Over My Dead Body - Podcast Rankings and reviews

I could not stop listening! I binged all 4 seasons and now I’m craving more. The way the stories are told are so thorough and the fact that they actually have recordings of the individuals makes these stories so much better. I need more!!!

M. William Phelps is an old-school journalist who goes after the facts and digs deep into the crimes he covers. I have really enjoyed his podcasts Paper Ghosts and Crossing the Line. I like his persistence in getting to the details. He interviews persons who have information on the crimes he covers and the people involved. I admire his persistence in getting justice for the victims and their families.

I listen to many true crime podcasts, and his are high on my favorites list. There are many trash true crime podcasts out there who clearly scrape together loose details, rehash the original coverage others are doing, and tie them together with conspiracies and innuendo.

M. William Phelps has earned my trust because he clearly does the work, and can stand behind it. He is not just doing this for likes on social media. He’s looking for the truth.

I look forward to listening to future episodes of Crossing the Line and will likely follow any new podcasts he does.

Good season and great narrative. I don’t often feel compelled to do my own research to see what happens after the podcast ends, but I definitely was in this case! I’d love to have an update podcast on this season as it sounds like others may be brought to justice!

Love this podcast. It’s true true crime. Very informative and interesting but never boring. I love the way the stories are told. Season one was great! Season 4 was great! Please please please do an update episode on the Dan Markel case!

Season 4 makes Denise look like this poor, helpless, controlled woman, where it was her that was in charge! More importantly, the podcast doesn’t give credit where credit is due…Mike’s mother was the one who worked for decades on getting this case charged, and came up with the evidence to prove Brian and Denise’s lies. Lastly, the two “experts” in the bonus need to check all sources before relying on this podcast alone to assert Denise was a victim of coercive control. If anything, she was in control!

These are all old stories. Everyone already knows the endings. Network shows have already been done to death about these topics. And in the case of “gone hunting” there’s some real strange gaps in their presentation of the narrative. We’re never told about Mike’s boat. In the first episode, people are gathered at a boat ramp there’s a helicopter search, and a friend suggest Mike may have gone overboard, but nobody says they found Mike’s boat. Only at the end in a courtroom confession does anybody mention pushing the boat out into the lake. You spend six episodes wondering quote where is his boat?“. Anyway, there are a lot of good true crime podcasts out there many covering cases you’ve never heard of before. I’d give this one a pass.