A man goes out to get the mail and disappears. His son is immediately suspected of his murder. After a near 20-hour marathon interrogation by police, the son breaks down and admits he stabbed his father with a pair of scissors … only there’s one shocking twist nobody inside that police department could have ever seen coming. Visit www.crossingtheline.biz to contact investigative journalist and host M. William Phelps, get more information about the show, updates to cases, and more.  And...

Husband 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...

A well-loved, adored woman, living alone, is found unconscious one day and pronounced dead at the scene. Her caretaker suggests that the empty pill bottles and crushed up medication around the woman indicates either suicide or accidental overdose. And police agree … intially. That is, until a few friends step forward and say that Lynn Hernan had about $300,000 reason to live. And sure enough, after an autopsy, it is learned that Lynn was poisoned with the main chemical found in Visine eye...

The jury in the Karen Read trial came back with a non-decision–and it made a lot of people unhappy. In this bonus Crossing the Line episode, Phelps talks about justice for victim John O'Keefe and his family, and what happened in the Commonwealth v. Karen Read case, past, present, and any future jury Read might face. Look out for a special announcement about a Karen Read longform narrative podcast Phelps is currently working on.  Visit www.crossingtheline.biz to contact investigative...

A librarian opens up her home to a bookseller after he loses his job. They hit it off, platonically. He becomes the handyman and she provides his room and board. But when they decide to have a tag sale one day, and she fails to show up for it, neighbors wonder where she’s gone. Years later, while court arguments take place about a suspect in her disappearance, not even that suspect’s own lawyer realizes his client is dead, too. Nor that Elvira Segura’s corpse had sat inside her house for two...

In Part 2 of the Karen Read murder trial, Dr. Turtleboy talks about his exclusive reporting on the plow driver and if John O’Keefe, the victim’s body, was on the front lawn of the Albert property at 2:30 a.m. on January 29, 2022, when Karen Read would have been sound asleep miles away–and how far the Mass State Police will go to save face, along with the charges Turtleboy himself faces.     Visit www.crossingtheline.biz to contact investigative journalist and host M. William Phelps, get more...

In Part 2 of the Karen Read murder trial, Dr. Turtleboy talks about his exclusive reporting on the plow driver and if John O’Keefe, the victim’s body, was on the front lawn of the Albert property at 2:30 a.m. on January 29, 2022, when Karen Read would have been sound asleep miles away–and how far the Mass State Police will go to save face, along with the charges Turtleboy himself faces.     Visit www.crossingtheline.biz to contact investigative journalist and host M. William Phelps, get more...

A Boston cop, John O'Keefe, is found dead on the front lawn of a fellow Boston cop. Inside the house is an ATF agent and almost a dozen more people. The Boston cop’s girlfriend, Karen Read, is charged with his murder. In the first of two parts, Phelps's exclusive guest is the now infamous Dr. Turtlerboy, investigative reporter and blogger Aidan Kearney, a controversial figure in it all. Buckle up as Phelps goes through exclusive portions of Turleboy’s reporting, the mistakes the prosecution...

A young Texas woman suddenly stops responding to phone calls and texts. Her brother and best friends raise concerns with police that something is wrong. After a welfare check on her apartment, police, family and friends fear the worst.   Visit www.crossingtheline.biz 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...

In the conclusion of this Crossing the Line two-part special, mother and school teacher Nancy Seaman describes what happened that deadly morning inside the couple’s garage. As an unlikely advocate comes to Nancy’s defense, we learn where she is today and where the case stands.  Visit www.crossingtheline.biz 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...

Wife, mother, school teacher, Nancy Seaman seems to be living the dream life in Farmington Hills, Michigan. Her husband, Robert Seaman, is an exec at Ford Motors before becoming the vice president of a local automotive manufacturer. When Bob is fired, however, and the couple’s secrets are exposed, that “dream life” shatters, and the results turn deadly. In the first part of this two-part Crossing the Line, you’ll hear from Nancy Seaman as she describes what led up to a bloody confrontation...

A teenager heads out to the local mall to buy a blouse. When she fails to come home, a search begins. As police and the girl’s family comb through the neighborhood and nearby woods, the girl’s father makes a grisly discovery. But 50 years goes by without an answer–that is, until a noted serial killer steps forward and claims responsibility. But is he telling the truth, or wanting one last media moment before his death? If you're interested in learning more about the Rhine River Boat Cruise...

A young Connecticut college student goes missing. The last person to see her is her longtime boyfriend. Weeks go by without any substantial leads, before computer forensics sends law enforcement into the woods in search of human remains. What they find, and what happens in the years to come, are an unthinkable set of crimes straight out of a horror film.  National Domestic Violence Hotline phone number: 1.800.799.7233 If you're interested in learning more about the Rhine River Boat Cruise...

