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The Kill Jar: Obsession, Descent, and the Hunt for Detroit's Most Notorious Serial Killer
The Kill Jar Obsession Descent and the Hunt for Detroit's Most Notorious Serial Killer Author:J. Reuben Appelman An enthralling and haunting look into the investigation for the Oakland County Child Killer who murdered four children and terrified suburban Detroit forty years ago. With a foreword by Catherine Broad, the sister of victim Timothy King. — During 1976 and 1977 the people of suburban Detroit were distraught over a killer on the loose. Four childre... more »n were abducted and murdered by a perpetrator still unknown to this day. At the time, the case was one of the largest murder investigations in the history of the United States.
Part family saga and part thriller, this is the culminating effort of J. Reuben Appelman’s ten-year investigation on the Oakland County Child Killer. Overlaid with Appelman’s own, decades-old history with violence, The Kill Jar tells the gripping story of the police cover-ups, con-men, child pornography rings, and high-level corruption that went on throughout the investigation, and that is still going on today.« less