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In 1974, the FBI consulted on a Montana case using something that they'd never actually put into practice yet, criminal
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profiling. Early on in the investigation into the disappearance of 7-year-old Susie Jaeger, investigators didn't have
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much to go off of, so they were willing to try anything, even this brand new thing that the FBI had called criminal
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profiling. And it seemed a little out there to local authorities as agents described perpetrators that they'd never
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seen, a white guy in his 20s, a loner, unmarried, who's comfortable outdoors, and former military, socially awkward
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around women, and likely someone who inserts himself into investigations. And they even had predictions, not only
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about who he is, but about what he was going to do next. They said that the killer was probably going to call
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Susie's family on the anniversary of the crime. Well, guess what happened next. Would you believe that even then local
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investigators were still questioning whether profiling was legit?