Wednesday, November 26, 2025

Review: Chasing Evil: Shocking Crimes, Supernatural Forces, and an FBI Agent’s Search for Hope and Justice

Chasing Evil: Shocking Crimes, Supernatural Forces, and an FBI Agent’s Search for Hope and Justice Chasing Evil: Shocking Crimes, Supernatural Forces, and an FBI Agent’s Search for Hope and Justice by Robert Hilland
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This book chronicling the career of former police officer and FBI Special Agent Robert Hilland includes several cases, first and most prominently that of murderer John Smith. What ties the cases together is that this is about Psychic John Edward and Agent Hilland's crime-solving partnership. That's a lot for me to take. I am a skeptic and while I have to say if all the experiences recounted here were my experiences, I certainly would be a believe in contact with spirits of the deceased. Now, I wish Joe Nickell was around to give an investigative side to the Hilland-Edward claims specifically as he has with Edward in "Hustling the Bereaved", etc.

Over the telling, Hilland gets his own spirit guide of sorts in Smith's wife and victim Fran. He even has photographic evidence, but we don't get to see it?

I flipped back and forward, checking photos 17 and 19. They were clear. But frame 18 looked like an entity had stepped in front of my lens as I snapped the picture. The shape of a head, a face. It was Fran, looking directly into the camera lens at me.


Well, I am reading an ARC edition, so maybe it will be printed in the final edition.

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Review: Chasing Evil: Shocking Crimes, Supernatural Forces, and an FBI Agent’s Search for Hope and Justice

Chasing Evil: Shocking Crimes, Supernatural Forces, and an FBI Agent’s Search for Hope and Justice by Robert Hilland M...