Stellar Podcasts Hosted by Celadon Authors, KILLING TIME WITH PAYNE LINDSEY on Apple Podcasts, I'll Be Gone in the Dark 1x02 "Reign of Terror", How Crime Writer Billy Jensen Started Solving Murders, Update: Mysterious serial killer linked to 'Allenstown 4'; identities sought, Thread by @Billyjensen: "As we all binge The Bundy Tapes on @Netflix and share the trailer for the Zac Efron movie, please remember the victims. These claims have been supported by multiple witnesses and led to the network Exactly Right dismissing Jensen. No, I did not. Take that for what it is. He has since returned to TV as an anchor on Extra. It was this weird moment, almost being sandwiched between the two [men]., Former police officer and criminal behaviorist Sarah Cailean, a friend of Calderon-Olsens who was also in attendance, recalls seeing Jensen touching Calderon-Olsens hair. Jensen, his First Degree co-hosts, Newell, and Newells friend Rachael OBrien went to a bar after the event. That part of the book was shared widely following DeAngelo's arrest. Last Stand in Coal Country In Chase Darkness With Me, true-crime scribe Billy Jensen empowers readers to become citizen sleuths, capitalizing on social-media resources to suss out clues to the identity of uncaught criminals. Selena Gomez vs. Hailey Bieber: Why Everyone Thinks They Need to Pick a Side. It was very obvious and pronounced, this sort of petting, stroking her hair. After the two bonded online over their mutual disappointment in a Netflix Ted Bundy documentary, Jensen and Calderon-Olsen met up on Nov. 8, 2019, in Washington, D.C., at the Death Becomes Us true crime and pop culture festival. During this time a lot of people saw this and then it became a rumor that he may have had a relationship with me., To be honest, I was friends with Billy for a while until this stuff started coming out, she says. Why is he doing that? So what did you find when you started digging around? According to Calderon-Olsen, a group of festival participants were socializing in the bar of the Watergate Hotel, where they were staying for the event. is going off the air. The tweet set off dismayed speculation among the, , that detailed the hunt for the serial killer, after author Michelle McNamara died in 2016. 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. As proof that he, Calderon-Olsen and Cailean continued to be friends as normal after the alleged incident, Jensen points to tweets Calderon-Olsen and Cailean tagged him and others in after the Death Becomes Us event. I had never seen anything like this before. Hes well aware that Im a survivor, she says. Wenn Sie Ihre Auswahl anpassen mchten, klicken Sie auf Datenschutzeinstellungen verwalten. James Renner has inserted himself into this yet again with a blog. He's a widely published investigative journalist. Then I could feel him running his fingers through my hair, she says. It was almost a different person when I saw him at the bar., - Jensen stood behind her, when she felt him touch her head. In 2016, he joined a vast community of web detectives who have been increasingly lauded for contributing to the resolution of major cases. Hes appeared on Discovery ID shows, co-hosted the true crime podcast, with Holes, and has been greeted by screaming fans at increasingly popular true-crime conventions. Each season features a deep dive investigation into a case or issue that true crime fans will be obsessed with, culminating in a special streaming on discovery+. Why are they holding it back now? Exactly Rights Halloween party in mid-October 2021 as the plus-one of his friend, an employee of the network, whom he declined to name. . Billy Jensen speaking as part of Death Become Us' The Murder Squad Live Show on November 9, 2019 in Washington, DC. Billy Jensen is a true-crime journalist focused squarely on unsolved murders and missing persons. She is a survivor, but that was not the context of our relationship I saw her as a peer in the true-crime space. As for her account of his language at the bar that evening in L.A., Jensen said hearing it makes me ashamed and I have previously apologized to her for over-the-top comments. Hes appeared on Discovery ID shows, co-hosted the true crime podcast The First Degree, written books, started the Murder Squad with Holes, and has been greeted by screaming fans at increasingly popular true-crime conventions. Newell says the first alleged inappropriate incident followed a signing for Jensens book Chase Darkness With Me on Aug. 13, 2019, in Los Angeles. Its the end of an era, podcast network Exactly Right tweeted in May 2022. As the new HBO docuseries Ill Be