James Jessen Badal (born 1943[1]) is an American true crime writer.
He is also an assistant professor in English language and journalism at Cuyahoga Community College.
[2] According to his first book about the latter, In the Wake of the Butcher, he took an interest in the case while still in elementary school, when his teacher of history in the 8th grade gave his class a two-day lecture about the murders.
[1] As of 2014, he is working on a book about the unsolved murder of 16-year-old Beverly Jarosz, committed in Garfield Heights, Ohio in 1964.
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