Publisher's Synopsis
Bestselling author, podcast co-host, and true-crime investigative journalist goes to Columbus, Ohio, to examine 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 his previous book, Chase Darkness with Me, Billy Jensen told his journalism origin story, his struggles, his call to adventure, and his first successes in solving murders.
Now in Killers amidst Killers, listeners 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 us as he investigates.
This 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 their 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 twenty-first century will get forty-five seconds on the local news, and page three 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.
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