Billy Jensen - Investigative Storytelling, Crime Solving, Citizen Billy Jensen - Audio Books, Best Sellers, Author Bio | Audible.com OBrien, watching the alleged touching, asked her friend if she was OK, then excused herself. To all of this, I want to make clear that I was unaware I had done anything untoward, and it certainly wasnt intentional I would never want to make others feel uncomfortable in any way, and I am deeply sorry.. Check out never-before-seen content, free digital evidence kits, and much more! One of those podcasters claimed that Jensen had slapped her during an otherwise consensual encounter something Jensen has, . OBrien confirmed Newells account to Rolling Stone and says she left the gathering because she was uncomfortable with the way Jensen was acting toward Newell. Since the popularity of true crime podcasts began to soar, families of victims have begun putting their trust in amateur investigators and podcasters who they believe can help reinvigorate cases that may have languished in obscurity. Newell says the first alleged inappropriate incident followed a signing for Jensens book Chase Darkness With Me on Aug. 13, 2019, in Los Angeles. These claims have been supported by multiple witnesses and led to the network Exactly Right dismissing Jensen. - 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. When I was informed of the complaints, I was shocked, embarrassed, and hated to hear that I had made others feel uncomfortable, Jensen tells Rolling Stone. Together, Jensen and Haynes wrote part three of McNamara's book. After the theft, Loeb was quickly apprehended and taken in. A former friend of Jensens, who says she had a falling out with him over reporting decisions he made in one of his podcasts, says that Jensen has long been known as a missing stair as in, something you warn newcomers about so they dont trip. Jensen began acting aggressively flirtatious with her and talking about his open marriage, an arrangement well known among his friends and acquaintances. Where Is Billy Jensen Going After Leaving The First Degree Podcast Newell says she cut ties with Jensen at the beginning of June when Jensen was in the process of helping her with a book she was working on. (Thank you for a lovely time looking forward to when we are all in one city again!, reads Calderon-Olsens tweet. The Suffolk County Police Department is a microcosm for what goes on larger scales.. He was grabbing my legs that night, grabbing my thighs, grabbing me by the back of the neck, she recalls. for helping the case gain national attention. Billy Bush Suggests New Show for T.J. Holmes, Amy Robach After 'GMA3' Get an all-access pass to never-before-seen content, free digital evidence kits, and much more! One of those podcasters claimed that Jensen had slapped her during an otherwise consensual encounter something Jensen has denied both publicly on his website and to Rolling Stone. A suit was brought against Exactly Right that deposed several podcasters from their network, after a victim alleged then did not handle the harassment claims appropriately. OBrien, watching the alleged touching, asked her friend if she was OK, then excused herself. The woman in question did not respond to Rolling Stones requests for an interview and her attorney, reached for comment, declined to discuss the matter. While Loeb was in custody and shackled to the floor of an interrogation room, Burke violently beat and threatened him. Its my understanding that Billy sort of framed it as Id been scorned, she says. Its my understanding that Billy sort of framed it as Id been scorned, she says. In the story of. Hes very familiar that Ive been outspoken about my rape. Linkletter: I actually didnt start by digging into the Long Island serial killer case; I set out really just to tell Chriss story. and says she left the gathering because she was uncomfortable with the way Jensen was acting toward Newell. It reads "Big Brother is watching you" opposite the ankle monitor police put on her after busting into her house Dec. 26. Billy Jensen. Feb 28 (Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration neurosciences head Billy Dunn will retire from his role effective immediately, the health regulator told Reuters on Tuesday. This byline is mine, but I want my name removed. 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. 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. [She] told me Billy grabbed her after he came up behind her, and that she felt extremely violated by this, Williams said in the sworn statement. In 2016, he joined a vast community of web detectives who have been increasingly lauded for contributing to the resolution of major cases. Did Police Corruption Derail the Long Island Serial Killer Investigation? Send us a tip using our anonymous form. True-crime author Billy Jensen's Bexley event canceled as book Jensen: As Alexis was uncovering more and more of this information, my jaw was dropping. 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. He was telling me about how good he was at going down on women. They never got a room, however. 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. At one point in the evening, Calderon-Olsen says she was talking with another man while Jensen stood behind her, when she felt him touch her head. Create a free profile to get unlimited access to exclusive videos, breaking news, sweepstakes, and more! Newell claims Jensen kissed her right before she got into her Uber. Linkletter says Loeb was afraid to speak out earlier because he feared retribution. Last Stand in Coal Country The 100 Greatest TV Shows of All Time As one social media user put it: Time to step up and be honest because the rumors going around are about to get ahead of this. And they did. ignited that fire, and aimed to become the first truly collaborative true-crime show and unite citizen sleuths with experts to solve cold cases. I really dont. 