The story begins with his arrest and the following immediate investigation leading up to the trial where Seever is sentenced to death. What makes this story unique is we already know who the killer is. Jacky Seever murdered 31 people (mostly women, but he wasn't picky) and buried them in his crawlspace. Sooner or later, the original ripple will slow, it will lose much of its urgency, but it’s still there. That’s how things like this are - a drop in still water that starts a ripple, and it spreads in every direction, going on and on, probably into infinity, never flatlining but starting other ripples that head in completely new directions. Those are just a few, because a crime like this has a wide reach, and you can never know how many are actually affected. And Seever? He’s watching the show.īut when a series of new murders occur, and the victims are all somehow connected to Seever, Gloria is once again thrust into the spotlight, while Hoskins and Sammie realize this may be their chance to get their lives back, even if it means forfeiting their humanity in the process. Today, Hoskins has been banished to cold cases, Sammie is selling make-up at the mall, and Gloria is trying to navigate a world where she can’t escape condemnation. Seever’s wife, Gloria, claimed to be as surprised as everyone else. Her byline was on the front page of the newspaper every day. Sammie Peterson was the lead reporter on the case. They dug up 33 bodies in a crawl space belonging to the beloved Jacky Seever, a pillar of the community and a successful businessman. Seven years ago, Detective Paul Hoskins and his larger-than-life partner solved one of the biggest serial murder cases of the decade. The last victims of an infamous serial killer on death row may be the ones he didn't kill. A series of murders brings Denver to its knees in this wonderfully voice driven, dark, wry, and wholly original page-turning debut. He didn’t take their lives…but he ruined them.

What You Don't Know by JoAnn Chaney