Chase Darkness with Me
by Karen Kilgariff
Narrated by Karen Kilgariff, Billy Jensen
Why You'll Love This
When a true-crime journalist decides the cops aren't solving it fast enough and goes rogue, you're not just listening to a podcast — you're riding along.
- Great if you want: true crime that crosses into memoir and vigilante journalism
- Listening experience: conversational and propulsive, with raw emotional undercurrents
- Narration: Kilgariff and Jensen narrating themselves gives it an intimate, podcast-like intimacy
- Skip if: you prefer detached reporting over personal, emotionally messy storytelling
About This Book
Journalist Billy Jensen spent fifteen years writing about unsolved murders, giving voice to forgotten victims and frustrated families. When his friend Michelle McNamara, author of "I'll Be Gone in the Dark," died suddenly before finishing her own true-crime masterpiece, something shifted in Jensen. He stopped merely documenting cold cases and started working them himself, using social media as an investigative tool to surface witnesses, identify suspects, and force long-stalled cases toward resolution. The book chronicles his pursuit of killers including the Halloween Mask Murderer and the Allenstown Four, while weaving in McNamara's legendary hunt for the Golden State Killer.
The dual narration by Jensen and Karen Kilgariff ("My Favorite Murder") is a genuine asset. Kilgariff's wry, conversational delivery grounds the more harrowing material, while Jensen's first-person passages carry raw urgency. Together they create a rhythm that mirrors the book's alternating tones: grief and determination, dark humor and moral seriousness. At just over eight hours, the pacing rarely flags, making this one of the stronger audio experiences in the true-crime genre.