J. Reuben Appelman is a screenwriter, author in multiple genres, and two-time State of Idaho Literature Fellow, funded by the National Endowment for the Arts. His film industry work includes the feature documentaries, Playground and Jens Pulver | Driven, as well as several produced screenplays. His investigative writing and research, focused on issues of commercial sexual exploitation, child endangerment, and criminality and law enforcement, have earned him an ongoing spot as special lecturer on the issue of Human Trafficking for the Honor’s College at Boise State University. He works as a private investigator.
“A powerful, confident voice in the new true-crime memoir genre.
There comes a moment when the reader realizes this is not a
search for a killer of children but a search for a cult of
dangerous and powerful men and it shakes you to the core.”
*James Renner, author of True Crime Addict: How I Lost Myself in
the Mysterious Disappearance of Maura Murray*
“A true crime story in the best possible sense, where chapter by
chapter we converge on a surprising and unimaginable truth...
Always deft, often sublime, Appelman uses his investigation to draw
us into his personal journey through darkness, to light and
life.”
*Chip Johannessen, Executive Producer of Dexter and Homeland*
“J. Reuben Appelman becomes both Virgil and Dante, leading us
through his own dark history and the history of his city while
making the almost unbearably honest, compulsive demands of a
roadside accident. Although The Kill Jar can be painful
to gaze at, it is far more dangerous to look away.”
*Michael Hoffman, Director of The Best of Me, A Midsummer Night’s
Dream and The Last Station*
"J. Reuben Appelman not only expertly unfurls the sordid and
fascinating tale of the O.C.C.K. case, but with poetic light also
reveals the truth of violence, longing, and imperfect depravity in
the human condition. The Kill Jar is completely edifying and
endlessly thrilling."
*Alan Heathcock, author of VOLT and 40*
“Appelman’s pathos is visceral and cathartic… his investigative
work into this dark, twisted case is remarkably thorough and
perceptive."
*Publishers Weekly*
“An intimate entry into the true crime genre.”
*Boise Weekly*
“For those with the stomach for human depravity, The Kill
Jar is a must-read… a well-written examination of life’s
morbid underground.”
*The New York Journal of Books*
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