The Real Life Clarice Starling: Jana Monroe, Retired FBI Agent

Let’s explore the inside of the FBI from a female perspective. Jana Monore, the first female to earn a spot in the prestigious Behavioral Science Unit, is our guest today. She’s written an amazing book filled with stories about talking to serial killers, working undercover, and not letting her  male colleagues see her fear of spiders! She’s so down to earth and I can’t wait for you to hear from her. But first, I’m going to tell you a little bit about her book.

Welcome to another episode of The Unlovely Truth. I’m your host, private investigator Lori Morrison. Join me for another captivating true crime story, where physical, spiritual, and emotional safety takeaways are waiting for us. If you are listening, I believe you have a unique calling—to become a different kind of PI, not a typical private investigator, but a person of impact!

This is Season 4, Episode 36. Our book this week is “Hearts of Darkness: Serial Killers, the Behavioral Science Unit, and My Life as a Woman in the FBI” and our guest is its author, Jana Monroe. Being a female in a very male dominated profession can be tough. But not as tough as Jana herself. She began her career in law enforcement at what was called a Youth Training Facility. It was filled with young offenders whose crimes would have landed them in prison if they had been old enough to send them there.

Jana spent years rising through the ranks until she was sitting next to serial killers asking them to tell her why they were in prison. Mostly they poured out lies and self-justifications. She said that they had Hearts of Darkness. 

Our Bible passage this week is 1 Peter 5:6-9, The Living Bible

If you will humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, in his good time he will lift you up. Let him have all your worries and cares, for he is always thinking about you and watching everything that concerns you. Be careful—watch out for attacks from Satan, your great enemy. He prowls around like a hungry, roaring lion, looking for some victim to tear apart. Stand firm when he attacks. Trust the Lord; and remember that other Christians all around the world are going through these sufferings too.

This passage has what I think is some of the most practical wisdom for daily life that you’ll find anywhere in the Bible, and it dovetails so perfectly with what Jana shared with us today.

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