Murder in Turners Falls: The Brandy Waryasz Case

A young expecting mother-to-be is living her best life. She’s beaming with happiness, getting married soon to a man she’s loved since high school. Planning on buying a home. It’s the summer of 2004 in Turners Falls, Massachusetts. Seven-months-pregnant Brandy Waryasz is at work one early night when a man she knows pulls up and asks for her help. Several customers stop in and leave, and all of them report something seemingly different. What happened to Brandy and who is responsible?

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M. William Phelps is the New York Times best-selling author of 46 nonfiction books and winner of the Excellence in (Investigative) Journalism Award from the Society of Professional Journalists. Phelps has written for numerous publications1, including the Providence Journal, Connecticut Magazine and Hartford Courant. Diversifying his talents, Phelps consulted on the first season of the hit Showtime cable television series Dexter and has executive produced and starred in over 350 hours of true crime television. All of which gives him a confluence of expertise and experience to bring to true crime fanatics.

Phelps grew up in East Hartford, Connecticut, and now splits his time between Tolland County and N. Stonington, CT. In July 2017, he published his definitive, 10-year project about Happy Face Killer, Keith Hunter Jesperson, DANGEROUS GROUND: My Friendship with a Serial Killer.