James Jessen Badal (born 1943) is an American

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writer. He is also an

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in English language and journalism at

Cuyahoga Community College Cuyahoga Community College (Tri-C) is a public community college in Cuyahoga County, Ohio. Founded in 1963, it is the oldest and largest public community college within the state. Tri-C schedules on the semester basis, and offers over 1,000 co ...

. His true crime works include a book about the disappearance of Beverly Potts 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 Garfield Heights is a city in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States. It is a suburb of Cleveland. The population was 28,849 at the time of the 2010 census. Geography Garfield Heights is located at (41.421423, -81.602682). According to the Unit ...

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)

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