Michele McPhee is the host of
THE MICHELE MCPHEE SHOW that can be heard weekdays from 1 to 3 p.m. at AM 680 WRKO www.wrko.com

A veteran crime journalist, she is best-selling true crime author of “A Date With Death;” “Heartless – The True Story of Neil Entwistle and the Brutal Murder of His Wife and Baby;” “When Evil Rules;” and “A Mob Story.” McPhee’s investigation into the Harvard-PhD who is accused of a murderous rampage at the University of Alabama, “A Professor’s Rage,” will be released by St. Martin’s Press in June 2011.

Her book “A Date With Death” was adapted by Sony Pictures for the Lifetime TV movie the//craigslist.killer that aired in January 2011 http://www.mylifetime.com/movies/the-craigslist-killer/interview/date-with-death-author-michele-mcphee

McPhee was also a story consultant for Sony Pictures Lifetime TV movie based on the Clark Rockefeller case “Who is Clark Rockefeller?” that aired on March 13, 2010. http://www.mylifetime.com/movies/who-is-clark-rockefeller

“A Mob Story” is in development as a feature film titled “UnMade Man” http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/448886/Unmade-Man/overview

McPhee is a Boston Herald columnist; frequent commentator on Boston’s Fox 25 and is the New England correspondent for ABC News.

She has co-produced and hosted two Tru-TV “Mugshot” specials – one chronicling Chris Paciello, the South Beach, Miami nightclub king turned mob rat who was the subject of her book “Mob Over Miami” [now titled “A Mob Story.”

The second Tru-TV documentary centered on the life of Sammy “The Bull” Gravano, the Gambino crime family turncoat whose testimony sent the late John Gotti to prison for life. She is also a creator of the A&E TV special, “Crime Ink,” which featured her reporting alongside other crime scribes in New York City.

She has covered high-profile crime cases across the country and has been a commentator on breaking news for national programs on CNN; MSNBC; and the Fox News Network.

McPhee was the Police Bureau Chief for the New York Daily News, the paper where she covered murder, mayhem and the Mafia for nearly ten years. She was at Ground Zero on September 11, 2001 – the terrible morning when 23 NYPD officers, 37 Port Authority police officers, and 343 FDNY members were slain. She was the recipient of the 2002 New York Society of the Silurian’s Feature News Award for a body of work entitled: “The Days After.”

She returned to her native Boston in 2004, where McPhee she was awarded first place for “Serious Column” by the New England Press Association in 2007. McPhee’s true crime stories have appeared in more than a dozen national magazines including Maxim; Stuff; Cosmopolitan; New York; ESPN the Magazine; Gotham; Manhattan File; and other international publications.

McPhee lives in Boston, Massachusetts.