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 a 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. Keppel was able to get Bundy to confess to several unsolved murders in the weeks leading up to his execution.
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). Contrary to popular belief, however, Harris did not base the relationship between FBI trainee Clarice Starling and serial killer Hannibal Lecter in his 1988 novel The Silence of the Lambs upon interviews between Keppel and Bundy concerning the Green River Killer.
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, which provides crime and offender characteristics for law enforcement.
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