B. R. Bates
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B. R. Bates

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B.R. Bates is a longtime author and journalist who has concentrated her career in the pop culture genre, with 12 books in print, numerous e-books, and years of other publications such as many, many clips from her career in newspapers. With "The 'Baby Doll' Serial Killer" (formerly the academic edition "Missing from Michigan Ave") she made her first foray into true crime, returning more solidly to her journalism roots. After researching the case of convicted serial killer John Eric Armstrong, she turned to an earlier Detroit serial, Benjamin ("Tony") Atkins, for the second title in the Murders in the Motor City series, "The Crack City Strangler." She graduated from Michigan State University's accredited School of Journalism with a bachelor's degree, and a second major of English, and spent 10 years in the daily newspaper industry before moving into the corporate world. Besides time at the Wausau (Wis.) Daily Herald and The Saginaw (Mich.) News, she spent five years at The Detroit News, where she worked at the time of the Armstrong case. More recently, she has managed websites for a federal government agency while continuing her freelance writing projects. A Michigan native who has spent a lot of time in Detroit, Bates has also lived in Atlanta and Washington, D.C. You can catch interviews with her in Oxygen's "Twisted Killers," S1E2, focusing on the Armstrong case, as well as S8E2 and S8E3 of "The World's Most Evil Killers." She has discussed the Armstrong and Atkins cases on an array of podcasts, such as True Crime Talk with Nic Edwards, Dan Zupansky's True Murder, True Crime Conversations with Gemma Bath, and more. Find links on her social media, on her "From the Keyboard of B.R. Bates" blog, and on the interviews / media page of her website, BRBates.
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