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Genevieve MarieAmie Harwick was a Hollywood-based therapist known for her work in family and sex counseling.In the early morning hours of Feb. 15, 2020, Amie Harwick returned to her Hollywood Hills apartment after a night out at a burlesque show, texting with a friend about a possible upcoming trip. Nothing in her messages suggested fear. Nothing hinted that she was walking into a nightmare.But inside her home, someone was already waiting.Moments after Harwick climbed the stairs to her third-floor bedroom, her downstairs roommate, Michael Herman, was jolted awake by someone screaming. He heard the sounds of a struggle, and a body hitting the floor. Herman searched desperately for his phone but couldnt find it, so he ran outside to find help and then immediately called 911. When the police arrived, however, they found Harwick unconcious beneath her third-story bedroom balcony. She had bruises on her neck, and, nearby, investigators found a syringe containing brownish liquid.At 3:26 a.m., Harwick was pronounced dead. An autopsy would later reveal she had been strangled before being thrown from the balcony. The question investigators immediately asked was: who would want Amie Harwick dead?Her friends had an answer. A Life Dedicated To Helping OthersRobert CoshlandAmie Harwick smiles during her first date with Drew Carey at Disneyland.Long before her murder made headlines, Amie Harwick had built a life centered on helping other people. Born Amie Nicole Harwick on May 20, 1981, Harwick grew up in Pennsylvania and moved to Los Angeles in her 20s. She worked tirelessly to support herself with jobs as a personal trainer, a bartender, a go-go dancer, and a model, including work for Playboy, all while putting herself through college in hopes of becoming a therapist.She earned a degree in psychology, followed by a masters in clinical psychology, and eventually built a practice in West Hollywood specializing in family and sex therapy. Many of Harwicks clients were women recovering from trauma and abuse, and Harwick advocated for sex workers who were often denied access to mental health care. In 2014, she authored The New Sex Bible for Women and established herself as a prominent Hollywood sex therapist as she spoke openly about sexual health across podcasts, television appearances, and YouTube. Four years later, Harwicks life briefly entered the mainstream spotlight when she became engaged to The Price Is Right host Drew Carey. Though the engagement ended less than a year later, the breakup was amicable.Robert CoshlandAmie Harwick was once engaged to TV show host, Drew Carey. Indeed, in the weeks before her death, Harwick reached out to Carey again, suggesting they meet in the spirit of friendship and forgiveness. Carey was glad to hear from her, and the two agreed to reconnect after Valentines Day.They never got the chance.Amie Harwicks Murder On Valentines Night 2020On the evening of Feb. 14, 2020, Harwick spent Valentines Day with friends at a burlesque show at the Globe Theater. That night, Harwick wore a rosary-style necklace that would later become evidence in her murder.After the night out Harwick made her way to her home in the Hollywood Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles. Shortly after 1 a.m., she texted one friend asking for photos from the night, and another about an upcoming trip they were planning. Nothing about the messages suggested that Harwick knew she was in danger. But her killer was lying in wait.Miss ToshAmie Harwick with friends on her last night alive. Shes wearing a rosary necklace, which later became a piece of evidence in her murder.Earlier in the night, her downstairs roommate Michael Herman had heard what sounded a plate dropping. He assumed it was just Harwicks cat, and fell back asleep. But after Harwick got home, he was woken up again to the sound of a woman frantically screaming. Realizing something was terribly wrong, and unable to find his phone, Herman raced to neighbors homes for help. No no one answered the door, but Herman was able to flag down someone walking by, who used their cellphone to call 911 at 1:14 a.m, according to reporting from CBS News.By the time the police arrived at the scene just a few minutes later, however, Amie Harwick had already been thrown nearly 20 feet from her third-floor balcony. She was found battered and unresponsive on the patio below, and later died at the hospital from blunt-force injuries. Harwick was 38. Inside the home, detectives discovered a broken window, a trail of broken rosary beads which led out onto the balcony, and a syringe filled with liquid. This was an especially disturbing find given that Harwicks friends said she didnt drink or do drugs. Lab testing later revealed the syringe contained nicotine, a substance that can be lethal in concentrated doses.Superior Court of California, County of Los AngelesAt the crime scene, investigators found a syringe filled with liquid. So who had murdered Amie Harwick? As police spoke to her friends, they learned that Harwick had been living in fear. She had spoken about installing a new security system, carried pepper spray, and started sharing her phone location with a trusted friend, Robert Coshland. And after her death, Coshland accessed Harwicks email and found something haunting.Weeks earlier, Harwick had written a message to herself describing a terrifying encounter with an ex-boyfriend at an adult industry awards show.He started screaming, Harwick wrote to herself after the alarming encounter. He was sobbing distorting his face and shaking violently It terrifies me, she added, that hes been obsessed with me for nine years.The man she described was named Gareth Pursehouse.Gareth Pursehouse, The Man Who Murdered Amie HarwickSuperior Court of California, County of Los AngelesGareth Pursehouse was arrested