Crossing the Line with M. William Phelps

Crossing the Line with M. William Phelps

M. William Phelps

Episodes 213
Avg. Duration 33m
Activity Highly Active
Apple Rating 4.2 (3,490)
Since Oct 2021
Latest Episode Jun 2026

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Weekly
Format
Episodic
Consistency
76%
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rss.pdrl.fm

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About This Podcast

Crossing the Line is a true crime podcast revealing cold cases of the missing and murdered, told start-to-finish each week. Using the campfire storytelling style that made Paper Ghosts a #1 hit on Apple Podcasts, host/investigative journalist/New York Times bestselling true crime author M. William Phelps connects deeply with families touched by violent crime - he understands them, because he is one of them. Having gone through the murder of his own pregnant sister-in-law, Phelps brings not only his personal experience, but also 20-plus years of investigative journalism into the worlds of these stories. Follow and subscribe to Crossing the Line for a weekly dose of murder, mayhem and madness.

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EP175 | Husband Murdered, Officer Down: 194 Calls to Kill - Julie and Mike Harding

Jun 10, 2026 36m

A police commander's husband goes missing and law enforcement seems to think he might have taken off on his own. Then he is found murdered—and the case soon turns into a strange whodunit, with his…

EP174 | A Monster on Rucker Avenue - A Serial Killer, Pedophile Island, Chewing Gum, & DNA

Jun 03, 2026 37m

A serial rapist, Mitchell Gaff, is caught and jailed. Thinking he's getting out of prison many years later, the court sentences him to McNeil Island, where the worst sexual predators are kept from…

SHORT CUTS | EP16 - The Missing Family From Candy Cane Lane: A True Crime Mystery

May 29, 2026 21m

Five members of the Martin family--Kenneth, Barbara, and their three young children, Barbie, Susan and Virginia--head out one afternoon in 1958 for a Sunday drive in Oregon and never return. The only…

EP173 | The 50-Year Murder Detour: A Mother's Intuition, A Neighbor's Obsession, and Flawed Science

May 27, 2026 42m

A young mother, Judith Lord, estranged from her husband, is home alone with her 20-month-old baby one night in Concord, New Hampshire. The next morning, the landlord is looking to collect the…

EP172 | Blood Brothers: Cold Case Murder, Twin Suspects, Seeing True Crime Double

May 20, 2026 40m

A mother, Heather Dewild Springer, heads out to meet her soon-to-be ex at the home they once shared… and nobody sees her again. True crime tells us to go right to the old adage: the husband did it.…

EP171 | Kim Langwell - Love Letters, Lies, Concrete and Murder: A True Crime Buried Under the Floorboards

May 13, 2026 44m

For 25 years you go about your life as if you're a normal dude living the dream … you have a good woman supporting you; a solid job; and loyal friends. Yet, you do it all while holding onto a dark…

EP170 | Monster in the Mist: The Lovers' Lane Murders of Cheryl Henry and Andy Atkinson

May 06, 2026 35m

You and your girlfriend are parked on Lovers' Lane, the moonlight shining its wondrous glow on you both. A scumbag comes up to the car—with a gun. Such an innocent image shattered by a psychopath one…

THEY CAME FOR BLOOD - Book 1 - A Tom Callahan Western by M. William Phelps

Apr 29, 2026 3m

It's been a life-long dream of mine to write Westerns (as you can clearly see from the photo below of Little M. William Phelps, the cowboy, LOL). The old-school, plot-driven, big character stories…

EP169 | Intelligent Psychopath: Scorecard Killer Randy Kraft and His Death List

Apr 29, 2026 40m

For some, killing is an addiction, like food, alcohol, sex or drugs. Each victim makes the next one easier … Is the man behind the murders I have for you this week the most prolific serial killer on…

SHORT CUTS | EP15 - Julie Revsin: A Murder Overshadowed

Apr 27, 2026 19m

A young couple is living together and finishing their graduate studies in March 1980. One of them arrives home to a horrific scene. For nearly 50 years the case flies under the radar of the media and…

EP168 |The Secret the Skull Revealed: the Dog, the Body, the Murder

Apr 22, 2026 36m

A dog heads out one morning for a walk and returns, tail wagging, with a rather interesting discovery. A human skull. Alarmed, the dog's owner calls 911 and, after a broader search of the property,…

EP167 | The Buckskin Girl, Red Head Murders, and True Crime Hoaxes

Apr 15, 2026 36m

Your two buddies are helping you move one sunny morning. Driving down a lonely Ohio road, looking out on acres of serene farm fields, you spot a jacket off on the side of the road in a ditch—a jacket…

EP166 | Carny Murder: Tabloid True Crime and the Lobster Boy

Apr 08, 2026 40m

Born with a very rare condition, which he parlayed into a lucrative career with the traveling circus and carnival, they called him Lobster Boy. His story is replete with wild tales, gambling,…

EP165 | Murder and Stupidity - Harvey Huber; Jimmy the Tow Guy; & the True Crime of Cheating

Apr 01, 2026 29m

A beloved auto mechanic suddenly goes missing and all eyes turn toward the grieving wife. But a far more diabolical and gruesome plot emerges as the secrets behind a tight knit group of friends in a…

SHORT CUTS | EP14: Catholic Scandal, Smiley Face Killer, Slenderman, and Missing College Student Josh Guimond

Mar 27, 2026 21m Bonus

A college student abruptly gets up from a poker game, says nothing, and leaves the dorm. With a five-minute walk ahead of him home, somewhere in between … he vanishes… never to be seen again. Welcome…

EP164 | A True Crime Murder Party - Blake, MaryJo and Tyler Hadley

Mar 25, 2026 32m

Sixty kids show up to a house party one night and dance the night away, get their drink on, and stay until the pre-dawn hours of the following morning… Unbeknownst to everyone is that there are two…

EP163 | The Genetic Murder Ghost - The True Crime of Guilt By Association

Mar 18, 2026 48m

It's called the Village of Drummond, an exclusive neighborhood in Chevy Chase, Maryland. On a pleasant spring morning, homicide investigators are called out to a swanky brick colonial with blood…

EP162 - Cold Blooded Murder: The True Crimes of Kevin Weismore

Mar 11, 2026 32m

It's the day after Christmas. A young man takes off on his motorbike and heads out to a popular Connecticut trail to meet a young woman. By late evening, when he fails to return home, his parents…

EP161 - Coors Beer, Nancy Guthrie, Abduction, Kidnapping, Murder: True Crime & Joseph Corbett, Jr.

Mar 04, 2026 31m

You've heard of the beer and the name ... Coors. But behind all that wealth, fame, and the iconic name, almost 70 years ago, the Coors family is connected to one of the most intriguing…

SHORT CUTS - EP13 - Tracy Ocasio

Mar 02, 2026 16m

A Florida woman goes to a popular bar to watch a NBA game and nobody ever sees her again. A career scumbag is captured on security video walking out of the same bar with her later on that night. …

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Crossing the Line with M. William Phelps has published 213 episodes since October 2021, covering topics in Documentary, Society & Culture.

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Crossing the Line with M. William Phelps is currently highly active with new episodes weekly. Average episode length is 33m.

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