Gregg McCrary
{{short description|American FBI agent & writer (born 1945)}}
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Gregg O. McCrary (born September 10, 1945) is a former FBI agent who served from 1969 to 1995, an expert witness and consultant,{{cite web |url=http://www.behavioralcriminology.com/ |title=Home |website=behavioralcriminology.com}} an author and an adjunct forensic psychology professor at Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, and at Marymount University in Arlington, Virginia. McCrary was a contributing author to the 1992 Crime Classification Manual.{{cite web|title=Gregg O. McCrary|url=http://behavioralcriminology.com/bio.htm|publisher=Behavioral Criminology International|accessdate=20 November 2010|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130410133215/http://behavioralcriminology.com/bio.htm|archive-date=10 April 2013|url-status=dead}}
Career
In 2003, he published The Unknown Darkness, a book detailing those cases which he found most important.{{Citation needed|date=November 2010}} During his tenure with the FBI, McCrary was a criminal profiler and threat analyst in Quantico, Virginia. He was a member of the "Criminal Investigative Analysis" subunit of the National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime (NCAVC),{{cite book|last=Wright|first=Stuart A.|title=Armageddon in Waco: critical perspectives on the Branch Davidian conflict|url=https://archive.org/details/armageddoninwaco00stua|url-access=registration|year=1995|publisher=University of Chicago Press|isbn=978-0-226-90845-8|page=[https://archive.org/details/armageddoninwaco00stua/page/290 290]}} serving the center from its foundation in 1985. Since retiring from the FBI, McCrary has served as an expert witness.{{cite book|last=Ebisike|first=Norbert|title=Offender profiling in the courtroom: the use and abuse of expert witness testimony|date=October 2008|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-36210-1|pages=94}}
British author Colin Wilson dedicated his 1990 book The Serial Killers to Agent McCrary.
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