Is an essential guide for criminal justice professionals. Keppel, an expert homicide investigator and researcher, explores the daunting task of investigating serial murders. Robert D. Keppel presents five detailed profiles of savage killers, to demonstrate how the smallest procedural detail can assure or wreck successful prosecution, and suggests how investigators can plug the loopholes.

Robert Keppel explores in unflinching detail the monstrous patterns, sadistic compulsions, and depraved motives of serial killers. From the Lonely Hearts Killer who hunted the most desperate of women in 1950s America to such infamous symbols of evil as Jeffrey Dahmer, Ted Bundy, and John Gacy, these are the cases--horrifying, graphic and unforgettable--that Keppel ingeniously taps to shed light on the darkest corners of the pathological mind. Foreword by Ann Rule.

For the first time, the conversations between Keppel and Bundy are revealed--conversations in which Bundy speculates about the motive and methods of the Green River Killer and, finally, reveals his own secrets. Such as, how Bundy selected, stalked and charmed his victims; what drove him to kill; and what powerful compulsion made him continue to kill.