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
- 864
- Years Active
- 2010 - 2025
SUDDEN TERROR-Larry Crompton
The original comprehensive case files of the East Area Rapist who became known as The Original Night Stalker. A serial rapist turned serial murderer, he held California in a grip of fear for way too …
01:09:49 |
Tue 23 Oct 2018
BEHIND THE MURDER CURTAIN-Bruce Sackman
When Veterans Hospital patients on the road to recovery suddenly die in increasing numbers, it’s up to VA Special Agent in Charge Bruce Sackman to find out why. His shocking discovery rips open the h…
01:05:39 |
Tue 16 Oct 2018
THE KILLING GAME-Alan R. Warren
In 1968 young girls went missing in California and New York, massive searches started and soon bodies began to turn up. This is the story of Rodney Alcala, the charming, good looking photographer tha…
01:26:21 |
Fri 12 Oct 2018
LITTLE SLAUGHTERHOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE-Harold Schechter
At a remote little inn not far from the Kansas homestead of Laura Ingalls Wilder lived the Bender family. These pioneers welcomed unwary visitors with jackrabbit stew and a sledgehammer to the skull.
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01:10:49 |
Tue 09 Oct 2018
THE GRIM SLEEPER-Victoria Redstall
During the mid-1980s, a brutal killing spree began in Los Angeles as several women were murdered, having been sexually assaulted and shot in the chest with the same .25 calibre gun. The man responsib…
01:09:03 |
Thu 04 Oct 2018
KILLER MINDS-Amanda Howard
Amanda Howard is a bestselling true crime author, fiction writer and violent crimes consultant who has written 19 books over the past 14 years including ten books on a wide range of true crime cases.…
01:03:23 |
Tue 02 Oct 2018
EXPOSED:THE ZODIAC REVEALED-Mark Hewitt
One question remains unanswered: Who is the Zodiac?
There have been many hypotheses about the killer’s identity, some sober and evidence-based, some wildly speculative, all touching upon any one or mo…
There have been many hypotheses about the killer’s identity, some sober and evidence-based, some wildly speculative, all touching upon any one or mo…
01:32:36 |
Wed 26 Sep 2018
ACCUSED-Amber Hunt and Amanda Rossmann
When Elizabeth Andes was found bound, stabbed, and strangled in her Ohio apartment in 1978, police and prosecutors decided within hours it was an open-and-shut case.
Within days, Bob Young, a 23-year-…
Within days, Bob Young, a 23-year-…
01:06:11 |
Tue 18 Sep 2018
SAVING ANNIE-Steve Jackson
In March 2009, pretty, vivacious Rhonda Casto plunged to her death from a 300-foot cliff in the Oregon woods. The only witness, Stephen Nichols, the father of her nine-month-old baby, Annie, told pol…
01:07:13 |
Fri 14 Sep 2018
HEARTLESS-Katherine Ramsland
THE newest installment in the New York Times bestselling series of tales of America’s most notorious criminals and the crimes that shaped the places we call home.
This time you’ll have no better guid…
This time you’ll have no better guid…
01:05:14 |
Thu 13 Sep 2018
THE ALASKA MAIL-BOMB CONSPIRACY-Burl Barer
On September 14, 1991,in Anchorage, Alaska, a very pregnant Peggy Barnett along with her 9-year old daughter drove to the post office to deliver a package to an associate, George Kerr in Chugiak, fi…
01:36:27 |
Thu 06 Sep 2018
THE AXEMAN OF NEW ORLEANS-Miriam Davis
From 1910 to 1919, New Orleans suffered at the hands of its very own Jack the Ripper–style killer. The story has been the subject of websites, short stories, novels, a graphic novel, and most recentl…
01:06:15 |
Tue 28 Aug 2018
THE KILL JAR-J. Reuben Appelman
J. Reuben Appelman cracks open one of America’s most notorious murder sprees while simultaneously banging the gavel on his own history with violence. A deftly-crafted true crime story with grit, set …
01:37:25 |
Fri 24 Aug 2018
SONS OF CAIN-Peter Vronsky
From the author of Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters comes an in-depth examination of sexual serial killers throughout human history, how they evolved, and why we are drawn to their …
01:35:48 |
Wed 15 Aug 2018
TED AND ANN-Rebecca Morris
The gripping story of one of the the most fascinating cold cases of the 20th century - Was eight-year-old Ann Marie Burr serial killer Ted Bundy's first victim? She disappeared from their Tacoma, Was…
01:34:54 |
Tue 07 Aug 2018
DEACON OF DEATH-Fred Rosen
Baptist deacon, family man, pillar of his Florida community . . . and serial killer of prostitutes: chilling true crime from the author ofLobster Boy.
By day, Sam Smithers was the deacon of his Baptis…
By day, Sam Smithers was the deacon of his Baptis…
01:23:13 |
Wed 01 Aug 2018
HUNTING CHARLES MANSON- Caitlin Rother
In the late summer of 1969, the nation was transfixed by a series of gruesome murders in the hills of Los Angeles. Newspapers and television programs detailed the brutal slayings of a beautiful actre…
01:11:26 |
Thu 26 Jul 2018
THE GOOD MOTHERS-Alex Perry
The Calabrian Mafia—known as the ’Ndrangheta—is one of the richest and most ruthless crime syndicates in the world, with branches stretching from America to Australia. It controls seventy percent of …
01:05:06 |
Tue 17 Jul 2018
HIS GARDEN-CONVERSATIONS WITH A SERIAL KILLER-Anne K. Howard
"You want to know what happened? Ask Anne."—serial killer William Devin Howell A monster was on a killing spree. In just nine months, seven people went missing; all of their bodies eventually discove…
01:41:22 |
Fri 13 Jul 2018
A MURDER IN MY HOMETOWN-Rebecca Morris
On a fall evening in Corvallis, Oregon in 1967, 17-year-old Dick Kitchel, a senior at the high school, disappeared after attending a party. Ten days later, his body was spotted by two children as it …
01:34:35 |
Tue 10 Jul 2018
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