Okay, we are live. Hi, this is William Ramsey. Welcome to William Ramsey Investigates on today's show. I have a very special guest. His name is Jim Cosgrove. Last name is spelled C-O-V-E. And you just published a fantastic true crime book, which I read through yesterday. I finished it. Title of the book is Ripple, a long, strange search for a killer. If you're watching this on YouTube, you can see me holding up a copy of the book is Ripple, A Long, Strange Search for a Killer.

If you're watching this on YouTube, you can see me holding up a copy of the book right now, book cover.

And it's a very original approach to a true crime story that I haven't read before.

I've read a lot of true crime books and interviewed a lot of true crime authors, but this one stands alone kind of in a unique place and takes place over a long period of time.

He can talk more about that.

But Jim Cosgrove learned the art of storytelling as the youngest of eight children in a large, extended Irish Catholic family.

While working as a feature writer for the Albuquerque

Journal in 1995, he picked up the trail of a cold case involving the disappearance of a family

friend, Frank McGonical, a lovable, hapless, Grateful Dead fan who left his Kansas City home in

1982 and never returned. Ripple, which gives a nod to the 1970 Grateful Dead song,

is the culmination of this long, strange journey in Cosgrove's first true crime book.

Cosgrove is a nationally recognized award-winning children's entertainer,

known by his young fans as Mr. Stinky Feet.

He is also the author of three children's books,

and everybody gets Stinky Feet. He is also the author of three children's books, and everybody

gets Stinky Feet a collection of inspirational essays from his time as a parenting columnist

for the Kansas City Star. But you can see his website at Jim Cosgrove author.com. And again,

the book we're going to talk, the true crime book we're going to talk about

today is Ripple, a long, strange search for a killer. So Jim Cosgrove, welcome to the show.

Thanks for agreeing to the interview. Thank you, William. It's an honor. Awesome. So for people who

may not have heard your name or this book, I'd saw it on True Murder. I thought I saw you interviewed by a friend of mine, Dan Zupanski.

Yeah.

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