M. William Phelps

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

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

Few Americans know much more about Nathan Hale than his famous last words: "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." But there was more to Nathan Hale....

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....

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....

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....

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

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....

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

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

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....

When she was 15, Jennifer Mee developed an unrelenting case of the hiccups - hiccupping as many as 50 times a minute for months....

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....

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 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....

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

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....

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....