S21 Ep50: Model Detective: Inside The Mind Of A Female Homicide Boss w/Michele Wood

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🗓️ 28 April 2026

⏱️ 174 minutes

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True Crime Tuesday presents: Model Detective: Inside The Mind Of A Female Homicide Boss with Police Sergeant, Michele Wood!

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 her book, 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.

On Today's TCT, We talk to Michele Wood about everything from being a second-generation crimefighter to surviving in a big city male-dominant environment. We also break out the unusual crime scene questions we know use are dying to ask a detective!

Get your copy of "Model Detective" here: https://bit.ly/3QxVz2t

PLUS: AN ALL-NEW DUMB CRIMES/STUPID CRIMINALS WITH JESSICA FREEBURG!

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0:00.0	Welcome in to the best in True Crime Podcasting.
0:25.8	This is True Crime Tuesday.
0:26.9	I'm your host Tim Dennis.
0:27.9	Good show today, folks.
0:30.6	Jessica Freeberg on the way with dumb crime, stupid criminals just a bit.
0:34.4	But first, I got to read an exciting and very interesting book this past
0:39.8	weekend. A Model Detective, a true story of heels, handcuffs, and homicides was the book I got to read.
0:46.0	Michelle Wood is our guest today. I'll tell you, it was an interesting perspective of the Chicago Police Department of Michelle's life.
0:57.3	And I'm going to bring her in here in a second.
0:58.7	Let me tell you about her first.
1:00.0	And we'll get into her career.
1:01.3	For 25 years, Sergeant Michelle Wood has chased the truth through Chicago's most violent crimes,
1:08.4	a homicide supervisor, FBI certified hostage negotiator and national true
1:13.8	crime experts. She's lived the cases most people only watch on television. Let's bring her in now
1:19.1	and talk about this book, which was a very interesting book. I got to tell you, and gives me
1:24.8	a whole new perspective of a lot of different things.
1:30.7	Michelle Wood, welcome in for the first time to True Crime Tuesday.
1:32.3	Thank you, Tim.
1:33.5	Thank you so much for having me.
1:41.2	Now, you are a, what we like to call second generation, crime fighter, for lack of a better term.
1:43.3	Your grandfather was in the business, correct? Yeah, my grandfather was, he did police work. It was very different than the type of work I did,
1:49.0	but he was the chief of police of a small town, Terry Montana.
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