Urbane Publishing announced they were pulling Paul Harrison’s 2018 book Mind Games: Inside the Serial Killer Phenomenon on Friday after sources cast doubts on Harrison’s claimed encounters with serial killers like Ted Bundy and Peter Sutcliffe. All proceeds from the book will be donated to charities supporting victims of violent crimes, the publisher reports.
Harrison, a former police officer, claims to have “worked closely” with the FBI at Quantico, Virginia as part of their Behavioral Science Unit; however, seven agents reportedly denied ever knowing Harrison and disputed the author’s claims that he interviewed John Wayne Gacy and Ted Bundy.
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