Born and raised in St. Louis, Wood entered college at the University of Missouri in 1977 with an intended major in Criminal Investigation and Law, but changed his mind and moved to California the following year to take up acting instead. He would spend the next ten years both in and outside the Hollywood film community. Projects worked on and/or appeared in included, Halloween III: Season of the Witch , Streets of Fire , Assassination and Ten to Midnight . In 1988, he relocated back to the Midwest. Three years later, he joined the U.S. Army at the age of 32.

Following his stint in the military, he began concentrating on a series of personal projects involving unsolved homicides, missing persons cases and celebrity oriented mysteries. In 1993 he wrote, produced and directed the documentary Medford Girl, about the brutal Los Angeles slaying of actress wannabe Elizabeth Short, The Black Dahlia . On what would have been her 69th birthday, Wood donated two-thousand dollars to Short's hometown for placement of an historical marker in her honor and memory.

In 2001, Wood was interviewed by E! Entertainment Television regarding his decade-long research into the 1949 disappearance of Hollywood showgirl Jean Spangler. Based on the strength of additional information Wood had uncovered regarding a previous suspect, new detectives were assigned to take another look. The investigation unfortunately stalled the following year as LAPD decided it could no longer continue spending time and resources on such a dated case.

Restorer and caretaker of Phantasmagoria , Bell's Amusement Park's legendary two-story dark ride, for it's final 3 seasons (2004-06). The historic park, located in Tulsa, Oklahoma, closed following State Fair 2006 after fairground's officials refused to renew the lease on the 50+ year old landmark. Phantasmagoria fell to the wrecking ball on June 19, 2007. It had opened in 1973.

*Read Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson's response letter to Kyle regarding Bell's ouster from the Tulsa State Fairgrounds.

A nationally recognized authority on a variety of unusual subjects, Wood has been a media consultant for The Learning Channel, FOX News, ABC, A&E and The History Channel. He has also appeared regularly on E! Entertainment Television's popular series, Mysteries & Scandals.