The Black-Hearted Murders: Jeff and Jean Navin
Crossing the Line with M. William Phelps
Release Date: 07/17/2024
34 FAIRVIEW ROAD: Episode 6 – Oh, Wait! ... The Dog Did it?
Crossing the Line with M. William Phelps
Karen Read is arrested and charged in February 2022. By June 2022, she is indicted on new charges, including murder. The chance to plea her case down has all but passed. Facing years behind bars if convicted, Karen names two people as John O’Keefe’s murderers, 34 Fairview homeowner Brian Albert, a Boston cop as well, and his 17-year-old nephew. Then she initiates a social media campaign, utilizing self-published blogger Turtleboy to promote this new narrative, giving birth to the conspiracy. The story seems to come out of left field as the Commonwealth produces forensic and circumstantial...
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Missing in Louisiana: David Yeager
Crossing the Line with M. William Phelps
A 17-year-old leaves his Shreveport, Louisiana, home one morning in 1971 and nobody ever sees him again. Twenty years later, a sadistic serial killer begins murdering young people throughout the South and it seems there may be a connection back to that missing boy, David Yeager. Then David Yeager’s cousin, Kelly Chance, steps in, and changes this case forever. Call 318.673.7300 if you have any information in David Yeager’s case. Please visit for a look at David’s case and, sadly, so many others. Visit to contact investigative journalist and host M. William Phelps, get more...
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34 FAIRVIEW ROAD: Episode 5 – The Final Rest
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As the Massachusetts State Police close in on Karen Read and begin drafting an arrest warrant, things happening behind the scenes change the course of the investigation. As Turtleboy digs for information, he begins talking to Karen Read, and others start to come forward, claiming they have sources inside 34 Fairview Road proving John O’Keefe was murdered inside the house and Karen Read is being framed for it. Is this a carefully scripted design by Karen and Turtleboy, or the truth? “34 Fairview Road” is the first limited series, narrative podcast exploring in depth the death...
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The Sociopath Behind the Badge: Kendy Howard
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A gunshot rings out in the middle of the night. State police veteran trooper Dan Howard is home and runs to see what has happened, only to find his wife of 26 years, 48-year-old Kendall “Kendy” Howard, dead upstairs, in the bathroom, inside the bathtub. Suicide or homicide, first responders wonder as the investigation unfolds. When the coroner decides it’s a suicide, two determined detectives call that finding into question and begin digging deeper, only to find that what at first seems like an unspeakable, sad tragedy is an elaborate murder with only a few suspects. Visit ...
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34 FAIRVIEW ROAD: Episode 4 – Details Matter
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Karen Read is desperate and in full-fledge blame-someone-else mode as police zero in on her Lexus, impound the vehicle, and begin to put together a strong case, proving she was drunk and, knowingly or not, with or without intent, struck John O’Keefe with her SUV and killed him. Meanwhile, Turtleboy, under Karen's manipulating direction, continues his campaign to paint lead investigator Michael Proctor and witness Jennifer McCabe as the two people behind some sort of elaborate conspiracy that is becoming harder each day for most to believe. “34 Fairview Road” is the first limited...
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The Desert Murders: Jerry and Susan McFalls
Crossing the Line with M. William Phelps
When the family of a Utah couple doesn’t hear from them after ten days, alarm bells ring. Jerry and Susan McFalls were packing, preparing to leave their winter home in Arizona and head back home to West Jordan, Utah, when they vanish. Years go by before investigators zero in on family members, while the real killer sits quietly by, watching it all unfold. Visit to contact investigative journalist and host M. William Phelps, get more information about the show, updates to cases, and more. And don't forget to subscribe to Phelps's #1 hit podcast PAPER GHOSTS wherever you get your...
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34 FAIRVIEW ROAD: Episode 3 – The Blame Game Begins
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Karen Read has been sent to the psychiatric ward inside the same hospital where her boyfriend, John O’Keefe, has been pronounced dead. As John’s family and friends come to grips with his murder, they begin piecing together the last moments of John’s life—and all of the evidence points to one person responsible: Karen Read, who herself is now scripting an alternative narrative, employing Aidan “Turtleboy” Kearney as her mouthpiece and propaganda machine, and police dashcam video of her Lexus shows her broken taillight long before the Massachusetts State Police are...
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Murder in Turners Falls: The Brandy Waryasz Case
Crossing the Line with M. William Phelps
A young expecting mother-to-be is living her best life. She’s beaming with happiness, getting married soon to a man she’s loved since high school. Planning on buying a home. It’s the summer of 2004 in Turners Falls, Massachusetts. Seven-months-pregnant Brandy Waryasz is at work one early night when a man she knows pulls up and asks for her help. Several customers stop in and leave, and all of them report something seemingly different. What happened to Brandy and who is responsible? Visit to contact investigative journalist and host M. William Phelps, get more information about the...
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34 FAIRVIEW ROAD: Episode 2 - The Morning After
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As a frantic search for Boston Police officer John O’Keefe is initiated by his girlfriend, Karen Read, during the early morning hours of January 29th, 2022, some believe a conspiracy to cover up a murder gets underway immediately. Meanwhile, a group of Canton residents seem to be catching on to what is happening in town—as they consider that cops and politicians could be working together to frame an innocent woman. This, as those around Karen Read that morning hear her say repeatedly, "I did it. I hit him. I hit him." And self-proclaimed "journalist" Turtleboy digs into the story under...
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Jacqueline Terrulli and the Sociopath
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A fire rages in Ocean Township, New Jersey, one morning, as two people are presumed missing after fire personnel contain the blaze. Then a man is stopped 60 miles away driving a stolen vehicle and a connection is made back to fire and missing man and woman. Months go by and the missing woman, Jacqueline Terrulli, is still nowhere to be found—as her boyfriend, Ronald Teschner, refuses to talk. Visit to contact investigative journalist and host M. William Phelps, get more information about the show, updates to cases, and more. And don't forget to subscribe to Phelps's #1 hit...
info_outlineHusband and wife Jeffrey and Jeanette Navin go missing one day from their Easton, CT, home and family members and police are baffled. No one has heard from the couple in days. The prominent Navin family own and operate a successful trash collection service Jeffrey and Jeanette were in the process of selling. Had they sold out and taken off on an extended vacation without tellng anyone? When their son’s girlfriend is questioned, her stories don’t line up and it seems she has some explaining to do as blood is found inside the Navin home, as it becomes clear that the couple has not gone on vacation.
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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 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 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.