Whenever a young woman meets a tragic end, Pat Brown’s phone starts to ring. She spends the next few days on the national TV circuit making appearances on The Today Show, CNN, Nancy Grace, and more. She talks about what kind of person would commit the crime in question whether it’s a rape, murder, or some other horrific violation. Her hope is that by sharing some thoughts that may not have occurred to some of the viewers, she might save some lives.
In her book, How To Save Your Daughter’s Life: Straight Talk For Parents From America’s Top Criminal Profiler (HCI Books — $14.95), Pat Brown, who has provided crime commentary and forensic analysis in more than 2,000 TV and radio appearances, talks to parents and their daughters in a no-holds-barred voice to get them to understand how predators choose victims and how to avoid becoming a target. She covers all of the dangers that today’s young women face and arms parents with information they rarely get from professionals.
Brown says that no one deserves to be murdered, even if she was out selling her body on the street or was buying drugs in a bad part of town, or was cheating on her boyfriend with his brother. She feels it’s terribly important to be honest and show women how the behaviors victims engage in may bring them into harm’s way.
“Talking about the perpetrator may be fascinating and educational, and we can rail about changing the system, locking these monsters up, but it isn’t going to do much to save your daughter’s life today,” Brown says.
In How To Save Your Daughter’s Life, the author hopes to help parents and young women understand the world of psychopaths and criminals; how they think, where they lurk, and how they lure and grab victims. She talks about what kinds of choices and defenses will protect her and which ones are dangerous. Each chapter in the book also has suggestions for the more willful child, and at the end of the chapter is a “Letter to My Daughter” that even a defiant daughter may benefit from.
This book reads like a handbook and should be a part of the household of anyone with a daughter.
