Cracking the Serial Killer Code: A Chilling Evening with Dr

Name: Cracking the Serial Killer Code: A Chilling Evening with Dr. Katherine Ramsland
Start: 2026-10-31T20:00:00-05:00
Location: Sharon Lynne Wilson Center for the Arts

Know before you go

When: Saturday, October 31, 2026, starting at 8 PM (on Halloween itself)
Where: Sharon Lynne Wilson Center for the Arts, 3270 Mitchell Park Drive,Brookfield,WI,United States
Type: Halloween Event

Details

Saturday October 31st at 8PM
For over three decades, Katherine Ramsland has studied and communicated directly with serial killers. She has heard them recount their methods and motives, reveal their disturbing fantasies, and explain how they evaded detection.
In this gripping live experience, Dr. Ramsland takes audiences deep inside the minds of some of the most notorious killers, drawing on her extensive work with the “BTK” killer, Dennis Rader, and Elmer Wayne Henley Jr., an accomplice to the “Candy Man.”
Each night of this limited engagement offers a unique perspective. Your ticket becomes a gateway into the minds of dangerous predators. The live show features compelling visuals, chilling insights, and an interactive audience Q&A.
Audiences will learn:
~How individuals develop into serial killers
~How they maintain seemingly normal double lives
~What their behaviors can teach us
~And more…
𝗗𝗿. 𝗞𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗥𝗮𝗺𝘀𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗕𝗶𝗼:
Dr. Katherine Ramsland is an author and professor of forensic psychology. You may have seen her as an expert on more than 300 crime documentaries, talk shows, and podcasts.
She has written more than 2,000 articles and 74 books, including *Confession of a Serial Killer*, *The Serial Killer’s Apprentice*, *The Mind of a Murderer*, and *How to Catch a Killer*. She also served as an executive producer on *Murder House Flip*, A&E’s docuseries *Confession of a Serial Killer: BTK*, and ID/HBO’s #1 docuseries *The Serial Killer’s Apprentice*.
Over the past three decades, Dr. Ramsland has worked closely with FBI profilers, detectives, coroners, criminalists, criminologists, law enforcement officers, and attorneys. She blogs for *Psychology Today* and has also written crime fiction, including a series about a female forensic psychologist who, like Ramsland, consults on death investigations. Even her horse has a book: *Sherlock Horse*.
Mentored by prominent experts who studied killers such as Ted Bundy and Edmund Kemper, Dr. Ramsland has drawn on their insights throughout her career and used them to deepen her understanding of serial killers through direct conversations and extensive research.