True Murder: The Most Shocking Killers
Every week host Dan Zupansky will interview the true crime authors that have written about the most shocking killers of all time.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 71 minutes
- Episodes
- 863
- Years Active
- 2010 - 2025
MURF-Terrance Ryerson Neal
What do mobster Meyer Lansky, banker John D. MacArthur and Jack "Murf the Surf" Murphy, have in common? The biggest secret of the century about the biggest crime of the century, that's what! Now, for…
00:50:26 |
Fri 27 May 2022
THE MURDER GENE-Karen Spears Zacharias
As the soft-spoken, highly intelligent son of missionaries in Morganton, North Carolina, Luke Chang gave no indication of the killer he would become. But after hacking into a teacher's computer at hi…
00:56:24 |
Mon 23 May 2022
SNAKE EYES-Bitty Martin
By 1966, Hot Springs, Arkansas wasn’t your typical sleepy little Southern town. Once a favorite destination for mobsters like Al Capone and Lucky Luciano, illegal activities continued to lure out-of-…
00:47:27 |
Fri 20 May 2022
THE ALASKAN BLONDE-James T. Bartlett
Nicknamed “the most beautiful woman in Alaska,” 31-year-old Diane Wells was bruised and bloodied when she screamed for help in the early hours of October 17, 1953. Her husband Cecil, a wealthy Fairba…
01:17:06 |
Wed 18 May 2022
SERIAL KILLERS: Dr. Joni Johnston
Learn the terrifying truth behind the world's deadliest serial killers…
Serial killers haunt our dreams and inspire the terrifying villains of TV shows and horror movies. But how much do you really kn…
Serial killers haunt our dreams and inspire the terrifying villains of TV shows and horror movies. But how much do you really kn…
00:53:40 |
Fri 13 May 2022
TRAILED-Kathryn Miles
In May 1996, two skilled backcountry leaders, Lollie Winans and Julie Williams, entered Virginia’s Shenandoah National Park for a week-long backcountry camping trip. The free-spirited and remarkable …
00:53:08 |
Wed 04 May 2022
MAKING A PSYCHOPATH-Mark Freestone
Find out what truly creates and defines a psychopath, from the leading expert who helped to create Killing Eve's Villanelle.
Dr. Mark Freestone has worked on some of the most interesting, infamous and…
Dr. Mark Freestone has worked on some of the most interesting, infamous and…
00:51:08 |
Sat 30 Apr 2022
MADMAN IN THE WOODS-Jamie Gehring
A haunting account of the sixteen years when a young Jamie Gehring and her family lived closer than anyone to Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber
As a child in Lincoln, Montana, Jamie Gehring and her family…
As a child in Lincoln, Montana, Jamie Gehring and her family…
01:06:08 |
Mon 25 Apr 2022
22 MURDERS-Part 2-Paul Palango
A shocking exposé of the deadliest killing spree in Canadian history, and how police tragically failed its victims and survivors.
As news broke of a killer rampaging across the tiny community of Porta…
As news broke of a killer rampaging across the tiny community of Porta…
00:58:55 |
Tue 19 Apr 2022
22 MURDERS-Part 1-Paul Palango
A shocking exposé of the deadliest killing spree in Canadian history, and how police tragically failed its victims and survivors.
As news broke of a killer rampaging across the tiny community of Porta…
As news broke of a killer rampaging across the tiny community of Porta…
00:59:57 |
Fri 15 Apr 2022
THE GIRL I NEVER KNEW-LaDonna Humphrey
For over two decades the identity of Melissa Witt’s murderer has been hidden among the dense trees and thorny undergrowth rooted deeply in the uneven ground of a remote mountaintop in the Ozark Natio…
00:57:34 |
Tue 12 Apr 2022
HELL'S HALF-ACRE-Susan Jonusas
A suspense filled tale of murder on the American frontier—shedding new light on a family of serial killers in Kansas, whose horrifying crimes gripped the attention of a nation still reeling from war.
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00:59:03 |
Fri 08 Apr 2022
RIPPLE-Jim Cosgrove
For nine years, South Carolina officials struggled to identify “the boy in the woods,” a young man whose body had been discovered just south of Myrtle Beach in a fishing village called Murrells Inlet…
01:01:01 |
Sat 02 Apr 2022
VAMPIRES, GATORS AND WACKOS-Frank Stanfield
From a teen vampire cult that killed one member’s parents to naked people who tell cops, “nothing to see here,” Frank Stanfield has seen it all in thirty years as a newspaper editor and reporter, mos…
00:54:57 |
Tue 29 Mar 2022
SEX AND THE SERIAL KILLER-William Steel
In the early 1980s, William Steel's life took a turn towards the macabre when he quite literally ran into Robert Durst in midtown Manhattan. Steel was attending a school for locksmithing and security…
01:00:25 |
Fri 25 Mar 2022
SHIP OF BLOOD-Charles Oldham
ON AN OCTOBER NIGHT IN 1905, a horrifying scene was found on a wooden vessel off the coast of Cape Fear, North Carolina. Onboard the Harry A. Berwind, one crewman lay dead, his blood streaming down t…
00:49:27 |
Sat 19 Mar 2022
MURDER AT TEAL'S POND-David Bushman and Mark T. Givens
A brilliantly researched reinvestigation into the nearly forgotten century-old murder that inspired one of the most seductive mysteries in the history of television and film. In 1908, Hazel Drew was …
01:01:24 |
Wed 16 Mar 2022
RIDING WITH EVIL-Ken Croke
Sons of Anarchy meets The Departed in this fast-paced, high-wire act memoir from former ATF agent Ken Croke, the first federal agent in history to go undercover and successfully infiltrate the infamo…
00:59:24 |
Sat 12 Mar 2022
SHADOWMAN-Ron Franscell
The pulse-pounding account of the first time in history that the FBI’s Behavioral Science Unit created a psychological profile to catch a serial killer
On June 25, 1973, a seven-year-old girl went mis…
On June 25, 1973, a seven-year-old girl went mis…
01:23:16 |
Tue 01 Mar 2022
BONE DEEP-Charles Bosworth Jr. and Joel J. Schwartz
THE TRUE STORY BEHIND NBC’S MARQUEE MINI-SERIES "THE THING ABOUT PAM" STARRING RENEE ZELLWEGER AS PAM HUPP AND JOSH DUHAMEL AS JOEL SCHWARTZ, PREMIERING FEBRUARY 2022.
The explosive, first-ever inside…
The explosive, first-ever inside…
01:00:16 |
Sat 26 Feb 2022
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