Biography

Mike Dorsey is a television producer, editor, and documentary filmmaker, with a passion for true crime, history, and exploring the unknown. He made the crime documentary "Murder Rap: Inside the Biggie and Tupac Murders" in 2015 with retired LAPD detective Greg Kading, which ultimately helped lead to an arrest for the murder of Tupac Shakur in 2023.

In 2018, Mike was a co-producer on the Josh Duhamel-starring scripted crime series "Unsolved" for NBCUniversal, now on Netflix, inspired by his Murder Rap documentary. The following year, he was a producer and editor of the hit paranormal documentary, "Demon House," with Ghost Adventures' Zak Bagans, and the follow-up special for Travel Channel, "Demon House: The Lost Footage."

As a television producer, he was the showrunner for 2022's hit series "Ghost Adventures: House Calls" on Discovery+. From 2020-21, he was a producer on the automotive-themed crime and mystery series "Auto/Biography" and "Auto/Biography: Cold Cases" on Discovery's Motor Trend network. He also edited shows for Tidal from 2018-2020, including the popular "Car Test with Elliott Wilson" interview series.

As a documentary filmmaker, his other films include the Manson docu "The Six Degrees of Helter Skelter," which BuzzFeed readers named the 4th-scariest documentary ever made; the WWII documentary "Lost Airmen of Buchenwald," which aired on networks in the US and around the world; and "The Oyler House: Richard Neutra's Desert Retreat" about mid-century modern architecture.

In his spare time, Mike produces and co-hosts the popular "Dearly Departed Podcast" on Hollywood history with friend and historian Scott Michaels. He holds a degree in Marketing from the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University, and grew up in Southern California and southwest Colorado.
- IMDb mini biography by: Michael Dorsey