Michelle Sigona is an Emmy Award winning television journalist and Daytime Emmy Nominated National Correspondent. 

 

As a National Producer and Correspondent, over her career, Michelle has covered thousands of breaking and historical news stories including the tragedies of September 11, 2001 the D.C. region's sniper murders, the Aurora Movie massacre and the Newtown School shooting in Connecticut.

 

Michelle is currently a development producer for the long-running prime-time program 48 Hours with CBS News. Michelle was previously a co-host on the popular A & E series, “Live PD: Wanted” and has been part of the production (on air and behind the camera) of a number of crime series including: 

 

-Investigation Discovery, "In Pursuit with John Walsh" 

-FOX’s, “America's Most Wanted" 

-Investigation Discovery, "Crimes Gone Viral" 

-Warner Brothers, "Crime Watch Daily"

- Ann Curry's, "Chasing the Cure" 

-CBS News,  – Crimesider Reporter 

-Oxygen’s, "Snapped" 

-HLN's “Vengeance” 

-Investigation Discovery’s, "Darkest Hour" 

-TV One, "Fatal Attraction" 

-Oxygen, "Mark of a Killer" 

-A & E’s, "Cold Case Files" 

-FOX 5 – Washington, D.C. WTTG 

-Turner Broadcasting: COURT TV + “In Session” + HLN

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As the 48 Hours Crimesider Reporter for CBS. Michelle not only covered covered law and justice issues each day on the 24-hour news network, but she completed these duties while simultaneously researching, planning and producing the biggest crime, missing and murder investigations across the country for the planning and development unit. Something she continues to do to this day for CBS. 

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Prior to these roles, Michelle was on-air and produced for the Fox prime-time crime fighting show, “America’s Most Wanted.” For more than 13 years, she worked through every position behind the scenes until becoming a National Correspondent. 

 

Michelle traveled around the world to track down fugitives and find missing people during the week, while running the prime-time 1-800-CRIME-TV hotline every Saturday night. She managed a staff of 25 by making critical decisions such as when to move on a lead to track down a dangerous fugitive and how best to work with investigators across the globe to increase apprehensions. Michelle's dedication to this role was instrumental in raising the hotline to new and exciting heights.

 

Early on, in addition to her work with “America’s Most Wanted," Michelle was offered a second position in the same building with the Fox affiliate in Washington, D.C. - WTTG. Michelle couldn’t turn down one or the other -- so she did both -- along with finishing out her Communications degree at the University of Maryland.

 

While at Fox 5, Michelle had the opportunity to work through just about every position to include the assignment desk, field producing, writing for shows and segment producing.  Eventually, while juggling multiple positions, she was put on the air as the daily traffic and breaking news reporter for the morning show. After flying in the SKY-FOX helicopter for the morning, she would plant her feet on the ground for general reports. During those reports she would feature her daily firefighter, commuter and Washington Redskin franchise stories airing in later shows.

 

After many years working for the Fox network, Michelle made key decisions to advance her crime-reporting career. She teamed up with HLN & CNN where she reported on crime and missing person cases as a crime contributor. She was also a fill-in reporter for HLN and “In Session,” (formerly known as Court TV). With Turner Broadcasting she covered many high profile cases and trials including the Drew Peterson murder trial in Joliet, Illinois. Within this live coverage role, she also became a National Correspondent on season one of Deadline Crime airing on Investigation Discovery, (a series developed and produced by NBC).

 

Michelle also maintained a position with the Investigation Discovery and previously reported to the managers of the development division as an east coast story editor for all crime shows. For many years that followed, she was a contributor to the ID's daily Crime Feed. 

 

Along with her specialty in crime, missing person and cold cases, Michelle has a strong connection to her local community. For more than 20 years, Michelle has served her community in a volunteer capacity through the local fire department. 

 

Michelle currently lives outside Washington, D.C. with her family. When she’s not traveling the country, she spends all of her extra time with her husband, three children and golden doodle, Wynter.