ABOUT THE AUTHOR
J. REUBEN APPELMAN is a screenwriter, author in multiple genres, and twotime State of Idaho Literature Fellow, funded by the National Endowment for the Arts. His film industry work includes the feature documentaries Playground and Jens Pulver: Driven as well as several produced screenplays. His investigative writing and research, focused on issues of commercial sexual exploitation, child endangerment, and criminality and law enforcement, have earned him an ongoing spot as a special lecturer on the issue of human trafficking for the Honors College at Boise State University. He works as a private investigator.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Appelman, J. Reuben, author.
Title: The kill jar : obsession, descent, and a hunt for Detroit’s most notorious serial killer / J. Reuben Appelman.
Description: New York : Gallery Books, [2017]
Identifiers: LCCN 2017031080 | ISBN 9781507204023 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781507204030 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Serial murders—Michigan—Detroit—Case studies. | Serial murder investigation—Michigan—Detroit—Case studies.
Classification: LCC HV6534.D6 A67 2017 | DDC 364.152/320977434—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017031080
ISBN 978-1-5072-0402-3
ISBN 978-1-5072-0403-0 (ebook)
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