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Edgar Award Finalist: The terrifying true story of savage murders, a terrorized midwestern town, and the serial killer who could have lived next door
In 1967, during the time of peace, free love, and hitchhiking, nineteen-year-old Mary Terese Fleszar was last seen alive walking home to her apartment in Ypsilanti, Michigan. One month later, her naked body—stabbed over thirty times and missing both feet and a forearm—was discovered, partially buried, on an abandoned farm. A year later, the body of twenty-year-old Joan Schell was found, similarly violated. Southeastern Michigan was terrorized by something it had never experienced before: a serial killer. Over the next two years, five more bodies were uncovered around Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti, Michigan. All the victims were tortured and mutilated. All were female students.
After multiple failed investigations, a chance sighting finally led to a suspect. On the surface, John Norman Collins was an all-American boy—a fraternity member studying elementary education at Eastern Michigan University. But Collins wasn’t all that he seemed. His female friends described him as aggressive and short tempered. And in August 1970, Collins, the “Ypsilanti Ripper,” was arrested, found guilty, and sentenced to life in prison without chance of parole.
Written by the coauthor of The French Connection, The Michigan Murders delivers a harrowing depiction of the savage murders that tormented a small midwestern town.
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The Michigan Murders: The True Story of the Ypsilanti Ripper's Reign of Terror
Mar 21, 2017, Dreamscape Media
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Michigan Murders: The True Story of the Ypsilanti Ripper's Reign of Terror
2016, Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.
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The Michigan Murders
Sep 02, 2010, UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN REGIONAL, University of Michigan Press, University of Michigan Press/Regional
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The Michigan murders: the true story of the manhunt for a psychotic killer
1978, New English Library
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The Michigan murders
1976, Reader's Digest Press : distributed by Crowell
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