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

Appelman, J. Reuben

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Now 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).

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GALLERY BOOKS

Bisac Major Subject

True Crime

Bisac Minor Subject

Murder - Serial Killers

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Paperback

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8.3 Inches

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5.5 Inches

Publication Date

2019-02-26

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0.7 Inches

ISBN 10

1501190008

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0.5 Pounds

Book EAN

9781501190001

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Adults

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