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
TAMPA BAY ORGANIZED CRIME-Paul Guzzo
In Tampa in 1948, known gangster Jimmy Velasco was gunned down by a hit man. In the ensuing weeks, when neither the Tampa Police Department nor Hillsborough made an arrest, Jimmy’s brothers took the …
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Thu 18 Apr 2013
KIDNAPPED BY THE CARTEL-Karen Scioscia
A beautiful, young American woman was kidnapped and confined against her will in the putrid depths of Tijuana, Mexico. Drugged and tortured, she lived in constant fear for her life. Kidnapped by the …
01:08:35 |
Thu 11 Apr 2013
SEARCHING FOR SANDRA-Stacy Dittrich
Where was Sandra? Across the country, parents watched with growing panic as the surveillance video was replayed on the evening news: a young girl in black leggings and a Hello Kitty t-shirt, skipping…
01:12:50 |
Thu 04 Apr 2013
KATHERINE RAMSLAND-The Human Predator
From ancient Rome through the Dark Ages to the burgeoning West to the open highways of urban America, from the unconscionable exploits of French religious zealot Gilles de Rais to such all-American m…
01:21:54 |
Thu 21 Mar 2013
LAW AND DISORDER-John Douglas and Mark Olshaker
For twenty-five years, John E. Douglas worked for the FBI, where he headed the elite Investigative Support Unit. The real-life model for FBI Agent Jack Crawford in "The Silence of the Lambs", he's ha…
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Thu 14 Mar 2013
INVESTIGATING LUST MURDER-Janet McClellan
The behavior and activities exhibited by offenders that distinguish lust murderers from among other types of serial murderers are presented through a multiple case studies analysis of the offenders' …
01:15:55 |
Wed 13 Mar 2013
I, MONSTER-Tom Philbin
What goes through the dark minds of such notorious killers as Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, David Berkowitz ("Son of Sam"), John Wayne Gacy, Dennis Rader (the "BTK Killer"), and others? In this chilling…
01:09:58 |
Thu 28 Feb 2013
DARK MINDS-INVESTIGATION DISCOVERY-M. William Phelps
Returning for another chilling season, Investigation Discovery’s DARK MINDS transports the most dangerous of all criminals right into your own home. In the series, returning on February 27, non-ficti…
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Sat 23 Feb 2013
FOR MEMBERS ONLY-Jerry Vairo
Seldom, if ever, has a writer been given access to a former major drug dealer in the Mafia underworld and three generations of legitimate family members that followed. After nearly two years of inter…
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Thu 07 Feb 2013
BRONX COLD CASE HOMICIDE-Joseph L. Giacalone
In May 2012 suspected serial killer Angel Guridy-Cabral was extradited from the Dominican Republic for the 1993 murder of his girlfriend Altagracia Valdez, 24, after new DNA technology linked him to …
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Thu 31 Jan 2013
SLOW DEATH-Sheila Johnson
"Never Trust a Chained Captive." That was one of the rules David Parker Ray posted on the isolated property where he and his girlfriend Cynthia Hendy lived near New Mexico's Elephant Butte Lake. They…
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Thu 24 Jan 2013
TRUE MURDER-THIRD YEAR ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL
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Thu 10 Jan 2013
SUDDEN TERROR-Larry Crompton
The East Area Rapist would break into middle-class homes in respectable neighborhoods in the dark of night, tie up his victims and tell them over and over they were going to die.
Only he didn’t kill …
Only he didn’t kill …
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Thu 13 Dec 2012
BODY COUNT RE-RELEASE-Burl Barer
Not since the Green River Killer had the Pacific Northwest been terrorized by so savage a serial killer. By day, Robert Lee Yates, Jr., 48 was a respected father of five, a skilled helicopter pilot w…
01:27:47 |
Thu 06 Dec 2012
FACING THE U.S. PRISON PROBLEM 2.3 MILLION STRONG-Shawn Grif
Shawn Griffith spent over 23 years in various Florida prisons for an armed robbery he committed in 1992 at the age of 21. He has just recently been conditionally released from prison. He documents in…
01:38:31 |
Thu 29 Nov 2012
SERIAL KILLERS UP CLOSE AND VERY PERSONAL-Victoria Redstall
Victoria Redstall is a glamorous model, actress, filmmaker, and investigative journalist who has spent years visiting high-security prisons and interviewing sadistic killers like Gary Ray Bowles and …
01:23:06 |
Thu 15 Nov 2012
THE GIRL THAT HAD NO ENEMIES AND THE MAN WHO HATED WOMEN-De
Anthony J. LaRette Jr., had been on a ten-year-long path of violence, murder, and rape.
Everyone knew Mickey, with her stellar grades and driving ambition, would eventually follow her older brother’s …
Everyone knew Mickey, with her stellar grades and driving ambition, would eventually follow her older brother’s …
01:13:26 |
Thu 08 Nov 2012
SERIAL KILLER GARY HILTON UPDATE-Fred Rosen
Gary Michael Hilton once sold his movie idea to Hollywood. The straight-to-video Deadly Run was about a man who captures women only to set them free on his very private and secluded Georgia land so t…
01:11:47 |
Fri 02 Nov 2012
Dear Dawn-Aileen Wuornos in Her Own Words-Daphne Gottlieb
Aileen Wuornos, a hitchhiking prostitute, shot, killed, and robbed seven men in remote Florida locations. Arrested in 1991, Wuornos insisted she had acted in self-defense, but the jury condemned her …
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Thu 25 Oct 2012
PSYCHO U.S.A. -Harold Schechter
In the horrifying annals of American crime, infamous names of brutal killers such as Bundy, Dahmer, Gacy, and Berkowitz are writ large in the imaginations of a public both horrified and hypnotized by…
01:12:24 |
Thu 18 Oct 2012
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