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    Anyone You Want Me To Be: A Shocking True Story of Sex and Death on the Internet

    By John Douglas and Stephen Singular

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    Legendary FBI profiler and New York Times bestselling author John Douglas explores the shocking case of John Robinson a harmless, unassuming family man whose criminal history began with embezzlement and fraud - and ended with his arrest for the savage murders of six women and his suspected involvement in at least five disappearances. Most disturbing was the hunting ground in which Robinson seduced his prey: the world of cyberspace. Haunting chat rooms, targeting vulnerable women, and exploiting the anonymity of the Internet, his bloody spree was finally halted by a relentless parole officer who spent ten years trying to nail Robinson as a cold-blooded killer.

    A cautionary tale set in a virtual world where relationships are established without the benefit of physical contact, ANYONE YOU WANT ME TO BE is a contemporary real-life drama of high-tech crime and punishment.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster UK
    Release dateDec 11, 2012
    ISBN9781471108464
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    Anyone You Want Me To Be: A Shocking True Story of Sex and Death on the Internet
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    John Douglas

    John Douglas is the legendary FBI criminal profiler and former Chief of the FBI’s Behavioral Sciences Unit where he researched, investigated, and conducted interviews of some of America’s most violent criminals. Over the past half-century, he either directly worked on or had overall supervision in over 5,000 violent crime cases. He is one of the foremost experts of the criminal mind, its methods, and motivations. Douglas is a veteran of the United States Air Force and holds a doctorate degree in Education, and lives with his wife, Pamela, in the Washington, DC, area.  

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    • 4/5
      This is an intriguing account of a very evil person and how he convinced unsuspecting women to be a part of his life and then murdered them all the while coming off and a great husband, father and family man. This story also includes the investigation into his activities and the trial of a truly wicked person. This is quite a story of human evilness and how depraved a person can be.

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    • 5/5
      It has been so many years since I read this book but I do remember how intrigued I was. Especially since he used the then pretty new medium Internet to find his victims.
      Must re-read again soon.

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    • 4/5
      Shocking but compelling story about how one man found victims online after spending years preying on people in real life, Douglas points out that some intelligent manipulative people know how to convince psych people that they've reformed, but that there are people that truly don't want to reform and our society isn't geared to deal with them.

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    • 4/5
      A True Story of Sex and Death on the InternetLegendary FBI profiler and #1 New York Times bestselling author John Douglas explores the shocking case of John Robinson, a harmless, unassuming family man whose criminal history began with embezzlement and fraud — and ended with his arrest for the savage murders of six women and his suspected involvement in at least five disappearances. Most disturbing was the hunting ground in which Robinson seduced his prey: the world of cyberspace. Haunting chat rooms, targeting vulnerable women, and exploiting the anonymity of the Internet, his bloody spree was finally halted by a relentless parole officer who spent ten years trying to nail Robinson as a cold-blooded killer.A cautionary tale set in a virtual world where relationships are established without the benefit of physical contact, and where mainstream Americans can be drawn down a dark path of temptation and death, Anyone You Want Me To Be is a contemporary real-life drama of high-tech crime and punishment.John Robinson was a con man, when he discovered the internet it widened his ‘hunting grounds’ beyond what anyone could conceive. He could draw victims from all over the world, this is also what led to his downfall, as with more victims it was harder to keep his ‘identities’ straight. This case made necessary new skills with police, new wording on warrants.Besides relating the crime and trail, John Douglas also relates fact about crime in relation to the internet and different groups that have cropped up both crime related and crime prevention related.I recommend this book.
    • 4/5
      John Douglas manipulated women so badly and it is sad to see how many women fall victim to men like this just to get their affection.
    • 5/5
      Tis was a fascinating tale of how a man lured women over the internet to Kansas city them killed them. Douglas once more weaves a true crime story into a tale that makes for enjoyable reading.
    • 4/5
      A good read from the true crime genre.