The Mind of the Devil: The Cases of Arthur Gary Bishop and Westley Allan Dodd

By Al Carlisle

“He could not stop what he was doing. It was either sex or suicide.” It’s often said that we will likely never understand how a person becomes a serial killer. However, I believe we can. In fact, we must, if we are ever going to find a way to stop the sexual abuse of children. But it’s not only the victims we want to save. We also want to stop our children from transforming themselves into killers. —From the Intrduction Arthur Gary Bishop and Westley Allan Dodd had many things in common. They were both psychopathic pedophiles and prolific child molesters who eventually turned to killing their victims. Both were executed for their crimes at their own request. Most importantly, both desperately wanted to know one thing before they died: How did I become a serial killer? This book is an attempt to answer that question.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Genius Book Publishing
• Release date: Sep 4, 2015
• ISBN: 9780990857532

Al Carlisle

The majority of Al Carlisle's career was as a psychologist at the Utah State Prison from which he retired as the head of the Psychology Department in 1989. He continued to interview serial killers. He wanted to learn why good people chose to do bad things. Dr. Carlisle performed the first psychological assessment of Ted Bundy in 1976 while he was being held for a 90 day evaluation at the Utah State Prison. Dr. Carlisle was also a consultant for the Salt Lake Rape Crisis Center for several years and hosted workshops on serial homicide and other crime topics. He conducted extensive research on serial killers and interviewed the Hi Fi killers, Arthur Gary Bishop, Westley Allan Dodd, Keith Jesperson, Ted Bundy and many others. His specialties include Dissociative Identity Disorder (Multiple Personality Disorder). Al Carlisle, born and raised in Utah, received a BS and MS from Utah State University and his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Brigham Young University. He is the author of four books in the Development of the Violent Mind series: "I'm Not Guilty!" The Case of Ted Bundy Mind of the Devil: The Cases of Arthur Gary Bishop & Westley Allan Dodd Broken Samurai: One Marine's Journey from Hero to Hitman The 1976 Psychological Assessment of Ted Bundy Dr. Carlisle passed away in 2018 at the age of 81.