SERIAL KILLER: David Meirhofer

0:00Hi, Crime Junkies.

0:01I'm your host, Ashley Flowers.

0:03And I'm Britt.

0:04And today, I'll be taking you on a trek through the mountains of Montana, where a little-known serial killer went undetected for years, despite his brazen crimes, murders that he likely would have gotten away with, had it not been for the surprising investigative combo of a mother's unrelenting determination for answers and this brand new thing that the FBI was developing.

0:29A little something that you might be very familiar with now, but at the time, no one had heard of, criminal profiling.

0:36It was still in its infancy at the time, but this would be one of the very first cases where the FBI put their learning to work to catch serial killer David Meyerhofer.