Gone in the Dark points out, McNamarawas using pills on a regular basis to help her complete the book and sleep. Linkletter: I actually didnt start by digging into the Long Island serial killer case; I set out really just to tell Chriss story. Its uncomfortable that its gone completely unacknowledged in The First Degree FB group (though Im pretty sure they have post approval on and Im sure they wouldnt allow posts). Jensen: Having grown up on Long Island and starting my career on Long Island as a true crime journalist, I was working on this case even before it was the Long Island serial killer case. This whole Billy thing coaxed me into one hundred percent not drinking anymore, she says. The behavior described to me sounded obnoxious, with me making a spectacle of myself and being too familiar with people. After the rest of the party left, Newell says Jensen tried to talk her into getting a hotel room. The behavior described to me sounded obnoxious, with me making a spectacle of myself and being too familiar with people. Order "Killers Amidst Killers: Hunting Serial Killers Operating Under the Cloak of America's Opioid Epidemic". During this time a lot of people saw this and then it became a rumor that he may have had a relationship with me., At the time of these interactions, Newell says she dismissed Jensens behavior but reassessed it after the Exactly Right employee allegations came out. It was very awkward, she says. Without running afoul of the police, of course. And of course theres the end of the. Our relationship was entirely based on crime, he told Oxygen.com. Last year, the family of Gabby Petito, a 22-year-old who was murdered by her fianc on a cross-country van trip, thanked social-media sleuths for helping the case gain national attention. 2 min read. Its important to expose the corruption of past police regimes and help explain why this case hasnt been solved. Bei der Nutzung unserer Websites und Apps verwenden wir, unsere Websites und Apps fr Sie bereitzustellen, Nutzer zu authentifizieren, Sicherheitsmanahmen anzuwenden und Spam und Missbrauch zu verhindern, und, Ihre Nutzung unserer Websites und Apps zu messen, personalisierte Werbung und Inhalte auf der Grundlage von Interessenprofilen anzuzeigen, die Effektivitt von personalisierten Anzeigen und Inhalten zu messen, sowie, unsere Produkte und Dienstleistungen zu entwickeln und zu verbessern. With the man she was dating on the way, she alleges Jensen once again began making advances on her. So again, to have somebody who is supposed to be well-versed in survivors and victim sensitivity, those boundaries were crossed. Jensen, for his part, claims Calderon-Olsen is part of the organized effort to spread negative stories about him, a claim she denies and calls irresponsible, saying she only came out in support of his accuser at Exactly Right. Hes well aware that Im a survivor, she says. You learn that later but there was alittle bit of a feeling of,I guess a little bit of guilt in the sense of:Could I have seen something? When Chris started calling me back in 2013, his story was pretty out there, even just the broad strokes of his claims that he was beaten by the chief of police, Linkletter says. Billy Jensen is a true crime journalist focused squarely on unsolved murders and missing persons. I never had romantic feelings for Billy. Tisdale says that she decided to speak about the alleged slap on her podcast after she heard about allegations following a 2021 party that ultimately led to Jensens removal from his podcast. Billy Jensen, co-host of the Murder Squad and contributor to various books and podcasts, has been accused of sexual harassment from multiple co-workers and fellow pod-casters. And then I realized I was just another girl that got groped by Billy Jensen., Jensen tells Rolling Stone that he understood it to be a mutual flirtation and mutual kiss between him and Newell, noting that the two maintained a friendship for three years after the alleged incidents. Related Stories Two podcasters tell, Jensen made inappropriate physical contact with them, including touching or grabbing them without consent. I was just trying to make excuses for his behavior, Newell says. So if youre a dude thats advocating for women, how about dont go after the most vulnerable? At the time, though, Newell stood up for Jensen, and encouraged OBrien to move forward with a podcast episode shed recorded with him. Tom Sizemore, Heat and Saving Private Ryan Actor, Dead at 61 And then I realized I was just another girl that got groped by Billy Jensen., Billy says Terra actually suggested he go to rehab back in