M. William Phelps

In the weeks that followed Mary's death, the grief-stricken family received startling news from the medical examiner: Mary had been deliberately poisoned with colchicine....

In the summer of 2003, the Houston suburb of Clear Lake, Texas, was devastated when four young residents were viciously slain. But when a killer came knocking....

Attractive, manipulative, and violent, mother of four Kim Cargill had a wealth of dirty secrets she'd do anything to keep hidden....

In October 2014, after Chris Regan failed to arrive at his new job, his ex-girlfriend filed a missing-person report. Something was off. It was not like Chris, a devoted father, avid hiker, and all-around great guy, not to show up....

A loving father and his new wife set out to pick up his kids for a scheduled weekend visit-but never suspected they were walking into a death trap....

In Northampton, Massachusetts, at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Kristen Gilbert was known as a hardworking, dedicated nurse - whose nickname was the "Angel of Death"....

Sandee Rozzo's big mistake was being kind to Timothy "Tracey" Humphrey. After Rozzo refused the 'roided-up ex-con's advances, she described how he imprisoned, raped, and brutalized her for two days. When the courageous woman pledged to testify against him, Humphrey knew he had to silence her....

Iowa housewife Tracey Pittman Roberts seemed to have it all, but beneath the happy facade was a woman who used lies, manipulation, sex, blackmail, and even murder to serve her own selfish ends....

When Vonlee "Nicole" Titlow and her aunt, Billie Jean Rogers, came home from a night of gambling in a casino near Detroit, they told police they found Billie's husband unconscious on the floor....

When her missing boyfriend is found murdered, his body encased in cement inside a watering trough and dumped in a cattle field, a local sheriff's deputy is arrested and charged with his murder....

A woman named Susan Fassett left her weekly choir practice at a church when a killer emerged from the shadows and mercilessly gunned her down....

Big and brash, Jeff Zack didn't hide his rough lifestyle. And when he died, it was in plain sight....

In September 2011, M. William Phelps made a bold decision that would change the landscape of reality-based television - and his own life....

True tales of murder in New England, from the colonial period to today, chronicled by a true-crime master....

Sheila Davalloo was young, attractive, and successful. When she started a new job at a cutting-edge research lab in Stamford, Connecticut, she met the man of her dreams....

The missing-persons case of Heather Strong, a young, beautiful suburban mother, baffled Florida detectives....

A real-estate lawyer in Connecticut's moneyed seaside communities, Beth Ann Carpenter, 30, had beauty, brains, and success. But she wanted more....

Jeanne Dominico's fiancé found her body on her kitchen floor. More than 40 stab wounds and blows to her head with a blunt instrument had cut her life short....

Amy Archer-Gilligan operated the Archer Home for Elderly People and Chronic Invalids in Windsor, Connecticut....

In September 2001, Carmen Rodriguez, a beautiful 32-year-old Hartford mother of four, went missing....