Robert D. Keppel

Robert D. Keppel

Robert David Keppel (born 15 June 1944) is a retired American law enforcement officer and detective most known for his work tracking serial killers Ted Bundy and Gary Ridgway.

Early life

Keppel grew up in Spokane, Washington and graduated from Central Valley high school in 1962, where he was a star athlete. He attended Washington State University in Pullman, Washington on an athletic scholarship and graduated in 1966. After playing freshman basketball at WSU, in his next three years of college, he elected to concentrate on high jumping in track. Although he was only 5' 11", he was an outstanding collegiate high jumper. He just missed making America's 1964 Olympic team as a high jumper. After he graduated from college, he high jumped seven feet.

He has a Ph.D. in criminal justice from the University of Washington.

Career

Keppel first encountered the "Ted Murders" just one week after beginning work as a homicide detective. He investigated Bundy and his crimes extensively, and continued an erstwhile correspondence with him from the time of his initial imprisonment to his execution in 1989, at one point consulting him in order to form a profile of the then at-large Green River Killer. While Bundy was of little help to that investigation, Keppel was able to get him to confess to several unsolved murders.

Bundy was sent a paperback copy of Thomas Harris' "Red Dragon" — which depicts the relationship between a detective and an incarcerated serial killer — when it was revealed that Harris was in attendance for a portion of Bundy's 1979 Miami "Chi Omega" murder trial, and incorporated several elements of Bundy's case evidence into the plot of the novel (most notably the bite-mark exhibits and related testimony).Fact|date=October 2008 Contrary to popular belief, however, Harris did not base the relationship between FBI trainee Clarice Starling and serial killer Hannibal Lecter in his 1986 novel "The Silence of the Lambs" upon interviews between Keppel and Bundy concerning the Green River Killer. [http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Robert_Keppel#cite_note-0]

With forensic psychologist and criminal profiler Richard Walter, Keppel published an article which groups serial killers into four distinct sub-types: power-assertive, power-reassurance, anger-retaliatory, and anger-excitation or sadism. Walter and Keppel also created the HITS database, which provides crime and offender characteristics for law enforcement.

Later life

Keppel retired as chief criminal investigator for the Washington State Attorney General's Office. He joined the faculty of the Seattle University. As of 2006, Keppel was an associate professor of criminal justice at Sam Houston State University, and currently teaches there via teleconference. In 2007, Keppel joined the University of New Haven as an Associate Professor of criminal justice.

Keppel is author of "The Riverman: Ted Bundy and I Hunt for the Green River Killer", made into a made-for-TV movie in 2004, starring Bruce Greenwood as Keppel and Cary Elwes as Bundy. He is also the author of many textbooks regarding criminal justice and related topics.

References

External links

* [http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/criminal_mind/profiling/keppel1/1.html Crime Library interview]
* [http://www.cjcenter.org/vitas/Keppel.pdf Keppel's Curriculum Vitae (in PDF format)]


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