May. Lives are lost, cases arent solved. In the past two months, the community appears to be distancing itself from Jensen. ", "I dont think I could have. In late 2011, authorities announced they were looking for one murderer responsible for all of the deaths. In a sworn statement Williams gave to his friends lawyer in April 2022, which Rolling Stone reviewed, he said his friend reached out to him again a couple months after the party to talk about the alleged incident. But if you have this man in charge of a police department, its just a recipe for total chaos as far as enforcing the law is concerned, because, like Billy said, his whole reason for kicking the feds out was so he could protect his wrongdoings, and whether thats as extreme as murder or just roughing up sex workers, it plays into why the case hasnt been solved. As the pandemic descended in 2020, they lost touch. She says he then took hold of her head in his hand. In 2019, CBCs investigative podcast, Finding Cleo, uncovered what happened to a missing indigenous girl, Cleopatra Semaganis Nicotine, highlighting the plight of her community. Billy Jensen was a true-crime journalist focused squarely on unsolved murders and missing persons. This will help save on space and keep comments a little more streamlined. s requests for comment. The podcast feed that contained The Murder Squad has now been updated with a new Paul Holes podcast, Buried Bones. Photo: Celene Beth was in another article about this trend of sexual harassment in the podcasting industry, This blog post about BJ that's a thing (not really sure IF it's relevant from my perspective but I'll share anyway for you), Billy is quoted in this recent article about the DB Cooper case on Netflix, Celene made an instagram post about things. 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Calderon-Olsen, the podcaster who bonded with Jensen over the Bundy documentary, hasnt seen him since the alleged hair-touching incident in November 2019, but says they communicated a few times since then: once in December of that year, he let her know hed mentioned a Bundy project she was working on in an interview he did. Chase Darkness With Me by Billy Jensen is a fascinating real-life journey of Bill Jensen; from being a crime reporter to helping authorities in solving real-life cold cases. McNamaras work on the case has been credited for helping to catch the killer, who pleaded guilty to the decade-spanningcriminal campaignlast month. Billy Bush, who was fired from the "Today" show over lewd Donald Trump video, believes T.J. Holmes and Amy Robach should start their own show after being ousted from ABC. A lthough the story you are about to read involves a fugitive, law enforcement and a six-month chase across Mexico, for Billy Jensen it was just another day on the job. It was this weird moment, almost being sandwiched between the two [men]., Former police officer and criminal behaviorist Sarah Cailean, a friend of Calderon-Olsens who was also in attendance, recalls seeing Jensen touching Calderon-Olsens hair. Political partnerships and allyships that are formed go beyond budgets and votes and elections. There are rumors swirling that he has been accused of being a creep. [He was] grabbing the back of my neck. So, regarding Billy, there have been whispers for a long time, but he was just a drunk guy that hit on your friends.. You know, if they would have released that belt right after it happened or even the six months after it happened, after it was discovered [rather than in 2020], you would have had people trying to find who might have made belts like that at the time. But after seventeen years of writing hundreds of stories with no endings, he was fed up-and decided to try to solve the murders and find the missing himself. The woman in question did not respond to. I will be changing the format of how we manage the mega thread going forward to help with the character limit. The project is really a study of power, Linkletter says. Klicken Sie auf Alle ablehnen, wenn Sie nicht mchten, dass wir und unsere Partner Cookies und personenbezogene Daten fr diese zustzlichen Zwecke verwenden. Terra Newell and Celene Calderon-Olsen both allege Jensen acted inappropriately with them. According to Jensen, a lawyer from Exactly Right contacted him not long after the party and connected him with an investigator, who said they received complaints from three people saying that my hugs and embraces had been over the line, he says. But after seventeen years of writing hundreds of stories with no endings, he was fed upand decided to try to solve the murders and find the missing