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 MAD CHOPPER-Fred Rosen
Fred Rosen follows a killer’s trail back in time 2 decades to discover how a monster slipped through the legal system
When police in Tampa, Florida, arrested Larry Singleton in 1997 for brutally murde…
When police in Tampa, Florida, arrested Larry Singleton in 1997 for brutally murde…
01:37:03 |
Thu 13 Apr 2017
ESCAPE FROM DANNEMORA-Michael Benson
t was one of the biggest crime stories of the decade—two deadly killers, desperate and on the run. After months of planning, Ricky Matt and David Sweat cut, chopped, coerced, and connived their way o…
01:13:32 |
Tue 04 Apr 2017
ABOVE SUSPICION-Alan R. Warren
Young girl’s panties started to go missing; sexual assaults began to occur, and then female bodies were found! Soon this quiet town of Tweed, Ontario, was in panic. What's even more shocking was when…
01:32:43 |
Thu 30 Mar 2017
THE BUNDY SECRETS-Kevin Sullivan
Within the pages of THE BUNDY SECRETS:Hidden Files Of America's Worst Serial Killer is a unique, never-before-published look at the investigations undertaken to stop the depredations of America’s mos…
01:31:23 |
Thu 23 Mar 2017
A NEED TO KILL-Mark Pettit
Three-time EMMY® award-winning investigative reporter Mark Pettit, returns to write the final chapter in his best-selling, and now newly updated book - A Need to Kill: The Death Row Drawings." Dramat…
01:30:21 |
Wed 15 Mar 2017
PRISONER 4374-A.J. Griffiths-Jones
For more than a century, Dr. Thomas Neill Cream has been listed as a potential 'Jack the Ripper' suspect. Indeed, he was a sinister character, preying on the unfortunate souls who were forced to make…
01:22:44 |
Tue 07 Mar 2017
HIS NAME WAS MURDER-Phil LeVota
This book tells the story of five different homicide cases from Kansas City, Missouri as told by the prosecutor who handled the cases himself, Phil LeVota. Five different stories are the five chapter…
01:33:49 |
Thu 02 Mar 2017
THE SPIDER AND THE FLY-Claudia Rowe
In this superb work of literary true crime—a spellbinding combination of memoir and psychological suspense—a female journalist chronicles her unusual connection with a convicted serial killer and her…
01:30:31 |
Wed 22 Feb 2017
WHO KILLED BOB CRANE?-John Hook
The 1978 murder of actor and American icon Bob Crane remains one of the most high-profile unsolved celebrity murders of all time. Thirty-eight years after his brutal murder in Scottsdale, Arizona, mi…
01:29:04 |
Tue 14 Feb 2017
WOLF BOYS-Dan Slater
The story of two American teens recruited as killers for a Mexican cartel, and their pursuit by a Mexican-American detective.
At first glance, Gabriel Cardona is the poster boy American teenager: gre…
At first glance, Gabriel Cardona is the poster boy American teenager: gre…
01:01:24 |
Thu 09 Feb 2017
YOU GOTTA BE DIRTY-Michael Grogan
In 1964, a band of motorcyclists mysteriously appeared in Milwaukee. Over the course of the next decade, the Outlaws Motorcycle Club (OMC) became synonymous with acts of intimidation and violence. In…
01:24:02 |
Mon 06 Feb 2017
A DAUGHTER'S DEADLY DECEPTION-Jeremy Grimaldi
From the outside looking in, Jennifer Pan seemed like a model daughter living a perfect life. The ideal child, the one her immigrant parents saw, was studying to become a pharmacist at the University…
01:27:01 |
Fri 03 Feb 2017
POLITICS OF MURDER-Margo Nash
On a hot night in July 1995, Janet Downing, a 42-year-old mother of four, was brutally stabbed 98 times in her home in Somerville, a city two miles northwest of Boston. Within hours, a suspect was id…
01:36:26 |
Thu 26 Jan 2017
DEPRAVED-Harold Schechter
The heinous bloodlust of Dr. H.H. Holmes is notorious -- but only Harold Schechter's Depraved tells the complete story of the killer whose evil acts of torture and murder flourished within miles of t…
01:26:33 |
Wed 18 Jan 2017
THE MURDER OF SONNY LISTON-Shaun Assael
On January 5, 1971, Sonny Liston was found dead in his home—of an apparent heroin overdose. But no one close to Liston believed that his death was accidental. Digging deep into a life that Liston t…
01:00:49 |
Sat 14 Jan 2017
POSSESSED-Kathryn Casey
The officer responding to a 911 call at one of Houston’s hippest high-rises expected the worst. After all, domestic violence situations can be unpredictable. But nothing could’ve prepared him for wha…
01:13:37 |
Thu 12 Jan 2017
THE SPIRAL NOTEBOOK-Joyce and Stephen Singular
On July 20, 2012, twelve people were killed and fifty-eight wounded at a mass shooting in a movie theater in Colorado. In 1999, thirteen kids at Columbine High School were murdered by their peers. In…
01:26:13 |
Thu 05 Jan 2017
NOT JUST EVIL-David Wilson
For readers of true crime sagas like Tinseltown and Little Demon in the City of Light comes a chilling account of a murder that captivated the United States in the 1920s.
Twelve-year-old Marion Parker…
Twelve-year-old Marion Parker…
01:38:07 |
Wed 21 Dec 2016
DID THEY REALLY DO IT?-Fred Rosen
Nine of the most controversial violent crimes in America's history are reexamined in these compelling stories of true crime. Dr. Samuel Mudd set John Wilkes Booth's broken ankle, but was he actually …
01:34:42 |
Thu 15 Dec 2016
BETRAYAL IN BLUE-Burl Barer, Frank C. Girardot Jr. and Ken Eurell
NYPD officers Mike Dowd and Kenny Eurell knew there were two ways to get rich quick in Brooklyn's Lower East Side. You either became drug dealers, or you robbed drug dealers. They decided to do both.…
01:34:08 |
Thu 08 Dec 2016
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