Offender Profiling

Offender Profiling synthesizes and organizes the best thinking on crime assessment and offender profiling, produced by a number of eminent scholars from a variety of disciplines, including psychology, psychiatry, criminology, geography, and criminal justice. The eight substantive sections cover a broad range of topics.

Robert D. Keppel, Ph.D. is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at Seattle University and an Associate Professor of Criminal Justice at Sam Houston State University. He retired after 17 years as the Chief Criminal Investigator with the Washington State Attorney General's Office. He has over 29 years of homicide investigation experience. Among his many homicide investigation experiences, he has been a consultant to the Atlanta Police on the Missing and Murdered Children's Cases, a member of the national planning committee for the Violent Criminal Apprehension Program (VICAP) and a consultant to the Green River Murders Task Force, Seattle, Washington. He also served as a consultant to the El Paso Police Department in the Desert Area Serial Murders in Texas, the Austin Police Department in the Yogurt Shop Murders, the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Department in the New Orleans area prostitute murders, the Santa Barbara Sheriff's Office in the Nightstalker murder cases in California, and to the Oregon State Police in the Randy Kraft Murders in Oregon.


He received his Doctor of Philosophy Degree in Criminal Justice from the University of Washington in 1992. He graduated from Washington State University with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Police Science and Administration in 1966 and a Master of Arts Degree in Police Science and Administration in 1967. Also, he received a Master of Education Degree from Seattle University in 1979.