himself. Get an all-access pass to never-before-seen content, free digital evidence kits, and much more! There was no time to grieve because there was work to be done, Jensen told, Our relationship was entirely based on crime, he told, Jensen who has decades of writing and editing experience was one of several who devoted themselves to finishing McNamaras book, : One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer,, was published in 2018, just two months before the killer, now identified as former police officer Joseph DeAngelo, McNamaras work on the case has been credited for helping to catch the killer, who pleaded guilty to the decade-spanning, Jensen continues to work on trying to crack cases like the Golden State Killer mystery. Billy Jensen was a true crime journalist focused squarely on unsolved murders and missing persons. Terra Newell claims to Rolling Stone that Jensen acted inappropriately toward her on more than one occasion after she was a guest on a June 5, 2019 episode of The First Degree. And how did people connected to the police department react when you started asking questions? Tell me more about coming at this case from the angle of corruption in the Suffolk County Police Department. Jensen says he has no recollection of this moment as [Calderon-Olsen] describes it, other than that it was a friendly hug. I think thats what made me most disgusted by him, is that he knows shes a victim of trauma to the scariest degree. Billy Jensen An event at Gramercy Books featuring true-crime podcast host and author Billy Jensen has been canceled after the publication of Jensen's latest book has been indefinitely. It reads "Big Brother is watching you" opposite the ankle monitor police put on her after busting into her house Dec. 26. Sie knnen Ihre Einstellungen jederzeit ndern, indem Sie auf unseren Websites und Apps auf den Link Datenschutz-Dashboard klicken. People who a whisper network will warn you about, she says. I really thought it was this idyllic, beautiful place. Like I had a crush. Williams, the second podcaster to go public, first shared his account of that evenings events on his show, Affirmative Murder. In 1998, he moved on from roller hockey and began a . I thought this was all my fault., Newell next saw Jensen at a true-crime meetup event at the L.A. bar Idle Hour on Oct. 18, 2019. ignited that fire, and aimed to become the first truly collaborative true-crime show and unite citizen sleuths with experts to solve cold cases. In various communities, there are people who are missing stairs. Jensen: From talking to them, I dont think theyre close. - Bj tries to excuse this by showing that they tweeted each other occasionally- Two other sources allege that there had been whispers about Jensen in the true crime community well before Murder Squad was cancelled and allegations of Jensens inappropriate touching came to light. Kristina . After reading article after article which referred to McNamara as simply a liaison to her successful husband, Jensenwrote up his own tribute to honor his friend's achievements and not just her marriage. OBrien, watching the alleged touching, asked her friend if she was OK, then excused herself. His band, which consists of mandolinist Jarrod Walker, banjo player Billy Failing, bassist Royal . BJ sent Paul Haynes a cease and desist (OP note this is something I somehow missed in the back and forth but Paul actually shared pieces of it in this comment here). Within a week of McNamara's passing, Oswalt gave Jensen and Haynes McNamaras hard drives. research collaborator on her investigation. I think he feels free to share details he was at first too afraid to say., The hosts hope the podcast puts heat on Suffolk County law enforcement to make progress on the decade-old case. Billy Jensen The tattoo of Russian teen Olesya Krivtsova, who faces 7 years in prison over an Instagram story criticizing the war in Ukraine. A recent article talks about modern-day sleuthing and mentions BJ with no apparent knowledge of all this happening. With the man she was dating on the way, she alleges Jensen once again began making advances on her. Its my understanding that Billy sort of framed it as Id been scorned, she says. Jensen: The people that would go on the record talked about how, if you got on Burkes bad side or if he saw you as a threat, hed come down on you. Theyve held back so much. The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time Jensen continues to work on trying to crack cases like the Golden State Killer mystery. Why was that approach important now? Hes very familiar that Ive been outspoken about my rape. She