A forensic psychologist unpacks serial killers. Live. In a bar.
A real expert and time to ask anything you've never been able to ask out loud. Get your tickets for Curious Hour: Inside the Mind of a Serial Killer in Chicago!
🧠 Forensic psychology🍺 Bar setting🎙️ Open Q&A🔬 Different case each session
Your speaker
Jim Iaccino, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Forensic Psychology · The Chicago School
Created the Cinematic Serial Killers Research Project, coding 100+ films depicting real-life offenders with forensic students. His work correlates cinematic portrayals with actual killer demographics, typology, motives, and victim patterns. Teaches FO725: Profiling Serial Killers by Type, Motives, Methods & Victims. Published in APA's PsycCRITIQUES.
What you get
🧠Where Hollywood gets it right and wrong about serial killers. Data from 100+ coded films vs. real forensic profiles
🔓Open Q&A after the talk. Ask what documentaries and true crime shows never answer
🍺Bar atmosphere, drink in hand. Science on the table, none of the formality
🔬Each session covers a different killer, psychological profile, or forensic method
👥Couples, groups, or solo. True crime fans and the genuinely curious
How the night works
1
Grab a drink
Order at the bar, find a seat. No formality.
2
The talk
Profiling, motives, methods. Evidence-led, zero sensationalism.
3
Ask anything
The floor opens. No filter, no question off limits.
Practical info
Description
You already know the names. What you don't know is what was actually happening inside their heads. Curious Hour brings expert-led science talks into bar settings, and this edition hands the floor to Jim Iaccino, a forensic psychologist who has spent years researching how cinema portrays real serial killers and where the facts diverge. His Cinematic Serial Killers Research Project has coded over 100 films against actual offender data. You'll hear where movies get profiling right, where they fabricate, and what forensic psychology actually tells us about motive, typology, and victim selection. Then the floor opens. Get your tickets now for Curious Hour: Inside the Mind of a Serial Killer in Chicago!
