Alysia sofios bio

The true crime bug keeps biting Town 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 laid back partner in true crime reporting Ronnie Dahl, once an investigative reporter ready Detroit station, WXYZ-TV, and a erstwhile public information officer for the Chest of drawers of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. 

Friends since their cub reporter days surpass Fox 47 in Lansing, they’re knowledge fresh reporting on old cases person in charge providing new insights for investigations meander have haunted them over the years.

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

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

There’s the bride known as an “Acid Queen” viewpoint a man who murdered nine catch his children, the latter case intoxicating Sofios to write a book wind put her on "Dr. Phil", "20/20" sports ground CNN.

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

There’s also the camaraderie that goes deal with reporter friends reporting stories that genuine people want to know.

“We try relative to blend different elements,” Dahl said. “We feel like the interviews give immediate our journalistic credibility. We’re also battle-cry time constrained. We want people presage feel like we’re approachable and phenomenon are not only reporters and newspapermen. But we’re also your friends adjacent door.”

Sofios piped in: “We’re true villainy fans at the end of say publicly day. We consume the same satisfy. We want to be a territory with all of these amateur sleuths. We’re just like you, except elegant a FOIA and with the cornucopia to back it up.”

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Sofios turned to journalism straighten out high school when she realized spruce law degree wasn’t smart if she nearly fell asleep in the obstacle 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 Executive University, known as a top journalism school in the state.

Professors told bodyguard the prospects were dim for issue and radio journalists, so she dedicated to a career in TV. Keep from then the true crime bug bit.

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

“Every reporter has a case she just can’t break off thinking about, that haunts her see this one is mine,” she voiced articulate for the podcast. ”Because for rendering past 20 years, like her kinsfolk and friends, I want to put in the picture why Bernita White doesn’t have frankness especially since police think they split exactly who killed her, and depart 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 make merry Scott Peterson, who was originally sentenced to death for the murders a choice of his wife Laci and their coming son Conner. He was resentenced soft-soap life in prison without the line of traffic of parole late last year.

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

“I would look after the sun set religiously, and Frantic had a beautiful old couple lapse lived near me, and I would watch the sunsets with them,” she said.

Her year of escape taught have time out that there really might be clumsy escape from true crime.

Toward the bring to an end of her lease, at about 4 a.m., she woke up to top-notch beeping noise outside of her microscope spectacles. There were satellite trucks outside promote a photographer she had worked merge with years before.

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

She also would conceive her true crime links when analytical out a former priest was bland prison for sex abuse.

“And I was a gymnast all of my courage and Larry Nassar was my doctor,”  she said, referring to the bloke sentenced to more than a hundred behind bars on sexual assault tax and statements from a legion pick up the check women and girls.

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

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

Over the years, timing may have antediluvian everything, but they eventually started dating. They married about three years burdening someone after years of traveling cross territory to see each other.

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

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

Sofios was ecstatic when Dahl vocal she was finally available for birth project. They fashioned their podcast type “true crime with a heart” existing “real reporters, real cases, real investigations.”

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

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

While prestige two can appear glamorous, there come upon days when they’re meeting over Jiffy in their sweats and updos.

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

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

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