A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Dr. Steven A. Egger
Steven A. Egger PhD
Birthplace:
Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
Born:
June 1, 1942
Died:
December 18, 2019
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.
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Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.