M. William Phelps

A true-crime collection culled from the crime files of the New York Times best-selling series, Notorious USA....

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....

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

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

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

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....

Danny Hembree was far from being an upright, law-abiding citizen. But he was part of the fabric of the local scene, devoted to his mother and sister. No one saw him as a remorseless killer....

The crime stunned quiet Mineral Wells, Texas: 49-year-old Bob Dow shot execution-style in his own bed, his invalid mother locked in the next room....

Debra Newell is nothing if not a survivor. By the time she met John Michael Meehan online, she lived through a near-fatal childhood illness, an attempted rape in her 20s, four failed marriages, and a litany of dating disasters....

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....

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....

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

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....

In December 1989, in upstate New York, Gary C. Evans, 35, a master of disguise and career criminal, began weaving a web of deadly lies....

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

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....

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....

Here is the true story of a baby born under shocking conditions, of a tortured history of sexual abuse and "moral insanity," and the pain that lingers in two American towns....

In May 2003 an Arizona man who'd bought dozens of sealed boxes at an auction of unclaimed property made a horrifying discovery: the bodies of three plastic-wrapped infants....