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
- 864
- Years Active
- 2010 - 2025
THE MURDER OF BIGGIE SMALLS-Cathy Scott
In this second edition of The Murder of Biggie Smalls, Cathy Scott delves behind the scenes to pore over police records, coroner reports, FBI files, and interviews Biggie’s mother, Voletta Wallace, t…
01:02:06 |
Thu 24 Jun 2021
VICTIM F-Denise Huskins and Aaron Quinn
In March 2015, Denise Huskins and her boyfriend Aaron Quinn awoke from a sound sleep into a nightmare. Armed men bound and drugged them, then abducted Denise. Warned not to call the police or Denise …
00:57:52 |
Tue 15 Jun 2021
THE GHOST-Maureen Boyle
Police Chief Greg Adams was out on patrol. Christmas was coming to Saxonburg, Pennsylvania—a quaint borough of just 1,300—in three short weeks. The winter air was crisp. Colored lights sparkled on ho…
01:01:47 |
Thu 10 Jun 2021
ROCHESTER'S MOST STARTLING CRIMES-Michael Benson
Rochester, N.Y., is known for many things, great food, lilacs, innovative supermarkets, minor league baseball, and—unfortunately—crime. This heavily-illustrated book covers some of the most spectacul…
01:19:29 |
Wed 09 Jun 2021
RAZOR WIRE WILDERNESS--Stephanie Dickinson
Longtime author Stephanie Dickinson straddles the lines of true crime and memoir in “Razor Wire Wilderness,” (June 1, 2021, Kallisto Gaia Press) as she examines the lives of those affected by violenc…
01:12:43 |
Fri 04 Jun 2021
COLD BLOODED-Frank Stanfield
Investigators and Central Florida residents were horrified when 16-year-old vampire cult leader Rod Ferrell was arrested and charged with bludgeoning a cult member's parents. When they realized the s…
01:07:07 |
Thu 27 May 2021
HARRY-Steve Daniels
Long before the era of young people committing mass murder became a too-common event, sixteen-year-old Harry Hebard made world news when he killed all five members of his family in Kennedy-era Green …
01:03:09 |
Wed 19 May 2021
THE DENVILLE 13-Peter Zablocki
Denville in the 1950s was an idyllic place to live, yet a dark chapter in the era's history has remained uncovered. During the summer of 1953, a wealthy traveler with a secret rap sheet as a convicte…
01:06:30 |
Thu 13 May 2021
DEATH ON OCEAN BOULEVARD-Caitlin Rother
I got a girl, hung herself in the guest house."
The call came on the morning of July 13, 2011, from the historic Spreckels Mansion, a lavish beachfront property in Coronado, California, owned by pharm…
The call came on the morning of July 13, 2011, from the historic Spreckels Mansion, a lavish beachfront property in Coronado, California, owned by pharm…
01:11:50 |
Wed 12 May 2021
FLIGHT 7 IS MISSING-Ken H. Fortenberry
Dubbed by The New York Times as one of the "most vexing and unexplained" mysteries in aviation history, the crash of Pan American World Airways Flight 7 in November 1957 resulted in 44 deaths and rem…
01:08:29 |
Wed 05 May 2021
THE NEW MENENDEZ DEFENDERS-Robert Rand
Interest in the Menendez brothers’ case has exploded in the last few months. Over 770 million views on TikTok.
The groundswell began in 2017 with the TV premieres of several documentaries and NBC’s e…
The groundswell began in 2017 with the TV premieres of several documentaries and NBC’s e…
01:05:01 |
Wed 28 Apr 2021
MURDER LOST TO TIME-Joseph A. Lapello
The year is 1917. Less than two decades into the new century and already the Great War is occurring in the muddy fields of France. Soon there will be the Spanish Influenza which will kill many more m…
01:18:19 |
Fri 23 Apr 2021
THE NAPA MURDER OF ANITA FAGIANI ANDREWS-Raymond A. Guadagni
In 1974, the brutal murder of Anita Fagiani Andrews, a fifty-one-year-old former beauty queen and mother of two, shook the small working-class town of Napa. Detectives, criminalists and forensic expe…
01:05:44 |
Tue 13 Apr 2021
AT ANY COST-Selim Algar
Wealthy, beautiful, and brilliant, Shele Danishefsky had fulfillment at her fingertips. Having conquered Wall Street, she was eager to build a family with her much younger husband, promising Ivy Leag…
00:47:35 |
Fri 09 Apr 2021
GAZING INTO THE ABYSS-Steve Daniels
Law enforcement professionals and criminologists long have been challenged to arrive at a consensus over the most accurate ways to classify serial killers. With predators as diverse as the lesser-kno…
01:02:06 |
Tue 06 Apr 2021
THE ENIGMA OF TED BUNDY-Kevin Sullivan
If you want a view into the world that lies behind the Ted Bundy murders, this last work in a series of six books on Bundy, is definitely for you. For within these pages you’ll read of the many quest…
01:38:18 |
Thu 01 Apr 2021
THE GOSPEL OF BLOOD-Nico Claux
The Gospel of Blood is the autobiography of Nico Claux, a French morgue attendant whose morbid obsessions led him to grave robbery, cannibalism and murder in the early 1990s. It is a bone-chilling ch…
01:41:53 |
Sun 28 Mar 2021
THE ARKANSAS HITCHHIKE KILLER-Janie Nesbitt Jones
Faulkner County native Red Hall was a serial killer who confessed to murdering at least twenty-four people. Most of his victims were motorists who picked him up as he hitchhiked around the United Sta…
01:38:42 |
Sat 27 Mar 2021
'THE SON OF SAM' AND ME-Carl Denaro
In 1976, a killer who called himself ‘The Son of Sam’ shot and killed a half dozen people and wounded as many more in New York City. During his crime spree, the madman left bizarre letters mocking th…
01:07:47 |
Sat 13 Mar 2021
MANIAC-Harold Schechter
Harold Schechter, Amazon Charts bestselling author of Hell’s Princess, unearths a nearly forgotten true crime of obsession and revenge, and one of the first—and worst—mass murders in American history…
01:06:30 |
Fri 12 Mar 2021
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