B.R. Bates

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B.R. Bates is a longtime author and journalist who has concentrated her career in the pop culture genre, with 12 books in print, numerous e-books, and years of other publications such as many, many clips from her career in newspapers. With "The 'Baby Doll' Serial Killer" (formerly the academic edition "Missing from Michigan Ave") she made her first foray into true crime, returning more solidly to her journalism roots. After researching the case of convicted serial killer John Eric Armstrong, she turned to an earlier Detroit serial, Benjamin ("Tony") Atkins, for the second title in the Murders in the Motor City series, "The Crack City Strangler."

She graduated from Michigan State University's accredited School of Journalism with a bachelor's
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Just dropped on YouTube: A fresh look at the case of convicted serial Leslie Allen Williams

It was dropped a little over a week ago, and it's the America debut of an episode of the UK-produced "World's Most Evil Killers" series that was released in December. It's the story of Leslie Allen Williams, convicted of killing four girls in metro Detroit in 1991 and 1992. As I've mentioned on this blog, Williams operated at the same time as another notorious Michigan serial, Benjamin ("Tony") At

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