1. James Renner is an American author, investigative journalist, producer, and director.
21 Facts About James Renner
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James Renner worked as a reporter for Cleveland Scene and was editor of the alternative newspaper The Cleveland Independent.
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James Renner is known for his work in the thriller, science fiction, and true crime genres.
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In 2019, Renner founded The Porchlight Project, a nonprofit dedicated to offering support for the families of the missing and murdered.
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James Renner is from Akron, Ohio, and is a 2000 graduate of Kent State University.
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James Renner worked as a reporter for Cleveland Scene and was the editor of the alternative newspaper The Cleveland Independent.
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James Renner was a founding member of Last Call Cleveland, a sketch comedy troupe.
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In 2003, James Renner began working as a reporter for Cleveland Scene and was editor of the alternative newspaper, The Cleveland Independent.
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In 2005, James Renner published a Cleveland Scene cover story revisiting the 1989 abduction and death of 10-year-old Amy Mihaljevic from Bay Village, Ohio.
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In 2007, James Renner donated his materials related to his search to Kent State University's Special Collections Archive.
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James Renner sued Cleveland Scene for wrongful termination and the company settled out of court.
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James Renner returned to Scene in 2014 after Times Shamrock sold the company.
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In January 2011, James Renner announced his plans to delve into the disappearance of Maura Murray, a nursing student who went missing after a car accident in Haverhill, New Hampshire.
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In May, 2018, James Renner released the first season of a new podcast, The Philosophy of Crime.
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James Renner is currently the host of the ID Discovery series, Lake Erie's Coldest Cases.
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In 2004, James Renner directed an adaptation of Stephen King's short story "All That You Love Will Be Carried Away".
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In 2005, James Renner visited reclusive author JD Salinger at the author's home in New Hampshire.
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James Renner released a documentary about The Catcher in the Rye and his road trip to visit Salinger in 2009.
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In 2022, James Renner was ejected from CrimeCon in London, a true crime convention, for breaching the harassment policies of the event after "initiating a verbal confrontation with Julie Murray," the surviving sister of Maura.
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James Renner was banned from all CrimeCon events for one year following.
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James Renner's stories have been published in The Best American Crime Reporting and The Best Creative Nonfiction anthologies.