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
- 864
- Years Active
- 2010 - 2025
THE BABYSITTER-Liza Rodman and Jennifer Jordan
Growing up on Cape Cod in the 1960s, Liza Rodman was a lonely little girl. During the summers, while her mother worked days in a local motel and danced most nights in the Provincetown bars, her babys…
01:17:57 |
Tue 09 Mar 2021
COLD CASE STORY-Stephanie Kane
Cold Case Story is based on the brutal murder of a housewife in the Denver suburbs in 1973. A college student back then, Stephanie Kane was more than a witness to this terrible crime. For nearly thir…
01:16:03 |
Fri 05 Mar 2021
THE WICKED KING WICKER-Michael Benson
There was a time when New York City was dying a fast death. The slums were warzones, the government bankrupt and sputtering. Mobsters disassembled one another nightly and dropped hefty bags of mixed …
01:30:12 |
Fri 19 Feb 2021
THE WESTSIDE PARK MURDERS-Keith Roysdon
On a warm night in September 1985, teenagers Kimberly Dowell and Ethan Dixon were brutally murdered in Westside Park in Muncie, Indiana. Their killer has never been charged. Early on, police focused …
01:19:23 |
Wed 17 Feb 2021
AMERICAN SERIAL KILLERS-Peter Vronsky
Fans of Mindhunter and true crime podcasts will devour these chilling stories of serial killers from the American "Golden Age" (1950-2000).
With books like Serial Killers, Female Serial Killers and S…
With books like Serial Killers, Female Serial Killers and S…
01:04:57 |
Wed 10 Feb 2021
SATIN PUMPS-Steve Kosareff
It was the midcentury murder that fascinated a nation and kept it glued for two years to radio, television and newspapers through three trials.
Did the handsome, wealthy doctor and his beautiful young…
Did the handsome, wealthy doctor and his beautiful young…
01:34:03 |
Thu 04 Feb 2021
WILDER INTENTIONS-C.J. Wynn
ANGILA WAS STABBED 44 TIMES.
THIS WAS PERSONAL.
On a November morning in 2015, Christopher Jackson waited for his fiancée, Angila Wilder, to pick him up from work as she always did. But this time, she …
THIS WAS PERSONAL.
On a November morning in 2015, Christopher Jackson waited for his fiancée, Angila Wilder, to pick him up from work as she always did. But this time, she …
00:58:19 |
Fri 29 Jan 2021
TRUE CRIME CHRONICLES-Volume 2-Mike Rothmiller
They were all subjects of true crime newspaper reporting in the 1800s. And now these stories and that of many others are brought together in their original form in a two-volume set: TRUE CRIME CHRONI…
01:05:07 |
Thu 28 Jan 2021
BAD MEDICINE-Charlotte Bismuth
In 2010, a brave whistleblower alerted the police to Dr. Stan Li’s corrupt pain management clinic in Queens, New York. Li spent years supplying more than seventy patients a day with oxycodone and , t…
01:13:46 |
Mon 18 Jan 2021
THE RICHARD STREICHER JR. MURDER-Gregory Fournier
During the depths of the Great Depression in Ypsilanti, Michigan, a seven-year-old boy is found frozen to death under the Frog Island footbridge in Depot Town after being reported missing the night b…
01:35:45 |
Fri 15 Jan 2021
THE SNOW KILLINGS-Marney Rich Keenan
Over 13 months in 1976-1977, four children were abducted in the Detroit suburbs, each of them held for days before their still-warm bodies were dumped in the snow near public roadsides. The Oakland C…
01:31:57 |
Fri 15 Jan 2021
THE MURDER OF KELSEY BERRETH-Rod Kackley
A successful young mother, Kelsey Berreth, vanishes on Thanksgiving Day 2018. The FBI is afraid they’ll have to do a deal with the devil to find her. Kelsey, a pilot so good she taught the military h…
01:25:08 |
Wed 13 Jan 2021
THE WOMAN WHO STOLE VERMEER-Anthony M. Amore
The extraordinary life and crimes of heiress-turned-revolutionary Rose Dugdale, who in 1974 became the only woman to pull off a major art heist.
In the world of crime, there exists an unusual commonal…
In the world of crime, there exists an unusual commonal…
01:03:28 |
Wed 06 Jan 2021
TRUE CRIME CHRONICLES-Mike Rothmiller
What do Wyatt Earp, Belle Gunness, Big Foot the Renegade, Billy the Kid, and Dr. H.H. Holmes, and The Black Hand have in common?
They were all subjects of true crime newspaper reporting in the 1800s, …
They were all subjects of true crime newspaper reporting in the 1800s, …
01:05:56 |
Wed 30 Dec 2020
FRED ROSEN TRUE CRIME RETROSPECTIVE-IN MEMORY OF
*This interview was recorded in 2019. The late, great Fred Rosen passed away Dec. 2020.
Fred Rosen is a former columnist for the Arts and Leisure Section of The New York Times. He is also one of the m…
Fred Rosen is a former columnist for the Arts and Leisure Section of The New York Times. He is also one of the m…
01:28:15 |
Fri 25 Dec 2020
TRIAL BY FIRE-Scott James
All it took for a hundred people to die during a show by the hair metal band Great White was a sudden burst from four giant sparklers that ignited the acoustical foam lining the Station nightclub. Bu…
01:25:30 |
Wed 16 Dec 2020
TERROR IN YPSILANTI-Gregory A. Fournier
Between the summers of 1967 through 1969, before the term serial killer was coined, a predatory killer stalked the campuses of Eastern Michigan University and the University of Michigan seeking prey …
01:33:19 |
Thu 10 Dec 2020
MY DADDY IS A HERO-Lena Derhally
A husband. A father. A killer. Chris Watts was a family man. Everybody, including his family, believed that. Yet, on August 13, 2018, he murdered Shanann, his pregnant wife, and two young daughters, …
01:31:51 |
Sat 05 Dec 2020
BEHIND THE HORROR-Dr. Lee Mellor
Uncover the twisted tales that inspired the big screen's greatest screams.
Which case of demonic possession inspired The Exorcist? What horrifying front-page story generated the idea for A Nightmare o…
Which case of demonic possession inspired The Exorcist? What horrifying front-page story generated the idea for A Nightmare o…
01:37:40 |
Wed 25 Nov 2020
THE KILLER'S SHADOW-John Douglas and Mark Olshaker
The legendary FBI criminal profiler and international bestselling author of Mindhunter and The Killer Across the Table returns with this timely, relevant book that goes to the heart of extremism and …
01:32:13 |
Wed 18 Nov 2020
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