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Name: Hometown killer
Author: Carol J. Rothgeb

In a small Ohio city, a series of brutal rapes, murders and disappearances in the early 1990s launched a baffling investigation. Despite initial misdirected leads from four local men, DNA evidence linked the killings to William K. Sapp, a seemingly normal family man. The book details the investigative failures, the victims’ stories, and how Sapp’s reign of terror finally ended when a survivor testified against him in 1996.

First publish date: 2004

Genre: Biography & Autobiography/Biography

Authors: Carol J. Rothgeb

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