Think all things true crime—from an insider’s perspective. Brought to you by the team behind the #1 true-crime podcast franchise Paper Ghosts, Crossing the Line with M. William Phelps is an ongoing, weekly podcast diving deeply into murder, missing people and unsolved, cold case cases rarely covered. Beyond straight-up murder stories, investigative journalist and host M. William Phelps will sometimes interview experts, victims’ family members, killers themselves, and the detectives working cases. Phelps connects profoundly with families of the missing, murdered, and cold cases, not just because he understands them, but because he is one of them.

Crossing the Line with M. William Phelps is a weekly true crime podcast focused on cases of the missing and murdered, told from start to finish with those same investigative and suspenseful “campfire” storytelling elements Phelps utilizes in his #1 hit podcast Paper Ghosts. Each week, host, investigative journalist, and author of 40-plus true crime books M. William Phelps connects deeply with families of the missing and murdered, not just because he understands them, but because he is one of them. Stemming from the murder of his own pregnant sister-in-law, Phelps can relate to victims’ families and bring his 20-plus years of true crime insight and experience into the worlds of these stories. The storytelling is free of any fluffy filler, so you get all the good stuff with plenty of mystery and suspense. Follow and subscribe to Crossing the Line for a weekly dose of murder, mayhem and madness.

“Remember, you have the same chance of being struck by lightning as you do being murdered by a serial killer, so have no fear—just don’t go out on a dark stormy night!”

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M. William Phelps is the New York Times best-selling author of 45 nonfiction books and winner of the Excellence in (Investigative) Journalism Award from the Society of Professional Journalists. Phelps has written for numerous publications, including the Providence Journal, Connecticut Magazine and Hartford Courant. Diversifying his talents, Phelps consulted on the first season of the hit Showtime cable television series Dexter and has executive produced and starred in over 350 hours of true crime television. All of which gives him a confluence of expertise and experience to bring to true crime fanatics.

Phelps grew up in East Hartford, Connecticut, and now splits his time between Tolland County and Stonington, CT. In July 2017, he published his definitive, 10-year project about Happy Face Killer, Keith Hunter Jesperson, DANGEROUS GROUND: My Friendship with a Serial Killer.

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