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
UNDER THE TRESTLE-Ron Peterson Jr.
“Under The Trestle” is the true story of the most compelling murder case in Virginia history. In 1980, beautiful Gina Renee Hall, a Radford University freshman, went to a Virginia Tech nightclub on a…
01:19:59 |
Tue 05 Feb 2019
FRUSTRATED WITNESS-Willis Morgan
On July 27, 1981, six year old Adam Walsh was abducted from the Hollywood Mall in Hollywood, Florida and later found decapitated. The horror of the event would change America forever and bring about …
01:41:24 |
Thu 31 Jan 2019
THE DEPRIVED-Steffen Hou
Thousands of Americans have been convicted and sentenced to death for crimes they never committed. Some have even been executed despite their innocence. The Deprived is a true crime book that tells t…
01:15:30 |
Thu 24 Jan 2019
GITCHIE GIRL UNCOVERED-Phil and Sandy Hamman
“Please, no! Don’t make me go back to the park. I can draw you a map. I promise I can show you where everything happened.”
The lone survivor trembled as she pleaded with investigators.
For over forty y…
The lone survivor trembled as she pleaded with investigators.
For over forty y…
01:03:56 |
Thu 17 Jan 2019
NIGHTMARE IN ROCHESTER-Michael Benson
In 1971, there began in Rochester, N.Y., a series of hideous murders, cases that offered the starkest of contrast between good and evil: perfectly innocent victims, perfectly evil predators. The thre…
01:07:46 |
Wed 09 Jan 2019
PATHOLOGICAL-Henry J. Cordes
A Brutal Serial Killer Was Stalking Omaha. But Who Could Kill With Such Precision?Detective Derek Mois wasn’t sure what he was dealing with when in March 2008 he walked into a home in an affluent Oma…
01:20:34 |
Mon 17 Dec 2018
SUMMER'S ALMOST GONE-J.T. Townsend
It was an unbelievable crime—hideous, unexpected, baffling. A crime destined to become the most notorious and obsessive cold case in Cincinnati history. On that long ago day in September on the cusp …
01:08:28 |
Wed 12 Dec 2018
INNOCENCE LOST-The Crimes That Changed Australia-Amanda Howard
Some crimes are so shocking that they change a nation forever. In revealing the lives and crimes of Australia's worst murderers, rapists and kidnappers in all their horror, Innocence Lost answers the…
01:12:02 |
Tue 11 Dec 2018
SHOTS IN THE DARK-Daniel Zimmerman
On a cold, winter’s night in early 1963, mob enforcer Rocco Anthony Balliro and a pair of associates stormed a darkened apartment on the outskirts of Boston and engaged in a fierce gun battle with se…
01:11:28 |
Fri 07 Dec 2018
WARNINGS UNHEEDED-Andy Brown
The true story of Air Force men and women who struggle to prevent a mass murder and an aviation disaster, and their heroic response to both tragedies when their warnings go unheeded.
Have you ever hea…
Have you ever hea…
01:19:19 |
Tue 04 Dec 2018
SAVING ANNIE-Book Two-The Investigator-Steve Jackson
In March 2009, pretty, vivacious Rhonda Casto plunged to her death from a 300-foot cliff in the Oregon woods. The only witness, Stephen Nichols, the father of her nine-month-old baby, Annie, told pol…
01:01:52 |
Thu 29 Nov 2018
WRECKING CREW-Demolishing the Case Against Steven Avery-John Ferak
In 2016-17, while working for the USA TODAY NETWORK's Wisconsin Investigative Team, author John Ferak wrote dozens of articles examining the murder case again Steven Avery, who had already beat one w…
01:18:47 |
Tue 27 Nov 2018
IF I CAN'T HAVE YOU-Rebecca Morris
A DEVOTED MOTHER GOES MISSING
Every once in a great while a genuine murder mystery unfolds before the public's eyes…Such is the tragic case of Susan Powell and her murdered boys, Charlie and Braden. W…
Every once in a great while a genuine murder mystery unfolds before the public's eyes…Such is the tragic case of Susan Powell and her murdered boys, Charlie and Braden. W…
01:33:13 |
Tue 20 Nov 2018
THE LAST MAN STANDING-Alan R. Warren
It was a shattering death bed confession by a heartbroken mother. But would it solve the oldest cold case murder case in American jurisprudence?
In January 1994, Eileen Tessier told Jack McCullough’s …
In January 1994, Eileen Tessier told Jack McCullough’s …
01:18:13 |
Thu 15 Nov 2018
TOXIC RAGE-A.J. Flick
Brian Stidham fell in love with Tucson, Ariz., the minute he came to town. A young and talented eye surgeon, he accepted a job with an established eye surgeon to take over his pediatric patients.
“It’…
“It’…
01:17:11 |
Tue 13 Nov 2018
THE CREEP AMONG US-Anne Penn
The Creep Among Us, the true story of the next chapter. Investigations and research which entails some of what we know a little more than five months into solving who The East Area Rapist, Original N…
01:21:32 |
Fri 09 Nov 2018
MY SON, THE KILLER-The Untold Story of Luka Magnotta-Brian Whitney
BEFORE NETFLIX'S DON'T F**CK WITH CATS: Hunting an Internet Killer-Brian Whitney had an exclusive interview with Luka Magnotta for his book, My Son The Killer.
In 2012, the Canadian Press ignited a f…
In 2012, the Canadian Press ignited a f…
01:26:53 |
Wed 07 Nov 2018
INCONVENIENCE GONE-Diane Marger Moore
Where is Brandon Sims? The four-year-old had not been seen since July 3, 1992, when he attended a birthday party with his twenty-year-old mother, Michelle Jones. Jones was employed, confident, talent…
01:05:18 |
Thu 01 Nov 2018
WRITTEN IN BLOOD-Diane Fanning
Michael Peterson was driven to succeed.
An army brat-turned-marine, he saw combat in Vietnam, and returned a decorated soldier. An avid reader, his dreams of being an acclaimed novelist came true. His…
An army brat-turned-marine, he saw combat in Vietnam, and returned a decorated soldier. An avid reader, his dreams of being an acclaimed novelist came true. His…
01:03:56 |
Tue 30 Oct 2018
A MONSTER OF ALL TIME-J.T. Hunter
Ambitious, attractive, and full of potential, five young college students prepared for the new semester. They dreamed of beginning careers and starting families. They had a lifetime of experiences in…
01:10:20 |
Fri 26 Oct 2018
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