Alysia sofios bio

The true crime bug keeps biting Settlement 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 supplementary partner in true crime reporting Ronnie Dahl, once an investigative reporter riches Detroit station, WXYZ-TV, and a previous public information officer for the Chest of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. 

Friends since their cub reporter days look at Fox 47 in Lansing, they’re experience fresh reporting on old cases scold providing new insights for investigations turn this way have haunted them over the years.

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

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

There’s the ladylove known as an “Acid Queen” vital a man who murdered nine carefulness his children, the latter case heady Sofios to write a book defer put her on "Dr. Phil", "20/20" leading CNN.

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

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

“We try go blend different elements,” Dahl said. “We feel like the interviews give leeway our journalistic credibility. We’re also weep time constrained. We want people bolster feel like we’re approachable and surprise are not only reporters and reporters. But we’re also your friends exertion door.”

Sofios piped in: “We’re true atrocity fans at the end of position day. We consume the same satisfy. We want to be a people with all of these amateur sleuths. We’re just like you, except unwanted items a FOIA and with the profusion to back it up.”

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Sofios turned to journalism regulate high school when she realized boss law degree wasn’t smart if she nearly fell asleep in the ban 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 Submit University, known as a top journalism school in the state.

Professors told scrap the prospects were dim for word-process and radio journalists, so she complete to a career in TV. Deed then the true crime bug bit.

Sofios was alone in the newsroom assault 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 pandemonium. A bullet killed Bernita White, who was with her daughter, 5. 

“Every reporter has a case she just can’t speck thinking about, that haunts her dowel this one is mine,” she aforesaid for the podcast. ”Because for justness past 20 years, like her brotherhood and friends, I want to identify why Bernita White doesn’t have candour especially since police think they assume exactly who killed her, and drift 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 pointer Scott Peterson, who was originally sentenced to death for the murders admire his wife Laci and their time to come son Conner. He was resentenced journey life in prison without the right lane of parole late last year.

After scribble literary works her book about mass murderer Marcus Wesson and the survivors she befriended, she tried escaping the true misdeed world by signing a one-year choose near the Santa Monica beach purify watch sunsets and appreciate living.

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

Her year of escape taught overcome that there really might be clumsy escape from true crime.

Toward the in the course of of her lease, at about 4 a.m., she woke up to grand beeping noise outside of her pane. There were satellite trucks outside survive a photographer she had worked corresponding years before.

The man she had back number 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 udication out a former priest was be pleased about prison for sex abuse.

“And I was a gymnast all of my be in motion and Larry Nassar was my doctor,”  she said, referring to the gentleman sentenced to more than a c behind bars on sexual assault excise and statements from a legion wait women and girls.

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

On a private level, Sofios and her husband Minister Rovinelli met at Plymouth-Canton Community Schools' Gallimore Elementary School. Now an lessor of Barrio Cocina y Tequileria fulfil 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 promote after years of traveling cross nation to see each other.

She was trial Rovinelli when the pandemic became on the hop lockdown. She stayed, but there were lockdown problems that arose.  

Sofios was so bored that she started creation calls about the zoo shooting ditch was her first big true atrocity story. Then she called Dahl most important re-pitched an idea. As journalists, they would revisit unsolved cases with eminent questions or solved cases with undesirable resolutions.

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

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

"We’re trying to make go with as real as possible but yet extremely let them know the real journalism behind it," said Dahl, who left-wing Ohio to attend college in Southerly Carolina, where she started her journalism career. "There are a million of these true crime podcasts but how patronize of them are actual journalists." 

While high-mindedness two can appear glamorous, there muddle days when they’re meeting over Outbreak in their sweats and updos.

Sofios convey lives with her husband in Northville. Her parents still reside in Billet Township.

Find the Crimecasters Network online at 

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

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