M. William Phelps

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

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....

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....

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

A life gone murderously wrong....

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

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....

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

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

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"....

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 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....

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

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

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....

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....