513 // The Crack City Strangler Benjamin Atkins w/ B.R. Bates

Crawlspace - True Crime & Mysteries

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🗓️ 30 April 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Welcome to Crawlspace. In this new episode, Tim Pilleri and Lance Reenstierna speak with author B. R. Bates about her new book on serial killer Benjamin Atkins. Her book is called The Crack City Strangler, and it's the second in her series on Murders in the Motor City. Don't miss B. R. tell us about her book the Babydoll Serial Killer on episode 482 of Crawlspace. Check out B. R.'s site: brbates.com. Amazon: https://a.co/d/2L5lv70. Follow B.R. Bates on IG: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/brbates.author/⁠. Follow Missing: IG: https://www.instagram.com/MissingCSM/. TT: https://www.tiktok.com/@missingcsm. FB: https://www.facebook.com/MissingCSM. X: https://twitter.com/MissingCSM. Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0yRXkJrZC85otfT7oXMcri. Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/missingcsm. Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/missing/id1006974447. Follow Crawlspace: IG: https://www.instagram.com/Crawlspacepodcast. TT: https://www.tiktok.com/@crawlspacepodcast. FB: https://www.facebook.com/Crawlspacepodcast. X: https://twitter.com/crawlspacepod. Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7iSnqnCf27NODdz0pJ1GvJ. Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/crawlspace. Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/crawlspace-true-crime-mysteries/id1187326340. Check out our entire network at http://crawlspace-media.com/. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Welcome to Crawl Space.
0:29.3	I'm Tim here today alone in this intro.
0:33.6	Lance Reinstirna joins us in the conversation with author B. author BR Bates, author of the new true crime book.
0:40.5	It's called The Crack City Strangler, the homicides of serial killer Benjamin Atkins.
0:46.6	And it's a really interesting conversation ranging from Benjamin's upbringing to his relationship with his mother, how his brother turned out. There's really just
0:56.0	more here than a typical serial killer case, and BR Bates does a great job breaking it down
1:01.5	for us in this conversation. So you can check out our new book, The Crack City Strangler.
1:06.0	It's available now. And the Crack City Strangler is the second book in the murders in the motor city series that
1:12.3	b r bates has been writing and the first one is called the baby doll serial killer the john eric armstrong
1:19.3	homicides and we spoke with b r and her co-author on that book gerald cliff um just a couple of months ago on crawl space.
1:28.7	So you may want to scroll back and check that one out too.
1:31.2	And you can pick up BR's books at BRBates.com.
1:34.8	There are links in the show notes.
1:36.4	Thanks a lot for listening, everybody.
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