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
DEATH SENTENCE-Joe Sharkey
The true account of the man who murdered his family in their New Jersey mansion—and eluded a nationwide manhunt for eighteen years.
Until 1971, life was good for mild-mannered accountant John List. He…
Until 1971, life was good for mild-mannered accountant John List. He…
01:19:28 |
Tue 24 Sep 2019
WHISPERS IN THE WILLOWS-George Jared
Whispers in the Willows is an anthology style, true crime book that chronicles three unsolved murders, a series of Death Row executions, and the harrowing stories of two Holocaust survivors. A 22-yea…
01:12:02 |
Mon 16 Sep 2019
FROZEN TEARS-J.B. King
In 1977, four teenagers were kidnapped and attacked near and on Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri. Only one survived. This book is written by the first responder to the call, Missouri State Highway Patrol …
01:11:50 |
Thu 12 Sep 2019
RAILROADED-Christopher Jossart
In 1968, a budding New York City entrepreneur who provided immigrants with jobs takes a Florida vacation with his family. Meanwhile, his relative, an employee, is murdered on Long Island.
Upon returni…
Upon returni…
01:06:43 |
Tue 10 Sep 2019
DEACON'S CROSSBOW-David G. Brown
How does a high school valedictorian, former member of the famed 101st Airborne, respected church deacon, husband and father of three end up with a first-degree murder conviction and serving life wit…
01:06:51 |
Wed 04 Sep 2019
CHAOS-Tom O'Neill
Over two grim nights in Los Angeles, the young followers of Charles Manson murdered seven people, including the actress Sharon Tate, then eight months pregnant. With no mercy and seemingly no motive,…
01:06:25 |
Wed 28 Aug 2019
NOTORIOUS SAN FRANCISCO-Paul Drexler
San Francisco, a city founded in part by criminals, was once one of the most dangerous cities in America. Its Barbary coast was called “a unique criminal district that was the scene of more viciousne…
01:01:21 |
Sat 24 Aug 2019
INNOCENT BLOOD-Terry Ganey
Like a real-life Hannibal Lecter--the psychopathic murderer from Thomas Harris' "Silence of the Lambs"--Charles Hatcher was cunning, sadistic and totally remorseless. He was a man with no conscience.…
01:14:36 |
Mon 19 Aug 2019
TRUTH AND HONOUR-Greg Marquis
Truth and Honour explores the 2011 murder of Saint John businessman Richard Oland, of the prominent family that owns Moosehead Breweries, the ensuing police investigation and the arrest, trial, and c…
01:16:55 |
Tue 13 Aug 2019
MURDER ON BIRCHLEAF DRIVE-Steven B. Epstein
Was Jason the monster who bludgeoned his beautiful wife to death, leaving his toddler alone for hours to walk through her blood? If so--would he get away with it?
To the outside world, Jason and Miche…
To the outside world, Jason and Miche…
01:11:19 |
Tue 06 Aug 2019
SHALLOW GRAVES-Maureen Boyle
Eleven women went missing over the spring and summer of 1988 in New Bedford, Massachusetts, an old fishing port known as the Whaling City, where Moby Dick, Frederick Douglass, textile mills, and hero…
01:08:45 |
Thu 01 Aug 2019
1926 HOMICIDE IN AMERICA-David Kulczyk
1926 was the year that Americans all over the country said screw it. And screw it they did... mixing too much bootleg booze, marijuana, cocaine, and heroin, with fast cars, sex, and jazz music can on…
01:01:25 |
Fri 26 Jul 2019
IN CHAINS-Alan R. Warren
Human trafficking is the trade of people for forced labor or sex. It also includes the illegal extraction of human organs and tissues. And it is an extremely ruthless and dangerous industry plaguing …
01:18:34 |
Sun 21 Jul 2019
AMERICAN PREDATOR-Maureen Callahan
Ted Bundy. John Wayne Gacy. Jeffrey Dahmer. The names of notorious serial killers are usually well-known; they echo in the news and in public consciousness. But most people have never heard of Israel…
01:33:34 |
Thu 11 Jul 2019
SECRETS OF A MARINE'S WIFE-Shanna Hogan
In June 2014, 19-year-old Erin Corwin was living a quiet life in Twentynine Palms, California, expecting her first child with her husband, U.S. Marine Corporal Jon Corwin?until the day she drove off …
01:09:49 |
Mon 08 Jul 2019
MURDER WITHOUT MOTIVE-Det. Raymond Pingatore
The true story of the night innocence and evil crossed paths. On a summer night in 2000, Amy Shute and Jason Burgeson were set upon by five predatory youths outside a Providence, Rhode Island, club. …
01:13:09 |
Fri 05 Jul 2019
RACE TO JUSTICE-Larry Sells and Margie Porter
Cynthia Albrecht, the executive chef of the Penske-Marlboro racing team and darling of the IndyCar circuit, went missing on October 25, 1992-the night before her divorce from Michael Albrecht became …
01:25:56 |
Thu 27 Jun 2019
MURDER BY MILKSHAKE-Eve Lazarus
When forty-year-old Esther Castellani died a slow and agonizing death in 1965, the official cause was at first undetermined. The day after Esther's funeral, her husband, Rene, packed up his girlfrien…
01:02:59 |
Wed 19 Jun 2019
NEEDLE WORK-Fred Rosen
A Michigan couple’s affair leads to two grisly murders by heroin injection in this true crime account from the acclaimed author of Lobster Boy.
When Carol Giles’s friend Nancy Billiter was found dead—…
When Carol Giles’s friend Nancy Billiter was found dead—…
01:10:03 |
Fri 14 Jun 2019
SUBMERGED-Janice Hisle
A young bride drowns in her bathtub. Her husband of four months is accused of murder. What happened in their tiny suburban bathroom—and why—was never resolved. A compelling true-crime drama, based on…
01:26:00 |
Tue 11 Jun 2019
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