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
THE GRIM SLEEPER-Christine Pelisek
In 2006, Christine Pelisek broke the story of a terrifying serial killer who went unchecked in Los Angeles for decades. Two years later, in her cover article for L.A. Weekly, Pelisek dubbed him "The …
01:35:14 |
Thu 24 Aug 2017
ROBERT PICKTON-C.L. Swinney
Robert Pickton, inherited a pig farm outside of Vancouver worth a million dollars and used his wealth to lure skid row hookers to his farm. This serial murder investigation the biggest, longest and c…
01:28:29 |
Thu 17 Aug 2017
DANGEROUS GROUND-M. William Phelps
For the first time, award-winning investigative journalist M. William Phelps reveals the identity of “Raven,” the serial killer who co-starred with him on Dark Minds—and tells the story of his intrig…
01:05:06 |
Wed 09 Aug 2017
A SLAYER WAITS-Rod Sadler
September, 1955, Nealy Buchanan, a trustee at the State Prison of Southern Michigan, was denied parole. Because of his trustee status, he was assigned to pick up local trash from area farms in a pris…
01:32:40 |
Thu 03 Aug 2017
A SPECIAL KIND OF EVIL-Blaine Pardoe and Victoria Hester
The Colonial Parkway Murders –the name given eight murders that took place in the Tidewater region in the late 1980’s, two of which were on the historic Colonial Parkway, the nation’s narrowest Natio…
01:39:35 |
Wed 26 Jul 2017
ROOM 1203-O.J. SIMPSON'S LAS VEGAS CONVICTION-Det. Andy Caldwell
In 1995, NFL great and movie star, O.J. Simpson beat a murder rap for the death of his wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ron Goldman. But in 2007 his luck with avoiding Lady Justice ran out…
01:01:55 |
Tue 25 Jul 2017
LOST COAST HIGHWAY-Gray George
On July 8, 1979, two skeletons were found off a remote highway in Mendocino County, California. The skeletons belonged to a pair of murdered teenagers. For thirty-six years, the teens’ identities rem…
01:33:05 |
Thu 20 Jul 2017
MURDER ON HIS MIND SERIAL KILLER-Anne Penn
Murder on His Mind Serial Killer is the true crime story of the Original Night Stalker aka East Area Rapist who first terrorized Rancho Cordova/Sacramento areas in Northern California as a serial rap…
01:04:36 |
Thu 13 Jul 2017
MONSTER-C.L. Swinney
Peter Kurten, a German who'd been sent to prison for deserting his comrades, sat in a cell contemplating what to do when he got out. He had no control within the prison walls and it drove him mad. Th…
01:33:38 |
Thu 06 Jul 2017
MURDER IN THE STACKS-David DeKok
On Nov. 28, 1969, Betsy Aardsma, a 22-year-old graduate student in English at Penn State, was stabbed to death in the stacks of Pattee Library at the university’s main campus in State College. For m…
01:12:32 |
Thu 29 Jun 2017
A DANGEROUS PLACE-Simon Farquhar
IN SEPTEMBER 1970, two boys met in the playground on their first day at secondary school in North London. They formed what would be described at the Old Bailey thirty years later as 'a unique and wic…
01:35:36 |
Tue 27 Jun 2017
Queen City Gothic-J.T. Townsend
Losing a loved one to murder is life's ultimate tragedy. But when the killer is never captured, a family's paralyzing grief only compounds. Years pass. Pain grows. Time heals nothing. Parents, spouse…
01:33:41 |
Thu 22 Jun 2017
SHE IS EVIL-Judith A. Yates
That woman is evil. She is evil!” Ejaz Ahmad was handsome, charismatic, and a self-made businessman. He arrived in the United States from Pakistan determined to fulfill his mother’s dying wish: to co…
01:21:06 |
Thu 15 Jun 2017
MY SISTER'S KEEPER-CD Newton
Cleveland Strangler's best-kept secrets revealed! A man fights for justice and closure for an ex-girlfriend, an unknown survivor, the first to report to the authorities her brutal attack, by the then…
01:37:53 |
Thu 08 Jun 2017
A CLOCKWORK MURDER-Steve Jackson
They thought about their evil fantasy for months. Then wound up like clockwork toys ... they acted. In April 1997, pretty, 22-year-old Jacine Gielinski stopped her car at a red light in Colorado Spri…
01:32:27 |
Thu 01 Jun 2017
LIST OF 10-C.L. Swinney
A narcissistic professional photographer lived a dangerous double life as a serial killer. He'd focus his rage on prostitutes mostly. It wasn't uncommon for him to bring them home then try to explain…
01:26:32 |
Thu 25 May 2017
BLOOD THIRST-Alan R. Warren
Known as the 'Vampire Rapist' or 'Strangler Bill' for his distinctive modus operandi, Wayne Boden would rape, strangle and bite the breasts of his victims. His murdering rampage would continue in two…
01:33:32 |
Thu 18 May 2017
MOMMY DEAD AND DEAREST-Erin Lee Carr
In Mommy Dead and Dearest, provocative documentarian Erin Lee Carr (HBO’s Thought Crimes: The Case of the Cannibal Cop) explores a grisly tale where nothing is quite what it seems. Following Dee Dee’…
00:53:39 |
Thu 11 May 2017
THE PHARMACIST OF AUSCHWITZ-Patricia Posner
The Pharmacist of Auschwitz is the little known story of Victor Capesius, a Bayer pharmaceutical salesman from Romania who, at the age of 35, joined the Nazi SS in 1943 and quickly became the chief p…
01:25:22 |
Thu 04 May 2017
RAW DEAL-Gil Valle and Brian Whitney
"When, if ever, does a thought cross the line and become a crime?"
RAW DEAL is the untold story of former New York City police officer Gil Valle, who in 2012 became known throughout the world as “The …
RAW DEAL is the untold story of former New York City police officer Gil Valle, who in 2012 became known throughout the world as “The …
01:33:38 |
Thu 20 Apr 2017
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