S18 Ep125: The Dead Soul with M. William Phelps
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🗓️ 17 October 2023
⏱️ 127 minutes
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Summary
M. William Phelps’s new book, THE DEAD SOUL, takes you on a suspenseful journey through Boston's illicit past, where Detective Jake "Sundance" Cooper fights to redeem his crumbling career. At the same time, a sadistic serial killer known as "the Optimist"—a character based on the author’s 20 years of research and writing about real serial killers—terrorizes young female victims along the city's Freedom Trail.
Matthew joins True Crime Tuesday to detail the differences between real life serial killers and the ones in his books and Hollywood, How he developed the characters for The Dead Soul, the parallells in the book with the Catholic church and police corruption in Boston, and his burning passion for podcasting and his passion projects, Paper Ghosts, and Crossing The Line!
Pre-order "The Dead Soul" here:Â https://wbp.bz/DeadSoul
Check out M. William Phelps' podcast, Paper Ghosts:Â https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-paper-ghosts-70977237/
And, check out Matthew's weekly podcast, Crossing The Line:Â https://crossingtheline.biz/
PLUS AN ALL-NEW DUMB CRIMES/STUPID CRIMINALS WITH BEER CITY BRUISER!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome in to the Best in True Crime Podcasting. |
| 0:25.0 | This is True Crime Tuesday, I'm your host Tim Dennis. |
| 0:27.8 | I'm excited for today's show folks. |
| 0:29.8 | We have a returning guest who is, man, when you want to talk about the best of the best, |
| 0:34.8 | we're bringing back the best of the best here on today's program. |
| 0:37.8 | Our guest today is M. William Phelps. |
| 0:41.8 | You know the name, you know the pedigree, but I'll go over the pedigree quickly. |
| 0:46.8 | Not only is he a true crime analyst, creator, executive producer, writer, and former host of investigative discoveries, dark minds. |
| 0:54.8 | He's an investigative journalist. |
| 0:56.8 | Also the New York Times bestselling author of 39 nonfiction books, |
| 1:01.8 | and winner of the Excellence in Investigative Journalism Award |
| 1:05.8 | from the Society of Professional Journalists, and the New England Book Festival Award. |
| 1:10.8 | M. William Phelps has written for numerous publications, |
| 1:15.8 | the Providence Journal, Connecticut Magazine, Hartford, Karant. |
| 1:19.8 | You may know him as well as the consultant on the first season of Showtime's Dexter. |
| 1:26.8 | You'll know him from other things as well, the executive producer and creator of To Catch a Killer. |
| 1:32.8 | He's been on numerous programs, Oxygen's Snap. |
| 1:37.8 | He's a recurring expert on Snap. |
| 1:41.8 | And he knows the mind of a serial killer. |
| 1:46.8 | And boy, I tell you with this latest release that I had the pleasure of reading this past weekend, |
| 1:52.8 | the Dead Soul, which is out via Wild Blue Press. |
| 1:57.8 | I tell you, I get goosebumps just talking about it. |
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