Secondly, Phelps was NOT neutral in this book. All the author should be doing is giving us the details in a neutral way. It sort of felt like Phelps was trying to convince US about the guilt or innocence of these two girls and that is NOT how a true crime book works. Whoever edited the book should have noticed this because it was unnecessary and quite frankly, took away from everything. Phelps could have easily given us the details in way less than 500 pages had he not constantly repeated what happened. Had the author written the story in about 300 pages it would have worked better. I have read many of this authors true crime books in the past and enjoyed most of them. He now lives in a reclusive Connecticut farming community north of Hartford.īeyond crime, Phelps has also written several history books, including the acclaimed, New York Times bestselling NATHAN HALE: The Life and Death of America’s First Spy, THE DEVIL’S ROOMING HOUSE, THE DEVIL’S RIGHT HAND, MURDER, NEW ENGLAND, and more. Phelps grew up in East Hartford, CT, moved to Vernon, CT, at age 12, where he lived for 25 years. William Phelps dares to tread where few others will: into the mind of a killer.” A respected journalist, beyond his book writing Phelps has written for numerous publications-including the Providence Journal, Connecticut Magazine and Hartford Courant-and consulted on the first season of the hit Showtime cable television series Dexter. Radio America calls Phelps “the nation’s leading authority on the mind of the female murderer,” and TV Rage says, “M. Phelps is one of the regular and recurring experts frequently appearing on two long-running series, Deadly Women and Snapped. Phelps is also a member of the Multidisciplinary Collaborative on Sexual Crime and Violence (MCSCV), also known as the Atypical Homicide Research Group (AHRG) at Northeastern University, maintained by NU alumni Enzo Yaksic. A highly sought-after pundit, Phelps has made over 100 media-related television appearances: Early Show, The Today Show, The View, Fox & Friends, truTV, Discovery Channel, Fox News Channel, Good Morning America, TLC, BIO, History, Oxygen, OWN, on top of over 100 additional media appearances: USA Radio Network, Catholic Radio, Mancow, Wall Street Journal Radio, Zac Daniel, Ave Maria Radio, Catholic Channel, EWTN Radio, ABC News Radio, and many more. William Phelps is the New York Times best-selling author of 30 books and winner of the 2013 Excellence in (Investigative) Journalism Award and the 2008 New England Book Festival Award. Crime, murder and serial killer expert, creator/producer/writer and former host of the Investigation Discovery series DARK MINDS, acclaimed, award-winning investigative journalist M.
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