If you had a time Machine, where and when would you go? It’s a parlor game that’s been played for ages. Ancient Rome. 1920’s Paris. Italy during the Renaissance (but with penicillin). A lot of the time, one’s answer revolves around music. People want to be there for the birth of something. Maybe you would choose New York in 1977, to sweat to the Ramones […]
My statement on recent events: Last October, I attended an Exactly Right Halloween event with my wife and others at a brewery. It was the first event since the pandemic started, and I was excited to see people I hadn’t seen offline in two years. Admittedly, I was being very social and hugging my colleagues and friends. All of these hugs were out in the open, in front of everyone at the […]
The Suicide Project
**Trigger warning—#suicideawareness**** Still here? Ok. And if you left, that’s ok too. I’m starting a new project that is a slight departure—but just as important—as true crime. In the spring of last year, for the first time ever—or at least in a very long time—I had serious suicide ideation. I was in a really dark place. When I was 22, I […]
When True Crime Gets Personal
A few weeks after Chase Darkness with Me came out, I received an email that blew me away. I just wrote a story about it for Vulture. By design, writing a book is a solitary affair. You can do your research in the city streets, conduct your interviews in crowded coffee shops, huddle with your editor in dimly lit bars. But at […]
My new book, Chase Darkness With Me, is now available for preorder only on Audible
Order here. Want to know what it’s about? Read below! Have you ever wanted to solve a murder? Gather the clues the police overlooked. Put together the pieces. Identify the suspect. Journalist Billy Jensen spent fifteen years investigating unsolved murders, fighting for the families of victims. Every story he wrote had one thing in common—it didn’t have an ending. The killer was […]
“I’ll Be Gone in the Dark,” Michelle McNamara’s Investigation Into the Golden State Killer, Is In Stores Now
Michelle McNamara was a writer first. Then she became a citizen detective. Then she merged the two and we can now finally say she is the author of a true crime classic. After months of going through all of her documents and chapters and notes and emails, pulling and pushing and putting it all together, and then trying our best in part 3 to follow […]
