The Serial Killer’s Apprentice

And Other True Stories of Cleveland’s Most Intriguing Unsolved Crimes

De: James Renner

Narrado por: James Renner

Investigative reporter James Renner reopens cold cases that have baffled Clevelanders for years, including:

● Murder—Beverly Jarosz, just sixteen years old, felt a dark foreboding in the months before she was stabbed to death in her quiet Garfield Heights home. It all started with an anonymous gift.

● Stolen Identity—Joseph Newton Chandler was not who he claimed to be. Some think he was the Zodiac killer; others say he was D. B. Cooper, or even Jim Morrison.

● Suicide or murder?—Joseph Kupchik hid gambling problems from friends and family until he was found at the bottom of a nine-story parking deck in downtown Cleveland—with multiple stab wounds.

● Heist—In 1969, Lakewood bank employee Ted Conrad nabbed $215,000 from the vault one day after his twentieth birthday. The FBI still shows up at his high school reunions.

● Controversy—Jeffrey Krotine was thrice tried for the grisly 2003 murder of his wife and ultimately acquitted, to the frustration of prosecutors, detectives, and jurors.

These stories venture into dark alleys and strip clubs, as well as suburbs and small towns, where some of the region's most horrendous crimes have occurred.

©2008 James Renner (P)2024 Tantor Media

Snippets not stories

I purchased the book on line so I didn’t see it ahead of time. I would have seen that each chapter is too short. The bits on each death and/murderer are great but they lack detail and depth. Each story doesn’t stay with you because you never get a feel for the victims or their loss. The storytelling is excellent and I guess it’s ghoulish to say I really enjoyed the book.
The author is the perfect narrator. I will look up his full length books

Another great listen from Renner

Interesting collection of cold case overviews. For those who’ve followed many of these cases, the updates are especially intriguing. Always glad to see James Renner putting out quality true crime content for those of us who find living in a messy, chaotic world easier to process when we can solve the unresolved.

Renner Rules!

I loved it! Excellent cases read by the author. Glad the updates were included. Hopefully more of these will be updated in the future.