Michele R. McPhee
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Michele R. McPhee

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Michele R. McPhee is a screenwriter and best selling true crime author; five-time Emmy-nominated television investigative producer in Boston for ABC News; award-winning columnist; contributing editor to Newsweek and writer for Boston and LA Magazines. She wrote Episode Five of Showtime's City On A Hill in Season One and continues to consult for Season Two while writing her first HBO pilot "The Beast" based on her reporting contained in an upcoming book about the MS-13 street gang. McPhee spent more than six years investigating the Boston Marathon attacks and that work is contained in her new book Maximum Harm, the Tsarnaev Brothers, the FBI, and the Road to the Marathon Bombing. She has also written five other true crime titles: A Professor's Rage; A Date 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. Her sixth book, Maximum Harm, an in-depth examination of the Boston Marathon bombings and the intelligence community’s response to the attack before and after the dual blasts killed three, was released in 2016. The updated paperback edition, Mayhem, was released in April 2020. 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. She 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 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 has covered high-profile crime cases across the country and has been a commentator on breaking news for national programs on ABC World News Tonight, NBC Dateline, CNN; MSNBC; and the Fox News Network. She is also a frequent guest on ID Discovery and A&E regarding high-profile crime cases and was a host on the Travel Channel hit series America Declassified. She was the only full-time female host of a four-hour New England market talk radio program, the Michele McPhee radio show, and she continues to provide commentary on radio shows around the country. McPhee 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 for her work in the Boston Herald. McPhee’s true crime stories have appeared in more than a dozen national magazines including Newsweek; Maxim; Stuff; Cosmopolitan; New York; ESPN the Magazine; Gotham; Manhattan File; and other international publications. She is the recipient of many journalism awards, including the Society of the Silurian’s Feature News Award for her New York Daily News 9-11 coverage. She was awarded First Place for Serious Column in the Boston Herald by the Associated Press. Her work for Team 5 Investigates at ABC affiliate WCVB earned her a 2012 nomination for Outstanding Investigative Reporting and her work with Ross Investigative Unit led two other nominations: Best Business Reporting; Outstanding Investigative Reporting in News Magazine. She was also honored with an Il Migliore award by the Pirandello Lycei Society of Boston. Web: www.michelemcphee.com Twitter: @MicheleMcPhee LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michelemcphee?trk=hp-identity-name Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/michelemcpheeshow McPhee lives in Los Angeles and Boston.
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    • Mayhem

    • Unanswered Questions About the Tsarnaev Brothers, the US Government and the Boston Marathon Bombing
    • By: Michele R. McPhee
    • Narrated by: Devon Sorvari
    • Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 27-10-20
    • Language: English
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