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The Killers We Know

Ordinary Men, Secret Lives, Serial Murder, and Evil in Plain Sight (True Crime Case Files, Book 3)

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The Killers We Know

By: Colter Ashborne
Narrated by: Jonathan Addison
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They were fathers, workers, neighbors, businessmen, churchgoers, and familiar faces in ordinary communities.

Behind those ordinary lives were secrets no one wanted to believe.

The Killers We Know takes listeners inside ten real cases of serial murder where evil did not look obvious. These men blended in. They held jobs, raised families, owned businesses, attended church, helped neighbors, and moved through daily life without drawing the suspicion they deserved.

From Dennis Rader, the BTK killer who hid behind family and faith, to John Wayne Gacy, the community figure with a nightmare beneath the surface, to Gary Ridgway, Joseph DeAngelo, Herb Baumeister, Anthony Sowell, Bruce McArthur, Robert Hansen, Samuel Little, and Israel Keyes, this audiobook examines the masks that allowed predators to stay hidden.

This is a chilling true crime audiobook about ordinary appearances, secret lives, missed warnings, forgotten victims, and the terrifying truth that monsters do not always look like monsters.

Sometimes evil lives next door.

Sometimes it wears a uniform, runs a business, goes to church, clocks in at work, or smiles in public.

And sometimes, the killer is someone everyone thought they knew.

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I enjoyed listening to this book, and the challenge it presented in viewing these crimes from a different perspective. There was a lot of redundancy at the end of each chapter; the last 8 minutes or so of each chapter was the same general wording, like a template, just slightly altered for each killer. It drives home the idea of the book, but it didn’t work for me, so I just skipped ahead when it got to that part. I also thought it might be helpful to have included parts of interviews from the cases, times where someone notes something was off. Or even after the killer was caught, where people had the advantage of hindsight; examples of what was written off or rationalized would have been a great support. But overall, I liked the different perspective- not “how did they manage to fool everyone?”, but “what did everyone else overlook or rationalize that enabled them to get away with it?”. I also liked that a point was made to name the victims.

I enjoyed the narration for this book! The tone and inflection were varied enough that it wasn’t boring or monotone, but not so varied that it was distracting. The pace was good, and I never had to speed up or slow down the narration. The volume was consistent as well. The deeper voice also created a natural reverence when speaking of the victims, and a natural gravity when speaking about certain aspects of the cases. Very well done!

Enjoyed the different perspective, and narration

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