James Jessen Badal (born 1943) is an American true crime writer. He is also an assistant professor in English language and journalism at Cuyahoga Community College. His true crime works include a book about the

disappearance of Beverly Potts Beverly Rose Potts (April 15, 1941 – missing person, disappeared August 24, 1951) was a ten-year-old American girl who disappeared while walking home from a neighborhood festival event held in a park less than a quarter of a mile from her Cleve ...

and three books about the Cleveland Torso Murders 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 in 1964. Badal resides in

Cleveland Cleveland ( ), officially the City of Cleveland, is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Cuyahoga County. Located in the northeastern part of the state, it is situated along the southern shore of Lake Erie, across the U.S. ...

, 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)

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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