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
31 MURDERS-—Alvin A.J. Esau
Many decades before Ted Bundy roamed the country there was serial killer Earle Nelson. During the 1920s, this geographically mobile killer went from city to city. His modus operandi involved getting …
01:00:38 |
Mon 08 Sep 2025
EXPERT WITNESS—Ann Burgess
From the author of the critically-acclaimed true crime account, A Killer By Design (the inspiration behind Hulu's original docuseries, Mastermind), a groundbreaking look into the crucial role played …
00:57:57 |
Mon 01 Sep 2025
THE SERIAL KILLER TRAVEL GUIDE ACROSS AMERICA—Johnny Trevisani
The Serial Killer Travel Guide Across America isn’t your typical road trip companion. This darkly fascinating guide is quirky and unconventional and takes readers on a dark journey through the United…
00:51:08 |
Mon 25 Aug 2025
MADMAN—M.F. Gross
A Crime That Shattered Paradise... A Chase That Became Legend.
Crystal Beach, Florida—1949. A peaceful seaside haven where crime was unheard of. Until one early morning, a brutal act of violence chang…
Crystal Beach, Florida—1949. A peaceful seaside haven where crime was unheard of. Until one early morning, a brutal act of violence chang…
01:32:32 |
Mon 18 Aug 2025
A MONSTER IN MOUNT PLEASANT—CJ Williams
In the quiet town of Mount Pleasant, Iowa, the idyllic calm of 1978 was shattered by a series of brutal murders. Karol Beavers, a vivacious high school junior, and her mother, Clementine, became the …
00:59:36 |
Mon 11 Aug 2025
A FATHER'S FIGHT—Robbie Parker
How one father, determined to reclaim his daughter's memory, brought down Alex Jones.On December 14, 2012, Robbie Parker's daughter Emilie was killed at Sandy Hook Elementary, a tragedy that changed …
01:07:15 |
Mon 04 Aug 2025
THE RENT COLLECTORS-—Jesse Katz
Baby-faced teen Giovanni Macedo is desperate to find belonging in one of LA’s most predatory gangs, the Columbia Lil Cycos—so desperate that he agrees to kill an undocumented Mexican street vendor. T…
01:08:25 |
Mon 28 Jul 2025
HITMAN-Julian Sher and Lisa Fitterman
For Yves Trudeau, the blood was all business. An assassin for the Hells Angels in the ’70s and ’80s, Trudeau was known as Apache, the Mad Bumper, and the Mad Bomber. As a contract killer, he did his …
00:56:18 |
Mon 21 Jul 2025
SOMETHING BIG- Patrick Wohl
Something Big tells the story of the infamous Brown’s Chicken massacre, a brutal case that captivated Chicagoland after remaining unsolved for nearly a decade.
Customers know Brown's Chicken for its c…
Customers know Brown's Chicken for its c…
00:58:23 |
Mon 14 Jul 2025
SHALLOW GRAVES-Michael Benson
The latest collection from true crime master Michael Benson looks at some of the ghastliest murders in Rochester, N.Y., history. One of them takes place in Genesee County, but it's a good one. Storie…
00:57:34 |
Mon 07 Jul 2025
MURDERLAND-Caroline Fraser
Caroline Fraser grew up in the shadow of Ted Bundy, the most notorious serial murderer of women in American history, surrounded by his hunting grounds and mountain body dumps, in the brooding landsca…
00:58:53 |
Mon 30 Jun 2025
DOWN TO THE BONE—Caitlin Rother
A twisting, deeply engrossing investigation into the many lingering questions surrounding the sudden disappearance of the McStays, a family of four who vanished from their suburban San Diego home wit…
00:57:20 |
Mon 23 Jun 2025
ANATOMY OF A COVERUP-Paul Palango
FOLLOW-UP TO THE #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER 22 MURDERS
The truth about the deadliest criminal incident in Canadian history has remained untold—until now.
Investigative journalist Paul Palango’s 22 Murders …
The truth about the deadliest criminal incident in Canadian history has remained untold—until now.
Investigative journalist Paul Palango’s 22 Murders …
01:26:10 |
Mon 16 Jun 2025
PROJECT MIND CONTROL-John Lisle
The inside story of the CIA’s secret mind control project, MKULTRA, using never-before-seen testimony from the perpetrators themselves.
Sidney Gottlieb was the CIA’s most cunning chemist. As head of t…
Sidney Gottlieb was the CIA’s most cunning chemist. As head of t…
01:17:13 |
Mon 09 Jun 2025
CHASSON'S RUN-Daniel Zimmerman
On September 6, 1982, convicted murderer Leroy James Chasson made a daring break for freedom from the Massachusetts Correctional Institute-Walpole—one of the most infamous, escape-proof prisons in th…
01:17:55 |
Mon 02 Jun 2025
A SECOND SHOT-Michael F. Weisberg
In 1971, Montgomery County Deputy Sheriff James Tappen Hall was gunned down outside a Maryland country club. The case went cold—no suspect, no answers, no closure. But his daughter never gave up tryi…
01:20:49 |
Mon 26 May 2025
MURDER IN A SMALL TOWN-Larry Scheckel
"It was the most horrific crime ever to come before this Court,” said the Judge. A renowned forensic pathologist shouted from the witness stand, “Torture!” when describing the beating three-year-old …
00:53:07 |
Mon 19 May 2025
THE RULE OF CRIME AND ME-Anne Jaeger
Anne JaegerFrom her small-town Michigan roots to becoming a New York Times bestselling author, Ann Rule’s life journey is as fascinating as the cases she covered. Discover how she revolutionized crim…
01:25:56 |
Mon 12 May 2025
THE PEEPSHOW—Kate Summerscale
London, 1953. Police discover the bodies of three young women hidden in a wall at 10 Rillington Place, a dingy terrace house in Notting Hill. On searching the building, they find another body beneath…
01:12:07 |
Mon 05 May 2025
DEPRAVED OBSESSION-Rod Sadler
What drove the inconspicuous sociopath to become a ruthless killer? During his nearly fifteen-year reign of terror, Ronald Lloyd Bailey’s depraved obsession with sexual sadism held communities across…
01:17:50 |
Mon 28 Apr 2025
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