Kent Reads with James Badal

James Jessen Badal will discuss his book, Twilight of Innocience, and the disappearance of Beverly Potts from Halloran Park on Cleveland's West Side.

James Jessen Badal is assistant professor of English and journalism at Cuyahoga County Community College in Cleveland. He is the author of In the Wake of the Butcher: Cleveland’s Torso Murders (The Kent State University Press, 2001), Twilight of Innocence: The Disappearance of Beverly Potts (The Kent State University Press, 2005), Though Murder Has No Tongue: The Lost Victim of Cleveland’s Mad Butcher (The Kent State University Press, 2010), and Hell's Wasteland: The Pennsylvania Torso Murders (The Kent State University Press, 2013). He has served on the board of trustees of the Cleveland Police Historical Society since 2001.