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James Jessen Badal (born 1943) is an American
true crime True crime is a genre of non-fiction work in which an author examines a crime, including detailing the actions of people associated with and affected by the crime, and investigating the perpetrator's Motive (law), motives. True crime works often ...
writer. He is also an
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in English language and journalism at
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. His true crime works include a book about the disappearance of Beverly Potts and three books about the
Cleveland Torso Murders The Cleveland Torso Murderer, also known as the Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run, was an unidentified serial killer who was active in Cleveland, Ohio, United States, in the 1930s. The killings were characterized by the dismemberment of thirteen kno ...
case. According to his first book about the latter, ''In the Wake of the Butcher'', he took an interest in the case while still in elementary school, when his teacher of history in the 8th grade gave his class a two-day lecture about the murders. As of 2014, he is working on a book about the unsolved murder of 16-year-old Beverly Jarosz, committed in
Garfield Heights, Ohio Garfield Heights is a city in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States. The population was 29,781 at the time of the 2020 census. A suburb of Cleveland, it is a part of the Cleveland metropolitan area. In 2025, the City of Garfield Heights was na ...
in 1964. Badal resides in
Cleveland Cleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Cuyahoga County. Located along the southern shore of Lake Erie, it is situated across the Canada–U.S. maritime border and approximately west of the Ohio-Pennsylvania st ...
, Ohio.


Bibliography

* ''Recording the Classics: Maestros, Music, and Technology'' (1996) * ''In the Wake of the Butcher: Cleveland's Torso Murders'' (2001) * ''Twilight of Innocence: The Disappearance of Beverly Potts'' (2005) * ''Though Murder Has No Tongue: The Lost Victim of Cleveland’s Mad Butcher'' (2010) * ''Hell’s Wasteland: The Pennsylvania Torso Murders'' (2013)


References

1943 births Living people American non-fiction crime writers Writers from Cleveland Educators from Ohio 20th-century American educators 21st-century American educators {{US-nonfiction-writer-stub