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 guess its software that is going through all of that and looking for patterns that could help point to somebody. We want to hear it. They should all have movies made about them. I felt honored at the time he would do something like that for me, even though I was still stewing over what had just happened a few weeks prior, she says. to collect negative stories and criticisms about me to share to the public wholesale., Both Haynes and Tisdale strongly dispute this characterization. Take that for what it is. 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. The TV host ultimately lost his gig on the Today show. We were told when we were conducting the interviews, District Attorney Tim Sini is leaning pretty heavily on the cell phone data dumps that theyre doing, and theyre using this new technology to analyze various cell phone data from the area. BJ appears to now be out of rehab according to a tweet showing him in attendance of an event. It probably isn't true. 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I just cant help but think about the cases that didnt get solved underneath him, on top of the serial killer case, because he didnt want anybody poking around into his business. So if you kick out the feds, its not like a fed is going to come wandering in there unless theyre really called in there. I dont know.. Another time he sent condolences after her close friend died. The behavior described to me sounded obnoxious, with me making a spectacle of myself and being too familiar with people. [He was] grabbing the back of my neck. And if law enforcement would have been really clear about the days those people went missing and put that out there on the front page of the paper who was acting weird on those days? Billy Jensen (@Billyjensen) / Twitter 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. With the man she was dating on the way, she alleges Jensen once again began making advances on her. Tell me more about coming at this case from the angle of corruption in the Suffolk County Police Department. He was running Suffolk County Police Department like he was the prince of Suffolk County. The pair didn't want to try to replicate McNamara's writing style; rather they wrote in their own voice for their section while incorporating as much of McNamara's work as possible. And of course theres the end of the. 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. Theres enough there. According to five sources who spoke with Rolling Stone, Jensen has a history of touching women inappropriately. 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. We heard he broke a sex workers arm, we heard he strangled a stripper in a club. Hes also been. The FBIs Persecution of Sidney Poitier Photo: Williams, the second podcaster to go public, first shared his account of that evenings events on his show, Affirmative Murder. 'Chase Darkness With Me:' Michelle McNamara's - IndieWire I was not acting in tandem or collaboration with anyone else, Haynes tells Rolling Stone. He was grabbing me all over the place, Newell claims. Create your free profile and get access to exclusive content. Soon true-crime social media was in convulsions over the allegations and people were choosing sides. For me, the importance of it is kind of layered because I mean, I went to high school with Chris Loeb, and I had no idea there were any issues with corruption, especially police corruption, when I was growing up there. As of August 2nd there has been no statement from Exactly Right about this. Linkletter: The Long Island serial killer case really does loom over Long Island. And it worked. The Murder Squad ignited that fire, and aimed to become the first truly collaborative true-crime show and unite citizen sleuths with experts to solve cold cases. Tisdale, however, denies this. Chase Darkness With Me - Have you ever wanted to solve a murder? (The hosts reached out to Burkes lawyer, and their request for an interview was denied. Billy Jensen: Michelle and I had done a podcast together in 2013 called the Shadowpulp Radio Hour and we only did like four episodes, and then she got the book deal for I'll Be Gone in the. Newell says she cut ties with Jensen at the beginning of June when Jensen was in the process of helping her with a book she was working on. I can help by getting this book out; its the one thing that I can do.. He was also annoyed. #TedBundyTapes" Celene Beth Calderon-Olsen, a podcast host and victim advocate who has spoken openly about surviving rape, also alleges that Jensen acted inappropriately toward her in 2019. ER investigated the claim, fired him in December I believe but only recently announced that they were pulling the plug on TMS. The bodies were found in such specific locations. This article has been updated to clarify an interaction between Newell and Jensen. Billy Jensen: When my parents finally let me stay home by myself with the cable and a couple of Stouffer's French Bread pizzas I watched a show on HBO called The Man Who Saw Tomorrow. Newell says Jensen kissed her right before she got into her Uber. 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. Linkletter: We also talked to several people who talked about Burkes sexual proclivities, and almost every time, with him, sex intertwined with violence. THE BOOK. that Jensen acted inappropriately toward her on more than one occasion after she was a guest on a, . I felt [she] was hurt, and deeply affected by this incident., that he was indeed the subject of a workplace investigation regarding the party. A new podcast looks at why. BJ gave an interview to Rolling stone and the article includes some of his quotes. Jensen further claims that Tisdale made allegations against him because he rejected her advances; , he has shared flirtatious texts she sent before and after their alleged encounter. The number of stories of which I was aware increased significantly as women I didnt know began reaching out to me to share their own experiences with [Jensen], and as other women posted their stories anonymously on Reddit and Facebook groups. 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. This was no coordinated smear campaign., Jensen further claims that Tisdale made allegations against him because he rejected her advances; on his website, he has shared flirtatious texts she sent before and after their alleged encounter. True-crime author Billy Jensen's Bexley event canceled as book In 2017, Jensen was on the . Hes also been profiled by this publication. In June, two podcasters released episodes going public with allegations of sexual misconduct against Jensen. 