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
FIRST DEGREE RAGE-Paula May
Terrifying things are happening to Kay Weden, a forty-something single mom and high school teacher in Salisbury, North Carolina. Despite having no known enemies, Kay’s home, car, and peace of mind ar…
01:28:46 |
Tue 14 Apr 2020
KILLER FICTION-Sondra London
At a high school dance in 1964, 17 year-old Sondra London met a bright, handsome, well mannered Catholic boy, 18 year-old Gerard John Schaefer. They hung out all the time and soon fell in love. But a…
01:36:15 |
Sat 11 Apr 2020
THE TRUE STORY OF THE 1966 HENDERSONVILLE TRIPLE MURDERS-Terrance Ryerson Neal
The story raced across the news wires in 1966. Residents jumped in their cars and drove to Lake Summit to see the gruesome crime scene.
On a late, hot July summer night in 1966, in a small North Caro…
On a late, hot July summer night in 1966, in a small North Caro…
01:31:07 |
Fri 03 Apr 2020
STEPHEN AND JOYCE SINGULAR TRUE CRIME RETROSPECTIVE
Stephen Singular is the author of 25 non-fiction books, many of them about high-profile criminal cases. His first book in 1987 was Talked to Death: The Life & Murder of Alan Berg, which became the ba…
01:28:25 |
Thu 26 Mar 2020
THE "SUPREME GENTLEMAN" KILLER-Brian Whitney
Elliot Rodger considered himself to be intelligent, refined, handsome, fashionable and charming. He spent years trying to be cool so women would like him. He thought if he just wore expensive and fas…
01:12:31 |
Mon 23 Mar 2020
THE BODY SNATCHER'S WIFE-Barbra Reifel
As seen on ID Discovery’s The Devil You Know, Who the (Bleep) Did I Marry?, and Tabloid
The shocking true story of how Barbra’s picket fence turned to prison bars, trapped in her twisted husband’s dan…
The shocking true story of how Barbra’s picket fence turned to prison bars, trapped in her twisted husband’s dan…
01:31:42 |
Wed 18 Mar 2020
BEAST OF NEW CASTLE-Larry Sells and Margie Porter
"'No witnesses, no problems.' Thompson’s mantra was supposed to be reassuring to the smaller man, but Percy felt the shadow of his own death coming. There was one witness. Him. And he cowered, wonder…
01:13:34 |
Mon 16 Mar 2020
THE TRIALS OF ALBERT STROEBEL-Chad Reimer
In April, 1893, John Marshall, an immigrant and successful farmer on Sumas Prairie in British Columbia, was found dead lying sprawled across the veranda of his farmhouse. The farmer's face was a mess…
01:31:05 |
Thu 12 Mar 2020
DOOMSDAY CULTS-Alan R. Warren
Jim Jones convinced his 1000 followers they would all have to commit suicide since he was going to die. Shoko Asahara convinced his followers to release a weapon of mass destruction, the deadly sarin…
01:34:01 |
Fri 06 Mar 2020
GONE AT MIDNIGHT-Jake Anderson
21 year-old Vancouver student Elisa Lam was last heard from on January 31, 2013, after she checked into downtown L.A.’s Cecil Hotel—a 600-room building with a nine-decade history of scandal and trage…
01:02:25 |
Wed 04 Mar 2020
A CROSSING OF PATHS-THE HILLSIDE STRANGLER CASE-Ron Crisp
Ron Crisp invites the reader to follow him through his investigation of the Leslie Barry murder; the trial of Art Anzures for the murder; the evidence that led him to his 3 suspects; how his investig…
01:31:38 |
Fri 28 Feb 2020
MICHAEL BENSON TRUE CRIME RETROSPECTIVE-Michael Benson
Michael Benson is one of today's most popular true-crime writers. His books--including Betrayal In Blood, Murder In Connecticut, Killer Twins, The Burn Farm, Mommy Deadliest, A Killer's Touch, Evil S…
01:25:25 |
Mon 24 Feb 2020
AMERICAN SHERLOCK-Kate Winkler Dawson
Berkeley, California, 1933. In a lab filled with curiosities–beakers, microscopes, Bunsen burners, and hundreds upon hundreds of books–sat an investigator who would go on to crack at least two thousa…
00:55:14 |
Wed 19 Feb 2020
EVIL DESIRES-Dean T. Olson
Sexual predators exist in our society and their evil desire leads them to commit heinous, brutal crimes with little concern for their victims or the toll it takes on the community. Violent sociopaths…
01:12:12 |
Tue 18 Feb 2020
DIANE FANNING TRUE CRIME RETROSPECTIVE-Diane Fanning
Diane Fanning is the author of fourteen true crime books published by St. Martin's Press and Berkley Books including the Edgar Award nominated Written in Blood, about Michael Peterson of Netflix's Th…
01:02:23 |
Thu 13 Feb 2020
DEVIL'S PLAYGROUND-Nova West
A young pregnant mother is killed, and a small town demands justice, a conviction, someone to blame. When an unlikely suspect is convicted, it raises a question: Is this the culprit, a scapegoat, or …
01:24:42 |
Tue 11 Feb 2020
18 TINY DEATHS-Bruce Goldfarb
The story of a woman whose ambition and accomplishments far exceeded the expectations of her time, 18 Tiny Deaths follows the transformation of a young, wealthy socialite into the mother of modern fo…
01:11:05 |
Fri 07 Feb 2020
THE GARDEN STATE PARKWAY MURDERS-Christian Barth
In “The Garden State Parkway Murders,” true crime writer and attorney Christian Barth dives into the harrowing story of the unsolved murders of Elizabeth Perry and Susan Davis. College friends, the t…
01:32:04 |
Wed 29 Jan 2020
ARC ROAD-Tony Tiffin
The Gwinnett County, Georgia, Police Department was formed by tough, honorable men who were brought in to clean up the county after the sheriff made moonshining his personal business. With a low budg…
01:31:10 |
Tue 21 Jan 2020
DUCT TAPE KILLER-Phil and Sandy Hamman
When Piper Streyle failed to show up for work, a coworker called her home. Piper’s three-and-a-half-year-old daughter, Shaina, answered and said, “A mean man carried Mommy away.” Then the line went d…
01:30:39 |
Fri 17 Jan 2020
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