S21 Ep74: Atropos: Serial Killer On The Loose In The Southeast w/Royce Wilson
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🗓️ 23 June 2026
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Summary
True Crime Tuesday presents: Atropos: Serial Killer On the Loose In The Southeast with 40-year law enforcement expert/Author, Royce Wilson!
Detective Riley Scott just wants a routine murder. He gets anything but.
One mutilated body in Tampa turns into a city-wide killing spree with no motive, no witnesses, and no end in sight. The deeper Scott digs, the more the case coils around his own life—until his girlfriend vanishes and fellow officers start dying.
Suspended from duty and running out of time, Scott has days to answer two terrifying questions: Is the woman he loves the killer… or the next victim?
Fast-paced, forensically accurate, and packed with twists that hit like a crime-scene hammer, ATROPOS is the series launch readers are calling “Harry Bosch meets Kay Scarpetta on the sun-scorched streets of Florida.”
On today's TCT, we talk to Royce Wilson about his fascinating career in law enforcement. How one learns forensic science as an apprentice. The real-life inspiration that has fueled some of Royce's most famous characters and plotlines, and finally, the behind-the-scenes look at Atropos.... and Beyond!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome in everybody to the best in true crime podcasting. |
| 0:25.5 | This is True Crime Tuesday. |
| 0:26.6 | I'm your host, Tim Dennis. |
| 0:28.0 | We're going to take it down the fiction route today. |
| 0:30.3 | And I'm going to do that with a guest that was referred to me by our good friend, Alan Warren. |
| 0:34.7 | And he always refers me to these wonderful guests that are distinguished, |
| 0:40.3 | that have these great histories and great books out there. And again, Alan's thrown me a fish |
| 0:47.5 | I could never land, ladies and gentlemen. Today we have Royce Wilson with us, a distinguished |
| 0:53.2 | author of many, many books out there, |
| 0:55.8 | and I know you know him. He's new to my vision in my world. |
| 1:03.0 | Royce Wilson uses his vast law enforcement forensics experience like a master, |
| 1:08.1 | waving images from actual scenes into his novels, giving them a rich feel of |
| 1:12.5 | authenticity. After more than 40 years in law enforcement, forensics with the Sheriff's Office |
| 1:16.4 | in Tampa, Florida, Royce writes detective mysteries and thrillers with plots that are compelling |
| 1:22.9 | and entertainingly realistic and characters that we can all relate to. In fact, Riley Scott is the |
| 1:29.4 | focus of Atropos, which is the novel that I got done reading this past weekend. We'll talk about |
| 1:36.4 | that today. And you can not only relate to these characters, you can epitize with them. You either |
| 1:43.3 | love them or you hate them. |
| 1:44.4 | I actually kind of liked Riley. I related to him quite a bit. The dialogue's authentic, as is the detectives work, forensics, and crime scene investigations and plot. You're going to fall right in, folks, and you're going to be riveted from the time you crack this book to the time that you put it down, we'll have a link to Atropos |
| 2:01.0 | in the description of this program. And to all of Riley's books, as a matter of Riley, listen to me, to Royce's books. I'm so into Riley. I can't tell you the difference between Riley and Royce, but let's bring in Royce. He feels real. He does, doesn't he? Royce Wilson, thank you so much for being with us today. I appreciate it. |
| 2:17.3 | Thank you for having me, Tim. I'm excited to be here. |
| 2:19.5 | I'm excited to have you. Let's talk about |
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