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In this cold case murder investigation from “a powerful, confident voice in the new true crime memoir genre” (James Renner, author of True Crime Addict), one of America’s most notorious sprees is cracked open. With a foreword by Catherine Broad, sister of victim Timothy King, this is a deftly crafted true story set amid the decaying sprawl of Detroit.
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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"Over the years I have read many articles about the Oakland county child killers. This book puts all the facts and speculations in one spot. It may be hard for some people to understand ,unless you lived in this area during that 2year + time period, but it was hard not to get caught up in the terror that many of us found swirling around us! I hope that this book puts this story out in the eye of the public and someone will come forward with the truth( and evidence to support it! )I would recommend this book to anyone who loves to delve into true crime. It is well worth reading!"
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The Kill Jar Obsession Descent and a Hunt for Detroit Most Notorious Serial Killer J Reuben Appelman 9781501190001 Books Reviews
- Over the years I have read many articles about the Oakland county child killers. This book puts all the facts and speculations in one spot. It may be hard for some people to understand ,unless you lived in this area during that 2year + time period, but it was hard not to get caught up in the terror that many of us found swirling around us! I hope that this book puts this story out in the eye of the public and someone will come forward with the truth( and evidence to support it! )I would recommend this book to anyone who loves to delve into true crime. It is well worth reading!
- Having been mildly obsessed with the subject matter of this book (the gruesome, unsolved murders of four children in the suburbs of Detroit in the 1970s and the likely involvement of a ring of pedophiles, some of whom may have influenced investigators and prosecutors, resulting in the case remaining “cold†for over 30 years) I was looking forward to someone finally addressing numerous, lingering issues evident in this case dating back the original task force investigation (and through subsequent reopening of the matter many years later). I admittedly presumed this book would reflect a more straight, good-old-fashioned "just the facts" journalistic approach common to the non-fiction crime genre. Instead, author J. Reuben Appleman - a contemporary of the victims of the crimes who lived in the same geographic region – employs a different technique. Mr. Appleman dramatically details his factual investigation of the crimes while at the same time detailing his own emotional and physical journey back to his roots, essentially conducting two investigations one into the OCCK, and another, somehow equally important investigation of his own battered and, at times fragile, psyche. At first I wasn’t sure how to handle this method, but the juxtaposition of Mr. Appleman’s confrontation of his own inner demons against his travels deeper and deeper down the various rabbit holes he confronts while doing much more than local, state, and federal authorities ever did to unmask a child killer or killers, is utterly compelling. His drive and dedication to give the victims, their families, and those left living with the results of the crimes, is commendable. His writing style is concise and engaging. The Kill Jar remains gripping from the first page to the last.
- This book melds true crime with memoir and does so with surprising deftness. The author grew up in Detroit and was about the age of the children kidnapped and killed by the OCCK. Going back to Detroit to research the book brings out a lot of conflicted feelings about the violence in his past and in his life and delving into how that, along with the rigors of his research, affects him makes for a true crime book unlike any other I've read. If you go in expecting a straight journalistic take, you may be disappointed (but make no mistake, the journalism is good too), but if you want an exploration of how those crimes insinuated themselves into the lives of so many for so long, you'll be treated with a book of depth and care.
- Growing up in Oakland County in the 1970s (I was a little kid, same age as the 4 murdered children), this book really opened my eyes to facts that I never knew existed. J. Reuben Appelman penned this book brilliantly as he shares not only the unknown, unpublished truth about the killer/killers, but he allows the reader to identify with him, the author, and his life growing up in Southfield, Michigan (Oakland County)-- and nearly becoming another kidnapped and murdered victim, himself. He tugs at the readers' hearts by sharing compelling moments of his childhood as well as his life struggles while researching and interviewing the surviving family members, whose kids were discarded like trash out in the open, public areas of Oakland County. There is so much more to the OCCK that the Michigan State Police kept from us. I do not want to ruin the book -- but all I can say is that I had it all wrong all these years. Blue Gremlin car the police said the kidnapper was driving -- and to be on the lookout for? The kidnappings were all about power -- and no sexual molestation was involved. Wrong! Read this book. It is riveting. Thank you J. Reuben Appelman for unraveling the lies, red herrings and misleading information that all of us were told about this kidnapper.
- As it pertains to the OCCK, there really is not anything in the book that has not been reported in papers. I kept waiting for him to tie things together or come out with something new. It never came. The intermingling of his personal story is equally frustrating. It simply never comes together. Seems like the author spent a lot of time researching the topic and was well intentioned, but just never finished the job.
- Being eleven years old at the time, I recall the special rules invoked on us even though we lived in Wayne County and about ten miles away. However, my sister worked in Southfield and drove the "notorious " blue Gremlin. Pristine bodies, no trace evidence! I was terrified! My heart is bleeding with the BS fed to the public for so long! When they exhumed the Norbert guy, I thought maybe they're going to work it for real, but never heard much after that. This book,although disturbing, clearly gives more than information for our adult self can steer our past child through the tumult of those times. And not just the horrificmurders of those children.
