Crossing the Line with M. William Phelps
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Crossing the Line with M. William Phelps
Crossing the Line is a true crime podcast revealing cold cases of the missing and murdered, told start-to-finish each week. Using the campfire storytelling style that made Paper Ghosts a #1 hit on Apple Podcasts, host/investigative journalist/New York Times bestselling true crime author M. William P...
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EP186 | The Witch Doctor Murder Trial: The Dark Obsessions of Larry Millete
You've made the decision to divorce your husband of 20 years. He's incensed and turns to witchdoctors on the dark web to put a hex on you. Your lover'...
EP185 | Fatal Rejection - The Talk Show, Secret Admirer Murder: Jenny Jones, Scott Amedure and Jonathon Schmitz
You're invited on a national television show under the pretense that someone you know has a crush on you. You get to the show and feel ambushed by the...
EP184 | Shattered Trust: The Alfred "Chad" McMurray Murder Case
A young man is found bound and shot through the head inside his home. Police look to the streets of Broward County, Florida for the answer … a dozen...
EP183 | Jade Benning and Blaise Taylor: A Poisoned Drink, An NFL Scout Arrested, and Her Last Words
Paramedics respond to a pregnant woman's apartment in Nashville and find her unconscious, on her bed, near death. The man inside the home, Blaise Ta...
EP18 | The Max Headroom Incident: The Unsolved TV Hijack of 1987
Episode Description | You are watching your local TV sports news one night when the screen suddenly goes fuzzy and this odd character comes onto the s...
EP182 | The Killer on Probation: Michael Reese & Joyce Grayson
A woman heads out one morning to do her work as a visiting home healthcare nurse. Later that afternoon, her employer cannot find her. Reported missing...
EP181 | 'Touch Me and Find Out …' - The Austin Metcalf, Karmelo Anthony Case: Murder or Self-Defense?
How does a rather straightforward murder case, in which there is no question who the perpetrator is, become a polarizing, high-profile media event, di...
EP180 | The Body Buried Under Newton Avenue & Ghost of Chollas Creek—The True Crime of A Serial Killer Set Free
A random stop by a San Diego police officer in 2025 opens a murder investigation—which ultimately leads to a search underneath a local home once rente...
EP179 | Terror in the Adirondacks: Robert Garrow & the Ethics of Evil–A True Crime Serial Killer Story Hard to Believe
A group of four head out for a camping trip and one of them winds up being tied to a tree and murdered by a serial killer. As that is happening, an at...
EP178 | Minerliz Soriano: The Sidewalk Astronomer and Sociopath, Jupiter, and a True Crime Genetic Net
A teenage girl from Bronx, New York, leaves school one cold winter afternoon, on her way to meet her younger sister. But she never arrives and a searc...
SHORT CUTS | EP17 - The Midnight Knock: Missing Paperboy Johnny Gosch & His Midnight Visit Decades Later
On September 5th, 1982, 12-year-old paperboy Johnny Gosch vanished into the early morning darkness of West Des Moines, Iowa. His abandoned red Radio F...
EP177 - Lyntell Washington: The Teacher, the Principal, the Murder: A Baton Rouge True Crime Mystery
A three-year-old is found wandering through a parking lot in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, one day. She is holding onto her favorite pillow–and her feet are...
EP176 - Frank Walls - Maniac Serial Murderer & the True Crime of Justice
It's the 80s. The bogeyman, a scumbag named Frank Walls, is roaming about the day and night, killing random people along the beachside in Okaloosa Cou...
EP175 | Husband Murdered, Officer Down: 194 Calls to Kill - Julie and Mike Harding
A police commander's husband goes missing and law enforcement seems to think he might have taken off on his own. Then he is found murdered—and the cas...
EP174 | A Monster on Rucker Avenue - A Serial Killer, Pedophile Island, Chewing Gum, & DNA
A serial rapist, Mitchell Gaff, is caught and jailed. Thinking he's getting out of prison many years later, the court sentences him to McNeil Island,...
SHORT CUTS | EP16 - The Missing Family From Candy Cane Lane: A True Crime Mystery
Five members of the Martin family--Kenneth, Barbara, and their three young children, Barbie, Susan and Virginia--head out one afternoon in 1958 for a...
EP173 | The 50-Year Murder Detour: A Mother's Intuition, A Neighbor's Obsession, and Flawed Science
A young mother, Judith Lord, estranged from her husband, is home alone with her 20-month-old baby one night in Concord, New Hampshire. The next mornin...
EP172 | Blood Brothers: Cold Case Murder, Twin Suspects, Seeing True Crime Double
A mother, Heather Dewild Springer, heads out to meet her soon-to-be ex at the home they once shared… and nobody sees her again. True crime tells us to...
EP171 | Kim Langwell - Love Letters, Lies, Concrete and Murder: A True Crime Buried Under the Floorboards
For 25 years you go about your life as if you're a normal dude living the dream … you have a good woman supporting you; a solid job; and loyal friends...