and charged with the murder of his ex-girlfriend, Amie Harwick.Weeks before Amie Harwicks death, she had run into Pursehouse an ex from almost a decade earlier at an event. As Harwick wrote in her email to herself, and told her mother, the ecounter had been terrifying. Pursehouse had confronted her, screamed that she had ruined his life, and chillingly recited text messages that she had sent nine years ago. Tonight, I felt very scared, Harwick wrote in her email. Gareth came up behind me and started screaming Im pretty nervous that Im more on his radar now Hes focused on harming me.Harwick had a reason to be afraid: Pursehouse had physically abused her. He had choked her, suffocated her, and punched her during their relationship. Harwick had called the police multiple times, documented her injuries, and ultimately filed a restraining order against him, though it had long since expired. After the breakup, she also suspected that he had broken into her home, stolen personal photos, and wiped her computer clean. After her run-in with Pursehouse in early 2020, Harwick took steps to protect herself, but didnt think that she could file another restraining order, since he had not explicitly threatened her. Still, she felt her life was in danger. To Coshland Harwick warned, If anything ever happens to meits him.Los Angeles County District Attorneys OfficeGareth Pursehouse was arrested for the murder of Harwick on Feb. 15, 2020.Indeed, investigators soon pieced together what happened on the night of Amie Harwicks murder. They found a shattered glass panel in her French doors of her apartment, along with blood that matched Pursehouse, which indicated how hed broken in. Though the rest of the apartment was clean, Harwicks bed covers were disturbed, leading police to suspect that Pursehouse had climbed into Harwicks bed and waited for her there. When she arrived back home, they had seemingly fought until Pursehouse overpowered Harwick, strangled her, and threw her body off the balcony. And chillingly, when police went to Pursehouses house the next day, they found that he had a black eye and bite mark on his bicep. Inside his residence, police found a syringe similar to the one recovered on Harwicks balcony.At trial, Pursehouses defense attorney argued that hed gone to Harwicks house with the syringe to kill himself in front of her. But a jury ultimately convicted him of first-degree murder, bringing the end to a case defined by obsession, control, and terrible violence. I feel like a widower, you know, in a lot of ways, because I wanted to marry her, and then we had this horrible breakup, Drew Carey said about Harwick. And then before I could talk to her again, somebody killed her.Amie Harwick believed in advocating for women. Tragically, despite all her precautions, she couldnt protect herself. With Pursehouse sentenced to life in prison, justice was finally served, even if it came far too late.Now that youve read about the death of Amie Harwick, read about the shocking death of Hollywood actress Brittany Murphy. Then, learn the story of singing legend Whitney Houston and her tragic passing.The post Inside The Horrific Death Of Amie Harwick, The Former Fiance Of Comedian Drew Carey appeared first on All That's Interesting.

Robert Ressler devoted his life to hunting vicious killers. And when he joined the FBI in 1970, investigators did not have a name for criminals like the Ypsilanti Ripper and the Zodiac Killer who claimed multiple victims until Ressler came up with the term serial killer.But more than that, Ressler helped create the FBIs Behavioral Science Unit and became the bureaus very first serial killer profiler. For years, he interviewed Americas worst offenders to establish categories for identifying and tracking serial killers in the hope of catching them.At a time when no one had yet thought of interviewing killers directly before, Resslers profiles helped the FBI track down notorious criminals in the 1970s and 1980s. And though Ressler retired in the 1990s and died in 2013, he lives on to this day as the inspiration for the character of Bill Tench on Netflixs Mindhunter.Why Robert Ressler Joined The FBIBorn on February 21, 1937, Robert Kenneth Ressler joined the U.S. Army in the years after World War II and served at postings around the world. He later worked as a criminal investigation officer in Washington, D.C. Fascinated by criminology, Ressler earned a masters degree at Michigan State University.NetflixIn the Netflix series Mindhunter, the character of Bill Tench drew inspiration from Robert Resslers life.He joined the FBI in 1970 and was recruited into the newly formed Behavioral Science Unit two years later. As crime rates skyrocketed, FBI agents wondered if there was a better way to catch killers. The new recruit approached the killers from an analytical perspective.Of some interest is the fact that serial murders all but disappeared during World War II, when there were murders on a larger, more wholesale scale, occurring on every battlefront, Ressler explained in his book, I Have Lived in the Monster. After the war, however, such killings began again and have since picked up considerable speed.While most murderers knew their victims, a certain type of killer seemingly struck at random. These violent criminals lashed out at victims in crime sprees, killing multiple times. Robert Ressler named them serial killers after he noticed their episodic sprees reminded him of the movie serials he used to watch as a child, according to The New York Times. And he would spend the next 30 years of his career with the FBI devoted to catching them.Inside Resslers Dangerous Interviews With Serial KillersThe FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia, created the Behavioral Science Unit in 1972. The BSU would use the tools of psychology to understand violent crimes, and Robert