Mary ellen otoole biography of george
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Mary Ellen O'Toole was enjoying wine and cheese with her neighbors one evening when the phone rang. It was a serial killer.
"We were just having a nice night, and I answered the phone, which inom don't normally do, and they go, 'Oh, who was that?'" O'Toole recalled with a laugh. "It did scare the heck out of my neighbors: They got up and left!"
O'Toole said her conversation with the jailed killer, whom she declined to identify, was "easygoing." They exchanged pleasantries, she said, and then he aired his literary aspirations.
"He wanted to resurface again. He had gotten a lot of press before, and his notoriety had sort of calmed down, and it was right at the time that my book had come out and so I think he saw the potential there of my helping him to write a book," said O'Toole, a retired Federal Bureau of Investigation profiler and author of Dangerous Instincts: How Gut Feelings Betray Us.
"What is it, the Berkowitz Law? Son of Sam law? Killers can't profit on their crimes, but
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Remembering Sr. Mary Ellen Murphy, RSM, PhD
By Sister Mary George O’Toole ’51, HON. ’90
On July 27, 2015, word was received of the unexpected death of Sister Mary Ellen, who served our College for 15 years as vice president for academic affairs and dean of the College. I was privileged to work closely with her for six of those 15 years as the associate academic dean.
Sister came to us with so many credentials, accomplishments, and awards that it would be difficult to list them without creating the impression that exaggeration is reigning freely. I will take the liberty to cite just a few to let you know what I mean:
1. Sister was co-investigator and the first woman to analyze the moon rocks brought back from the Apollo 11 space flight in 1969;
2. She was a member of NASA’s Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) team in her role as a visiting scientist in the Laboratory of Extraterrestrial Physics at the Goddard Space Flight Center;
3. She engaged in pioneering research in geo-c
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FBI investigates new year’s day truck attack as terrorism; expert Mary Ellen O'Toole weighs in
The FBI is investigating the deadly New Year’s Day truck attack in New Orleans, which claimed the lives of at least ten people, as an act of terrorism. George Mason University professor Mary Ellen O'Toole, who previously led the FBI's Violent Criminal Apprehension Program, weighed in on the investigation with several news outlets. With her extensive background in criminal profiling and terrorism cases, O’Toole offered insight into the challenges authorities face in identifying and preventing such attacks. O'Toole can be seen commenting in the following outlets:
FBI investigating deadly New Orleans truck attack as act of terrorism
CBS News (video): O’Toole begins at minute 3:30
'Copycats are a major concern': New analysis shows worry about ISIS terror threat
MSNBC (video):
Former FBI special agent profiles the violent incidents in New Orleans and Las Vegas
ABC News