Michele McPhee began her journalism career with The Boston Globe in 1993.
23 Facts About Michele McPhee
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In 2004, Michele McPhee became a columnist with the Boston Herald.
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Michele McPhee began her radio career with an evening talk show on WTKK in 2007.
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In 2010, Michele McPhee began hosting her own afternoon talk show on WRKO and started guest hosting The Howie Carr Show on WRKO.
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Michele McPhee's radio show ended in 2017 when the WMEX radio station stopped broadcasting.
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Michele McPhee graduated from Wakefield High School in Wakefield, Massachusetts 1988 and the University of Massachusetts, Boston in 1993.
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In September 1993, Michele McPhee became a contributing reporter to The Boston Globe.
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In December 1996, Michele McPhee joined the New York Daily News, writing her first article for the newspaper for the Christmas Eve edition, "No Bail For Alleged Gotti Heir".
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In 2002, Michele McPhee was named the first female police bureau chief for the New York Daily News.
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Michele McPhee won the 2002 New York Society of the Silurians' Feature News Award for an article titled "The Days After" about the September 11,2001 attack.
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In 2003, McPhee participated in a debate about the police shooting of Amadou Diallo alongside attorney Anthony H Gair on the NPR program The Tavis Smiley Show, guest hosted that day by Tony Cox.
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In 2004, Michele McPhee appeared on the Fox News Channel program The O'Reilly Factor to discuss an issue with a local September 11 charity.
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Michele McPhee returned to Boston in 2004 and became a weekly columnist and police bureau chief for the Boston Herald until late 2007.
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Michele McPhee continued writing a weekly column for the paper and freelanced news stories.
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From December 2007 to November 2010, Michele McPhee hosted an evening talk show on WTKK.
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Michele McPhee's contract was not renewed, because of creative differences, and was immediately pulled from the air.
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Michele McPhee left WRKO after a seven-month stay, but returned to the station on June 11,2012 to occupy a new four-hour midday slot on the station's schedule.
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Michele McPhee was a story consultant for the Lifetime made-for-TV movie based on the Clark Rockefeller case that aired in March 2010.
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In June 2015, Michele McPhee pleaded not guilty to charges of operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol, resisting arrest and assault and battery on a police officer.
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Michele McPhee was arrested on Interstate 93 in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, after being observed driving her Mercedes erratically by a Massachusetts State Trooper.
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On January 29,2016, Michele McPhee's lawyer claimed the state trooper had assaulted her and that she was hurt worse in the altercation.
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Michele McPhee has written several best-selling true crime books, including Mob Over Miami, Heartless: The True Story of Neil Entwistle and the Brutal Murder of His Wife and Baby, When Evil Rules, A Date With Death: The True Story of the Craigslist Killer, and A Mob Story.
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Michele McPhee contributed to the anthology, Masters of True Crime.