Howard Duane Teten (October 23, 1932 – January 11, 2021) was an American Federal Bureau of Investigation agent and an instructor at the FBI Academy.
From the classes that Teten and Mullany taught at the FBI Academy, they helped form the Behavioral Health Science Unit and developed offender profiling, which is still used today.
Teten graduated from high school in Crofton, Nebraska, and joined the Marine Corps in 1950.
[1] After the Marine Corps, Teten started working part-time at a sheriff's department in Orange County, California.
[3] The first case to use Teten's profiling techniques was when seven-year-old Susan Jaegar had gone missing from her campsite while camping with her parents.
He worked for the International Criminal Investigative Training Aid Program, which was mostly based in Caribbean countries.