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
LICENSED TO LIE-Sidney Powell
A tragic suicide, a likely murder, wrongful imprisonment, and gripping courtroom scenes draw readers into this compelling story giving them a frightening perspective on justice corrupted and who shou…
01:15:07 |
Thu 17 Apr 2014
MOMMY'S A MOLE-Eve Carson
Karen Wolfe Churgin walked her dogs on April 18, 1990, on her remote wooded property on Chebacco Road. The veterinarian spotted a white sphere obstructing a drainage ditch. When she reached to dislo…
01:19:19 |
Thu 10 Apr 2014
THE SICILIAN MAFIA-A TRUE CRIME TRAVEL GUIDE-Carl Russo
The Sicilian Mafia: A True Crime Travel Guide is the first book of its kind in any language: the ultimate Cosa Nostra experience. Since 2006, author Carl Russo has photographed Mafia hotspots on the …
01:04:58 |
Thu 03 Apr 2014
A VOICE OUT OF NOWHERE-Janice Holly Booth
A Voice out of Nowhere delves deep into the mind of a psychotic killer. In this tragic true story about one young man's harrowing descent into madness and murder, A Voice out of Nowhere offers a rare…
01:40:28 |
Thu 27 Mar 2014
NOT ALL HEROES-Gary Skogen
(Aired March 12th but due to audio problems-new interview)
Gary Skogen’s tour in Vietnam (1971–72) was the best year of his life. Living with fellow CID investigators in an isolated hooch overlooking…
Gary Skogen’s tour in Vietnam (1971–72) was the best year of his life. Living with fellow CID investigators in an isolated hooch overlooking…
01:21:56 |
Thu 20 Mar 2014
BLOOD LUST-Gary C . King
Dayton Leroy Rogers, was known in Portland, Oregon as a respected businessman and devoted husband and father. But at night he abducted women, forced them into sadistic bondage games, and thrilled in …
01:13:30 |
Thu 27 Feb 2014
I'LL TAKE CARE OF YOU-Caitlin Rother
Nanette Johnston Packard, a sexy divorcee, liked to meet men at the gym and through personal ads. Soon after she began dating millionaire Bill McLaughlin, he moved her and her kids into his bay-front…
01:15:40 |
Fri 21 Feb 2014
FROM CRIME SCENE TO COURTROOM-Dawna Kaufmann and Dr. Cyril Wecht
In March 2009, Michael Jackson stood before the world press and announced that he would be doing a series of live concerts at London's Grand Concourse stadium, beginning in July. The shows would be c…
01:39:25 |
Fri 07 Feb 2014
LOBSTER BOY-Fred Rosen
Descended from a notorious carny family, Grady Stiles Jr. traded on the deformity that gave his hands and feet the look of lobster claws, to achieve fame as the "Lobster Boy". In November 1992, neigh…
01:33:48 |
Thu 30 Jan 2014
MOM SAID KILL-Burl Barer
When Jerry Heimann's son arrived at his father's home in Everett, Washington, he found his grandmother, an Alzheimer's patient, alone in the house, starving and dehydrated. His father was missing. Th…
01:43:38 |
Thu 23 Jan 2014
LETHAL INTENT-Sue Russell
Sexecutioner
On November 30, 1989, in a lonely place off Florida's Interstate 95, 51-year-old Richard Mallory shuddered under the impact of four .22-caliber slugs being pumped into him by a naked, har…
On November 30, 1989, in a lonely place off Florida's Interstate 95, 51-year-old Richard Mallory shuddered under the impact of four .22-caliber slugs being pumped into him by a naked, har…
01:28:19 |
Thu 16 Jan 2014
MURDER IN BEVERLY HILLS-Cathy Scott
Growing up, Susan Berman's childhood was idyllic. She was Las Vegas Mob royalty, the daughter of a Mob boss who ran the Flamingo and furnished his only child with anything money could buy. But halfwa…
01:06:24 |
Thu 05 Dec 2013
MURDER IN MISSISSIPPI-John Safran
When filming his TV series Race Relations, John Safran spent an uneasy couple of days with one of Mississippi's most notorious white supremacists. A year later, he heard that the man had been murdere…
01:04:13 |
Thu 28 Nov 2013
AMERICAN SNIPER-Jim DeFelice
American Sniper is the astonishing autobiography of SEAL Chief Chris Kyle, who is the record-holder for most kills for a sniper in U.S. military history. Kyle has more than 150 officially confirmed k…
01:07:18 |
Thu 21 Nov 2013
THE NAZI AND THE PSYCHIATRIST-Jack El-Hai
In 1945, after his capture at the end of the Second World War, Hermann Göring arrived at an American-run detention center in war-torn Luxembourg, accompanied by sixteen suitcases and a red hatbox. Th…
01:16:06 |
Thu 14 Nov 2013
FINAL EXAMS-Cyril H. Wecht and Dawna Kaufmann
Final Exams features four fascinating true crime cases from the files of Cyril H. Wecht, M.D., J.D., one of America’s most respected forensic pathologists.
Coauthored by crime writer Dawna Kaufmann, …
Coauthored by crime writer Dawna Kaufmann, …
01:06:52 |
Tue 12 Nov 2013
THE KENDRICK JOHNSON MURDER-Fred Rosen and Beau Webster
On January 10, 2013, Kendrick Johnson's parents reported their 17 year-old son missing. The next day at Kendrick's school, Lowndes High School in Valdosta, Georgia, in the gym students saw what they …
01:03:08 |
Wed 06 Nov 2013
PRISONER OF DREAMS-Rick Talley
An African American soldier returns home to New York City from the Vietnam War in the late 1960s. It is a time of turbulence and change and racism is very much alive in America. Times are tough for a…
01:11:43 |
Thu 31 Oct 2013
ONE TO THE WOLVES-Lois Duncan
In 1992, Lois Duncan, acclaimed author of fictional suspense novels, wrote a horror story she could never have imagined writing—a true account of the murder of her own daughter, Kaitlyn Arquette. Kai…
01:11:45 |
Wed 30 Oct 2013
SURVIVED BY ONE-Robert E Hanlon
On November 8, 1985, 18-year-old Tom Odle brutally murdered his parents and three siblings in the small southern Illinois town of Mount Vernon, sending shockwaves throughout the nation. It remains on…
01:30:00 |
Thu 24 Oct 2013
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