Kyle J. Wood

Born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri, Kyle graduated from University City Senior High School in 1977. He attended two semesters of Criminal Law studies at the University of Missouri (St. Louis) before relocating to Southern California where he would remain for the next ten years. Throughout the 1980s he worked on and/or appeared in numerous film projects, including Witches' Brew (1980), Halloween III (1982), Ten to Midnight (1983) and Streets of Fire (1984). In late 1993 he wrote, produced and directed Medford Girl, a documentary about the infamous Black Dahlia murder of 1947. Using profits from his project he would fund and donate a permanent memorial monument for victim Elizabeth Short in her former New England home town of Medford, Massachusetts. As a research consultant and on-air contributing guest for Mysteries and Scandals (E! Entertainment Television) he appeared semi-regularly on the popular anthology series through three consecutive seasons (1998-2001). His research into the 1949 disappearance of Hollywood showgirl Jean Spangler recaptured the interest of the Los Angeles Police Department following the May 21, 2001 episode airing of Spangler's story (Season3/Episode33), prompting a fresh investigation into the then 50-year-old mystery. Moving to Tulsa, Oklahoma in 2001, Kyle served as (unofficial) curator and ride restorer for Bell's Amusement Park's classic dark ride attraction, Phantasmagoria, from 2004 through 2006. During his Oklahoma stay, he spent nearly ten years researching and writing a true crime book about the infamous unsolved Oklahoma Girl Scout murder case of 1977.