Aphrodite Jones

Author/True Crime Journalist/Television Host

Aphrodite Jones knows the crime world first hand. She’s a TV persona and true crime author who doesn’t sugar-coat her opinions on controversial crimes. Jones who has used her reporter’s hunch for over 25 years to investigate homicides, and created the hit TV series for ID, “True Crime with Aphrodite Jones,” now available on Amazon Prime.

Throughout her career, Jones has written a string of New York Times best-selling true crime books which have inspired real-life films, most notably, her book All She Wanted was the inspiration for Academy Award-wining the film, Boys Don’t Cry. Her book A Perfect Husband was made into the Lifetime film, The Staircase Murders, and was a precursor to the acclaimed Netflix reality series, “The Staircase.”

A regular presence on broadcast and cable news shows for two decades, Jones has covered the trials of O.J. Simpson, the BTK, Michael Jackson, Casey Anthony, Phil Spector, and drug kingpin El Chapo Guzman, among others. To that end, Jones has appeared as a crime expert on CBS, NBC, ABC, ID, CNN, HLN, FOX News, MSNBC, Oxygen, REELZ, and E! News. Most recently, she has made appearances on Dr. Oz and ABC’s 20/20, shedding light on the psyche of killers and exposing the ripple effects that every murder generates.