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
DEATH BY TALONS-Tiddy Smith
On December 9, 2001, Kathleen Peterson was found dead at the bottom of a staircase in her Durham, NC home. Her scalp was laced with deep incisions, and her blood was strewn from outside to inside the…
00:49:43 |
Tue 21 Mar 2023
JonBenet's SECRET SANTA, MY MURDERER-M'Linda Kula
M'Linda Kula is very familiar with this SECRET SANTA and the many links that tie him to JonBenet Ramsey. Each link is carefully explained within this book, to lead from one connection to the next bet…
00:51:48 |
Tue 14 Mar 2023
THE ANGEL MAKERS-Patti McCracken
The Angel Makers is a true-crime story like no other—a 1920s midwife who may have been the century’s most prolific killer leading a murder ring of women responsible for the deaths of at least 160 men…
00:45:22 |
Mon 13 Mar 2023
SICARIUS: Sondra London
From his cell on Death Row in Florida, confessed serial killer Danny Rolling started writing and illustrating this novel about the Daggerman Sicarius in 1999, seven years before his 2006 execution fo…
01:01:51 |
Mon 06 Mar 2023
LOU AND JONBENET-John Wesley Anderson
On Christmas Night 1996, six-year-old JonBenet Ramsey was murdered in her family’s home in Boulder, Colorado. A ransom note was found in the home, but it was hours before her father, John, found her …
01:00:00 |
Mon 27 Feb 2023
ERIE'S BACKYARD STRANGLER-Justin Dombrowski
On a cold morning in December 1960, 60-year-old Laura Mutch was found strangled behind a house in downtown Erie....At a time when the Gem City was at its peak, including a triumphant run for the cove…
00:52:41 |
Mon 20 Feb 2023
THE BEST NEW TRUE CRIME STORIES: Crimes of Famous and Infamous Criminals-Mitzi Szereto
Actors, musicians, TV personalities, and other public figures in the spotlight aren’t always who they appear to be. You might be surprised by just how many have led nefarious, double lives, and have …
00:50:40 |
Tue 14 Feb 2023
THE REAL-LIFE MURDER CLUBS-Nicola Stow
What happens when ordinary people, in real-life murder clubs, set out to investigate crimes, both recent and cold cases?The Netflix hit Don’t F**k with Cats was based on the 2012 Montreal murder of t…
00:46:19 |
Wed 08 Feb 2023
THE KILLING SPREE-Anita Paddock
John Edward Swindler never learned to read or write and instead became a bona fide criminal at the age of fifteen. His crimes quickly advanced from car theft to arson. At three hundred pounds, with l…
00:49:41 |
Mon 06 Feb 2023
BUTCHER'S WORK-Harold Schechter
A Civil War veteran who perpetrated one of the most ghastly mass slaughters in the annals of U.S. crime. A nineteenth-century female serial killer whose victims included three husbands and six of her…
00:43:55 |
Mon 30 Jan 2023
TRIAL LAWYER-Richard Zitrin
Internationally known legal ethics professor Richard Zitrin's work as a trial lawyer placed him on the front lines of fighting systemic racism, pervasive elitism, and injustice against individuals in…
00:51:06 |
Tue 24 Jan 2023
Wondery Presents: Frozen Head
Hosted by Ash Kelley and Alaina Urquhart from the hit show Morbid.When 90-year-old Laurence Pilgeram drops dead on the sidewalk outside his condo, you might think that’s the end of his story. But, re…
00:04:05 |
Mon 23 Jan 2023
NEVER FORGIVE, NEVER FORGET-Rod Kackley
No body means no crime, which makes this the perfect murder.
Doug Stewart even has an ironclad alibi. He's been seen hundreds of miles away when his lovely wife, Venus, vanishes. What better plan coul…
Doug Stewart even has an ironclad alibi. He's been seen hundreds of miles away when his lovely wife, Venus, vanishes. What better plan coul…
00:46:39 |
Tue 17 Jan 2023
HIDDEN DEMONS-Margery B. Metzger
On January 7, 1994, residents of the Berkshire Hills woke up to a typical snowy winter day in the majestic woods of Western Massachusetts. The quaint New England towns, the idyllic scenery and the pe…
00:51:21 |
Mon 16 Jan 2023
A LOVELY GIRL-Deborah Larkin
The incredible story of a 1958 murder that ended with the last woman to ever be executed in California—a murder so twisted it seems ripped from a Greek tragedy.
Deborah Larkin was only ten years old w…
Deborah Larkin was only ten years old w…
00:53:20 |
Mon 09 Jan 2023
COLD BLOODED MURDER-Brad Hunter
Murder is the most vile crime known to man. It can be triggered by love or money or sex. Those are the three big ticket items for homicide. But people are strange. They will kill for the most obscure…
00:55:42 |
Tue 03 Jan 2023
MURDER IN THE FOX VALLEY-Jim Ridings
The western suburbs of Chicago were being terrorized by a serial rapist and murderer in the 1970s and 1980s. Bruce Lindahl was a psychotic rapist and killer who preyed on girls and young women for al…
00:47:29 |
Mon 02 Jan 2023
ROOTED IN DECEPTION-Laura Churchill Duke
From the award-winning author of Two Crows Sorrow comes another historical true crime story about secret identities, deception, and murder.
At the turn of the century, an ex-convict from Ireland arriv…
At the turn of the century, an ex-convict from Ireland arriv…
00:52:03 |
Wed 21 Dec 2022
Wondery Presents Suspect Season 2: Vanished In The Snow
For more than three and a half decades, the disappearance of 12-year-old Jonelle Matthews was a mystery – a riddle neither authorities nor her family members could solve. The residents of her cloiste…
00:06:41 |
Mon 19 Dec 2022
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…
00:56:51 |
Mon 12 Dec 2022
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