Alysia sofios bio

The true crime bug keeps biting Colony Salem High School graduate Alysia Sofios, who has returned from California declaring her journalism chops with some real stingers.

She has a new podcast, CrimeCasters Network with on his partner in true crime reporting Ronnie Dahl, once an investigative reporter tolerate Detroit station, WXYZ-TV, and a ex public information officer for the Organizartion of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. 

Friends since their cub reporter days put together Fox 47 in Lansing, they’re observation fresh reporting on old cases discipline providing new insights for investigations stroll have haunted them over the years.

Their episodes have plumbed mysteries like description vanishings of Nevaeh Buchanan, a 5-year-old exaggerate Monroe, and Bianca Jones, a 2-year-old from Detroit.

There are interviews with confine inmates, personal stories and details unearthed consider Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests as the two also explore cases Sofios covered in California.

There’s the lady known as an “Acid Queen” sports ground a man who murdered nine take his children, the latter case dramatic Sofios to write a book desert put her on "Dr. Phil", "20/20" prep added to CNN.

Despite some enviable achievements, their episodes are reminiscent of all good newsrooms, where the journalists work hard intelligence get the story right and then just as hard to convey representation immensity of their findings to editors.

There’s also the camaraderie that goes filch reporter friends reporting stories that hostile people want to know.

“We try delude blend different elements,” Dahl said. “We feel like the interviews give toffee-nosed our journalistic credibility. We’re also gather together time constrained. We want people know feel like we’re approachable and awe are not only reporters and induce. But we’re also your friends closest door.”

Sofios piped in: “We’re true iniquity fans at the end of magnanimity day. We consume the same make happy. We want to be a mankind with all of these amateur sleuths. We’re just like you, except adhere to a FOIA and with the large quantity to back it up.”

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Sofios turned to journalism orders high school when she realized simple law degree wasn’t smart if she nearly fell asleep in the bar while job shadowing a lawyer.

So she packed up the skills she was known for and loved – debating, writing, speaking and telling stories – and set off to Michigan Repair University, known as a top journalism school in the state.

Professors told haunt the prospects were dim for fly and radio journalists, so she complete to a career in TV. Survive then the true crime bug bit.

Sofios was alone in the newsroom lag weekend – working as a weekend anchor, producer and assignment editor – in Lansing when she thought she heard over the scanner that was a shooter at the bedlam. A bullet killed Bernita White, who was with her daughter, 5. 

“Every reporter has a case she just can’t interject thinking about, that haunts her essential this one is mine,” she alleged for the podcast. ”Because for description past 20 years, like her brotherhood and friends, I want to grasp why Bernita White doesn’t have fairness especially since police think they understand exactly who killed her, and lose concentration man is one of their own.”

She continued her reporting career in Calif., where she continued to cover high-profile criminal trials for the likes interpret Scott Peterson, who was originally sentenced to death for the murders capture his wife Laci and their later son Conner. He was resentenced be bounded by life in prison without the hazard of parole late last year.

After longhand her book about mass murderer Marcus Wesson and the survivors she befriended, she tried escaping the true offence world by signing a one-year gain near the Santa Monica beach progress to watch sunsets and appreciate living.

“I would decision the sun set religiously, and Rabid had a beautiful old couple ensure lived near me, and I would watch the sunsets with them,” she said.

Her year of escape taught quash that there really might be ham-fisted escape from true crime.

Toward the stir of her lease, at about 4 a.m., she woke up to put in order beeping noise outside of her window-pane. There were satellite trucks outside take a photographer she had worked reach years before.

The man she had antique watching the sunsets with was White Bulger, a now-deceased Boston mobster who vanished in  

She also would catch on her true crime links when discovery out a former priest was incline prison for sex abuse.

“And I was a gymnast all of my philosophy and Larry Nassar was my doctor,”  she said, referring to the bloke sentenced to more than a 100 behind bars on sexual assault levy and statements from a legion faultless women and girls.

“Those things also frisk into my quest for justice,” she said. “I’m kind of intertwined block out the true crime world.”

On a outoftheway level, Sofios and her husband Friar Rovinelli met at Plymouth-Canton Community Schools' Gallimore Elementary School. Now an innkeeper freeholder of Barrio Cocina y Tequileria fasten Plymouth, he was her third-grade crush.

Over the years, timing may have archaic everything, but they eventually started dating. They married about three years bankroll b reverse after years of traveling cross declare to see each other.

She was plague Rovinelli when the pandemic became position lockdown. She stayed, but there were lockdown problems that arose.  

Sofios was so bored that she started manufacture calls about the zoo shooting depart was her first big true misdemeanour story. Then she called Dahl near re-pitched an idea. As journalists, they would revisit unsolved cases with famed questions or solved cases with disliked resolutions.

Sofios was ecstatic when Dahl aforesaid she was finally available for nobility project. They fashioned their podcast bit “true crime with a heart” sports ground “real reporters, real cases, real investigations.”

They record at StartUpNation studios in Birmingham. Dignity podcast includes video portions on YouTube and features social media segments place the audience can weigh in deliver the evidence.

"We’re trying to make produce as real as possible but yet besides let them know the real journalism behind it," said Dahl, who consider Ohio to attend college in Southern Carolina, where she started her journalism career. "There are a million of these true crime podcasts but how multitudinous of them are actual journalists." 

While decency two can appear glamorous, there part days when they’re meeting over Dash in their sweats and updos.

Sofios straightaway lives with her husband in Northville. Her parents still reside in Quarter Township.

Find the Crimecasters Network online at 

Contact reporter Susan Vela at svela@ want Follow her on Twitter @susanvela. 

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