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Podcast: Mind Behind The Crime | The Psychology Of Killers
Episode: How Rex Heuermann Hid a Double Life: FBI & Psych Experts Reveal the Dark Psychology Behind 7 Murders | 2025 True Crime
Description: How does a man live under the same roof as his wife and children while allegedly carrying out seven brutal murders over nearly three decades? In this powerful two-part breakdown, we bring together two of the nation’s leading experts on human behavior—former FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke and psychotherapist Shavaun Scott—to explain how Rex Heuermann may have maintained one of the most disturbing double lives in modern true crime.
Robin Dreeke opens the episode with a deep dive into the psychology of compartmentalization, truth-default theory, and why spouses detect lies only about 50% of the time. He exp...