Bestselling author, co-host of the hit podcast and Discovery +
docuseries Unraveled: Long Island Serial Killer, and true-crime
investigative journalist Billy Jensen goes to Columbus, Ohio, where he
examines the unsolved cases of eighteen dead and missing women, whom he
suspects were the victims of serial killers on the loose and operating
under cover of the opioid epidemic in America's heartland.
In Chase Darkness with Me, readers and listeners learned Billy
Jensen's journalist origin story, his struggles, his call to adventure,
and his first successes in solving murders.
In Killers Amidst Killers, readers will ride shotgun with Jensen as he
takes on serial killers who are walking among us and planning their next
moves in real time. The facts are not in old police reports and faded
photos. They unfold before our eyes on the page.
Our story begins in 2017, when two young women, best friends Danielle
and Lindsey go missing in Columbus, Ohio, within weeks of each other,
and their bodies are found soon thereafter.
As Jensen investigates Danielle and Lindsey's cases, he comes across
other missing and murdered women, and before long, he uncovers
eighteen of them. All unsolved. And no one was talking about it.
These are not women who were raised in the street. They got hooked on
pills. The pills were taken away. They get hooked on heroin. And when
the money is gone, they have to sell themselves. It happens very quick.
Through his investigations and the help of experts, Jensen identifies
serial killers in Cleveland and Columbus. Why there? Because it's easy.
Sharks go where the swimmers are. Serial killers go where the easy prey
are: Ground zero of the opioid epidemic. The heart of America.
That is what happened to Danielle and Lindsey. But serial killers
murdering sex workers in the 21st century will get 45 seconds
on the local news, and page 3 in the local paper, and then can disappear
in the wind.
Jensen hunts these predators to bring peace to the victims' suffering
families while putting a spotlight on a system that is leaving hundreds
of thousands of bodies in its wake.
