The Michigan Murders: The True Story of the Ypsilanti Ripper's Reign of Terror

Written by Edward Keyes

Narrated by Pete Cross

The terrifying true story of savage murders, a terrorized small town in southeast Michigan, and the serial killer who could have lived next door.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dreamscape Media
• Release date: Mar 21, 2017
• ISBN: 9781666597417

Edward Keyes

Edward M. Keyes (1927–2002) was born and raised in the Bronx, New York. He graduated from Fordham University, where he wrote for the newspaper and was a lefty pitcher for the baseball team. He continued writing for more than forty years, first as a newspaper reporter, columnist, and editor for small-town New York dailies, and later as a staff writer for such magazines as Look and Quick. His articles appeared in Sports Illustrated, Cosmopolitan, True, American Weekly, Inc. Magazine, and TV Guide, among others, and he cowrote a syndicated newspaper column with famed trial lawyer Melvin Belli. In 1956 Keyes coauthored, with Al Schact (the Clown Prince of Baseball), My Own Particular Screwball, and in 1969, he collaborated with author Robin Moore on the bestselling thriller The French Connection, which was adapted into an Academy Award–winning film of the same name. He is the author of the Edgar Award–nominated and New York Times–bestselling true crime book The Michigan Murders; Double Dare, a suspense thriller set in New York City based on the true story of an undercover police informant; and Cocoanut Grove, a spellbinding, minute-by-minute account of the fire that destroyed Boston’s Cocoanut Grove nightclub in November 1942. Keyes and his wife and partner, Eileen Walsh Keyes, raised seven children in New Rochelle, New York. He spent his final years retired in San Diego, California.

Reviews for The Michigan Murders

[Angela Streeter · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

The book itself was well written and informative. Sometimes the person narrating can just ruin it and the narrator for this one read with no inflection and this made it kind of hard to get through.

[Ged Bee · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

This was an excellent book. They kept you guessing until the very end. It was compelling the way that the evidence built and built as the story progressed. I won’t give anything away because it will spoil it for the next reader, but suffice it to say that it is a gripping tail that will keep you on the edge of your seat.

[Frances Maria · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

The first two chapters of this book had so many micro aggressions towards women and poc that I had to stop reading.
For example, Keyes's description of the victim in these two chapters (sounded like Marilyn but sometimes like Maryland. Emphasis on that word victim, though), included a too-detailed description of her physique and essentially says that the killer can be excused for finding her attractive. He also goes into detail about the rest of her life but lays out facts about the victim as though they are data points to prove that she didn't deserve to be murdered.
Another example. Keyes refers to a presumably African-American person as "a black." There's not much else to say here.