InQ Episode 97: "The Alienist"

New York, 1896. The city is devastated and shocked! Young boys
have been found dead, utterly mutilated.


The police does not even know where to begin.


New York City police commissioner, Theodore Roosevelt, reaches
out to two of his college buddies: one John Moore, our narrator
and New York Times journalist, and one Laszlo Kreizler, an
alienist. With new methods and in the wake of H.H Holmes’ and The
London Ripper’s killings, a team of five including Moore and
Kreizler will try to profile and hunt a new breed of New York
murderer: the serial killer!