Howard Teten
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Howard Teten | |
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| Born | October 23, 1932 Nebraska City, Nebraska, U.S. |
| Died | January 11, 2021 (aged 88) |
| Education | University of California: Berkeley |
| Occupation(s) | FBI agent and instructor |
| Years active | 1962–1986 |
Howard Duane Teten (October 23, 1932 – January 11, 2021) was an American Federal Bureau of Investigation agent and an instructor at the FBI Academy. While in the FBI, he worked in criminal profiling, also known as offender profiling with the help of Patrick Mullany. Teten and Mullany used this tool to attempt to identify unknown perpetrators. 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.
Howard Duane Teten was born on October 23, 1932, in Nebraska City, Nebraska. His father was a construction foreman, and the family moved several times during his childhood. Teten graduated from high school in Crofton, Nebraska, and joined the Marine Corps in 1950. While in the Corps, Teton was a photographer. He was discharged in 1954.[1] After the Marine Corps, Teten started working part-time at a sheriff's department in Orange County, California. He started his college career at a junior college, originally studying biochemistry, but switched his major to criminalistics due to his contacts with the Southern California Criminal Laboratory. He transferred and graduated from the University of California at Berkeley. To help support his wife, who was working as a registered nurse, Teten started working street patrol in 1958 in San Leandro, California, where he was eventually promoted to the Crime Scene Investigations (CSI) unit.[1]