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Coming up on Dateline Tuesday:
During the hunt for the Washington area sniper we've learned something of how
profilers get inside the mind of a serial killer. Without laying eyes on him, they
must rely on his calling cards: his pattern, his weapon, his choice of victim.
But what if the murderer's sitting right in front of you? How do you navigate his
psyche then? Tonight, one woman's journey into another sniper's mind to try to unlock
its secrets and get him to confess to two brutal murders. Like other investigators,
she was armed with brains. But she also had something else -- beauty.
This former assistant prosecutor, Melissa Powers, was chosen to talk to the killer
largely because her boss thought her looks would be an asset. But Dateline Producer
Angela Michelle Ellis says all the focus on her looks is misleading. "Melissa is very
smart. It took a very intelligent woman to deal with this man and get from him what
she got."
Ellis says Powers also got the killer, Joseph Paul Franklin, to admit to two other
murders. "She got him to confess to the so-called "Rainbow Murders," which involved
two female hitchhikers in West Virginia. Franklin's admission that he was the murderer
exonerated another man who was in prison for those killings."
DATELINE Correspondent Hoda Kotb brings you the story of this real life "Silence of
the Lambs."
That's coming up at 10pm EDT, 9pm EDT on DATELINE Tuesday.
-Dateline NBC
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