Where Monsters Hide, M. William Phelps
Where Monsters Hide, M. William Phelps
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Where Monsters Hide
Sex, Murder, and Madness in the Midwest

Author: M. William Phelps

Narrator: Jonathan Yen

Unabridged: 11 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 03/26/2019


Synopsis

In October 2014, after Chris Regan failed to arrive at his new job, his ex-girlfriend filed a missing-person report. Something was off. It was not like Chris, a devoted father, avid hiker, and all-around great guy, not to show up. When local Michigan police chief Laura Frizzo learned Chris was having an affair with Kelly Cochran, a married coworker, suspicion fell on her husband, Jason. After a search warrant on their house revealed several suspicious items, the Cochrans abruptly moved to Indiana. As questions swirled around the case, the whereabouts of Chris Regan remained unknown.

Sixteen months later Jason Cochran died from a drug overdose. Friends and family rallied around the grieving and distraught Kelly. But when the coroner ruled Jason's death a homicide, no one reacted more bizarrely than his widow. For months detectives tried to put Kelly's past into focus, but the truth was buried under a patchwork of lies, contradictions, and brutally horrific revelations. As Kelly Cochran, a Purdue graduate and psychology major, played "catch me if you can," a mesmerizing story emerged that rivals today's bestselling fiction in its drama and fascination.

About M. William Phelps

M. William Phelps is an investigative journalist, podcast host, television expert, and New York Times bestselling author of over forty nonfiction books, including the groundbreaking crime memoir Dangerous Ground. Winner of the Excellence in (Investigative) Journalism Award from the Society of Professional Journalists and the New England Book Festival Award, he's spent over 300 hours on television as a true crime expert, appearing on numerous shows, including CBS's The Early Show, ABC's Good Morning America, the Today show and The View. He created, produced, and starred in the series Dark Minds and also stars in Deadly Women, Sex, Lies & Murder, Oxygen's Snapped, Killer Couples, and #Killerpost. He is the creator and host of the iHeartRadio original podcast series Paper Ghosts, The Five, and has been called "the nation's leading authority on the mind of the female murderer" by Radio America. Touched by tragedy himself through the unsolved murder of his sister-in-law, Phelps is able to enter the hearts and minds of his subjects like no one else. He lives in a Connecticut farming community.


Reviews

Where Monsters Hide: Sex, Murder, and Madness in the Midwest I really got into this awesome true crime book. Once I was all involved in the story, I stayed up super late, not wanting to stop until finally pure exhaustion and not being able to see the letters anymore caused me to quit. I confess to be......more

Goodreads review by Linda

This is a true crime story that occurred October 2014. Chris Regan, known to be a devoted father to his two children, a war hero, a dependable, reliable employee, just up and disappeared. When investigators learn that he had been involved romantically with a married co-worker, the woman's husband bec......more

PLEASE get a better editor!! I preordered this book, giving Mr. Phelps one last chance. Sadly, his repetitive style of writing has not changed a bit, nor his UNBELIEVABLE overuse of quotation marks. I'm NOT nitpicking. The author puts things in quotes when there is no reason at all to do so. A few ti......more