Jeff McArthur grew up in Lincoln Nebraska surrounded by the Fugate/Starkweather story his entire life, as his father was James, Fugate's ongoing attorney, and his grandfather was John, Fugate's past attorney.
He began writing in high school, then went to New York University to study film and television. He moved across the country to Los Angeles where he has worked in the film and television industry for 15 years. He has gone back to the books writing the Relic Worlds series, and is currently working on a book about one of Al Capone's brothers.