About the Author

James Jessen Badal is an assistant professor of English and Journalism at the Eastern Campus of Cuyahoga Community College in Cleveland. In addition to his volumes on the Mad Butcher, he is the author of Twilight of Innocence: The Disappearance of Beverly Potts (The Kent State University Press, 2005). He has been on the board of trustees of the Cleveland Police Historical Society since 2001 and lectures frequently on the torso murders.