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
Listen Now: Suspect "Five Shots in the Dark"
Leon Benson spent 24 years in an Indiana state prison for the 1998 murder of a young man named Kasey Schoen. His conviction hinged on the testimony of two eyewitnesses – but what if their memories tu…
00:06:20 |
Mon 17 Jul 2023
JUST IN THE NICK OF TIME-David B. Savitz
A 19-year-old accused of killing his parents is diagnosed with an unusual psychiatric disorder and spends a torturous six years in the Colorado judicial and mental health systems before his case expe…
00:56:01 |
Mon 10 Jul 2023
LAST CHILD SEEN-Maureen Boyle
On an unseasonably warm winter evening in Pennsylvania, 15-year-old Patty Desmond sneaked out through the basement of her house. She had a history of running away, and that, combined with an argument…
00:48:27 |
Mon 03 Jul 2023
LITTLE, CRAZY CHILDREN-James Renner
In September of 1990, in the Cleveland suburb of Shaker Heights, sixteen-year-old Lisa Pruett, a poetry lover and member of a church youth group, was on her way to a midnight tryst with her boyfriend…
00:56:41 |
Mon 26 Jun 2023
COAL COUNTRY KILLING-Steve Jackson
Coal Country Killing: A Culture, A Union, And The Murders That Changed It All, revolves around the cold-blooded 1969 assassination of United Mineworkers of America “reform candidate” Jock Yablonski, …
01:01:49 |
Mon 19 Jun 2023
THE MAN WITH THE KILLER SMILE-Mitchel P. Roth
On a cold, windy December night in 1926, hell was unleashed on a tenant farm near Farwell, the last Texas town before the New Mexico border. Prone to the bottle and fits of rage, the burly man with t…
00:56:25 |
Tue 13 Jun 2023
BLOOD ON THE TRACKS-Rod Kackley
Discover the dark side of human nature with Blood on the Tracks.
This true crime book takes you on a journey through the most heinous murder cases in history, including unsolved mysteries that will le…
This true crime book takes you on a journey through the most heinous murder cases in history, including unsolved mysteries that will le…
00:52:53 |
Mon 12 Jun 2023
AMERICAN AUTOPSY-Dr. Michael Baden
Dr. Michael Baden has been involved in some of the most high-profile civil rights and police brutality cases in U.S. history, from the government’s 1976 re-investigation of the assassination of Marti…
00:58:35 |
Mon 05 Jun 2023
WHITE SMOKE-Patrick Strudwick
When the body of a young, gay, Black man, Gemmel Moore, was pulled out of the West Hollywood apartment of Ed Buck-a white, millionaire donor to the Democratic Party-the coroner called it an accidenta…
00:53:50 |
Mon 29 May 2023
THE DELPHI MURDERS-Nic Edwards
On February 13, 2017, two Indiana teenagers, Abigail Williams, 13, and Liberty German, 14, went for a walk in the woods near the abandoned Monon High Bridge. They never returned home. Their bodies we…
00:56:21 |
Tue 23 May 2023
INTRODUCING AMERICAN SCANDAL: The "Kids For Cash" Kickback Scheme
In the early 2000s, residents of northeastern Pennsylvania started to notice an alarming trend – children were being sent away to jail in high numbers, and for crimes so mild they might normally resu…
00:06:36 |
Mon 22 May 2023
DETAILS ARE UNPRINTABLE-Allan Levine
The narrative of Details Are Unprintable primarily unfolds over a seven-month period from October 1943 to April 1944—from the moment the body of twenty-two-year old Patricia Burton Lonergan is discov…
00:58:02 |
Tue 16 May 2023
INTRODUCING: MORBID
It’s all a lighthearted nightmare on the MORBID podcast. Hosted by Alaina Urquhart and Ash Kelley, Morbid is a full dose of true crime with a splash of comedy. Join us all month long as we celebrate …
00:07:14 |
Mon 15 May 2023
DEADLY CALIFORNIA-David Kulczyk
David Kulczyk’s eighth book, Deadly California is another tome of off the wall murders, accidents and robberies gone wrong that have happened in California. With true crime tales stretching from 1912…
00:43:55 |
Mon 08 May 2023
TREMORS IN THE BLOOD-Amit Katwala
Late one evening in the summer of 1922, Henry Wilkens burst through the doors of the emergency room covered in his wife’s blood. But was he a grieving husband, or a ruthless killer who conspired with…
00:51:16 |
Mon 01 May 2023
PRECIOUS FEW CLUES-Marla Bernard
On an unseasonably warm April evening in 2001, the headless body of a tiny girl was found discarded in a makeshift dump site in the woods on the southeast side of Kansas City, Missouri.One long night…
00:58:28 |
Mon 24 Apr 2023
KORESH-Stephan Talty
No other event in the last fifty years is shrouded in myth like the 1993 siege of the Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas. Today, we remember this moment for the 76 people, including 20 children, who die…
00:54:29 |
Mon 17 Apr 2023
THE CIGAR-Frank Dimatteo and Michael Benson
From real-life "Mafia Survivor" Frank Dimatteo, the gripping account of the life and crimes of the most feared mafia boss of all time: Carmine “Lilo” Galante, the prime mover behind the legendary Fre…
00:45:46 |
Mon 10 Apr 2023
SEVENTY TIMES SEVEN-Alex Mar
On a spring afternoon in 1985 in Gary, Indiana, a fifteen-year-old girl kills an elderly woman in a violent home invasion. In a city with a history of racial tensions and white flight, the girl, Paul…
00:50:30 |
Mon 03 Apr 2023
UNEXPECTED-Chris Thomas
Chris Thomas is not yet thirty years old when he finds himself managing the immense pressure, eccentric personalities, and extenuating circumstances of an international story, where one small misstep…
00:53:22 |
Tue 28 Mar 2023
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