Monica Johnson was 1 of 400 murders in Detroit in 1999. Then Wendy Jordan, Rose Marie Felt, Kelly Jean Hood, and Nicole Young. They were all killed between December 1999 and April 2000 in Detroit. John Eric Armstrong left the Navy in 1999, moved to the Detroit area, and got a job at Target. Then late at night after work, he went on the hunt. He killed these 5 women and attempted to kill 4 others. All in the space of 5 months. In this episode, 14. The Serial Killer of Michigan Avenue, I speak with B.R. Bates and Gerald Cliff, Ph.D.

B.R. Bates is an author and journalist and has published 10 books in the pop culture genre. She returns to her journalism roots with Missing from Michigan Ave, her first foray into true crime. She has a degree in journalism from Michigan State University’s School of Journalism and a second major in English. Billie spent 10 years in the newspaper industry, with the Wausau Daily Herald, Saginaw News, and the Detroit News. The serial killings occurred while she was with the Detroit News. Aside from managing websites for a federal agency, she continues her freelance writing. Billie is a native of Michigan.

Find her at: https://www.instagram.com/brbates.author/ and https://www.youtube.com/@BRBates.

Gerald Cliff, Ph.D. has degrees in criminal justice from Michigan State University and the University of Detroit, and advanced degrees in public administration and urban politics from Wayne State University. He joined the Detroit Police Force in the 1970s. By the 1990s he was commanding officer of the Violent Crime Section that investigated the serial killings. Upon retirement, he served as the police chief in Saginaw, Michigan, and then the research director of the National White-Collar Crime Center. He taught administrative and labor law at Saginaw Valley State University and has been an adjunct instructor at Fairmont State University and Pierpont Community and Technical College.

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Sources for this episode include the following:

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• Missing From Michigan Avenue: The Case of John Eric Armstrong. 
  
• MissingFromMichiganAve.webador.com
  
• World’s Most Evil Killers imdb.com/title/tt30110885/?ref_=ttep_ep3
  

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