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. The only thing I can do now is keep working the program to be and stay accountable, make direct amends where appropriate, and treat my underlying issues so that I stay on the forward path., Podcaster Alvin Williams attended 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. Investigating Billy Jensen's Islanders Fandom | NHL.com ", "I dont think I could have. Newell is perhaps the most well-known survivor in modern true crime. It worked. It was very obvious and pronounced, this sort of petting, stroking her hair. It worked, to an extent the hosts claim to have helped crack at least one cold case so it was a shock when the podcast was unceremoniously discontinued. Tisdale, however, denies this. 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. Twitter statements since the Rolling Stone Article, Celene Beth made a public reply in a series of tweets. OBrien confirmed Newells account to. We want to hear it. Jensen has written crime stories for Rolling Stone, Los Angeles Magazine, The New York Times, and the Long Island Press, which he co-founded . Following McNamara's death, Oswalt connected Jensen to citizen detective. 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. 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. In response to Jensens allegations of a smear campaign, Tisdale insists that she and others are coming together to find solace and comfort which is not a coordinated effort to spread negative information about him.. It worked. To all of this, I want to make clear that I was unaware I had done anything untoward, and it certainly wasnt intentional I would never want to make others feel uncomfortable in any way, and I am deeply sorry.. Billy Jensen The tattoo of Russian teen Olesya Krivtsova, who faces 7 years in prison over an Instagram story criticizing the war in Ukraine. All Rights reserved. Her face was every bit as shocked and embarrassed as mine was.. The 100 Greatest TV Shows of All Time In the past two months, the community appears to be distancing itself from Jensen. 3. Jensen: If the chief of police treats a lot of women the way that he does, how are we supposed to think that he cares at all about solving this case? OBrien confirmed Newells account to Rolling Stone and says she left the gathering because she was uncomfortable with the way Jensen was acting toward Newell. Our relationship was entirely based on crime, he told Oxygen.com. 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. Journalist Andrea Grimes also made a statement in a series of tweets about her previous work with BJ when he was her boss. "Everyone [in the news, following her death] kept referring to her as Patton Oswalt's wife and I was like, no, she was her own person," Jensen . The Idol: How HBOs Next Euphoria Became Twisted Torture Porn So if youre a dude thats advocating for women, how about dont go after the most vulnerable?. I remember walking in and Billy immediately grabbed me and started hugging me to the point where it was a little too long, she says. Hosts The First Degree But over time, he became more and more credible because his case ultimately went in front of a federal judge and Burke pled guilty. In 2016 Burke was sentenced to 46 months in prison for violating Loebs civil rights and for pressuring police witnesses to help him cover up the assault. He even mentioned McNamaras then-unfinished book on the case. The rise of 'citizen sleuths': the true crime buffs trying to solve 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. Jensen: I think with this case, citizen detectives are really only going to be as good as the information that is delivered. I love Suffolk County. Linkletter and Jensen interview people who knew Burke, including former cops who worked with him and a sex worker who says she had a disturbing encounter with him. These claims have been supported by multiple witnesses and led to the network Exactly Right dismissing Jensen. She says he then took hold of her head in his hand. Like, we know that [at least six of the victims] were all petite women that were sex workers, and all went missing during summer months. Suffolk County Police and police recruits in April 2011, searching an area of beach in Babylon, New York, near where law enforcement had recently found human remains. 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. In response to Jensens allegations of a smear campaign, Tisdale insists that she and others are coming together to find solace and comfort which is not a coordinated effort to spread negative information about him., , Jensen has a history of touching women inappropriately. A recent article talks about modern-day sleuthing and mentions BJ with no apparent knowledge of all this happening. In 1998, he moved on from roller hockey and began a . Michelle McNamara died from a sudden accidental overdose in 2016, her friend and fellow true crime enthusiast Billy Jensen was devastated. SEATTLE For seventeen years, true crime journalist Billy Jensen wrote about unsolved murders and missing persons, before turning his focus to trying to actually solve these mysteries himself. In December 2010, law enforcement found four bodies along a scrub-covered stretch of highway on the south coast of Long Island. Following McNamara's death, Oswalt connected Jensen to citizen detective Paul Haynes, who McNamara had enlisted as a research collaborator on her investigation. James Renner has inserted himself into this yet again with a blog. The company limited replies to the tweet, but that didnt stop the networks fans from demanding answers. . You just have to. It wasdecided it had to bethe ending of the book. Basically Jensen was fired from ER after a sexual harassment claim was lodged by another ER employee. In the story of Dirty John (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. He currently hosts a podcast alongsideretired investigator Paul Holeswho also worked on the Golden State Killer case called "The Murder Squad."