Steven A. Egger was an American professor of criminology and author. He earned a Bachelor and Masters of Science degrees in Criminal Justice from Michigan State University. He completed a Ph.D. in Criminal Justice from Sam Houston State University, where he wrote a dissertation titled An Analysis of the Serial Murder Phenomenon and the Law Enforcement Response. During his career, he notably worked as a homicide investigator and was project director of the Homicide Assessment and Lead Tracking System (HALT) for the State of New York. Egger was a Professor of Criminology at the University of Houston Clear Lake and Professor Emeritus of Criminal Justice at University of Illinois Springfield (UIS). He authored Serial Murder: An Elusive Phenomenon (1990), The Killers Among Us: Examination of Serial Murder and Its Investigations, Second Edition (2001), and The Need to Kill: Inside the World of the Serial Killer (2003). He was a member of the American Criminal Justice Society (ACJS) and the ASC. He married Kim Gorman in April 1996.