EP170 | Monster in the Mist: The Lovers' Lane Murders of Cheryl Henry and Andy Atkinson
You and your girlfriend are parked on Lovers' Lane, the moonlight shining its wondrous glow on you both. A scumbag comes up to the car—with a gun. Suc...
THEY CAME FOR BLOOD - Book 1 - A Tom Callahan Western by M. William Phelps
It's been a life-long dream of mine to write Westerns (as you can clearly see from the photo below of Little M. William Phelps, the cowboy, LOL). The...
EP169 | Intelligent Psychopath: Scorecard Killer Randy Kraft and His Death List
For some, killing is an addiction, like food, alcohol, sex or drugs. Each victim makes the next one easier … Is the man behind the murders I have for...
SHORT CUTS | EP15 - Julie Revsin: A Murder Overshadowed
A young couple is living together and finishing their graduate studies in March 1980. One of them arrives home to a horrific scene. For nearly 50 year...
EP168 |The Secret the Skull Revealed: the Dog, the Body, the Murder
A dog heads out one morning for a walk and returns, tail wagging, with a rather interesting discovery. A human skull. Alarmed, the dog's owner calls 9...
EP167 | The Buckskin Girl, Red Head Murders, and True Crime Hoaxes
Your two buddies are helping you move one sunny morning. Driving down a lonely Ohio road, looking out on acres of serene farm fields, you spot a jacke...
EP166 | Carny Murder: Tabloid True Crime and the Lobster Boy
Born with a very rare condition, which he parlayed into a lucrative career with the traveling circus and carnival, they called him Lobster Boy. His st...
EP165 | Murder and Stupidity - Harvey Huber; Jimmy the Tow Guy; & the True Crime of Cheating
A beloved auto mechanic suddenly goes missing and all eyes turn toward the grieving wife. But a far more diabolical and gruesome plot emerges as the s...
SHORT CUTS | EP14: Catholic Scandal, Smiley Face Killer, Slenderman, and Missing College Student Josh Guimond
A college student abruptly gets up from a poker game, says nothing, and leaves the dorm. With a five-minute walk ahead of him home, somewhere in betwe...
EP164 | A True Crime Murder Party - Blake, MaryJo and Tyler Hadley
Sixty kids show up to a house party one night and dance the night away, get their drink on, and stay until the pre-dawn hours of the following morning...
EP163 | The Genetic Murder Ghost - The True Crime of Guilt By Association
It's called the Village of Drummond, an exclusive neighborhood in Chevy Chase, Maryland. On a pleasant spring morning, homicide investigators are call...
EP162 - Cold Blooded Murder: The True Crimes of Kevin Weismore
It's the day after Christmas. A young man takes off on his motorbike and heads out to a popular Connecticut trail to meet a young woman. By late eveni...
EP161 - Coors Beer, Nancy Guthrie, Abduction, Kidnapping, Murder: True Crime & Joseph Corbett, Jr.
You've heard of the beer and the name ... Coors. But behind all that wealth, fame, and the iconic name, almost 70 years ago, the Coors family is conne...
SHORT CUTS - EP13 - Tracy Ocasio
A Florida woman goes to a popular bar to watch a NBA game and nobody ever sees her again. A career scumbag is captured on security video walking out o...
FATAL FANTASY - Trailer For New Podcast Hosted By M. William Phelps
FATAL FANTASY on The Binge
Renowned DNA scientist Dr. Robert Schwartz is found brutally murdered inside his secluded Virginia home in the weeks...
EP160 - Scent of Murder: The True Crimes of Patrick Frazee and Krystal Kenney
A young mother is last seen in the parking lot of a local Colorado retail store. Several days pass before she is reported missing. A clue 700 miles aw...
EP159 - Part 3 - The Fort Worth 3: An Iconic True Crime Missing Persons Mystery - Still Searching
In December 1974, three kids take off for a trip to a local Texas mall and fail to return. Known as the "Fort Worth 3," this missing person case is on...
EP158 - Part 2 - The Fort Worth 3: An Iconic True Crime Missing Persons Mystery ... The Letter
In December 1974, three kids take off for a trip to a local Texas mall and fail to return. Known as the "Fort Worth 3," this missing person case is on...
EP157 - Part 1 - The Fort Worth 3: An Iconic True Crime Missing Persons Mystery
In December 1974, three kids take off for a local Fort Worth, Texas, Army-Navy store and mall and fail to return. Known as the "Fort Worth 3," this mi...
SHORT CUTS - EP12 - Norman Prater: Missing for 52 Years—A True Crime Mystery (Solved)
It's January 14th, 1973. And the parents of 16-year-old Norman Prater call into the Dallas Police to report their son missing. Fifty-two years later,...
EP156 - Killer Grandma: The True Crime Community Comes Through
A woman heads to a Florida beach to scatter her late husband's ashes. She meets a woman and strikes up a friendship. But then … no one can find her. M...