she had to persuade the serial killer joseph paul franklin to meet with her. ular about when and where and to whom he spoke, so she studied up on franklin, retraced his steps at the crime scene, went through all the evidence, and came up with a profile that would help her manipulate him. >> he likes people to be impressed with him. he doesn't want to be disappointed. he doesn't like anybody that shows up in a suit. you know, he wants to talk to only women. >> i bet you every man in the d.a.'s office knew exactly what you should be doing. i bet you got tons of advice saying, melissa, this is how you need to approach him. >> i think they finally figured out that if anybody knew how to handle a man it was me, and so they realized that they should just let me kind of run with it. >> melissa wrote franklin a letter. >> i handwrote it, rather than typing it. i didn't use official stationary because, again, his aversion to, say, the fbi or anybody in authority. but i did identify myself. >> she told him she was interested in the cincinnati case and she hoped he could