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Crossing the Line with M. William Phelps
Release Date: 06/25/2025
EP135 - The Delphi Murders: Remembering Abby and Libby, Sorting Fact From Nonsense - Part 2
Crossing the Line with M. William Phelps
In Part 2 of a special Crossing the Line, Phelps and his guests get into what actually happened to 13-year-old Abigail "Abby" Williams and 14-year-old Liberty "Libby" German on that February day down by the Monon High Bridge, in Delphi, Indiana–and who is, without any doubt, responsible for their brutal murders. This, despite all of the social media vitriol proclaiming the man convicted, Richard Allen, is innocent and has been framed. For more information about Murder Sheet podcast hosts and authors Aine Cain and Kevin Greenlee, have a look at Sign up for your free Patreon account ,...
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EP134 - The Delphi Murders: Remembering Abby and Libby, Sorting Fact From Nonsense - Part 1
Crossing the Line with M. William Phelps
The double murder of 13-year-old Abigail "Abby" Williams and 14-year-old Liberty "Libby" German, known more commonly as the Delphi Murders, is one the most high-profile true crime cases of the past ten years. The girls were last seen alive on the Monon High Bridge, part of the Delphi Historic Trails, in Delphi, Indiana. The case went cold for several years before Richard Allen was arrested and charged in 2022 with their murders–and then … the onslaught of social media vitriol proclaiming Allen is innocent and being framed. With my two guests, who have written a book about the case, we sort...
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SHORT CUTS: The Peeping Tom Murder: A True Crime Hard to Believe
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A small suburban town in Minnesota experiences an unspeakable tragedy, a horrific murder, changing the community forever–and the killer is caught, convicted, sent to prison, and then set free. Welcome to a bonus feature here on the Crossing the Line feed. I come across all sorts of stories while researching books, TV series, and my iHeartMedia podcast, Paper Ghosts, in addition to the ideas you send me. A lot of them grab hold of me emotionally—especially the victims' stories and the ordeal their families go through. A good number of the cases, for myriad reasons, don’t fit into...
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EP133 - The Deadly Neighbor: Paul Claron and Bryan Galliher
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The Hatfield/McCoy deadly neighbor feud set the bar for how some neighbors respond to each other when they do not get along and tensions escalate. Fast-forward 100 years and that same revenge-driven temperament has not evolved or changed much. Here, in this week’s case, two neighbors begin to feud--and what at first seems like an old dude fed up with a young dude, and nothing more than words being slung, soon turns deadly. Sign up for your free Patreon account , where I’ll be streaming “live,” sending out newsletters, dropping an exclusive limited series podcast later in 2025, and...
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EP132 - The Chameleon Killer: Elaine Parent and Beverly McGowan
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A woman known as the Chameleon is crisscrossing the Atlantic Ocean, stealing identities and leading police on a wild goose chase, taunting them with letters and promises of “you’ll never catch me.” Then a dismembered body is discovered in the Florida Everglades one day and police believe they have a serial killer at large. Sign up for your free Patreon account , where I’ll be streaming “live,” sending out newsletters, dropping an exclusive limited series podcast later in 2025, and posting other content you won’t get anywhere else. Visit to contact investigative journalist...
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The TikTok Murders - Sarah Grace Patrick
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A blended family, James and Kristen Brock, James’ five-year-old daughter and Kristen’s 17-year-old, Sarah Grace Patrick, seem to be living life on life’s terms, with a few bumps in the road, as the New Year, 2025, comes to pass. Then, on the morning of February 20, 2025, the five-year-old wakes up and discovers a horrific scene inside the house, setting off one of the most unnerving double murder investigations within this small Georgia town. Sign up for your free Patreon account , where I’ll be streaming “live,” sending out newsletters, dropping an exclusive limited series podcast...
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The Black Dahlia Murder SOLVED – Elizabeth Short
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Not much needs to be said about this iconic true crime case to introduce it. Phelps gives the Black Dahlia murder of Elizabeth “Beth” Short the Crossing the Line treatment—with one shocking twist! A man who says he’s solved the case and has connected Short’s murder to a second homicide some 1600 miles away, in Kansas City. Check out Eli Frankel's book, , for more information about Black Dahlia's killer, a book Jeff Guinn, New York Times bestselling author of Manson and The Road to Jonestown, someone I greatly respect, calls, "Exhaustively researched, deftly...
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'Love Her to Death:' Tara Breckenridge & the 1990’s Serial Killer Frenzy in Houston
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Tara Breckenridge is working as a waitress at a popular men’s club in downtown Houston when she goes missing one night after work. With a host of serial killers active in the region, and a litany of missing and murdered females, is Tara’s case part of the bigger picture, or, a one-off committed by someone she knows? If you have any information about any of the cases in this episode, please call the Houston Police Department at 713.247.8111 Sign up for your free Patreon account , where I’ll be streaming “live,” sending out newsletters, dropping an exclusive limited series...
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SHORT CUTS: In Cold Blood: Reggie Folks and Koby Minor
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A man is shot dead inside his vehicle in the middle of the street. He is an up-and-coming professional wrestler with big dreams and big love for friends and family. The case is perplexing to law enforcement, who catch their man almost immediately, and yet his justification for the murder is most baffling. Welcome to a bonus feature here on the Crossing the Line feed. I come across all sorts of stories while researching books, TV series, and my iHeartMedia podcast, Paper Ghosts, in addition to the ideas you send me. A lot of them grab hold of me emotionally—especially the victims'...
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Fatal Encounter: Dr. Margo Prade
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A well-loved doctor, Margo Prade, is found murdered inside her van in the parking lot of her office one morning. Her ex-husband, an Akron, Ohio, Police Department Captain, is questioned and provides an alibi, pleading with his colleagues to find her killer. So who killed this mother of two just as she was close to getting her life back on track after a contentious divorce? Sign up for your free Patreon account , where I’ll be streaming “live,” sending out newsletters, dropping an exclusive limited series podcast later in 2025, and posting other content you won’t get anywhere...
info_outlineA 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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