Darlene's story finally gets police attention; we discuss that aspect of the Atkins case and more on "True Murder"

How did the powerful, chilling story of assault in an abandoned Howard Johnson restaurant on Woodward Avenue in Highland Park, Michigan, finally turn into the arrest of a notorious and earnestly hunted serial killer in 1992? And what about the time leading up to that arrest, after Darlene had been violently assaulted, but 11 other women found themselves in the same situation and did not survive? How did police in Highland Park and Detroit approach this case?

Dan Zupansky invited me back to his long-running and well-regarded podcast, "True Murder," to discuss the Benjamin ("Tony") Atkins case and "The Crack City Strangler" book, the second installment in the Murders in the Motor City series.

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