David Meirhofer

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David Gail Meirhofer (June 8, 1949 – September 29, 1974) was an American serial killer who confessed to four murders in rural Montana between 1967 and 1974—three of which were of children. Meirhofer killed himself shortly after confessing, and was never tried in court. In the early 1970s, when Meirhofer's crimes were ongoing, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) had been refining a method of psychologically profiling criminal offenders, and Meirhofer would be the first serial killer to be actively investigated using this technique. Offender profiling is now a method commonly used to discover characteristics of an unknown offender from evidence at the scene of the crime.

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