Paper Ghosts: The Texas Teen Murders - Season 5 Trailer
Crossing the Line with M. William Phelps
Release Date: 10/29/2025
EP157 - Part 1 - The Fort Worth 3: An Iconic True Crime Missing Persons Mystery
Crossing the Line with M. William Phelps
In December 1974, three kids take off for a local Fort Worth, Texas, Army-Navy store and mall and fail to return. Known as the “Fort Worth 3,” this missing person case is one of the oldest and most mysterious on record. I speak to several victim family members and try to sort out fact from fiction in this Crossing the Line special trilogy of episodes. For exclusive content, sign up for your free Patreon account Leave a five-star review of this show, please. ;-) Visit to contact investigative journalist and host M. William Phelps, get more information about the show, updates to cases, and...
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SHORT CUTS - EP12 - Norman Prater: Missing for 52 Years—A True Crime Mystery (Solved)
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It’s January 14th, 1973. And the parents of 16-year-old Norman Prater call into the Dallas Police to report their son missing. Fifty-two years later, the answer comes with some remarkable police work, a little luck, and it is not what anyone could have ever expected. 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...
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EP156 - Killer Grandma: The True Crime Community Comes Through
Crossing the Line with M. William Phelps
A woman heads to a Florida beach to scatter her late husband’s ashes. She meets a woman and strikes up a friendship. But then … no one can find her. Meanwhile, investigators 1200 miles north are looking into the murder of a local man—having no idea the two cases are connected. For exclusive content, sign up for your free Patreon account Leave a five-star review of this show, please. ;-) 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 Apple Podcast...
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EP155 - Murder in Missoula: ‘I Saw the Devil Looking Back at Me’
Crossing the Line with M. William Phelps
A lovely woman, enjoying the latter stages of her life, is found dead at the bottom of her basement stairs. There is far too much blood for her to have fallen, along with a slice from ear to ear along her throat. But who could have committed such a heinous crime in what seems to be a pleasant, charming, quiet Montana town. For exclusive content, sign up for your free Patreon account Leave a five-star review of this show, please. ;-) Visit to contact investigative journalist and host M. William Phelps, get more information about the show, updates to cases, and more. And don't...
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EP154 - The Han Family Murders—A Horrific True Crime
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A prominent Santa Barbara, California, family is found dead inside their home one March morning. A manhunt then gets underway for a killer, while a man proclaims he has developed an alternative energy source Big Oil is killing his friends over and looking to make him the next target. Sign up for your free Patreon account . 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 , now in its fourth season, wherever you get your favorite...
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EP153 – Murder is Murder, No Matter How You ‘Slice’ It: The Bodies in the Suitcases
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A woman befriends a few coworkers and decides to move in with them. They begin fighting. Animosity builds. So, she moves out. Days later, she decides to reconcile with both of them … but the conversation doesn’t go as planned and two of them wind up dead, dismembered, and placed inside several suitcases aboard a train heading out of town. For exclusive content, sign up for your free Patreon account 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...
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EP152 - A Horrific True Crime: The Bennett Family Murders
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A woman cannot reach her family—so she heads over to their house to check things out. What she witnesses inside is a scene straight out of a contemporary horror film. As the case moves into the investigative phase, decades pass before the evil behind it all is finally brought to justice. Sign up for your free Patreon account 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 , now in its fourth season, wherever you get your favorite...
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SHORT CUTS - EP11 - Murder in Utah: Joe and Gail Bailey
Crossing the Line with M. William Phelps
You are sitting at home one night, just doing your normal thing, when someone busts through the door with a weapon and begins firing. Catching a double murderer takes all of about 15 hours to resolve, the result shocking the community and police … but not the victim’s family. 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...
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EP151 - A Missing Woman, No Answers, & A Crime Owl
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A Colorado man’s mother goes missing. He spends years building up resentment and frustration with police not getting anywhere. He feels he has nowhere else to turn. So he takes matters into his own hands … and the results of what he creates could help solve thousands of cold cases all over the world. To contact Ash, learn more about CrimeOwl, or try it out for yourself, visit . 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...
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EP150 - Sex, Lies, & Murder: Amy & David Gipe
Crossing the Line with M. William Phelps
A hardworking Pennsylvania man arrives home from his second shift job one night, gets out of his vehicle, and winds up on the ground in front of his home … fighting for his life. Neighbors report hearing and seeing a dark colored SUV tearing away from the scene. As investigators begin asking questions, two candidates for the stupidest murderers of the year step forward. 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. ...
info_outlineSeason 5 of Paper Ghosts: The Texas Teen Murders takes you back to 1983, when two teenagers were found murdered, execution-style, on a quiet Texas hill. What followed was decades of rumors, false leads, and a case that law enforcement could never seem to close. Then a third teen is murdered and other questionable deaths of teens begin to surface.
Now, veteran investigative journalist M. William Phelps reopens the file — uncovering new witnesses, hidden evidence, and a shocking web of deaths that may all be connected.
Starting Nov. 5th wherever you get your favorite shows, over nine gripping episodes, Paper Ghosts: The Texas Teen Murders unravels a story 42 years in the making… and asks the question: who’s really been hiding the truth?