Thomas Edwards is a career newspaper editor and reporter who mostly has worked in Texas and Louisiana. During his more than a dozen years on the crime beat, he saw real-life horrors most fiction writers can only try to imagine. He has worked for News Corp., The Hearst Corp., Clear Channel Communications, a family paper now owned by Gannett and was an infrequent contributor during his university years to the Cambrian News in Aberystwyth, Wales. Not long ago, he ran a chain of hyperlocal community papers in the San Antonio area with an audience of 120,000 readers. He is an award-winning journalist with accolades for stories ranging from investigative pieces to an exclusive interview with a mass murderer on Texas’ Death Row. Today he is the executive editor of Granite Media Partners Inc., a Texas-based media company. He is married, has two grown children and lives with his lovely French wife on a small horse farm near Austin with two equines, six cats and and a very naughty Corgi.
Thomas Edwards is a career newspaper editor and reporter who mostly has worked in Texas and Louisiana. During his more than a dozen years on the crime beat, he saw real-life horrors most fiction writers can only try to imagine. He has worked for News Corp., The Hearst Corp., Clear Channel Communications, a family paper now owned by Gannett and was an infrequent contributor during his university years to the Cambrian News in Aberystwyth, Wales. Not long ago, he ran a chain of hyperlocal community papers in the San Antonio area with an audience of 120,000 readers. He is an award-winning journalist with accolades for stories ranging from investigative pieces to an exclusive interview with a mass murderer on Texas’ Death Row. Today he is the executive editor of Granite Media Partners Inc., a Texas-based media company. He is married, has two grown children and lives with his lovely French wife on a small horse farm near Austin with two equines, six cats and and a very naughty Corgi.
THE RAP SHEET is a true-crime podcast hosted by Thomas and his wife Florence Edwards. This project features some of the most gruesome crimes to plague Texas and especially San Antonio.
Unlike other podcasts where hosts merely discuss misdeeds they have read about, Thomas is a veteran police reporter who actually covered many of the cases featured on THE RAP SHEET. He brings an “I-was-there” perspective. Florence, a career graphics designer, is motivated by insatiable curiosity. Working together, they investigate and discuss unspeakable Lone Star crimes guaranteed to chill your soul.