Part memoir, part how-to guide, Chase Darkness With Me includes rules for responsible citizen detective work...Jensen has poured nearly all of his free time and energy over the past three years into crowd-sourcing criminal investigations. Some have yielded answers and arrests, like when his social media blitz flushed out a fugitive in the Nashville shooting of Teddy Grasset. Others are still in progress... Even when he accumulated $20,000 in debt from promoting his posts, he’s never given up on a case.”
In Chase Darkness with Me, Billy Jensen has written a breakthrough crime narrative. This unexpected and gripping book tells the fascinating story of a guy who was fed up with all the unsolved murders he was writing about and came up with a system to solve the crimes himself. True crime fans won’t be able to read it fast enough.”
- John Douglas, former chief of FBI’s lnvestigative Support Unit and New York Times #1 Bestselling Author of Mindhunter: Inside the FBI’s Elite Serial Crime Unit
Jensen can’t stop. Though his crime solving work brings in money through a podcast, his book and consulting for media companies, the real payoff is catching a killer, which he describes as “like a drug.” At one point, he juggled 30 cases and rang up tens of thousands of dollars in credit-card debt doing his job. But Jensen has now played a part in clearing 10 homicides, and he hopes others will join the cause.”
In this engrossing memoir, journalist Jensen takes the reader on his quest to hunt down killers using internet sleuthing and crowdsourcing. For fans of true crime, this is a fascinating story.”
Through his work, Jensen hopes not only to unearth witnesses and crack cases, but to shift the focus from "propping up these killers and fetishizing them." Instead, he wants to inspire a new generation of true crime viewers and readers to become true crime's superheroes."
An intense, fascinating read for true-crime lovers and newbies!”
- Actor, comedian and New York Times bestselling author Patton Oswalt
