True Crime Book Club
Wed, Sep 17
|TCH Reynolds Twp. Library
Time & Location
Sep 17, 2025, 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
TCH Reynolds Twp. Library, 117 W Williams St, Howard City, MI 49329, USA
About the Event
Join us for a True Crime Book Discussion on Wednesday, Sep. 17 from 1 to 2 p.m. in the Reading Room in the Timothy C. Hauenstein Reynolds Township Library. The May book selection is The Devil Behind the Badge: The Horrifying Twelve Days of the Border Patrol Serial Killer by Rick Jervis Copies are available for checkout.
Book Summary
Twelve days is all it took.
Melissa Ramirez, Claudine Anne Luera, Guiselda Hernandez, and Janelle Ortiz were four marginalized women striving to make ends meet as sex workers. They looked out for one another. But they would soon share a connection that none of them could have imagined. When Melissa was found dead, the other three women were on edge but assumed they were safe. Twelve days later, they too were dead and police had detained an unlikely suspect—Juan David Ortiz, a ten-year veteran of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, where he…