Amanda Howard (born 1973) is an Australian fiction writer, true crime author, and expert on serial killers.
She lists her early crime influences as the 1989-1990 The Granny Killer case and the 1991 movie, The Silence of the Lambs.
[3] Her interest in criminology began when she noticed factual errors in an undergraduate textbook, and set out to confirm the information by writing directly to the criminal (in this case Ivan Milat).
[7] After 25 years of corresponding with hundreds of serial killers (including Milat, Charles Manson, David Birnie, Richard Ramirez, Ian Brady, and Roy Norris) she has been nicknamed "The Serial Killer Whisperer" by sections of the media.
[5] In 2018, she began work as an associate producer on an American film about serial killer Jesse Pommeroy.