Bill Green sits down with award-winning journalist and true crime author Annie McCormick, whose career began in the White House photo office during the Gore administration and took her to the New York Times, the Philadelphia Daily News, and eventually 6ABC Action News, where she spent 13 years as one of the region's most trusted reporters. Annie shares how she talked her way into photojournalism, built lifelong relationships with the press corps and law enforcement, and hustled her way from freelance shoots to the anchor desk of breaking news across the tri-state area.

The conversation dives into some of the biggest stories of her career, including the 13-day manhunt for escaped convict Danilo Cavalcante, the capture of Bryan Kohberger in the Poconos, and the still-baffling death of Ellen Greenberg. Annie opens up about why she has always been drawn to crime, what viewers never see behind the Action News van, and what it felt like to cover a summer packed with history, from an assassination attempt to a presidential debate hosted in her own backyard.

Finally, Annie takes us inside her latest book, Restless Ghosts, a deep dive into an unsolved 1929 Moorestown death investigation that has haunted South Jersey for nearly a century. She explains how she uncovered the story, why old Quaker families, Prohibition-era bootleggers, and Philadelphia gangsters all collide in its pages, and why she left her comfortable job at Disney to bet on herself. Over farm-fresh strawberry mocktails and Saddlehill wine, this is a masterclass in storytelling, reinvention, and following your passion.

Episode Resources:

• Annie McCormick’s Official Website
• Restless Ghosts: Murder, Suicide, and the Case That Wouldn’t Stay Buried by Annie McCormick
• Hulu Docuseries - Death in Apartment 603
• The Doctor, the Hitman, and the Motorcycle Gang by Annie McCormick