Mark E. Safarik

Mark E. Safarik was a Senior Profiler of the BAU.

Career
Mark E. Safarik retired as one of the senior members of the FBI's elite Behavioral Analysis Unit. He was a Supervisory Special Agent in the National Center for Analysis of Violent Crime at the FBI Academy. He has over 30 years in law enforcement, including 23 years with the FBI (from 1984 to 2007), the last 12 as a Senior Profiler. He is now a partner (with R. K. Ressler) in Forensics Behavioral Services International, a Virginia based consulting company, and serves as an analyst with MSNBC for the television series Criminal Mindscape, which focuses on conducting interviews with serial killers.

He got a graduate degree from Boston University and is associated with Boston College. He is on the faculty of Armed Forces Institute of Pathology and is a Vidocq Society Member. He has conducted internationally renowned research in the sexual assault and homicide of elder females and was awarded the Jefferson Medal from the University of Virginia for his groundbreaking work. He is well published in international journals and in professional textbooks.

Safarik specialized in the detailed analysis of violent criminals and their criminal behavior through crime and crime scene analysis. He has reviewed and consulted on thousands of national and international homicide cases and a wide range of violent crimes including sexual assaults, criminal paraphilic behavior, extortions, public corruption matters, product tampering, threat assessments, false allegations of sexual assaults, offender motivation and deterability, and equivocal deaths assessments. He has provided media strategies to agencies tasked with high profile investigations. As a result, he has provided expert witness testimony in many high profile and complex behavioral assessments including mass and serial homicides.

As lecturer he has provided training, both nationally and internationally to well over 20,000 multi-disciplinary professionals.

As media consultant, he has appeared as an expert on many documentary programs, including Dateline, CourtTV, Forensic Files, as well as the Discovery Channel.