According to cold-case homicide detective J. Warner Wallace, “Every murder investigation teaches two lessons: a death lesson and a life lesson.” And that’s what Timothy Paul Jones and J. Warner Wallace explore together in a forthcoming episode of The Apologetics Podcast. In the meantime, here’s a raw and unedited video from the conversation.
For decades, J. Warner Wallace investigated the causes behind deaths and murders, chasing one lead after another as he attempted to solve the case. Several of these cases remain open, unsolved mysteries—but even those that haven't yet revealed the identity of the killer do expose the truths of human nature: what's important to us, what threatens our well-being, and what causes us to flourish. Those are the truths that Wallace explores in his latest book The Truth in True Crime: What Investigating Death Teaches Us About the Meaning of Life.
J. Warner Wallace is a cold-case homicide detective, adjunct professor of apologetics at Biola University, and a faculty member at Summit Ministries. He was a conscientious and vocal atheist until the age of thirty-five, when he took a serious and expansive look at the evidence for the Christian worldview and determined that Christianity was demonstrably true. After becoming a Christ follower in 1996, Jim continued to take an evidential approach to truth as he examined the Christian worldview. He eventually earned a master’s degree in theological studies from Gateway Seminary. His professional investigative work has received national recognition; his cases have been featured more than any other detective on NBC’s Dateline, and his work has also appeared on CourtTV and Fox News
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