comfort
• 20/20: Selena’s Killer
• Nightline: Celebrity Stalkers
• Meet The Press
• Unsolved Mysteries
• Bjork Stalker
• Wicked Attraction
• Look Who’s Stalking

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