Roy Wenzl is a newspaper reporter, editor, photographer and non-fiction writer who worked in newspapers for 45 years. He was the primary author of the 2007 book “Bind, Torture, Kill; The Inside Story of the Serial Killer Next Door.”  He wrote the 2013 book “The Miracle of Father Kapaun.” Three of Roy’s serial narratives, “Saving Dad,” “Hope City” and “BTK’S Daughter” were published in Reader’s Digest.  With project partner Travis Heying, he won a regional Emmy Award in 2022 for the hour-long documentary “Once Was Lost,” about the 70-year search for Kapaun’s remains. In 1981, Roy was part of the news team at The Kansas City Star and Times that won a 1982 Pulitzer prize for coverage of the Hyatt Hotel skywalk collapse.

He won many other national newspaper journalism awards.  He has taught writing in newsrooms, university classrooms, National Writers Workshops, and the American Press Institute.

Roy attended Kansas State University and has a degree in Journalism.  He grew up on a farm in Washington County.  His family still operates the farm.

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