I Never Saw It Coming

Behind Closed Doors: True Crimes of Family Murder, Parricide, Filicide, and the Most Dangerous People in Your Life

De: J. D. Roberts

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

The person most likely to kill you is not a stranger.

It is someone who knows your name.

Book Four in the bestselling I NEVER SAW IT COMING true crime series. Twenty-two cases. More than a century. Five countries. Family murder, parricide, filicide, and four crimes no one has ever solved.

The cases in this book did not happen to other people's families. They happened inside ordinary households, between people who shared a last name, a dinner table, a name on a will. The killers in this book knew the floor plan. They knew the sleeping schedule. They knew which door to lock from the inside.

Some of them were never caught.

Some of them were caught and never explained.

Some of them are still out there.

This is the book the other three in this series were building toward. Not the neighbor. Not the professional. Not the woman behind the assumption. The family. The people in the next room. The ones you are supposed to be safe with.

The twenty-two cases range from a Bavarian farmhouse in 1922 to a Brentwood home in December 2025. They include family annihilators who planned for months while performing grief. Children who killed parents for motives ranging from abuse to inheritance to a $700 reduction in a weekly allowance. Parents who destroyed the children they were supposed to protect, in households that child protective services visited and found nothing wrong. And four cases — across three countries and more than a century — that remain unsolved: cases where the evidence is in the database, the DNA is in storage, and the name is still missing.

One of those unsolved cases involves a killer who lived in the attic of the farmhouse for days before the murders. Fed the cattle afterward. Left without being seen. That was 1922. The case is still open.

Every case in this book passed through the specific filter that all the cases in this series pass through: the people who should have seen it coming did not see it coming. The evidence was there. The action was not.

Twenty-two cases. The door was locked from the inside.

For readers of: true crime nonfiction, family murder, criminal psychology, forensic investigation, cold case files, unsolved murders, domestic violence, child abuse, family annihilation, parricide, filicide, famous murder cases, murder mysteries based on true events, investigative journalism, courtroom drama, real-life thrillers, and true crime books that are more disturbing than any fiction.

Perfect for fans of: Ann Rule, John Douglas, Michelle McNamara, Dirty John, Making a Murderer, The Staircase, Under the Banner of Heaven, Dateline NBC, 48 Hours Mystery, Snapped, Evil Lives Here, Small Sacrifices, Mindhunter, Devil in the White City, Your Own Backyard, and I'll Be Gone in the Dark.

Also in this series:
I NEVER SAW IT COMING: True Crimes Committed by the People No One Ever Suspected — Book One
I NEVER SAW IT COMING: Employees, Doctors, Lawyers, and Trusted Professionals Who Killed — Book Two
I NEVER SAW IT COMING: True Crimes of Female Killers, Deadly Wives, Black Widows, Poisoners, and Women Who Got Away With It — Until They Didn't — Book Three

The home is supposed to be the safe place.

The locks are on the door.

The danger was already inside.