I bought this book, Casebook of a Crime Psychiatrist, by James A Brussel, M.D. after reading an article a friend passed to me from the New York Times.The article in the NYTimes, by Malcolmb Gladwell, viewable here speaks about the origins of criminal profiling, and questions it's reliability. Of course, this cold-reading can get out of hand. Comments can be ambiguous, "You are typically introverted but can rise to the occasion when necessary." I wouldn't expect any profile worth a damn to give into that cheap television psychic mumbo-jumbo, however.
The first story in the book, and the story that the NYtimes article speaks of is about a man named George Metesky who was the "Mad Bomber." Over a period of some 16 years he planted pipe bombs around New York City, many of them exploding in places like phone booths and inside the bottom of movie seats. A frustrated police investigator reaches out to Psychiatrist James Brussel for help. He stunningly comes up with what would appear to be several succinct and amazing predictions/profile of the criminal. Including that when he is caught he will be wearing a double breasted suit...buttoned.
The book mentions Metesky's address as "17 4th Street, Waterbury, CT." It's amazing what you can pull up these days with map sites like Bing and Google. While there is no street view available of the Mad Bombers house, there are satellite views (click on bird's eye view on the bing search), and a mouse over on Zillow likely confirms this is the place, as it states "built in 1924."
So, for roughly $184,000 you could technically buy the house and give tours to tourists, assuming of course, it was for sale.Zillow link
Bing map of 17 4th St, Waterbury,CT
Wikepdia entry for George Metesky
There also seems to be quite a bit of information on this case obtained by a google search, FYI.
