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Jun 25
28m 12s

The TRUE Crime is How Stupid This Murder...

M. William Phelps
About this episode

A family is on vacation, snapping photos at the Colorado National Monument when they stumble across the remains of a middle-age woman. Meanwhile, a woman 15 miles away is reported missing by her live-in boyfriend. Are the two cases connected? And how does Walmart and a package of hot dogs play into this case? 

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M. William Phelps is the New York Times best-selling author of 46 nonfiction books and winner of the Excellence in (Investigative) Journalism Award from the Society of Professional Journalists. Phelps has written for numerous publications1, 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 N. 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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