About Me

I am a deeply spiritual and soulful individual... and I study psychopathic behavior.
If I started over, I would have become a criminal profiler with the FBI's behavioral analysis unit. I've been referred to as Dr. Spencer Corter (a nod to Dr. Spencer Reed from Criminal Minds).
For 23 years, I lived at the end of one of the most haunted roads in the United States—Clinton Rd.
My favorite job was as a tour guide for a haunted theme park called Fairy Tale Forest. I had to scare the shit out of children and lead them through the dark forest filled with monsters and horror movie icons.
I got in trouble in grade school for bringing in an article about a leg found in the river down the street from my house*. I brought it in for 'show and tell' and was confused by my teacher's lack of enthusiasm. My mother had to sit me down and explain why this was inappropriate to bring to school. (*serial killer Joel Rifkin)
To relax and decompress, I take long walks in cemeteries. They are peaceful, help me regulate my nervous system, and remind me to live more fully.

Expertise & Training

In 2009, I received my bachelor’s degree in psychology while studying the dark aspects of the mind and human behavior. I continued to learn about darkness and the shadow through countless traditions, including shamanism, Jungian theory, and a range of Eastern philosophies.

Over the next ten years, I wrote articles, worked with private clients, studied, researched, and formulated my own processes and approaches to work with what I refer to as the “Spectrum of Darkness.”

In 2019, I returned to school to work on a Ph.D. in depth psychology with an emphasis on Jungian archetypal studies at Pacifica Graduate Institute.

My dissertation subject matter immediately took form, ultimately becoming about the psychopath as an archetype of the collective Western Shadow.

I've completed various intensive trainings in journalism, the psychology of fairy tales, forensics, dream analysis, and shadow work. In 2025, I became a certified medicolegal death investigator.

My work sometimes makes people uncomfortable, as it draws on and celebrates the dark and misunderstood dimensions of the personality.

My writing style blends depth psychology with the symbolic forms found in film, fairy tales, and forensics.

I do not love true crime to glorify the terrible and horrific things people do; I am an advocate for telling the truth, and for that to happen, we need people who are not afraid of the dark.

Michelle McNamara said it best when she wrote:

“I love reading true crime, but I’ve always been aware of the fact that, as a reader, I am actively choosing to be a consumer of someone else’s tragedy. So, like any responsible consumer, I try to be careful in the choices I make. I read only the best: writers who are dogged, insightful, and humane.”