From award-winning executive producers Dakota and Elle Fanning, comes a fascinating new perspective on the woman whose crime hunting innovations changed history. With unprecedented access to the mastermind behind the development of modern serial-killer profiling, the series tells Burgess’ tenacious story and her compassion for victims which puts her at the center of America’s most infamous true-crime cases. Largely an unsung heroine until now, Dr. Burgess impacted not only the FBI, she also radically championed the plight of women in America.
From award-winning executive producers Dakota and Elle Fanning, Campfire Studios, showrunner Dani Sloane, and director Abby Fuller, comes “Mastermind: To Think Like A Killer,” a fascinating new perspective on the woman whose crime hunting innovations changed history. To stop serial killers, psychiatric nurse and professor Dr. Ann Burgess must first learn to think like one. With unprecedented access to the mastermind behind the development of modern serial-killer profiling, the series tells Burgess’ tenacious story and her compassion for victims which puts her at the center of America’s most infamous true-crime cases. From the widely known Ed Kemper and Ted Bundy to lesser-known cases like the Ski Mask Rapist, Burgess investigates and studies the damaged psyches of victims and their attackers, putting two halves of the same story together to catch a killer. Largely an unsung heroine until now, Dr.Burgess impacted not only the FBI, she also radically championed the plight of women in America.
Abby is an Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker. Her latest project is a three part series, Mastermind: To Think Like a Killer, which premiered at the 2024 Tribeca Film Festival, and will be released July 11th on Hulu. The series was produced by Campfire Studios and Dakota and Elle Fanning's Lewellen Pictures.
Abby is one of the filmmakers behind the critically acclaimed, Emmy-nominated, IDA Award-winning and James Beard Award-winning series, Chef’s Table, which is currently the longest-running series on Netflix. She also directed Dear Oprah for Apple TV+, the award-winning feature documentary Do You Dream in Color?, and co-directed John Leguizamo: Live at Rikers, which premiered at the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival.
In 2020, she directed and produced Shepherd's Song, for The North Face, which premiered at MountainFilm in Telluride and went on to screen at over twenty festivals nationwide. She is a graduated from USC School of Cinematic Arts and when not making films, lives on a regenerative cattle ranch in southern Oregon.