Crossing the Line with M. William Phelps

EP187 | The Mother's Tomb: Jerri Roby and John Gaither

When a 42-year-old Mississippi man vanishes from his home, his family in California begin receiving strange letters and phone calls claiming he has left the country to me

SHORT CUTS EP19 | The Ghost Burglar Killer: Bernard Welsh and his True Crimes

How does one man escape from prison not once, but twice—stay out on the run, start a family and raise three kids … all while continuing to commit crimes—including … murde

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's wife just had a ba

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 host revealing who

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 years pass and they d

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 Taylor, who had called

SHORT CUTS 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 screen, says nothing,

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, police begin searc

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, dividing a community a

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 rented by a local man, Dw

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 attorney is sitting on

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 search in a city of 10 mi

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 Flyer wagon, filled w

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 covered in dried bl

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 County, Florida—a seria

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 case soon turns into a

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, where the worst sexu

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 Sunday drive in Oreg

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 morning, the landlord is l

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 go right to the old