MODEL DETECTIVE—Michele Wood
True Murder: The Most Shocking Killers in True Crime History
Dan Zupansky
4.0 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 23 March 2026
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Sergeant Michele Wood, a 25-year veteran of the Chicago Police Department, has spent nearly two decades in the Detective Division. With hundreds of arrests, and an extraordinary record of solving murders, she has led homicide teams while also appearing as a legal expert on ABC’s 20/20 and other national true crime series.
In MODEL DETECTIVE, Wood takes readers through complex murder cases—revealing how she interprets evidence and uses her perspective as a woman to succeed in a male-dominated world. Wood’s skills attest to her high success rate and stellar reputation on the force and explains why she’s Chicago’s (and probably the country’s) only detective who previously worked as a flight attendant, moonlighted as a fitness-magazine model, and continues her on-air fame as a crime TV expert. From the story of her Chicago upbringing to the extraordinary perils of policing in Chicago, MODEL DETECTIVE is the raw inspiring, tale of courage, resilience and determination in America’s most violent city. MODEL DETECTIVE: A True Story of Heels, Handcuffs and Homicides—Michele Wood
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| 0:37.2 | You are now listening to True Murder, the most shocking killers in true crime history, and the authors that have written about them. |
| 0:45.8 | Gacy, Bundy, Domer, The Nightstalker, BTK, every week another fascinating author talking about the most shocking and infamous killers in true crime history. |
| 0:58.0 | True murder, with your host, journalist and author, Dan Zupansky. |
| 1:09.8 | Good evening. |
| 1:12.1 | Model Detective takes readers where true crime has never gone before. |
| 1:17.4 | Inside the heart, mind, and soul of a Chicago homicide detective |
| 1:21.6 | whose grit and instincts prove that a woman's place is in the homicide division. |
| 1:29.7 | Sergeant Michelle Wood, a 25-year veteran of the Chicago Police Department, has spent |
| 1:35.4 | nearly two decades in the detective division. With hundreds of arrests and an extraordinary |
| 1:41.9 | record of solving murders, she has led homicide teams while also |
| 1:46.9 | appearing as a legal expert on ABC's 2020 and other national true crime series. |
| 1:55.0 | In Model Detective, Wood takes readers through complex murder cases, revealing how she interprets evidence and uses |
| 2:03.2 | her perspective as a woman to succeed in a male-dominated world. Wood's skills attests to her |
| 2:10.9 | high success rate and her stellar reputation on the force, and explains why she's Chicago's, |
| 2:19.7 | and probably the country's only detective, who previously worked as a flight attendant, moonlighted as a fitness magazine model, and |
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