Candice DeLong

Former FBI profiler, clinical psychiatric nurse and bestselling author Candice DeLong is an internationally recognized homicide expert and TV news commentator. She is widely regarded as a voice and advocate for adult survivors of child abuse as well as those afflicted with mental illness.

The nation’s top news outlets often tap Candice for her expertise—USA Today, The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, the New York Times, L.A. Times and NY Daily News have all quoted Candice on major crime stories. She has been a guest on CNN, MSNBC, FOX, Meet the Press, Hardball, Dateline, 48 Hours, TODAY, Good Morning America, Dr. Phil, and Oprah. She was also the creator and talk show host of CRIME TIME with Candice DeLong, a Cumulus radio show broadcast.

For the past 14 years, Candice has been the host and the face of the longest-running show on Investigation Discovery (ID), DEADLY WOMEN, now seen in 160 countries. Candice uses her expertise as a career investigator, her decade of treating the mentally ill, and her knowledge of aberrant human behavior to explain the psychology, motivation, and behavior of the world’s most fascinating killers. She also created, executive produced and was the host of FACING EVIL with Candice DeLong on ID, a show that took her behind prison walls and even to death row to talk one-on-one with 36 convicted killers.

Prior to her twenty-year career as an FBI agent and profiler, Candice was Head Nurse at Northwestern University Hospital’s Institute of Psychiatry in Chicago, Illinois. Today she lectures widely to lay, university, and law enforcement professionals on such issues as mental illness, safety for women and children, sexual abuse prevention, and her storied career in the FBI.

In addition to her role on the Board of Let’s Talk Interactive, Candice sits on the Boards of Mothers Against Sexual Abuse (M.A.S.A.) and Roots for Individual and Social Empowerment (RISE), a nonprofit dedicated to supporting survivors of child sex abuse and to eliminating the statute of limitations on child sex abuse cases, both civil and criminal.