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
NOBODY'S WOMEN-Steve Miller
In late October 2009, Cleveland Police detectives arrived at the home of Anthony Sowell, an ex-Marine and registered sex offender—to arrest him on week-old rape charges.
But this was no ordinary hou…
01:15:12 |
Fri 28 Sep 2012
COLD NORTH KILLERS-Lee Mellor
There are more than 60 serial murderers in Canadian history. For too long awareness of serial murder in Canada has been confined to West Coast child killer Clifford Olson and the "Schoolgirl Murdere…
01:35:34 |
Thu 20 Sep 2012
WALKING THE CIRCLE-PRISON CHRONICLES-J. Tony Serra
J. Tony Serra is the epitome of counter-cultural hero. He has spent his life defending society's marginalized citizens in the courtroom. His role in the Chol Soo Lee case was depicted in the film Tr…
01:25:35 |
Thu 13 Sep 2012
MURDER IN THE MOUNTAINS-Michael Crisp
Murder in the Mountains: The Muriel Baldridge Story revisits the slaying of Muriel Baldridge, the 17-year old high school cheerleader who was found beaten to death on the morning of June 28, 1949 in …
01:05:40 |
Thu 30 Aug 2012
HER DEADLY WEB-Diane Fanning
Raynella Dossett Leath said she came home one morning in 2003 and found her husband’s body in bed—covered in blood, a Colt .38 by his side. But authorities were suspicious of Raynella’s story. Why w…
00:59:39 |
Thu 23 Aug 2012
DEADLY LITTLE SECRETS-Kathryn Casey
To his parishioners, minister Matt Baker seemed a pious and good man. To his wife, Kari, he was a devoted husband and caring father. Always sunny and vivacious, Kari never questioned their frequent r…
00:58:42 |
Thu 09 Aug 2012
LOST GIRLS-Caitlin Rother
Chelsea King was a popular high school senior, an outstanding achiever determined to make a difference. Amber Dubois loved books and poured her heart into the animals she cared for. Treasured by thei…
01:07:58 |
Thu 02 Aug 2012
MASTERS OF TRUE CRIME-Edited By R. Barri Flowers
In February 1975, 9 year-old Marcia Trimble left her house in Nashville to deliver Girl Scout cookies in the neighborhood. She never returned. After a massive but fruitless search, her body was disc…
01:16:14 |
Thu 26 Jul 2012
VAMPIRE-THE RICHARD CHASE MURDERS-Kevin M. Sullivan
By the time Richard Trenton Chase graduated high school, everyone knew he was strange. But no one had any idea how bizarre he'd become, or what dark impulses were flowing through his troubled brain. …
01:19:04 |
Fri 20 Jul 2012
DATE WITH THE DEVIL-Don Lasseter
David Mahler, a 43-year-old east coast lawyer, came to Hollywood for the celebrity lifestyle, the movie industry, and the women. At his seven-level home in the Hollywood Hills, Mahler rubbed elbows w…
01:02:17 |
Thu 28 Jun 2012
OVERKILL-Lyn Riddle
Laurie Show was as compassionate as she was hard-working. The outgoing high-school junior worked part-time to pay for the home she and her divorced mother shared. Yet she always had time to tutor fri…
01:09:05 |
Thu 21 Jun 2012
THE BANDIDO MASSACRE-Peter Edwards
On the morning of April 8, 2006, residents of the hamlet of Shedden, Ontario, woke up to the news that the bloodied bodies of eight bikers from the Bandidos gang had been found dead on a local farm.…
01:26:53 |
Thu 14 Jun 2012
WHEN SATAN WORE A CROSS-Fred Rosen
In 1980 in Toledo, Ohio—on one of the holiest days of the church calendar—the body of a nun was discovered in the sacristy of a hospital chapel. Seventy-one-year-old Sister Margaret Ann had been s…
01:36:24 |
Thu 31 May 2012
ROGUE MOBSTER-Mark Silverman and Scott Deitche
When the infamous gangster Whitey Bulger went on the lam in 1995, the streets of Boston became a war zone between the Mafia and the renegades, with the Winter Hill Gang looking on. Rogue Mobster: The…
01:03:49 |
Thu 24 May 2012
LUST FOR JUSTICE-Paulette Frankl and J. Tony Serra
The greatest counter-culture lawyer of his time. His trials have garnered him acclaim as one of the greatest criminal defense lawyers of the century. He's the white tornado in court, a semantic samur…
01:38:36 |
Thu 17 May 2012
THE CHARMER-Richard Muti and Charles Buckley
When prison inmate Robert Reldan's aunt died and left him an $8.9 million trust fund, Arthur and Barbara Reeve, parents of murder victim Susan Reeve, acted to deprive Reldan of the funds that could g…
01:13:43 |
Thu 10 May 2012
THE FRANK MATTHEWS STORY-Ron Chepsiuk and Al Profit
In the early 1970's, Frank Matthews became America's biggest drug kingpin. His organization, headquartered in Brooklyn, stretched across more than 20 states, and he became the only Black gangster to …
01:06:10 |
Thu 03 May 2012
HEAD SHOT-Burl Barer
In the mid-to-late 1980's, a quiet neighborhood near Tacoma, Washington was terrorized by the violence of three men: Paul St. Pierre, an alcoholic psychopath; his younger brother, Chris, who had comm…
01:15:55 |
Thu 19 Apr 2012
SCAPEGOAT-THE CHINO HILLS MURDERS-J. Patrick O'Conner
In June 1983, Doug and Peggy Ryen, their ten-year-old daughter and a 11-year-old house guest were brutally murdered in Chino Hills, California. Two days before, Kevin Cooper had escaped from a nearby…
01:17:31 |
Thu 12 Apr 2012
A KNIFE IN THE HEART-Michael Benson
Sarah Ludemann was new to love. The Pinellas, Florida, 17-year old was a late bloomer. When she fell for a boy she was blind to the world of sex, drugs and drama swirling around her. Soon, Sarah had …
01:05:23 |
Thu 05 Apr 2012
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