Homicide Detective Finds God While Investigating True Crime

By Peter Demos Published on April 25, 2025

In this fascinating 36-minute discussion, Peter Demos talks with detective-turned-apologist J. Warner Wallace about his new book, The Truth About True Crime: What Investigating Death Teaches Us About the Meaning of Life. Drawing from decades of solving cold cases, Wallace explores the deepest questions of human nature, identity and moral truth through the lens of criminal investigation. Wallace reveals the three universal motives behind all crime—sex, money, and power—and how they expose the misplaced worship that drives brokenness in our world. From there, he dives into why grounding identity in anything other than God leads to trauma, instability and confusion — and why a strong, Christ-centered foundation is more important now than ever before.

Peter Demos is the author of On the Duty of Christian Civil Disobedience and the host of Uncommon Sense in Current Times. A Christian business leader from Tennessee, Demos uses his biblical perspective and insight gained from his own struggles to lead others to truth and authenticity in a broken world. To learn more, visit peterdemos.org.