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Crime expert, lecturer, award-winning journalist and “young historian” M. William Phelps is the author of 12 books; he is the winner of the 2008 New England Book Festival Award for "I’ll Be Watching You." He has appeared on Court TV, The Discovery Channel, Fox News Channel, CN8, ABC’s “Good Morning America,” The Learning Channel, Biography Channel, History Channel, Montel Williams, Oxygen, Geraldo At Large, USA Radio Network, ABC News Radio and Radio America, who calls him “the nation’s leading authority on the mind of the female murderer.” He’s written for the Providence Journal, Hartford Courant, the New London Day, and been profiled in such noted publications as Writer's Digest, NY Daily News, Newsday, Albany Times-Union, Hartford Courant, Advance for Nurses magazine, Forensic Nursing. Phelps has also consulted for the Showtime cable television series “Dexter.”
He lives in a small Connecticut farming community with his wife, three children and Labrador.
Phelps books include Nathan Hale, Failures of the Presidents, Perfect Poison, Lethal Guardian, Every Move You Make, Sleep In Heavenly Peace, Murder in the Heartland, Because You Loved Me, If Looks Could Kill, I’ll Be Watching You, Cruel Death (2009) and Deadly Secrets (2009).
At the present time, Phelps is working on a biography of healthcare pioneer/serial killer Amy Archer-Gilligan, his first thriller, and several true-crime books, including the Jessica Bates McCord case in Alabama.
I'LL BE WATCHING YOU
In September 2001, Carmen Rodriguez, a beautiful 32-year-old Hartford mother of four, went missing. At first police were stymied…until a killer’s crucial mistake led investigators down a long, dark road of cold, calculated murder…
In 1987, single mother Mary Ellen Renard was strangled, repeatedly stabbed, and left for dead in her New Jersey apartment. Her vicious assailant had already killed once…and would kill again. But unlike the fiend’s other victims, Mary Ellen lived to tell her horrifying tale...
Clean-cut, popular and on the fast track at a multinational computer firm, Rutgers grad Edwin “Ned” Snelgrove shocked friends and colleagues with a plea bargain for Renard’s brutal attack—and the heinous 1984 murder of college girlfriend Karen Osmun. Vowing never to be caught again, Ned spent his time in prison obsessively studying the violent career of his idol Ted Bundy…then was released ten years early for good behavior…
Unflinching and brilliantly researched, M. William Phelps takes readers on an exclusive tour into the twisted mind of an all-American serial killer, at one point becoming part of the story himself…and a state's attorney's tireless effort to lock him away forever.
“Phelps’s sharp attention to detail proves that truth is more shocking than fiction.”
—New York Times bestselling author Allison Brennan