THE 'BABY DOLL' SERIAL KILLER

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>He was unassuming sweet and friendly. Saved in church as a teen he never caused trouble. In the Navy they called him Opie. Though he was a big guy he had a soft boyish demeanor. The boy next door said those who worked with and knew him. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>But John Eric Armstrong had a dark secret-hidden even from those closest to him. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Prowling Detroit's well-known pocket of prostitution on historic Michigan Ave this young husband and father picked up unsuspecting women who thought they were simply meeting a john. He seemed innocent even driving a Jeep with a front plate reading Baby Doll. But they soon discovered he could turn on a dime -- fly into a rage. Sometimes he would leave his victims alive but sometimes he didn't.  </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>THE 'BABY DOLL' SERIAL KILLER</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>: </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The John Eric Armstrong Homicides</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> journalist B.R. Bates lays out the gripping story of this chameleon of a serial killer through his crimes - with a compassionate look at the life of each one of his victims - and the heroic efforts of law enforcement to catch him.  </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>THE'BABY DOLL' SERIAL KILLER is the first in Bates' series of true crime books based in Detroit called Murders in the Motor City. Bates gathered a wealth of case documentation as well as interviews with victim family members survivors police and several who knew Armstrong to write her first exciting true crime.  </span></p><p><br></p>