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
BURNED-Frank C. Girardot Jr.
For years Lori Orr believed her Los Angeles firefighter dad was a selfless hero. When Lori’s dad was arrested and charged with four murders and countless arson fires, it was her testimony that helped…
01:39:06 |
Tue 03 Jul 2018
THE GIRL ON THE VELVET SWING-Simon Baatz
In 1901 Evelyn Nesbit, a chorus girl in the musical Florodora, dined alone with the architect Stanford White in his townhouse on 24th Street in New York. Nesbit, just sixteen years old, had recently …
01:18:38 |
Thu 28 Jun 2018
FORGOTTEN SACRAMENTO MURDERS-David Kulczyk
Forgotten Sacramento Murders 1940-1976 explores the crimes by Sacramento's Greatest Generation. The murders that shocked Sacramento two generations ago are now only remembered by a handful of people,…
01:04:44 |
Thu 21 Jun 2018
WHEN NASHVILLE BLED-Judith A. Yates
He was evil personified. In the Spring of 1997, a serial killer held Nashville, Tennessee in an icy grip of terror. In February, he murdered two employees at a Captain D's restaurant. In March, he st…
01:36:27 |
Tue 12 Jun 2018
GOOD LITTLE SOLDIERS-Sondra London
During WWII, Lithuanian collaborator Silvestras Griekshell had been plucked from a Nazi death camp and sent on covert missions by his Allied handlers. Now during the Cold War, he'd been redeployed as…
01:17:41 |
Sun 03 Jun 2018
SHADOW ON THE MOUNTAIN-Stephen and Joyce Singular
Nancy Pfister, heir to Buttermilk Mountain, the world-renowned site of the Winter X Games, was Aspen royalty, its ambassador to the world. She lived among the rich and famous: she partied with Hunter…
01:12:09 |
Tue 29 May 2018
ALBERT FISH IN HIS OWN WORDS-John Borowski
On December 13, 1934, Albert Fish was apprehended by Detective William King for the kidnapping and murder of ten-year-old Grace Budd. Fish’s defense attorney obtained the services of Dr. Fredric Wert…
01:10:34 |
Thu 24 May 2018
CRAZY FOR YOU-Michael Fleeman
A LOVING FATHER
A typical morning in the Atlanta suburbs: Businessman Rusty Sneiderman drops his beloved son off at the Dunwoody Prep nursery. In the parking lot, a minivan pulls up next to his car. T…
A typical morning in the Atlanta suburbs: Businessman Rusty Sneiderman drops his beloved son off at the Dunwoody Prep nursery. In the parking lot, a minivan pulls up next to his car. T…
01:36:50 |
Thu 17 May 2018
KARLY SHEEHAN-Karen Spears Zacharias
A true recounting of the high-profile Oregon murder case that led to Karly's Law. Part memoir, part investigative journalism, this is the story Ann Rule called "A Must Read." Reminiscent of Capote's …
01:43:04 |
Tue 15 May 2018
BULLIED TO DEATH-Judith A. Yates
Do you think I’m pretty.
No one likes me.
I hate my life.
I wish I had a friend.
It was the mantra of fourteen-year-old Sherokee Harriman, who in September 2015 faced her alleged bullies in a small Ten…
No one likes me.
I hate my life.
I wish I had a friend.
It was the mantra of fourteen-year-old Sherokee Harriman, who in September 2015 faced her alleged bullies in a small Ten…
01:40:51 |
Thu 10 May 2018
THE INFAMOUS BIRMINGHAM AXE MURDERS-Jeremy W. Gray
A reign of terror swept the streets of Birmingham in the 1920s. Criminals armed with small axes attacked immigrant merchants and interracial couples, leaving dozens dead or injured over the course of…
01:06:30 |
Tue 08 May 2018
THE BEAST I LOVED-Robert Davidson
Before domestic violence hot lines and safe houses were widespread, June Briand shot four bullets into her husband’s head and was sentenced to fifteen years to life. This is the shocking true story o…
01:04:49 |
Thu 03 May 2018
EAR/ONS, GOLDEN STATE KILLER UNMASKED-Anne Penn
On March 13, 1980, In Ventura County, California, prominent attorney Lyman Robert Smith, on the verge of being appointed a Superior Court judge, and his wife Charlene were murdered in their home. Aut…
01:09:07 |
Wed 02 May 2018
GOLDEN STATE KILLER, EAR/ONS CAPTURED-DET. RICHARD SHELBY
Det. Richard Shelby was the first Sacramento detective to make a connection between a series of rapes that began in communities in East Sacramento. Law enforcement failed to stop him before he transf…
01:32:25 |
Tue 01 May 2018
ABSOLUTE MADNESS-Catherine Pelonero
Absolute Madness tells the disturbing true story of Joseph Christopher, a white serial killer who targeted black males and struck fear into the residents of Buffalo and New York City in the 1980s. Du…
01:10:03 |
Thu 26 Apr 2018
THE SERIAL KILLER'S APPRENTICE-James Renner
Presenting the most notorious unsolved crimes in Northeast Ohio . . . Investigative reporter James Renner reopens cold cases and delves into dark secrets that have baffled Clevelanders for years, inc…
01:04:24 |
Thu 19 Apr 2018
THE FAMILY I HAD-Katie Green
On February 5th, 2007 Charity Lee Bennett was working her shift at Buffalo Wild Wings in Abilene Texas when two police officers came to inform her that her 4 year-old daughter Ella was dead and her 1…
01:03:40 |
Mon 16 Apr 2018
I, A SQUEALER-Lisa Espich
The year was 1965. The Beatles, Elvis Presley, and The Righteous Brothers filled the airwaves. Television shows like "The Adventures of Ozzy and Harriett" and "The Andy Griffith Show" mirrored the in…
01:33:29 |
Fri 13 Apr 2018
HELL'S PRINCESS-Harold Schechter
In the pantheon of serial killers, Belle Gunness stands alone. She was the rarest of female psychopaths, a woman who engaged in wholesale slaughter, partly out of greed but mostly for the sheer joy o…
01:34:04 |
Thu 05 Apr 2018
WOMAN AT THE DEVIL'S DOOR-Sarah Beth Hopton
Discover the haunting untold true story of the woman whose crimes inspired speculation that Jack the Ripper was a woman.
On October 24, 1890, a woman was discovered on a pile of rubbish in Hampstead, …
On October 24, 1890, a woman was discovered on a pile of rubbish in Hampstead, …
01:34:24 |
Tue 03 Apr 2018
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