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
DAHMER DETECTIVE-Robyn Maharaj
In the late hours of July 22, 1991, Milwaukee, Wisconsin changed forever. Detective Patrick “Pat” Kennedy would meet a man who had altered many lives in devastating ways. Nothing could possibly have …
01:15:51 |
Thu 21 Jul 2016
JANE DOE JANUARY-Emily Winslow
On the morning of September 12, 2013, a fugitive task force arrested Arthur Fryar at his apartment in Brooklyn. His DNA, entered in the FBI’s criminal database after a drug conviction, had been match…
01:26:31 |
Mon 18 Jul 2016
MURDER IN THE FAMILY-Burl Barer
On March 15th, 1987 police in Anchorage, Alaska arrived at a horrific scene of carnage. In a modest downtown apartment, they found Nancy Newman's brutally beaten corpse sprawled across her bed. In ot…
02:04:54 |
Sat 09 Jul 2016
MAN-EATER-Harold Schechter
In the winter of 1873, a small band of prospectors lost their way in the frozen wilderness of the Colorado Rockies. Months later, when the snow finally melted, only one of them emerged. His name was …
01:07:20 |
Wed 06 Jul 2016
THE LYNCHING-Laurence Leamer
The New York Times bestselling author of The Kennedy Women chronicles the powerful and spellbinding true story of a brutal race-based killing in 1981 and subsequent trials that undid one of the most …
01:04:52 |
Thu 30 Jun 2016
Gang Mom-Fred Rosen
Mary Thompson was your average mother in early 1990s Eugene, Oregon. She was a community organizer and upstanding citizen … by day. By night? She was “Gang Mom.” Living the ultimate double life, Thom…
01:37:17 |
Thu 23 Jun 2016
THE MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF KURT COBAIN-Matthew Richer
Just days before Kurt Cobain's body was discovered on April 8, 1994, Courtney Love hired private investigator Tom Grant to locate him. In The Mysterious Death of Kurt Cobain Tom Grant takes readers b…
01:35:10 |
Tue 21 Jun 2016
THE SOPHIE LANCASTER STORY-Catherine Smyth
In a park in Bacup, Lancashire, England on the night of August 11, 2007, 21 year-olds Sophie Lancaster and her boyfriend Rob Maltby were savagely attacked by five teenage boys, aged 14-17. They were …
01:22:15 |
Sat 18 Jun 2016
TRUE CRIME ADDICT-James Renner
When an eleven year old James Renner fell in love with Amy Mihaljevic, the missing girl seen on posters all over his neighborhood, it was the beginning of a lifelong obsession with true crime. That o…
01:30:07 |
Thu 09 Jun 2016
UNTYING THE KNOT-Greg Day
"On May 5, 1993, second-graders Christopher Byers, Stevie Branch, and Michael Moore disappeared from their West Memphis, Arkansas, homes. The following afternoon, their nude, beaten, and bound bodies…
01:32:26 |
Sun 05 Jun 2016
ABOMINATION-William Ramsey
With shocking insights into one of the most talked about murder cases in American history, Abomination: Devil Worship and Deception in the West Memphis Three Murders reveals the truth about the death…
01:28:10 |
Thu 26 May 2016
WATCH ME DIE-Dr. Bill Kimberlin
Watch Me Die is a firsthand account of Ohio's death row and the state’s execution process unlike any other. Dr. Kimberlin, a trained clinical psychologist and professor of psychology, goes beyond the…
01:29:02 |
Thu 19 May 2016
THE BLOOD ON MY HANDS-Shannon O'Leary
Set in 1960s and ‘70s Australia, The Blood on My Hands is the dramatic tale of Shannon O’Leary’s childhood years. O’Leary grew up under the shadow of horrific domestic violence, sexual and physical a…
01:32:36 |
Thu 12 May 2016
BLOOD STAIN-Peter Lalor
'There are murders and there are murders. There are bodies and there are bodies, and then there's what lies waiting behind the front door of the little brick house with its blinds drawn and air condi…
01:34:32 |
Wed 04 May 2016
SMOOTH TALKER-Steve Jackson
One morning in July 1974, Anita Andrews, the owner and bartender at Fagiani’s Cocktail Lounge in Napa, California was found dead in her bar–raped, beaten, and stabbed to death in a bloody frenzy. She…
01:29:38 |
Thu 28 Apr 2016
ICE AND BONE-Monte Francis
On a clear, brisk night in September of 2000, 33-year-old Della Brown was found sexually assaulted and beaten to death inside a filthy, abandoned shed in seedy part of Anchorage, Alaska. She was one …
01:08:10 |
Thu 21 Apr 2016
CONVICTION-Juan Martinez
Through two trials, America watched as Juan Martinez fought relentlessly to convict Jodi Arias of Murder One for viciously stabbing her ex-boyfriend Travis Alexander to death. What emerged was a stor…
01:23:17 |
Thu 14 Apr 2016
GITCHIE GIRL-Phil Hamman
A terrified voice cried out in the night.
"Who are you? What do you want?
The sound of snapping twigs closed in on the five teenagers enjoying an evening around a glowing campfire at Gitchie Manitou St…
"Who are you? What do you want?
The sound of snapping twigs closed in on the five teenagers enjoying an evening around a glowing campfire at Gitchie Manitou St…
01:23:31 |
Thu 07 Apr 2016
THE TRAIL OF TED BUNDY-Kevin Sullivan
Within the pages of THE TRAIL OF TED BUNDY:Digging Up the Untold Stories, you’ll hear the voices - many for the first time - of some of Ted Bundy’s friends, as they bring to light the secrets of what…
01:29:33 |
Thu 31 Mar 2016
REAL CRIME-James Hoare
From the notorious serial killers of the Age of Aquarius to the ruthless mob bosses of the Jazz Age and beyond, Real Crime is the first high quality true crime magazine on the newsstand. Every issue …
01:09:09 |
Wed 23 Mar 2016
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