“Author of books about convicted Detroit serial killers John Eric Armstrong and Benjamin "Tony" Atkins. Learn more at BRBates.com.”
B.R. Bates is a longtime author and journalist who has concentrated her career in the pop culture genre, with 10 books in print and a number of e-books and publications, as well. With "The 'Baby Doll' Serial Killer" (formerly in the academic edition "Missing from Michigan Ave"), she makes her first foray into true crime, returning more solidly to her journalism roots.
She graduated from Michigan State University's accredited School of Journalism with a bachelor's degree, and a second major of English, and spent 10 years in the daily newspaper industry before transitioning into the corporate world. Besides time at the Wausau (Wis.) Daily Herald and The Saginaw (Mich.) News, she spent five years at The Detroit News, where she worked at the time of the Armstrong case. She has worked in a variety of communications management positions since then, from Michigan's largest health insurer, Blue Cross Blue Shield, to a northern Michigan hospital system to an Atlanta megachurch, and more recently, she has managed websites for a federal government agency while continuing her writing projects.
A Michigan native, Bates has also lived in northcentral Wisconsin, Atlanta, and Washington, D.C.
Learn more about author B.R. Bates and her books on serial killers who hunted in Detroit: John Eric Armstrong and Benjamin ("Tony") Atkins.
A book that explores the case of this serial killer in Detroit.
