Ep 273: Profiling and Preventing Mass Shooters with Katherine Schweit
Laura interviews retired FBI Special Agent Katherine Schweit who created and led the agency’s active shooter program after the shootings at Sandy Hook in 2012. In the wake of the Minneapolis shooting on August, 27 2025 where two children, 10-year-old Harper Moyski and 8-year-old Fletcher Merkel were murdered, Laura and Kate share the characteristics of mass shooters, the behaviour that reveals they are preventable, the connection with domestic abuse, coercive control and the deep seated motivation for power and control.
Listen to this life saving and changing conversation and learn what went wrong at Uvalde when police waited more than an hour before confronting and killing the gunman, who shot dead 19 children and 2 adults as well as how to talk with your child(ren) as a parent.
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#MassShooting #Prevention #Profiling #ActiveShooter #Minneapolis #Education #Behaviour #MaleEntitlement #Patriarchy #Psychology #PowerAndControl #WomenWhoTalkToTheDead #HiddenHomicides #CrimeAnalyst #TrueCrime #Podcast #HighRisk #WarningSigns #CrimeAnalystSqaud
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https://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/video/victims-identified-in-minneapolis-school-shooting-246038085596
Find more from KateSocials: @kateschweit
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Kate’s Books
Stop the Killing: How to Prevent Mass Shooting: https://a.co/d/aKZJNxD
How to Talk About Gun’s With Anyone:
https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/fbi-releases-study-on-active-shooter-incidents
Women Who Talk To the Dead: https://a.co/d/22Q6Y4Y
Sources
Kate’s Ted Talk: https://youtu.be/fqnq0Br-UEg?si=P6dr1eYwzVmjOMP_
https://www.businessinsider.com/uvalde-fbi-shooter-policy-author-questions-hesitant-police-response-2022-5
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/30/opinion/uvalde-school-shooting.html
https://www.thelaurarichards.com/resources/coercivecontrol
https://www.thelaurarichards.com/resources/stalking
https://www.thelaurarichards.com/resources/books
https://www.thelaurarichards.com/my-two-cents/serial-and-high-risk-stalkers-and-domestic-abusers
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Ep 272: Surviving Jeffrey Epstein with Jess Michaels, Part 2
Laura and Jess continue their conversation about Jeffrey Epstein. Laura explains why Ghislaine Maxwell is not a victim and Jess shares how the trauma of the rape upended her life as well as what it’s like being a survivor stuck in a never-ending holding pattern. You will learn so much from this raw and powerful conversation - it might change and save your life.
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#Trauma #TraumaticInjury #Education #Abuser #Behaviour #Psychology #PowerAndControl
#CrimeAnalyst #TrueCrime #Podcast
#HighRisk #WarningSigns #Manipulation #SerialAbuser #Survivor
Clip
https://youtu.be/Er9QTRASgU8?si=h5vcn5HdK1yMrYgJ
Sources
Real Crime Profile Series: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/forensically-deconstructing-jeffrey-epstein/id1081244497?i=1000451942611
https://www.thelaurarichards.com/resources/coercivecontrol
https://www.thelaurarichards.com/resources/stalking
https://www.thelaurarichards.com/resources/books
https://www.thelaurarichards.com/my-two-cents/serial-and-high-risk-stalkers-and-domestic-abusers
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Ep 271: Inside Erik and Lyle Menendez’s Parole Board Hearings with Robert Rand Part 13
Laura and investigative reporter and author, Robert Rand, take you inside Erik and Lyle Menendez’s Parole Board Hearings on August 21 and 22. Erik and Lyle were denied parole. Laura and Robert share why this is unsurprising, as well as new information that was learned about Erik and Lyle’s behaviour in prison and the next steps. It’s not over.
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#ParoleBoardHearings #LyleMenendez #ErikMenendez #JusticeForErikAndLyle #Menudo
#CrimeAnalyst #TrueCrime #Podcast #MenendezMenudo #Menudo #BoysBetrayed
#DomesticAbuse #CoerciveControl
Clips
https://www.today.com/video/lyle-menendez-denied-parole-a-day-after-brother-s-bid-was-rejected-245640261832
Sources
http://menendezmurders.com/about-robert-rand/
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Ep 270: Surviving Jeffrey Epstein with Jess Michaels, Part 1
Laura interviews Jess Michaels who was raped by Jeffrey Epstein in 1991. Jess bravely shares how she was selected and groomed before she met Epstein. Laura methodically breaks down Epstein’s behaviour to provide a chilling profile of a man who deployed a wide range of nuanced manipulation tactics to psychologically undo and coercively control his victims and those around them.
This conversation will change and save lives. Listen to this important conversation so you don’t fall into the trap abuser’s set.
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#CoerciveControl #Abuser #Psychology#PowerAndControl #DomesticViolence #CrimeAnalyst #TrueCrime #Podcast #HighRisk #DASH #WarningSigns #Manipulation #Trauma
Clip
https://youtu.be/7j1xEv8ZXFU?si=Ssr8XcdmcHo1tqTZ
Sources
Real Crime Profile Series: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/forensically-deconstructing-jeffrey-epstein/id1081244497?i=1000451942611
https://www.thelaurarichards.com/resources/coercivecontrol
https://www.thelaurarichards.com/resources/stalking
https://www.thelaurarichards.com/resources/books
https://www.thelaurarichards.com/my-two-cents/serial-and-high-risk-stalkers-and-domestic-abusers
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Ep 269: Coercive Control: The Pathology of the Abuser with Dr Christine Cocchiola, Part 2
Laura shares unique insights regarding characteristics and behaviours to identify abusers early as well as why men abuse women and Dr Christine Cocchiola explains why you should never attempt couples therapy with a coercive controller.
Understanding coercive control will save and change lives. Listen to this important conversation so you don’t fall into the trap abuser’s set.
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#CoerciveControl
#Abuser #Psychology#PowerAndControl #DomesticViolence #CrimeAnalyst #TrueCrime
#Podcast #HighRisk #DASH #WarningSigns #Manipulation #Trauma
Clip
https://youtu.be/AGCmvL0iXc8?si=M3s1wayZAinvrNN7
Sources
https://www.bwss.org/abusive-men-describe-the-benefits-of-violence/
https://www.genderviolenceinstitute.org/rose-thelen
Framed: Women in the Family Court Underworld https://a.co/d/6NHAfDj
www.dashriskchecklist.com
https://www.thelaurarichards.com/resources/coercivecontrol
https://www.thelaurarichards.com/resources/stalking
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