A criminal justice professor at Southwestern Michigan College is writing a textbook on serial killers.

SMC Criminal Justice Director Don Ricker has taught a class on the topic since the 1990s and tells us he was approached by Kendall-Hunt Publishing in September about taking on the book project. He’s now working on the 200-page, 9-chapter title that could eventually be used in classes all over the country.

Dr. Ricker says he first began studying serial killers as a student, when he had a retired Michigan State Police trooper for a professor. The professor told him all about the John Norman Collins case, which he once investigated.

“[He] was kind of like a Ted Bundy b efore there was Ted Bundy,” Ricker said. “T he all -American boy. His uncle was

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