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
BREAKING POINT-Suzy Spencer
One day, Andrea Yates was a loving mother. The next, the nation was shocked by the death of her five innocent children...
The 911 call that shocked the country. "I just killed my children." Why were t…
The 911 call that shocked the country. "I just killed my children." Why were t…
01:42:57 |
Thu 22 Oct 2015
BLOOD RUNS GREEN-Gillian O'Brien
It was the biggest funeral Chicago had seen since Lincoln’s. On May 26, 1889, four thousand mourners proceeded down Michigan Avenue, followed by a crowd forty thousand strong, in a howl of protest at…
01:25:57 |
Wed 14 Oct 2015
THE COUNTRY BOY KILLER-J.T. Hunter
From the bestselling author of The Vampire Next Door: The True Story of The Vampire Rapist, John Crutchley. J.T. Hunter tells the story of a friendly, baby-faced, Canadian boy next door. He came from…
01:09:41 |
Sat 10 Oct 2015
MISSING: WHEN THE SON SETS-Allyn Atadero
A day celebrating the beauty of God's handiwork turns into a father's worst nightmare as the sun sets on his only son, Jaryd Atadero, lost in the Colorado Mountains. A highly publicized search breaks…
01:36:14 |
Thu 01 Oct 2015
THE GREYHOUND BUS CANNIBAL KILLER-Dan Zupansky
Tim McLean left Edmonton at 12 a.m. on July 30, 2008, on board a Greyhound Bus, destined for Winnipeg. At 7 p.m. the bus left one of the scheduled stops with a new passenger, Vincent Weiguang Li. Li,…
00:51:49 |
Fri 25 Sep 2015
INVISIBLE DARKNESS-Stephen Williams
Invisible Darkness is the story of one of the more bizarre cases in recent memory--killings so sensational that they prompted the Canadian government, in the interests of justice, to silence its nati…
01:12:40 |
Wed 16 Sep 2015
BODY DUMP-Fred Rosen
The author of the true crime classic Lobster Boy now turns his investigative skills to the chilling true story of Kendall Francois, one of the most bizarre serial sex-killers of modern times. In Octo…
01:33:33 |
Thu 10 Sep 2015
DEATH IN CALIFORNIA-David Kulczyk
With details about grim and grisly fatalities, this history of California's arcane deaths encompasses the murders and accidents that at one time shocked the West Coast. The stories of hangings, gun a…
01:52:49 |
Sat 29 Aug 2015
KARLA-PACT WITH THE DEVIL-Stephen Williams
Karla picks up where Williams's first book on the case, Invisible Darkness, left her, painting her nails in her cell in solitary confinement in the gothic tower of Kingston's Prison for Women. After …
01:04:13 |
Thu 13 Aug 2015
CALIFORNIA JUSTICE-David Kulczyk
Introducing the victims and perpetrators responsible for California's most notorious shootouts, lynchings, and assassinations, this account shows how homemade justice is never black-and-white. In rel…
01:33:33 |
Thu 06 Aug 2015
TO HELL I MUST GO-Rod Sadler
On a cool, spring day in 1897, Alfred Haney left his Williamston, Michigan home to earn a day's wage. He knew his wife's peculiar behavior had become more frequent, and he had planned on her seeing t…
01:12:01 |
Thu 30 Jul 2015
DIXIE'S LAST STAND-John Ferak
The gray ranch along Third Avenue in the sleepy Midwestern town of less than 400 people was the recurring site of screaming, mad chaos and horrific domestic violence.
Then one day, abusive husband Sc…
Then one day, abusive husband Sc…
01:40:10 |
Thu 23 Jul 2015
HOUSE OF HORRORS-Rob Sberna
To his neighbors, Anthony Sowell was a friendly and helpful former Marine. But they didn't know about his dark side -- or the gruesome secret inside his house.
Sowell's secret life was revealed to th…
Sowell's secret life was revealed to th…
01:37:12 |
Fri 17 Jul 2015
REDBONE-Ron Stodghill
Lance Herndon was at the top of his game in 1996. At age forty-one he was a self-made millionaire, the owner of Access, Inc., a successful information-systems consulting company. As a prominent membe…
01:28:58 |
Fri 03 Jul 2015
KENTUCKY BLOODBATH-Kevin Sullivan
From the author of VAMPIRE: The Richard Chase Murders and The Bundy Murders comes an excursion into the truly weird and the bizarre: from a medieval-esque murder in a small town museum to the jilted…
01:03:20 |
Fri 26 Jun 2015
PERFECT VICTIM-Carla Norton
Hitchhiking from Eugene, Ore., through northern California in 1977, 20-year-old Colleen Stan thumbed a ride into hell. Her kidnappers a sadistic lumber mill worker, Cameron Hooker, and his battered w…
01:28:55 |
Thu 18 Jun 2015
WEEP FOR THE LIVING-Anne Butler
A survivor's firsthand account of attempted murder in St. Francisville, Louisiana. A former warden of Angola Prison shoots his wife five times with a pistol, then sits down to watch her die on her pl…
01:22:11 |
Thu 11 Jun 2015
FRUIT OF THE POISONOUS TREE-Richard Carson
First came the unsettling Ouija board prophesy that Robin Adams would die before her 17th birthday. When a minister was summoned to rid the house of frightening phenomena blamed on the Ouija board, h…
01:36:04 |
Fri 05 Jun 2015
HUNTING A PSYCHOPATH-Richard Shelby
"Hunting a Psychopath" is a fascinating first hand account of the crimes of California's East Area Rapist Original Night Stalker couples killer. Detective Shelby was the first Sacramento detective to…
02:49:23 |
Thu 28 May 2015
DELIVER US-Kathryn Casey
Critically acclaimed author Kathryn Casey delivers a riveting account of the brutal murders of young women in the I-45/Texas Killing Fields
Over a three-decade span, more than twenty women—many teenag…
Over a three-decade span, more than twenty women—many teenag…
01:39:06 |
Thu 21 May 2015
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