What can serial killers tell us about tracking down other killers—if anything? KatRamsland explains.
Ted Bundy wanted to help with the Green River Killer investigation in 1984. Desperate to prove his unique acumen, he enticed a team of Seattle detectives to travel to his Florida prison to hear what he had to say. He’d read some reports and offered his thoughts, but he mostly spun ideas off his own predatory MO. Detective Robert Keppel exploited Bundy’s sense of grandiosity to collect information about Bundy. The notorious offender didn't help to ID or trap the Green River Killer.
This notion of special insight seems related to the groundbreaking work during the 19th century of French pathologist Alexandre Lacassagne, who urged incarcerated offenders to write “criminal autobiographies.” He hoped to learn from them whether they had been born with a criminal disposition or were influenced by outside factors. Each week, Lacassagne would check the prisoners' notebooks, correcting and guiding them toward personal awareness.
During the 1980s, agents from the FBI’s Behavioral Science Unit started their own collection of criminal autobiographies. While on the road teaching local police jurisdictions about behavioral analysis, Robert Ressler decided that he and his partner, John Douglas, should visit local prisons to interview extreme offenders.
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