had seen rumors circulating online about his behavior at the Halloween party, which made her rethink her interactions with him in the past, which she says she hadnt quite yet processed. Newell says she was intoxicated so some of the details are hazy, but claims that, after his co-hosts left, Jensen began acting aggressively flirtatious with her and talking about his open marriage, an arrangement well known among his friends and acquaintances. The same year Burke became police chief, Loeb, who was then using heroin, was arrested for stealing a duffel bag from Burkes car. Newell says the first alleged inappropriate incident followed a signing for Jensens book Chase Darkness With Me on Aug. 13, 2019, in Los Angeles. Many of the key players have been posting on social media making statements, and many podcasts that collaborated with Jensen at one point or another have also made statements and/or distanced themselves from BJ. All of this has led to the cancellation of The Murder Squad, his book and book tour, and an article by the Rolling Stone. Jensen: I think with this case, citizen detectives are really only going to be as good as the information that is delivered. (the first crime saga to run the media gamut from newspaper series to podcast to documentary to scripted series), she was the unlikely hero who, in 2016, stabbed her mothers scam-artist husband to death in self-defense when he attacked her in a California parking garage. It wasnt like he brushed past her. I never had romantic feelings for Billy.. So, you know, having not released anything other than some jewelry, a belt and they havent even released the whole belt. He was grabbing me all over the place, Newell claims. This article has been updated to clarify an interaction between Newell and Jensen. For a full and detailed summary with sources and citations, please read Part 1.The summarized story so far: Billy Jensen, co-host of the Murder Squad and contributor to various books and podcasts, has been accused of sexual harassment from multiple co-workers and fellow pod-casters. The FBIs Persecution of Sidney Poitier He was also annoyed. Another time he sent condolences after her close friend died. The following spring, six more sets of human remains were found in the same area. Editors picks Billy is suspected of being a serial harasser and assailant of women which has drawn a lot of attention presently. Billy Jensen. The further you get away from it, the harder and harder it is. If you are familiar with Billy Jensen's work, you will know he is a dogged investigative . Combining the shoe-leather investigative tenacity and skills he learned . The show ran for three seasons, after all, and both hosts had new books on the horizon and tens of thousands of fans on social media commenting on and liking every photo and tweet. by this publication. Jensen and McNamara would meet every month for lunch, where she would update the true crime journaliston her hunt for the Golden State Killer, according to Jensens book Chase Darkness with Me: How One True-Crime Writer Started Solving Murders.. And the release of his upcoming book, Killers Amidst Killers: Hunting Serial Killers Operating Under the Cloak of Americas Opioid Epidemic, which had been scheduled for publication this summer, has been indefinitely delayed. That was really when it clicked for me that this behavior is not OK, Newell says. What are you hoping that the podcast and TV special will achieve? Calderon-Olsen says she had expected better from Jensen. Copyright 2023 Penske Business Media, LLC. Its a tarnishing that needs to be fixed. He currently hosts a podcast alongsideretired investigator. Fiercely dogged. Linkletter: I just think accountability. The murders of sex workers have always been shuffled to the back of the pile. Crime Solving & Story Telling. Billy Jensen earned his first cover story in the spring of 1997. Twitter statements since the Rolling Stone Article, Celene Beth made a public reply in a series of tweets. BJ appears to now be out of rehab according to a tweet showing him in attendance of an event. The company limited replies to the tweet, but that didnt stop the networks fans from demanding answers. I felt [she] was hurt, and deeply affected by this incident., Jensen confirmed to Rolling Stone that he was indeed the subject of a workplace investigation regarding the party. After Michelle McNamara passed away, Billy Jensen did what he could to honor her. I regularly listen to two other podcasts that hes on (The First Degree and Unraveled, which is between seasons right now). 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