Terror Town, USA: The Untold Story of Joliet's Notorious Serial Killer
The veteran true crime author chronicles the terrifying murders, surprising arrest and dramatic trial of Illinois serial killer Milton Johnson.
 
In the summer of 1983, an elusive serial killer stalked the blue-collar industrial city of Joliet, Illinois. One overnight killing spree took five victims, including members of the Will County Sheriff's Office. The following month brought a quadruple murder inside a shop known for its pottery classes.
 
The plague of violence sparked the controversial New York City-based Guardian Angels to descend on Joliet, generating more unwanted media attention for the community. The National Enquirer labeled Joliet "Terror Town, U.S.A."
 
With an arrest that seemed to come out of nowhere, authorities linked their suspect to a chilling fourteen homicides, plus three women who miraculously survived their agonizing encounters. But with multiple murder trials on the horizon, it remained anyone's guess whether Milton Johnson was guilty of mass murder and if so, would he die by means of lethal injection at the Illinois Department of Corrections?
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Terror Town, USA: The Untold Story of Joliet's Notorious Serial Killer
The veteran true crime author chronicles the terrifying murders, surprising arrest and dramatic trial of Illinois serial killer Milton Johnson.
 
In the summer of 1983, an elusive serial killer stalked the blue-collar industrial city of Joliet, Illinois. One overnight killing spree took five victims, including members of the Will County Sheriff's Office. The following month brought a quadruple murder inside a shop known for its pottery classes.
 
The plague of violence sparked the controversial New York City-based Guardian Angels to descend on Joliet, generating more unwanted media attention for the community. The National Enquirer labeled Joliet "Terror Town, U.S.A."
 
With an arrest that seemed to come out of nowhere, authorities linked their suspect to a chilling fourteen homicides, plus three women who miraculously survived their agonizing encounters. But with multiple murder trials on the horizon, it remained anyone's guess whether Milton Johnson was guilty of mass murder and if so, would he die by means of lethal injection at the Illinois Department of Corrections?
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Terror Town, USA: The Untold Story of Joliet's Notorious Serial Killer

Terror Town, USA: The Untold Story of Joliet's Notorious Serial Killer

by John Ferak
Terror Town, USA: The Untold Story of Joliet's Notorious Serial Killer

Terror Town, USA: The Untold Story of Joliet's Notorious Serial Killer

by John Ferak

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The veteran true crime author chronicles the terrifying murders, surprising arrest and dramatic trial of Illinois serial killer Milton Johnson.
 
In the summer of 1983, an elusive serial killer stalked the blue-collar industrial city of Joliet, Illinois. One overnight killing spree took five victims, including members of the Will County Sheriff's Office. The following month brought a quadruple murder inside a shop known for its pottery classes.
 
The plague of violence sparked the controversial New York City-based Guardian Angels to descend on Joliet, generating more unwanted media attention for the community. The National Enquirer labeled Joliet "Terror Town, U.S.A."
 
With an arrest that seemed to come out of nowhere, authorities linked their suspect to a chilling fourteen homicides, plus three women who miraculously survived their agonizing encounters. But with multiple murder trials on the horizon, it remained anyone's guess whether Milton Johnson was guilty of mass murder and if so, would he die by means of lethal injection at the Illinois Department of Corrections?

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781952225673
Publisher: WildBlue Press
Publication date: 11/24/2021
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 344
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

A native of Joliet, Illinois, John Ferak returned to his roots in 2017 to become the editor/reporter for the Joliet Patch. He previously spent five years with the Wisconsin Investigative Team for USA TODAY and nine years in Nebraska at the Omaha World-Herald newspaper. He is an authority on wrongful arrest and conviction cases. His 2016 book for WildBlue Press, FAILURE OF JUSTICE, chronicled the nation's largest wrongful conviction case. His first book, BLOODY LIES told the story about a CSI director who went to prison for planting blood in high-profile Nebraska murder cases. In 2018, Ferak published WRECKING CREW: Demolishing The Case Against Steven Avery. The book chronicled the post-conviction strategy of Kathleen Zellner, the high-profile, high-octane lawyer, to free Avery, in the case that captured world-wide acclaim through the Netflix docu-series, Making A Murderer. This marks Ferak's first true-crime book chronicling cold-blooded murder in his hometown.
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