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Signature Killers is a peculiar yet valuable book--simultaneously repetitious and brilliant, turgid yet passionate, and indispensable for understanding serial killers. Those who persevere through the prolixity of the writing style will be rewarded by compelling insights into the psychological needs, and evolution over time, of a specific type of murderer: one whose key characteristic is not so much that he kills multiple people, but that he leaves a signature behind at every crime scene. Robert Keppel knows what he's talking about: he's been involved in more than 2,000 murder investigations, including 50 high-profile serial cases. The topics he covers in exhaustive and harrowing detail (Signature Killers is not for the faint of heart) include "the essence of torture", "the anger-retaliation signature", "the picquerism signature", "the psychological imprint of a sadist", "the retaliation-to-excitation continuum" and why Jeffrey Dahmer is "the black hole at the end of the continuum".
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Interpreting the calling cards of the serial murderer
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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Robert Keppel really knows his stuff, and it shows. His knowledge and insight into the minds of these people is absolutely staggering. He puts them into their various categories and offers clear explanation of the motivations of these killers. If you want to know how the typical serial killer thinks and what caused him to commit his crime(s), then this book is a must read. I'm a big fan of John Douglas and Robert Ressler, but Robert Keppel is definately up there with them. Don't think twice - order this book!!
17 of 19 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book drove me crazy because it was so patronizing. It is obvious that Keppel knows his stuff, but it is equally obvious that he doesn't think the general reading public have progressed far beyond "A is for Apple". If the man says something once he says it a million times. The case information he gave was sketchy and most of his time was taken up reiterating several obvious points ad nauseum. The book could easily have been a good 75 pages thinner and it wasn't that thick to start with. Compared with writing by the equally professional Paul Britten ("The Jigsaw Man") there is no contest. A real shame.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I've been studying this book for months now, re-reading and going back again and again. Every time I read a passage I find some insight into the killers mind that I hadn't noticed before. For anyone interested in criminology and Signature killers, You Must Read this book.
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What makes serial killers tick
Advantages: methodical, detailed, full of case studies and forensic facts
Disadvantages: lack of an index, some points are repeated
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Published 21 months ago by velissaria
Grisly but brilliant!
Signature killers is a novel is wrote in first-person himself by the great Bob Keppel!This novel could be used on so many guidelines,firstly policework,secondly if you're studying... Read more
Published on 30 July 2009 by Mr. A. J. Ralph
psycho mumbo jumbo
Having read this book I was no wiser as to what Mr Keppel was actually trying to get across to his readers. What exactly were the so called signatures of these killers. Read more
Published on 2 April 2009 by J. Dixon
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