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
SIX INCHES DEEPER-William Rawlings
On August 31, 1972, Hellen Hanks, a pretty thirty-four-year-old mother of three disappeared from her place of employment at Wilcox Advertising in Valdosta, Georgia. After a brief investigation by loc…
01:02:25 |
Wed 31 Aug 2022
Introducing: Blood Ties S3: Strange Days
Our family members are not always who we think. When Eleonore Richland exposed her father’s dark legacy, she vowed to clean up the family business – and hired her half-brother, Santino Reyes, to help…
00:05:43 |
Mon 29 Aug 2022
THE TUSKEGEE STRANGLER-Linda Lou Long
Every serial killer is a “nice guy”—until he’s found out. The shocking, true account of a Southern charmer who left a trail of victims in his wake.
Jerry Marcus fooled them all. He was “a nice guy,” a…
Jerry Marcus fooled them all. He was “a nice guy,” a…
00:55:51 |
Thu 25 Aug 2022
THE RED WIDOW-Sarah Horowitz
Paris, 1889: Margeurite Steinheil is a woman with ambition. But having been born into a middle-class family and trapped in a marriage to a failed artist twenty years her senior, she knows her options…
00:58:44 |
Mon 22 Aug 2022
THE FISHERMEN AND THE DRAGON-Kirk Wallace Johnson
By the late 1970s, the fishermen of the Texas Gulf Coast were struggling. The bays that had sustained generations of shrimpers and crabbers before them were being poisoned by nearby petrochemical pla…
00:59:11 |
Fri 12 Aug 2022
GANGSTERS vs. NAZIS-Michael Benson
As Adolph Hitler rose to power in 1930s Germany, a growing wave of fascism began to take root on American soil. Nazi activists started to gather in major American cities, and by 1933, there were more…
00:57:35 |
Thu 11 Aug 2022
JIMMY THE KING-Gus Garcia-Roberts
An incredible four-decade account of murder, power, and corruption in one of the country’s largest police departments
In 1979, the gruesome slaying of a thirteen-year-old boy riveted the suburbs of S…
In 1979, the gruesome slaying of a thirteen-year-old boy riveted the suburbs of S…
00:57:05 |
Fri 05 Aug 2022
AURORA-Dr. Lynne Fenton
A compelling look at violence and trauma from the psychiatrist who treated mass shooter James Holmes, perpetrator of the infamous movie theater massacre.
As an expert and speaker on mass shootings and…
As an expert and speaker on mass shootings and…
00:56:20 |
Wed 27 Jul 2022
THE CASTLETON MASSACRE-Sharon Anne Cook and Margaret Carson
A former United Church minister massacres his family. What led to this act of femicide, and why were his victims forgotten?
On May 2, 1963, Robert Killins, a former United Church minister, slaughtered…
On May 2, 1963, Robert Killins, a former United Church minister, slaughtered…
01:00:25 |
Tue 19 Jul 2022
SIMPLE, SAFE & SECRET-Eve Carson
It was a brisk April morning in 1990 when a woman walking her dog stopped cold in her tracks. She reeled back from something strange and disturbing blocking the drainage tile: a human skull. Forensic…
00:55:23 |
Thu 14 Jul 2022
HELLTOWN-Casey Sherman
Before Charles Manson, there was Tony Costa—the serial killer of Cape Cod
1969: The hippie scene is vibrant in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Long-haired teenagers roam the streets, strumming guitars an…
1969: The hippie scene is vibrant in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Long-haired teenagers roam the streets, strumming guitars an…
00:51:09 |
Thu 07 Jul 2022
THE LAST JEWISH GANGSTER-David Larson
In 1944 Brooklyn, newborn Michael J. Hardy is rejected by his mother so she can run with gangster Bugsy Siegel, Hardy's godfather. Shirley Rook quickly rose to the top of the criminal ranks. As the Q…
00:49:18 |
Tue 05 Jul 2022
12/26/75-Tony Reid
For Tony Reid, this case began as a claim of innocence in the murder of Donna Jo Richmond in 1975. While the errors in the original investigation and a flawed trial resulted in a guilty verdict, the …
01:29:02 |
Thu 30 Jun 2022
UNDER A COLD MOON-Tony H. Latham
Under a Cold Moon is the extraordinary true story of a man that devastated two worlds. A killer that used the chump card as his cover for two brutal murders. His first victim lay under the rocks for …
00:51:38 |
Fri 24 Jun 2022
WHEN THE MOON TURNS TO BLOOD-Leah Sottile
WHEN THE MOON TURNS TO BLOOD examines the culture of end times paranoia and a trail of mysterious deaths surrounding former beauty queen Lori Vallow and her husband, grave digger turned doomsday nove…
01:10:07 |
Tue 21 Jun 2022
Wondery Presents: The Execution Of Bonny Lee Bakley
On May 4, 2001, Bonny Lee Bakley was found fatally shot in a car on a dark North Hollywood street. The prime suspect was her husband, famed actor Robert Blake. But Bonny, a longtime con artist, had p…
00:06:15 |
Mon 20 Jun 2022
TED BUNDY: THE YEARLY JOURNAL-Kevin M. Sullivan
Due to Sullivan’s extensive writing about Ted Bundy (which has produced six books), he’s become a sort of magnet over the years, drawing out many people who were part of the Bundy story, but have oth…
01:07:10 |
Fri 17 Jun 2022
AMERICAN MONSTER-J.T. Hunter
Summertime in Florida. Tourists flock to the subtropical paradise for its beautiful beaches, abundant sunshine, and the magical allure of Disney World. For one Midwestern mother and her two teenaged …
01:06:09 |
Fri 10 Jun 2022
SOUTH DAKOTA'S MATHIS MURDERS-Noel Hamiel
South Dakota's Mathis Family Murders brought death and deception to the heartland.
It was perhaps the most infamous murder case in state history. Ladonna Mathis was shot twice in the head at point-bla…
It was perhaps the most infamous murder case in state history. Ladonna Mathis was shot twice in the head at point-bla…
00:51:47 |
Mon 06 Jun 2022
DRIFTING INTO DARKNESS-Mark I. Pinsky
Two grisly murders—a brutal double parricide—a suicide, and a fourth death under suspicious circumstances. Drifting Into Darkness is a tangled tale of family dysfunction, fatal attraction, and greed,…
01:03:56 |
Mon 30 May 2022
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