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Karl Detzer

Karl Detzer

Experience

Karl William Detzer had a long career as an investigative journalist that started at the age of 16, when he was hired as a reporter- photographer for the Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette. He went on to work for newspapers in the Chicago area, where it became his habit to ride out on calls with the Michigan State Police. Seven of his stories based on these experiences were published in the Saturday Evening Post, came to national fame, and were eventually turned into a movie, Car 99, starring Fred MacMurray. In 1938, DeWitt Wallace hired him as a roving reporter for Reader’s Digest.