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
I DON'T LIKE MONDAYS-N. Leigh Hunt
In 1979, Brenda Spencer, a seemingly average teenage girl living in a nice suburban neighborhood, made and executed plans that would place her in infamy and set a violent and terrifying national prec…
00:49:27 |
Wed 07 Dec 2022
FRANK SINATRA AND THE MAFIA MURDERS-Mike Rothmiller
Mike Rothmiller and Douglas Thompson draw on previously secret LAPD intelligence files, a cache of FBI documents released to the authors in 2021, and extensive interviews with prime sources, includin…
00:54:16 |
Mon 05 Dec 2022
THE FOREVER WITNESS-Edward Humes
A relentless detective and an amateur genealogist solve a haunting cold case—and launch a crime-fighting revolution that tests the fragile line between justice and privacy.
In November 1987, a young …
In November 1987, a young …
01:07:25 |
Thu 01 Dec 2022
RUSSIAN SERIAL KILLERS VOLUME 1-Nico Claux
Much is known about American and European serial killers, but did you know that more than 150 homicidal maniacs have plagued the former Soviet Union during the last 100 years? Nicknamed “The Night Cr…
00:50:52 |
Mon 28 Nov 2022
INSIDE THE MIND OF JOHN WAYNE GACY-Brad Hunter
Brad Hunter has spent over thirty years writing about some of America's most horrific crimes. In this new book he enters the mind of John Wayne Gacy, the real-life 'Killer Clown', often said to be th…
00:50:52 |
Mon 21 Nov 2022
THEIR BLOODY LIES AND PERSECUTION OF DAVID CAMM-Gary M. Dunn
Although featured nationally on 48 Hours, Dateline, and the Oxygen Network, the detailed, complete, and totally unbelievable story of the case of DAVID CAMM has never been fully revealed as police, p…
01:16:27 |
Wed 16 Nov 2022
SARGE!-Debra DiMaggio
“SARGE!” is a fascinating memoir by the late Chicago Police Detective Sergeant John A. DiMaggio, one of the most decorated officers on the force during a career that spanned the years 1957 to 1991. A…
00:44:06 |
Mon 14 Nov 2022
KILL. BURY. FORGET.-Rod Kackley
January 14, 1927 — A.J. Mathis, a wealthy, elderly chicken rancher, is missing. One of the last of the cowboy sheriffs, Jim McDonald, is convinced A.J. is dead. Murdered. And McDonald says he knows w…
01:00:26 |
Tue 08 Nov 2022
BY THE SIDE OF THE ROAD-Marla Bernard
In the early hours of March 22, 1989, two friends – career criminals with violent felony convictions - drove around the eastern Kansas City area in a stolen car committing a series of crimes. The wea…
00:50:46 |
Mon 07 Nov 2022
Amazon Music Presents COLD: The Search for Sheree
Sheree Warren left her job in Salt Lake City on a mild October evening in 1985. She told a coworker she was headed to meet her estranged husband, Charles Warren, at a car dealership. But she never ma…
00:09:29 |
Tue 01 Nov 2022
EXTREME PUNISHMENT-Steven B. Epstein
A devoted father. One of the most accomplished criminal law scholars in the country. Someone wanted him dead. But why?
On the morning of July 18, 2014, 41-year-old Florida State law professor Dan Mark…
On the morning of July 18, 2014, 41-year-old Florida State law professor Dan Mark…
00:52:27 |
Mon 24 Oct 2022
SILENT SILHOUETTE....WHO KILLED DEBORAH SUE-George Jared
Deborah Sue Williamson was a newly married young woman living in Lubbock Texas on Aug. 24, 1975. One night while her husband was away at work, she was brutally stabbed 17 times in the carport of thei…
01:00:55 |
Mon 17 Oct 2022
EXPOSED-Dr. Mark Hewitt
The solution to the Zodiac serial killer case is as clear as it is controversial. One man, a letter writer, bomb maker, and code creator, was living in the area at the time of the Zodiac murders, had…
00:59:30 |
Mon 10 Oct 2022
THE BEST NEW TRUE CRIME STORIES-Mitzi Szereto
Unsolved crimes, unanswered questions. Crimes are meant to be solved. But what happens when they’re not? For the individuals involved—from the victims and their families to police investigators—this …
00:47:45 |
Thu 06 Oct 2022
ALL THAT IS WICKED-Kate Winkler Dawson
Acclaimed crime historian, podcaster, and author of American Sherlock Kate Winkler Dawson tells the thrilling story of Edward Rulloff—a serial murderer who was called “too intelligent to be killed”—a…
00:59:36 |
Tue 04 Oct 2022
Introducing: The Generation Why Podcast
The Generation Why Podcast released its first episode in 2012 and pioneered the true crime genre in the podcasting world. Two friends, Aaron & Justin, break down theories and give their opinions on u…
00:08:31 |
Mon 03 Oct 2022
NOTHING BUT THE NIGHT-Greg King and Penny Wilson
Nearly a hundred years ago, two wealthy and privileged teenagers―Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb―were charged and convicted in a gruesome crime that would lead to the original “Trial of the Century”.…
01:07:50 |
Mon 26 Sep 2022
AMERICAN DEMON-Daniel Stashower
Boston had its Strangler. California had the Zodiac Killer. And in the depths of the Great Depression, Cleveland had the Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run.
On September 5th, 1934, a young beachcomber made …
On September 5th, 1934, a young beachcomber made …
00:56:29 |
Mon 19 Sep 2022
BLOOD & INK-Joe Pompeo
On September 16, 1922, the bodies of Reverend Edward Hall and Eleanor Mills were found beneath a crabapple tree on an abandoned farm outside of New Brunswick, New Jersey. The killer had arranged the …
00:59:38 |
Tue 13 Sep 2022
THE COLUMBUS STOCKING STRANGLER-William Rawlings
During an eight-month period in 1977 and 1978, the city of Columbus, Georgia, was terrorized by a mysterious serial killer who raped and ritualistically strangled seven elderly women in one of the co…
01:12:00 |
Thu 08 Sep 2022
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