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Crime expert, lecturer and investigative journalist M. William Phelps is the bestselling, award-winning author of twelve nonfiction books. Winner of 2008 New England Book Festival Award for I’ll Be Watching You, Phelps has appeared on CBS’s “Early Show", Court TV/truTV, The Discovery Channel, Fox News Channel, CN8, ABC’s “Good Morning America,” The Learning Channel, Biography Channel, History Channel, Montel Williams, Investigation Discovery, Geraldo At Large, Oxygen's "Snapped" and "Captured," USA Radio Network, Catholic Radio, ABC News Radio and Radio America, who calls him “the nation’s leading authority on the mind of the female murderer.” He’s written for the Providence Journal, Hartford Courant, and the New London Day.
Profiled in such noted publications as Writer's Digest, NY Daily News, Newsday, Albany Times-Union, Hartford Courant, Advance for Nurses magazine, Forensic Nursing, and NY Post, Phelps has also consulted for the Showtime cable television series “Dexter".
Phelps lives in a small Connecticut farming community. Beyond his ten true-crime books, in 2008 Phelps published a highly acclaimed narrative nonfiction biography of Revolutionary War patriot Nathan Hale: NATHAN HALE: The Life and Death of America’s First Spy (Thomas Dunne Books), optioned for film by Warner Bros. and Josephson Entertainment (Fox's "Bones," Men In Black, Wild, Wild West, and others).
Phelps’s titles include: Perfect Poison, Lethal Guardian, Every Move You Make, Sleep In Heavenly Peace, Murder in the Heartland, Because You Loved Me, If Looks Could Kill, Deadly Secrets, Cruel Death, Death Trap (2010), Failures of the Presidents and Nathan Hale.
He’s completed work on a book about Windsor, Connecticut, serial killer Amy Archer-Gilligan, the woman whose story Inspired the Broadway hit Arsenic & Old Lace, slated for publication in 2010; three more true crime titles; and a series of serial killer thrillers, introducing Boston PD Detective Jake Sundance Cooper.
Currently, Phelps is finishing up work on a book about Jessica Bates McCord and her husband, Jeff, who teamed up to murder Jessica's ex-husband and new wife. DEATH TRAP will be published during the winter of 2010. His next planned book is about Ashley and Timothy "Tracey" Humphrey, who were found guilty in the murder of Sandee Rozzo in Pinellas Park, Florida. That untitled book should be published somewhere in late 2010/early 2011.
If you have a suggestion for a murder story, please email Phelps. Right now he is looking for anyone connected to the Howard Hawk Willis case in Tennessee; the Michael Roseboro case in Pennsylvania; and the Danielle Black/Alec Eger case in Maryland. If you have any information about these cases, please contact Phelps immediately.
"Thank you to all of my readers! I am grateful for every one of you. I appreciate your continued support. Please send in suggestions for the cases you want me to cover."
Watch for Phelps this fall (2009) on six new Investigation Discovery shows, including DEADLY WOMEN and SOLVED!
source; http://www.mwilliamphelps.com/