Candice DeLong

Candice DeLong (born July 16, 1950) is an American former FBI criminal profiler and bestselling author. DeLong was the lead profiler in San Francisco, California, and worked on the Unabomber case.

Early life Born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, DeLong is the daughter of a building contractor father and a homemaker mother. Growing up, DeLong stated that her father had told her to choose a practical career. Before entering the field of criminal profiling, DeLong worked as a psychiatric nurse at Northwestern University Hospital in Chicago, Illinois. She was criticized by Scott's supporters for saying that a pregnant Longview, Washington, woman who had appealed to a store clerk for help could not have been Laci Peterson because the woman claimed to have been kidnapped.

After the acquittal of Casey Anthony in the death of Caylee Anthony, DeLong told the Huffington Post that the prosecution must have offended the jury, because the amount of circumstantial evidence should have been enough to convict Casey.

DeLong currently hosts two programs on the Investigation Discovery Network: Deadly Women and Facing Evil with Candice DeLong. DeLong also has a podcast on Wondery titled "Killer Psyche", and has been a frequent interview guest of Ronn Owens on the San Francisco Bay Area radio station KGO, and on Fox News. Her latest program, The Deadly Type with Candice DeLong on Discovery+, explores some of the common psychological types found among killers.