The ‘Baby Doll’ Serial Killer: The John Eric Armstrong Homicides (Murder in the Motor City Series, #1)
(By B.R. Bates)
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THE SERIAL KILLER NEXT DOOR explores those questions and much more. Longtime author and journalist B.R. Bates delves into the crimes and the investigation that followed, collaborating with the commanding officer of the Violent Crime Section that investigated the Armstrong case in Detroit, Dr. Gerald Cliff. Among the book’s wealth of sources:
Interviews with many folks who knew the victims or the perp – family members, friends, coworkers, schoolmates, and for Armstrong, coworkers and Navy shipmates
Interviews with many law enforcement personnel who worked the case
Firsthand accounts of assault survivors of Armstrong – one of which never told her story publicly before this book
Police files
Autopsy and toxicology reports
Court transcripts
Many other records obtained through FOIA
THE SERIAL KILLER NEXT DOOR, approached from a journalistic perspective, is rich with photos, including crime scene images, modern-day shots of the sites where Armstrong hunted and killed in Detroit, photos of the victims and the perp from long before the case, and many more. Graphics include crime scene sketches and maps of the crime scenes and various Detroit sites.
This is a chronicle of a killer with a reach that remains largely unknown, examining his humble beginnings in North Carolina through the years until his arrest in Michigan at age 26, but it’s also a story of his victims. This book gives a voice and a life to women who until now were just names in a newspaper story – and names with an ugly label. Just as much as it explores the crimes themselves, the book asks the question of why these females were out on the street in the first place, opening it up to larger sociological questions, and the exploration of that could surprise a lot of readers.”
