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
- 863
- Years Active
- 2010 - 2025
TRIAL BY AMBUSH-Marcia Clark
In this dramatic true account about the power of sensationalized crime, one woman’s case is exposed for its sexism, flagrant disregard for the truth, and, ultimately, the dangers posed by an unbridle…
00:45:29 |
Mon 02 Dec 2024
RED HOOK-Frank Dimatteo and Michael Benson
Long before Brooklyn was known as the world’s hippest neighborhood, it was the deadliest - the seedy, dangerous underbelly of New York City, where mobsters and gangs could commit murder and dump dead…
00:59:31 |
Mon 25 Nov 2024
CHAINED BIRDS-Carla Conti
After three years in Europe, former journalist Carla Conti just wanted to settle her family into the suburbs of Philadelphia. But her high school friend Scott Powell, a lawyer handling a brutal priso…
01:23:54 |
Mon 18 Nov 2024
THE 'BABY DOLL' SERIAL KILLER-B.R. Bates and Jerry Cliff
He was unassuming, sweet, and friendly. “Saved” in church as a teen, he never caused trouble. In the Navy, they called him Opie. Though he was a big guy, he had a soft, boyish demeanor. “The boy next…
01:10:03 |
Mon 11 Nov 2024
DARK TIDE-Edna Cowell Martin and Megan Atkinson
Including never-before-seen photos and handwritten letters from Ted Bundy, Dark Tide’s message is as gut-wrenching as it is clear, asking the question: how well do we know those we trust most?
Edna’s …
Edna’s …
01:29:00 |
Mon 04 Nov 2024
MURDER! MOLLY AND THE MOB-Rod Kackley
Murder! Molly And The Mob: A (1950's) Shocking True Crime Story by Rod Kackley delves into one of the most chilling unsolved mysteries from the heart of 1950s America.Set against the gritty backdrop…
01:11:57 |
Mon 28 Oct 2024
THE VELVET HAMMER-Judge Belvin Perry Jr. & Amy Mitchell
After retiring from twenty-five years on the bench, former chief judge, Belvin Perry Jr., reveals a rare and disturbingly vivid first-hand perspective of the most gruesome death penalty cases in whic…
00:59:46 |
Mon 21 Oct 2024
Listen Now: Kill List
In the depths of the dark net, tech journalist Carl Miller makes a disturbing discovery: a secret Kill List targeting hundreds of innocent people on a murder for hire website. When the police decide …
00:06:11 |
Mon 21 Oct 2024
THE MENENDEZ MURDERS-UPDATED EDITION-Robert Rand
Listen to Robert Rand, the investigative journalist and author of the definitive book on the Menendez case—and the disquieting true story behind Netflix’s Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story.
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01:02:35 |
Mon 14 Oct 2024
EDEN UNDONE-Abbott Kahler
At the height of the Great Depression, Los Angeles oil mogul George Allan Hancock and his crew of Smithsonian scientists came upon a gruesome scene: two bodies, mummified by the searing heat, on the …
01:17:42 |
Mon 07 Oct 2024
OBSESSED-Mark Hewitt
In Obsessed: My Relentless Pursuit of the Zodiac Killer, Dr. Mark Hewitt invites readers into his gripping journey of unraveling one of America's most enduring mysteries. Dr. Hewitt, an expert on the…
01:11:39 |
Mon 30 Sep 2024
THE BOOK OF MURDER-Matt Murphy
Examining murder from an insider’s perspective, Matt Murphy—a former senior deputy district attorney and current ABC News Legal Analyst—discusses cases from his career, how they strained his personal…
01:06:02 |
Mon 23 Sep 2024
THE LEWISTON SHOOTINGS-Robert Conlin
October 25, 2023 was just an ordinary night in Lewiston, a small, working class city of 37,000 in central Maine. Friends and families had gathered to do what they loved to do with the people they wan…
01:00:13 |
Mon 16 Sep 2024
THE ELECTROCUTION OF BABY LAWRENCE-James E. Overmyer
In September 1943, in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, prominent citizen and attorney John Noxon Jr. was arrested for the murder of his 6-month-old Down Syndrome baby Lawrence. Baby Lawrence, according to …
01:09:48 |
Mon 09 Sep 2024
THAT BEAST WAS NOT ME-Jeffrey L. Smalldon
In 1975, after Manson Family member Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme’s attempt to kill President Gerald Ford, the FBI found a cache of letters in the would-be assassin’s Sacramento apartment. The return addr…
01:16:40 |
Mon 02 Sep 2024
THE DEVIL AT HIS ELBOW-Valerie Bauerlein
Power, privilege, and blood—this is the definitive and thrilling true story of Alex Murdaugh’s violent downfall, from a veteran Wall Street Journal reporter who has become an authority on the case.
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01:08:24 |
Mon 26 Aug 2024
IN THE WIND-Ron Peterson Jr.
The true story of a trailblazing detective’s search for a beautiful college coed who vanished without a trace.
In 1981, detective Kay Schucker was the lead investigator in the high-profile missing per…
In 1981, detective Kay Schucker was the lead investigator in the high-profile missing per…
01:15:22 |
Mon 19 Aug 2024
BLOOD TRAIL-Rick Reed
Joseph Weldon Brown confessed to more than a dozen murders across seven states. He was convicted and sentenced for killing a woman whose body he dismembered and scattered across three Indiana countie…
01:12:38 |
Mon 12 Aug 2024
THE DEVIL BEHIND THE BADGE-Rick Jervis
The shocking true-crime story of a U.S. Border Patrol agent turned serial killer, the four sex workers whom he mercilessly killed, and the upended border town of Laredo where his heinous crimes occur…
01:13:28 |
Mon 05 Aug 2024
REAP THE WHIRLWIND-Peter Houlahan
The bestselling author of Norco ’80 returns to True Murder with a riveting story of mid-1980s San Diego that placed one young Black man at the center of a whirlwind of crime and punishment that profo…
01:35:11 |
Mon 29 Jul 2024
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