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 WORLD ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SERIAL KILLERS-Susan Hall
The World Encyclopedia of Serial Killers is the most comprehensive set of its kind in the history of true crime publishing. Written and compiled by Susan Hall, the four-volume set has more than 1600 …
01:03:17 |
Fri 31 Jul 2020
HELL IN THE HEARTLAND-Jax Miller
S-Town meets I'll Be Gone in the Dark in this stranger-than-fiction cold case from rural Oklahoma that has stumped authorities for two decades, concerning the disappearance of two teenage girls and t…
00:50:42 |
Mon 27 Jul 2020
TIL DEATH DO US-Patrick Gallagher
In August 1945, Gladys Lincoln of Sacramento contacted prosperous Dr. W. D. Broadhurst of Caldwell, Idaho, and rekindled a romance from twenty years earlier. After many passionate letter exchanges an…
01:34:03 |
Fri 24 Jul 2020
RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES-Harold Schechter
Bestselling true-crime master Harold Schechter explores the real-life headline-making psychos, serial murderers, thrill-hungry couples, and lady-killers who inspired a century of classic films.
The ne…
The ne…
01:09:31 |
Fri 17 Jul 2020
THE BEST NEW TRUE CRIME STORIES-Mitzi Szereto
#1 New Release in Forensic Psychology ─ Small Town Charm With Deadly Consequences
A collection of non-fiction accounts by international writers and experts on small town true crime shows readers that …
A collection of non-fiction accounts by international writers and experts on small town true crime shows readers that …
01:02:31 |
Mon 13 Jul 2020
HOW TO CATCH A KILLER-Katherine Ramsland
There are two parts to every crime story: how they did it and why they got caught.This book is about the second part, and how it changes the way we catch serial killers.
No two stories about the capt…
No two stories about the capt…
01:25:55 |
Fri 10 Jul 2020
WANNA'BE COP KILLER-Dan Zupansky
Gabriel Wortman was a 51-year-old Denturist with a successful practice where he worked with his common-law partner. They were staying in the tiny seaside community of Portapique, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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00:37:00 |
Mon 06 Jul 2020
OPERATION JACKNAP-Jack Teich
Two hundred FBI agents and Nassau County police officers combined forces to form a dragnet, hunt for his kidnappers, and rescue him.
Teich lay handcuffed and chained to the walls of a closet in the Br…
Teich lay handcuffed and chained to the walls of a closet in the Br…
01:29:28 |
Fri 26 Jun 2020
BOY MISSING-Rebecca Morris
It's one of the most shocking unsolved missing-child cases in the world. Where is Kyron Horman? Why hasn't the woman who police suspect is responsible for his 2010 disappearance-Kyron's stepmother-be…
01:09:15 |
Fri 19 Jun 2020
EVIL AT LAKE SEMINOLE-Steven B. Epstein
Did Mike accidentally drown in a Florida lake?
Or was his disappearance the result of a sinister plot to kill him?
The crisp, predawn hours of December 16, 2000, began much as they had many Saturdays f…
Or was his disappearance the result of a sinister plot to kill him?
The crisp, predawn hours of December 16, 2000, began much as they had many Saturdays f…
01:18:42 |
Tue 16 Jun 2020
TORTURED WITH LOVE-J.T. Hunter
What is the price of passion? What is the power of love?
Meet Martha Beck, a young nurse dedicated to healing others, until her own hurting heart lured her down a darker path. Loneliness led her to Ra…
Meet Martha Beck, a young nurse dedicated to healing others, until her own hurting heart lured her down a darker path. Loneliness led her to Ra…
01:18:18 |
Wed 10 Jun 2020
MOSQUITO POINT ROAD-Michael Benson
A compilation of six fascinating historical true crime stories, all geographically attached or close to the author’s childhood home. There’s Killer of the Cloth, The Baby in the Convent, Mosquito Poi…
01:23:41 |
Thu 04 Jun 2020
HUNTING WHITEY-Dave Wedge
For the first time, Boston reporters Casey Sherman and Dave Wedge draw on exclusive interviews and exhaustive investigative reportage to tell the complete story of Whitey Bulger, one of the most noto…
01:06:03 |
Thu 28 May 2020
CAITLIN ROTHER TRUE CRIME RETROSPECTIVE-Caitlin Rother
In the late 1980s, Caitlin Rother wrote for the Berkshire Eagle and the Springfield Union-News in Massachusetts. She returned to California and went to work as a reporter for the Los Angeles Daily Ne…
01:33:54 |
Tue 26 May 2020
KIDNAPPED BY A CLIENT-Sharon Muse
“He promised to kill me when he got out. I believed him. If I wanted justice, I had to fight both him and the courts...maybe kill him first. If I didn’t do something, I was going to die.”
This is not …
This is not …
01:35:26 |
Tue 19 May 2020
THE DOCTOR, THE HITMAN, AND THE MOTORCYCLE GANG-Annie McCormick
THE DOCTOR, THE HITMAN, AND THE MOTORCYCLE GANG: The True Story of One of New Jersey’s Most Notorious Murder for Hire Plots is the true story of the murder of April Kauffman, a beloved and vivacious …
01:33:15 |
Thu 14 May 2020
JOHN WAYNE GACY: HUNTING A PREDATOR-John Borowski
On December 21, 1978, John Wayne Gacy was arrested. Upon an initial search of the crawlspace beneath his ranch house in Norwood Park Township, Illinois, the authorities discovered the remains of seve…
01:03:21 |
Tue 05 May 2020
MAYBE YOU DIE-Nancy Lee
Nina, a new graduate from fashion design in college, gladly accepts the offer to have her palm read as a graduation gift. Smiling, the palm reader tells Nina that she has a long lifeline, as she trac…
01:32:36 |
Sat 02 May 2020
LOSING JON-David Parrish
David Parrish was in disbelief when he learned that nineteen-year-old Jon Bowie’s body had been found hanged from a backstop at the local high school’s baseball field and the death declared a suicide…
01:29:05 |
Wed 29 Apr 2020
A TANGLED WEB-Leslie Rule
It was a bleak November in 2012 when Cari Lea Farver vanished from Omaha, Nebraska. Cari, thirty-seven, was a devoted mother, reliable employee, and loyal friend—not the type to shirk responsibilitie…
00:58:38 |
Fri 24 Apr 2020
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