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There Are Many Things That I Would Like To Say To You: The Oasis Reunion and Men’s Mental Health

Posted September 4th, 2025 in A Life Outside Of Crime, Field Reports by Billy Jensen

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 […]

Three Years Sober

Posted August 11th, 2025 in Field Reports by Billy Jensen

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The Suicide Project

Posted January 3rd, 2022 in Field Reports by Billy Jensen

**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

Posted November 7th, 2019 in Field Reports by Billy Jensen

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

Posted February 28th, 2019 in Field Reports by Billy Jensen

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

Posted February 27th, 2018 in Field Reports by Billy Jensen

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 […]

Kimberly Long Murder Conviction Reversed: Credits Crime Watch Daily With Helping

Posted September 19th, 2016 in Field Reports by Billy Jensen

  As a journalist that focuses on unsolved cases, I get many of requests to attempt and prove someone’s innocence, but I have never taken one on. But when I found Kimberly Long’s case, there was just too much there to keep it in the dark.   In July 2015, I started my first television producing/investigating and on-camera gig by digging into the story of Kimberly Long, who […]

DB Cooper History Channel Special: FBI Interview Bonus Footage

Posted July 11th, 2016 in Field Reports by Billy Jensen

Last August I got a call from the History Channel asking me to investigate the DB Cooper mystery and vet a suspect that a team of citizen sleuths had uncovered.   I was paired with a former FBI man, assistant director Tom Fuentes, and together we traveled up to the Pacific Northwest to interview witnesses, former and current FBI agents, scientists, and a host of other people involved with […]

Waking Up At The Disney World Hotel I Have Tattooed On My Leg To Go Interview Survivors At The Pulse Nightclub Shooting

Posted June 19th, 2016 in Field Reports by Billy Jensen

When you have tattoos, people ask you what they mean. I have a Tonka truck bulldozer on my back, with my son’s name on it. It is driving up from my side and recreating the scar my son got from the heart surgery he had as a baby. On my right tricep is a quill pen, because no matter what job I am doing, I […]

Michelle McNamara, True Crime Writer

Posted April 23rd, 2016 in Field Reports by Billy Jensen

Michelle McNamara was dogged. Fiercely dogged. Don’t-take-no-for-an-answer, don’t-leave-any-stone-unturned dogged.   She was a mother and a wife, but after she took her daughter to school or put her to bed, she spent seemingly every waking moment working on her book about a series of unsolved rapes and murders that took place across California in the ’70s and ’80s. Her ultimate goal? To identify the villain, […]