Selling Out the Dead

The tricky business of promoting my true-crime book

J. Reuben Appelman
Human Parts
Published in
6 min readMar 21, 2019

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II didn’t read a true-crime book until after I’d written my own. This would explain why my true-crime work, The Kill Jar, doesn’t play by the rules. I simply didn’t know there were any rules until after I wrote it. The Kill Jar is as much a memoir as a dissection of the Oakland County Child Killings circa 1976 to 1977 in Detroit, and thereby…

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J. Reuben Appelman
Human Parts

J. Reuben Appelman is author of The Kill Jar, executive producer of Children of the Snow (Hulu), and host of the podcast, You Know They Know (iHeartRadio).