True Crime Author B.R. Bates

Join us for a gripping evening with journalist and author B.R. Bates as she discusses her chilling new true crime book, The 'Baby Doll' Serial Killer: The Jon Eric Armstrong Homicides, on Wednesday, Sep. 24 at 6 p.m. at the Reynolds Township Library Program Center. Bates is joined by collaborating author Gerald Cliff, Ph. D. This powerful investigative work unearths the disturbing case of Jon Eric Armstrong, one of Michigan’s most prolific serial killers—and possibly one of the most dangerous international killers in modern history.

Between the summer of 1999 and spring of 2000, Armstrong terrorized Detroit, attacking at least 10 people and killing five. But the horror may have extended far beyond. During his time in the U.S. Navy aboard the USS Nimitz in the 1990s, Armstrong claimed to have murdered victims wherever the ship docked—from Hong Kong and Thailand to Hawaii and Washington state. His confessions hinted at…