Ressler was poised to play a crucial role in the new unit.FBIRobert Ressler (left) stands next to killer Edmund Kemper and his partner John Douglas at the California State Medical Facility.With the science of serial killers so new, the FBI needed data and lots of it. So Ressler and his partner, John Douglas, began interviewing dozens of serial killers.During the interviews, Ressler and Douglas asked the killers about their childhoods, reasons for killing, and methods. They listened as convicted murderers explained the brutal ways they chose victims and carried out their crimes.Ressler had to stay on the good side of his interview subjects the interviews were voluntary, so the convict could end the session at any moment. He went on face-to-face interviews with the most notorious and successful serial killers at that particular time, said Roy Hazelwood, who worked with Ressler at the FBI.Those killers included the likes of Charles Manson, Richard Speck, and David Berkowitz, New Yorks Son of Sam. But one of the most harrowing stories Ressler recalled in his book Whoever Fights Monsters and later inspired a similar scene in Mindhunters. During Resslers third interview in a locked room alone with Ed Kemper, who stood six feet nine inches tall and once decapitated his own mother in addition to murdering eight women at the age of 21, the buzzer to alert the guards wasnt working. And when Kemper noticed, he stood up from his chair, smiled, and told him, If I went apeshit in here, youd be in a lot of trouble, wouldnt you? I could screw your head off and place it on the table to greet the guard. But despite the risk to Ressler and the other agents, these interviews helped the BSU create serial killer profiles to catch the killers who were still at large.Florida Photographic CollectionTed Bundy, shortly after policy recaptured him in 1978.And this experience helped Ressler create a detailed profile: serial killers were usually adult men with an emotionally or physically abusive past. Often loners, the killers were likely to have abused animals in the past and usually battled sexual demons. Cities attracted killers because they offered places for the murderer to blend into crowds, hide and become anonymous.In 1977, the FBI put the profiles to the test. That December, Ted Bundy escaped from prison. With the serial killer at large, the FBI created a profile based on Resslers research. Robert Ressler and another BSU agent, Howard Teten, had created a psychological assessment of Ted Bundy. The profile, drawing on Bundys behavioral and psychological patterns, was included with Bundys FBI Ten Most Wanted listing, helping to catch Bundy a mere six weeks after his escape.How Robert Ressler Created A National Crime DatabaseIn the 1970s, Robert Ressler and John Douglas interviewed 36 serial killers. Early on, it was evident that their research proved that profiling could catch killers. But how could the FBI share its data with local police departments? Robert Ressler interviewing John Wayne Gacy in the 1980s.Cutting-edge computer technology offered an answer. Ressler and Douglas helped establish a national database known as the Violent Criminal Apprehension Program (ViCAP). The database allowed investigators to search based on behavioral characteristics, method of killing, and other patterns. Investigators with unsolved cases could check their open cases against the database to narrow down their search, giving them the tools to put together a profile of the killer quickly. ViCAP evolved into the National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime, a vital tool for the FBI. But the work of building the database took its toll. Long hours interviewing brutal killers taxed Ressler and Douglas. And sometimes, the serial killers taunted the profilers.In the 1980s, Ressler conducted multiple interviews with John Wayne Gacy, who was convicted of 33 murders. According to NPR, during one interview, the killer handed Ressler a painting of a clown. On the back, it read, Dear Bob Ressler, you cannot hope to enjoy the harvest without first laboring in the fields. Best wishes and good luck.When Ressler asked the killer what the inscription meant, Gacy said, Well, Mr. Ressler, youre the criminal profiler. Youre the FBI. You figure it out.The Real Story Behind MindhunterPaul Harris/Getty ImagesAfter retiring from the FBI in 1990, Robert Ressler worked as a consultant.Robert Ressler retired from the FBI in 1990 but continued to work as a consultant. He advised author Thomas Harris on the infamous character of Hannibal Lecter, and he wrote several books that shared decades of Resslers experience hunting killers.There are people that are pretty good at this, and I would consider myself one of them, certainly, Ressler told NPR.And in 1991, he even joined the defense team for Jeffrey Dahmer, who killed and cannibalized at least 17 people in Wisconsin in the 1970s and 80s, to help them determine his psychological state and he walked away feeling more chilled than after any interview before. Dahmer, Ressler wrote in Whoever Fights Monsters, encompassed so many usually unrelated dynamics that we may have to make him the prime example of an entirely new category of serial killer.John Douglas, Resslers former partner, also wrote an influential book Mindhunter, which inspired the Netflix series of the same name. The character Bill Tench is based on Robert Ressler. Robert Ressler died on May 5, 2013, but his groundbreaking work continues to influence criminal profilers today.Investigator Robert Ressler helped found the science of criminal profiling. Next, read about John Joubert, the Eagle Scout who became a serial killer. Then, take a look at terrifying paintings by John Wayne Gacy.The post Meet Robert Ressler, The First FBI Profiler And The Man Who Coined The Term Serial Killer appeared first on All That's Interesting.