Clifford Linedecker is an American investigative journalist and author of true crime books.
[2][1] He joined the Navy in 1952,[1] and found himself stationed on a small island where some officers decided to address a problem with low morale by assigning Linedecker and four other men to start a newspaper.
[2] Linedecker met and married Yang Soon (Junko) Ri in 1957, while stationed in Yokohama, Japan.
[3] He worked for a series of newspapers, including the Terre Haute Tribune, The Times in Hammond, the Fort Wayne News-Sentinel, the Times-Union in Rochester, N.Y., and The Philadelphia Inquirer.
[3] His first true crime book was The Man Who Killed Boys, an account of serial killer John Wayne Gacy, was published in 1980.