BAn affluent community of high-achievers, the Houston suburb of Clear Lake, Texas, is home to oil company execs and NASA employees. But in the summer of 2003, a life of good fortune came to a violent end for some of its most promising...
AN UNIMAGINABLE CRIME. AN UNLIKELY PLACE. AN UNRELENTING KILLER. On December 16, 2004, a Nodaway County, Missouri, 9-1-1 operator received a frantic call from the mother of 23-year-old Bobbie Jo Stinnett. The eight-months-pregnant mo...
Heather Catterton was a beautiful, beloved seventeen-year-old when her body was found in the brush by a country road in South Carolina. Sweet-natured Randi Saldana's remains were then discovered, charred and unrecognizable, in a wo...
"Anything by Phelps is always an eye-opening experience." — Suspense Magazine Sheila Davalloo was young, attractive, and successful. When she started a new job at a cutting-edge research lab in Stamford, Connecticut, she m...
Cold Storage In May 2003, an Arizona man who'd bought dozens of sealed boxes at a self-storage facility's auction of unclaimed property made a horrifying discovery: the bodies of three plastic-wrapped infants, one of which had become...
"Phelps is the Harlan Coben of real-life thrillers." —Allison Brennan Iowa housewife Tracey Pittman Roberts seemed to have it all: natural beauty, three loving children, and a fairy tale second marriage to a wealthy, h...
Dangerous Ground: My Friendship with ...
M. William Phelps"Anyone can become a killer under the right circumstances—even you." It was a bold, life-changing decision when award-winning investigative journalist M. William Phelps asked one of America's most disturbing convicted ...
CON MAN In December 1989, in upstate New York, Gary C. Evans, 35, a master of disguise and career criminal who had befriended David 'Son of Sam' Berkowitz, began weaving a web of deadly lies. Evans told a female friend that Damien Cu...
After her mother's untimely death, Clara Schwartz became distant, withdrawn. Her father, a renowned DNA researcher, lived in a farmhouse outside Leesburg, Virginia, where in December 2001, he was fatally stabbed by what seemed to be a...
Lethal Guardian: A Twisted True Story...
M. William Phelps"A dark, true account of obsession." --Gregg Olsen"Phelps dares to tread where few others will: into the mind of a killer." --TV RageSmart, gorgeous redhead Beth Carpenter was a successful attorney in Connecticut's...
Where Monsters Hide: Sex, Murder, and...
M. William PhelpsA tragic missing person case spirals into an unrelenting murder mystery. Intrigue, deception, and serial homicide erupt in the latest real-life thriller by New York Times bestselling investigative journalist M. William Phelps. In ...
In the lovely town of Pleasant Valley in upstate New York, the maple trees were ablaze with fall's blood-red colour. The air was crisp. And a woman named Susan Fassett left her weekly choir practice at a church - when a killer emerged...
Murder, New England: A Historical Col...
M. William PhelpsBestselling true-crime author M. William Phelps, star of the new investigative television series "Dark Minds," takes readers to his own backyard in these eight bloodcurdling murder cases. Think New England is all bucolic l...
“Phelps is a true-crime veteran.” —New York PostCherry Walker was a devoted, trusting, uncommonly innocent young woman who loved caring for a neighbor’s little boy. But when she was asked to testify in court against his abu...
In September 2001, Carmen Rodriguez, a beautiful 32-year old Hartford mother of four, went missing. At first police were stymied…until a killer's crucial mistake led investigators down a long, dark road of cold, calculated murder…...
In the midst of Pennsylvania's Amish country, on a peaceful summer night in 2008, the body of 45-year-old Jan Roseboro was found at the bottom of her backyard pool. Her husband Michael, a successful businessman and a member of a promi...
Targeted: A Deputy, Her Love Affairs,...
M. William Phelps"A gripping, no-hands-barred work of investigative journalism." - Steve Jackson, New York Times Bestselling Author of BOGEYMAN and NO STONE UNTURNED When her missing boyfriend is found murdered, his body encased in cement in...
The Devil's Right Hand: The Tragic St...
M. William PhelpsThe Devil's Right Hand chroniclesthe legacy of death and destruction in the gunmaking Colt family during the nineteenth century, a legacy largely remembered for a lurid murder case that inspired Edgar Allan Poe's story "The Oblon...
When 45-year-old Detective Linda Kane is called to investigate the disappearance of a local teenager, Cassie Caldwell, she is instantly triggered-thrust back to her best friend\'s disappearance 30 years ago. The new case rattles Royal...
"Phelps dares to tread where few others will: into the mind of a killer." —TV Rage"Phelps is a true-crime veteran."—New York PostThe missing-persons case of Heather Strong, a young, beautiful suburban mother, b...
We Thought We Knew You: A Terrifying ...
M. William PhelpsNew York Times bestselling author, television personality, and podcast host M. William Phelps takes readers deep into the murder of Mary Yoder, a popular wife, mother, and healer in Upstate New York telling a gripping tale of a...