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
L.A. CORONER-Anne Soon Choi
L.A. Coroner is a gripping true crime biography of Dr. Thomas Noguchi, the controversial “Coroner to the Stars,” who performed the autopsies of Marilyn Monroe, Robert F. Kennedy, Sharon Tate, Natalie…
01:15:47 |
Mon 21 Apr 2025
IRMA GRESE—Becoming The Hyena of Auschwitz-Judith A. Yates
Irma Grese “The Hyena of Auschwitz” entered Adolph Hitler’s concentration camps at the age of 18 as one of the most feared females in Nazi Germany. Before she was 20 years old, Grese became legendary…
01:14:30 |
Mon 14 Apr 2025
PRESSED TO KILL-Tom Marquardt
For all Tom Marquardt knew, Capital Gazette just had an unhappy reader. What he didn’t know was that the unhappy reader was about to become a mass murderer.
Marquardt, the former editor of Capital Gaz…
Marquardt, the former editor of Capital Gaz…
01:03:45 |
Mon 07 Apr 2025
THE SCIENTIST AND THE SERIAL KILLER—Lise Olsen
The true story of how one dedicated forensic scientist restored the long-lost identities of the teenaged victims of the “Candy Man,” one of America’s most prolific serial killers.
Houston, Texas, in t…
Houston, Texas, in t…
00:58:19 |
Mon 31 Mar 2025
SCOUT CAMP-James Renner
Acclaimed journalist, author, and creator of the True Crime This Week podcast, and former Boy Scout James Renner, explores the dark side of an American institution, its pervasive culture of sexual ab…
00:51:59 |
Mon 24 Mar 2025
THE CRACK CITY STRANGLER-B.R.Bates
THE CRACK CITY STRANGLER: The Homicides of Serial Killer Benjamin Atkins offers a chilling, in-depth account of the horrifying crimes committed by one of America’s most notorious serial killers.
Award…
Award…
01:01:52 |
Mon 17 Mar 2025
SMITTY-Marshall Terrill
Smitty: My Marriage to Serial Killer Charles Schmid, the Pied Piper of Tucson unveils an unforgettable tale of love, betrayal, and survival. Diane Schmid thought she had found her Prince Charming whe…
01:09:34 |
Mon 10 Mar 2025
BLACK TUNNEL, WHITE MAGIC-Rick Jackson and Matthew McGough
Detective Rick Jackson, a decorated LAPD detective and a key inspiration in the development of Harry Bosch, delivers a shocking and immersive look into the one case he could never let go. In June 199…
01:08:07 |
Mon 03 Mar 2025
BODY PARTS
When Wayne Adam Ford walked into the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office in November 1998 with a woman's body part in his jacket pocket, the 36-year-old truck driver wasn’t a suspect in any crime. After…
01:00:30 |
Mon 24 Feb 2025
DEADLY HEIST-Steven B. Epstein
At just 21 years of age, friends Todd Wilson and Scott McCarthy were virtually inseparable. The pair reported for duty at United Bank of Denver at 6:00 a.m. on Father's Day 1991-McCarthy's first day …
01:07:55 |
Mon 17 Feb 2025
HELL PUT TO SHAME-Earl Swift
On a Sunday morning in the spring of 1921, a small boy made a grim discovery as he played on a riverbank in the cotton country of rural Georgia: the bodies of two drowned men, bound together with wir…
01:04:00 |
Mon 10 Feb 2025
BLOOD AND THE BADGE-Michael Cannell
For the first time in forty years, former New York Times editor Michael Cannell has unearthed the full story behind two ruthless New York cops who acted as double agents for the Mafia.No episode in N…
01:03:58 |
Mon 03 Feb 2025
A MURDER ON CAMPUS-Brian and Cameron Santana
On April 15, 1973, two high school students discovered Virginia Marie Olson’s body near the campus of the University of North Carolina at Asheville. Olson’s murder was horrifically violent—she had be…
01:12:46 |
Mon 27 Jan 2025
THE JOHN WAYNE GACY MURDERS-John Borowski
An eight part miniseries, The John Wayne Gacy Murders: Life and Death in Chicago (2024) is the first ever historical, comprehensive and chronological miniseries to study the life and crimes of the in…
01:12:50 |
Mon 20 Jan 2025
OBSESSED-David McGrath
In the tranquil towns of New England during the 1970s, a sinister mystery unfolded when several boys vanished without a trace and the community’s peace was shattered. With law enforcement stymied in …
01:21:29 |
Mon 13 Jan 2025
THE SINNERS ALL BOW-Kate Winkler Dawson
Acclaimed journalist, podcaster, and true-crime historian Kate Winkler Dawson tells the true story of the scandalous murder investigation that became the inspiration for both Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Th…
00:51:34 |
Mon 06 Jan 2025
JonBenet's Secret Santa
M'Linda Kula is very familiar with this SECRET SANTA and the many links that tie him to JonBenet Ramsey. Each link is carefully explained within this book, to lead from one connection to the next bet…
00:46:48 |
Mon 30 Dec 2024
JonBenet Ramsey and Det. Lou Smit
On Christmas Night 1996, six-year-old JonBenet Ramsey was murdered in her family’s home in Boulder, Colorado. A ransom note was found in the home, but it was hours before her father, John, found her …
00:57:38 |
Mon 23 Dec 2024
POSTMORTEM-Courtney Lund O'Neil
On a December night in 1978, Courtney Lund O’Neil’s mother, teenaged Kim Byers, saw her friend Rob Piest alive for the last time. At the end of his shift at the pharmacy where they both worked, fifte…
00:56:35 |
Mon 16 Dec 2024
RAISED BY A SERIAL KILLER-April Balascio
The untold story behind the hit true crime podcast The Clearing, this unforgettable memoir traces one daughter’s moving quest to understand her larger-than-life childhood as she searches for the trut…
01:08:58 |
Mon 09 Dec 2024
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