It’s late February 2024 in Billings, Montana. A 12-year-old child is reported missing. Friends and family claim to have not seen him in days. The police fear he has run away. But when a friend is backed into a corner and faces a few hard facts about what is found inside his house, is what he tells the police the truth, or just a convenient explanation to cover for a more sinister answer to a death ultimately dividing a community and sparking controversy between police and the victim’s...

Surgical nurse Marayna Rodgers, from the state of Washington, heads off to Las Vegas with a few friends to party for a few days. Unbeknownst to her, an old friend in Vegas is harboring a resentment about a watch and a secret she’s told Marayna, but specifically warned her not to share with anyone. When Marayna goes missing on December 6, 2023, the Las Vegas PD wonders if Marayna’s old friend has allowed that resentment to turn into rage, or if there is something more sinister at play. ...

In February 1983, the dead of winter in New England, a Kittery, Maine, man heads off to work one morning, finishes his shift, clocks out and leaves--and ... is never seen again. The feeling surrounding the disappearance seems like a plot from one of fellow “Mainiac,” Stephen King’s suspense novels. As the decades pile up with very few answers, in 2021, a local woman, Kristen Seavey, the host of the podcast “Murder, She Told,” digs in and uncovers several new pieces of information. Phelps goes...

The death of Molly Young in 2012 erupted into a social media firestorm, spreading all sorts of misinformation and rumor, leading to caustic disagreements–but also raised so many questions about what happened, a dozen years later, the investigation remains open and the conversation continues. Thus, what actually took place when 22-year-old Molly Young died—and what are the controversial aspects of the case the State’s Attorneys Appellate Prosecutor’s Report seemed only to exacerbate? And where...

Few true-crime cases over the past 20 years can be considered iconic. When Natalee Holloway went missing on a high school class trip to Aruba in 2005, the story became a 24/7 news sensation. Natalee’s murder remained unsolved until late 2023. Phelps goes through the case–including the nauseating bloviation by the likes of Nancy Grace and the rest of the cable TV talking heads–and reveals the conclusion of this high-profile true-crime story that broke the internet and, in many ways, set the...

After 60-plus years, two unsolved murders in the San Fernando Valley heat back up when a rookie Los Angeles Police Department Cold Case detective is handed the files and realizes the answers were there the entire time. What’s more, those two homicides are only the beginning, as it appears a sadistic serial killer is at work. Phelps speaks with the detective, Rachel Evans, and gets the inside track on a serial murderer who cannot escape time, technology, and the sheer determination of an...

In Rochester, New York, a young housewife and young mother is found brutally murdered in her bed. Her husband, an executive at Kodak Eastman Company, is at work. A local criminal steps up and confesses to the murder. But 40 years later, the case takes a different turn--one you’d never expect--after a renowned pathologist questions the the time of death. Visit www.crossingtheline.biz to contact investigative journalist and host M. William Phelps, get more information about the show, updates...

It’s a gorgeous Saturday afternoon in a suburb of Detroit during the summer of 1985. Teenager Shawn Moore heads to the store on his bike for a soda. After he fails to return home, a frantic search ensues … as a man dubbed the "Real Norman Bates," the fictional serial killer from the classic film "Psycho," is discovered trolling the area for victims.  

Two young women go missing along the Jersey Shore in the early 1980's. An eighteen-month search produces no leads. Then a woman walks into a local police station and begins talking—and a new search leads to a grisly discovery and several more victims. 

In late 2023, one of Keith "Happy Face Killer" Jesperson's Jane Doe victims was identified. Phelps speaks with death investigator Emily Speed, who worked on the case along with Phelps for many years. In this special hybrid episode of two podcasts, "Death Calls" with Emily Speed and "Crossing the Line," Phelps and Speed discuss how the case evolved over almost 30 years and how, finally, she was identified. 

A teenage girl goes missing in a small Minnesota town. Police are baffled. Her large family of nearly a dozen siblings are mortified. Weeks turn into months, there’s no sign of her. Then a series of revealing events occur, tipping off police that ‘Stranger Danger,’ such a prevalent Public Service Announcement at the time, scaring kids from coast to coast, is likely more smoke than fire, and the culprit might be closer than anybody thinks. 

In this first episode of the 2024 season, Phelps discusses several recent, alarming developments in the Long Island Serial Killer case, the implications they will have on the true crime genre, and, most importantly, the Long Island serial killer's victims’ families.