The Kill Jar: Obsession, Descent, and a Hunt for Detroit's Most Notorious Serial Killer

The Kill Jar: Obsession, Descent, and a Hunt for Detroit's Most Notorious Serial Killer - Paperback

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The Kill Jar: Obsession, Descent, and a Hunt for Detroit's Most Notorious Serial Killer - Paperback

The Kill Jar: Obsession, Descent, and a Hunt for Detroit's Most Notorious Serial Killer - Paperback

by J. Reuben Appelman
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Book Overview

The subject of the Discovery+ series Children of the Snow, a cold case murder investigation is cracked open by "a powerful, confident voice in the new true crime memoir genre" (James Renner, author of True Crime Addict).

Four children were abducted and murdered outside of Detroit during the winters of 1976 and 1977, their bodies eventually dumped in snow banks around the city. J. Reuben Appelman was only six years old when the murders began and even evaded an abduction attempt during that same period, fueling a lifelong obsession with what became known as the Oakland County Child Killings.

Autopsies showed that the victims had been fed while in captivity, reportedly held with care. And yet, with equal care, their bodies had allegedly been groomed post-mortem, scrubbed-free of evidence that might link to a killer. There were few credible leads, and equally few credible suspects. That's what the cops had passed down to the press, and that's what the city of Detroit, and Appelman, had come to believe. When the abductions mysteriously stopped, a task force operating on one of the largest manhunt budgets in history shut down without an arrest. Although no more murders occurred, Detroit remained haunted.

Eerily overlaid upon the author's own decades-old history with violence, The Kill Jar tells the gripping story of Appelman's ten-year investigation into buried leads, apparent police cover-ups, con men, child pornography rings, and high-level corruption saturating Detroit's most notorious serial killer case. "Always deft, often sublime, Appelman uses his investigation to draw us into his personal journey through darkness, to light and life" (Chip Johannessen, producer of Dexter).
ISBN9781501190001
Author J. Reuben Appelman
PublisherGallery Books
GenreBiography
FormatPaperback
PublishedFebruary 2019
LanguageENG- English
Pages288
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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Biography & Autobiography Nonfiction True Crime

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About J. Reuben Appelman

J. Reuben Appelman's crime writing has received "best of" awards by the NYT Book Review, Newsweek, People Magazine, Oprah Daily, Elle, Bustle, USA Today, and dozens of other media outlets. He has written and produced multiple feature documentaries, and executive produced Children of the Snow, the docuseries based on ten years of research for his true-crime memoir, The Kill Jar, about the Oakland County Child Killings. Appelman is a two-time State of Idaho Literature Fellow, and works as a private investigator.

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