Crossing the Line with M. William Phelps

In the conclusion of this Crossing the Line two-part special, mother and school teacher Nancy Seaman describes what happened that deadly morning inside the couple’s garage. As an unlikely advocate comes to Nancy’s defense, we learn where she is today and where the case stands. 

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Wife, mother, school teacher, Nancy Seaman seems to be living the dream life in Farmington Hills, Michigan. Her husband, Robert Seaman, is an exec at Ford Motors before becoming the vice president of a local automotive manufacturer. When Bob is fired, however, and the couple’s secrets are exposed, that “dream life” shatters, and the results turn deadly. In the first part of this two-part Crossing the Line, you’ll hear ...

A teenager heads out to the local mall to buy a blouse. When she fails to come home, a search begins. As police and the girl’s family comb through the neighborhood and nearby woods, the girl’s father makes a grisly discovery. But 50 years goes by without an answer–that is, until a noted serial killer steps forward and claims responsibility. But is he telling the truth, or wanting one last media moment before his death?

A young Connecticut college student goes missing. The last person to see her is her longtime boyfriend. Weeks go by without any substantial leads, before computer forensics sends law enforcement into the woods in search of human remains. What they find, and what happens in the years to come, are an unthinkable set of crimes straight out of a horror film. 

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It’s late February 2024 in Billings, Montana. A 12-year-old child is reported missing. Friends and family claim to have not seen him in days. The police fear he has run away. But when a friend is backed into a corner and faces a few hard facts about what is found inside his house, is what he tells the police the truth, or just a convenient explanation to cover for a more sinister answer to a death ultimately dividing a...

Surgical nurse Marayna Rodgers, from the state of Washington, heads off to Las Vegas with a few friends to party for a few days. Unbeknownst to her, an old friend in Vegas is harboring a resentment about a watch and a secret she’s told Marayna, but specifically warned her not to share with anyone. When Marayna goes missing on December 6, 2023, the Las Vegas PD wonders if Marayna’s old friend has allowed that resentment...

In February 1983, the dead of winter in New England, a Kittery, Maine, man heads off to work one morning, finishes his shift, clocks out and leaves--and ... is never seen again. The feeling surrounding the disappearance seems like a plot from one of fellow “Mainiac,” Stephen King’s suspense novels. As the decades pile up with very few answers, in 2021, a local woman, Kristen Seavey, the host of the podcast “Murder, She...

The death of Molly Young in 2012 erupted into a social media firestorm, spreading all sorts of misinformation and rumor, leading to caustic disagreements–but also raised so many questions about what happened, a dozen years later, the investigation remains open and the conversation continues. Thus, what actually took place when 22-year-old Molly Young died—and what are the controversial aspects of the case the State’s A...

Few true-crime cases over the past 20 years can be considered iconic. When Natalee Holloway went missing on a high school class trip to Aruba in 2005, the story became a 24/7 news sensation. Natalee’s murder remained unsolved until late 2023. Phelps goes through the case–including the nauseating bloviation by the likes of Nancy Grace and the rest of the cable TV talking heads–and reveals the conclusion of this high-pro...

After 60-plus years, two unsolved murders in the San Fernando Valley heat back up when a rookie Los Angeles Police Department Cold Case detective is handed the files and realizes the answers were there the entire time. What’s more, those two homicides are only the beginning, as it appears a sadistic serial killer is at work. Phelps speaks with the detective, Rachel Evans, and gets the inside track on a serial murderer ...

In Rochester, New York, a young housewife and young mother is found brutally murdered in her bed. Her husband, an executive at Kodak Eastman Company, is at work. A local criminal steps up and confesses to the murder. But 40 years later, the case takes a different turn--one you’d never expect--after a renowned pathologist questions the the time of death.

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