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
CORPSEWOOD-Daniel Ellis
On December 12th, 1982, a strange house in the remote mountains of North West Georgia became a bloody slaughterhouse for two men and their dogs. One of the victims—an accomplished scientist and unive…
01:29:55 |
Thu 01 Dec 2016
SIMILAR TRANSACTIONS-S.R. Reynolds
Former social-worker S.R. Reynolds has never forgotten the mishandled case of fifteen-year-old Michelle Anderson, a vibrant beauty who went missing from Reynold's Knoxville, Tennessee, neighborhood y…
01:19:16 |
Sat 26 Nov 2016
THE LONG SHADOW OF SMALL GHOSTS-Laura Tillman
On March 11, 2003, in Brownsville, Texas—one of America’s poorest cities—John Allen Rubio and Angela Camacho murdered their three young children. The apartment building in which the brutal crimes too…
01:14:59 |
Thu 17 Nov 2016
IN COLDER BLOOD-J.T. Hunter
Two families, mysteriously murdered under similar circumstances, just a month apart. One was memorialized in Truman Capote’s classic novel, In Cold Blood. The other was all but forgotten. Dick Hickoc…
01:10:45 |
Thu 10 Nov 2016
PRESUMED GUILTY-Stephen Singular
The 20th anniversary of the death of JonBenet Ramsey is in December 2016. Stephen’s 1999 book about the murder of JonBenet explored the realm of child exploitation and its connection to the crime. In…
01:04:08 |
Mon 07 Nov 2016
SUBURBAN NIGHTMARE-Emily Webb
Think nothing ever happens where you live?
Suburban Nightmare is a collection of stories that are hard to believe, except they really happened – and all in the streets and homes of the Australia many…
Suburban Nightmare is a collection of stories that are hard to believe, except they really happened – and all in the streets and homes of the Australia many…
01:27:27 |
Fri 04 Nov 2016
THE KILLING SEASON-Joshua Zeman and Rachel Mills
A&E Network has set a November premiere for The Killing Season docuseries, from Oscar-winning executive producer Alex Gibney (Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief).
The eight-episode seri…
The eight-episode seri…
01:23:40 |
Wed 02 Nov 2016
ROUGH TRADE-Steve Jackson
One day in May 1997, a young couple on their way to work off a dirt road in the mountains of Colorado spotted a man dragging a woman’s body up a trail. The man fled, leaving behind a bloodied, dying …
01:33:09 |
Thu 27 Oct 2016
LOVE GONE WRONG-Caitlin Rother
New York Times bestselling crime authors Caitlin Rother and Gregg Olsen have joined up to release this compilation of incredible murder cases from Florida, South Carolina and Georgia.
In Florida a fo…
In Florida a fo…
01:16:32 |
Thu 20 Oct 2016
CONFESSION OF A SERIAL KILLER-Katherine Ramsland
In 1974, Dennis Lynn Rader stalked and murdered a family of four in Wichita, Kansas. Since adolescence, he had read about serial killers and imagined becoming one. Soon after killing the family, he m…
01:22:48 |
Sat 15 Oct 2016
BADGE 387-Robert Sberna
For nearly 40 years, Jim Simone patrolled Cleveland's 2nd District, a drug-plagued area with one of the highest violent crime rates in the U.S. Nicknamed "Supercop," Simone generated headlines and pu…
01:32:31 |
Wed 05 Oct 2016
I SURVIVED TED BUNDY-Rhonda Stapley
She was an innocent Mormon girl. He was America's most notorious serial killer. When their paths crossed on a quiet autumn afternoon, he planned to kill her. But this victim had an incredible will to…
01:30:34 |
Thu 29 Sep 2016
CALIFORNIA'S DEADLIEST WOMEN-David Kulczyk
We like to think of women as nurturers, not murderers, but women do kill.California’s Deadliest Women is the definitive guide to the murderesses of the Golden State, a horrifying compendium of women …
01:08:47 |
Thu 22 Sep 2016
ALTAMONT-Joel Selvin
In this breathtaking cultural history filled with exclusive, never-before-revealed details, celebrated rock journalist Joel Selvin tells the definitive story of the Rolling Stones’ infamous Altamont …
01:09:17 |
Thu 15 Sep 2016
THE JOLLY ROGER SOCIAL CLUB-Nick Foster
In the remote Bocas del Toro, Panama, William Dathan Holbert, aka "Wild Bill," is awaiting trial for the murder of five fellow American ex-patriots. Holbert's first victims were the Brown family, who…
01:37:59 |
Wed 07 Sep 2016
MURDERING THE PRESIDENT-Fred Rosen and Hank Garfield
Shortly after being elected president of the United States, James Garfield was shot by Charles Guiteau. But contrary to what is written in most history books, Garfield didn’t linger and die. He survi…
01:36:39 |
Thu 01 Sep 2016
FAILURE OF JUSTICE-John Ferak
Everyone felt the same way: small-town Nebraska widow Helen Wilson didn’t have an ounce of meanness inside her body. Then on February 5, 1985, one of the coldest nights on record, the unthinkable hap…
01:34:54 |
Thu 25 Aug 2016
HUNTED: THE ZODIAC MURDERS-Mark Hewitt
The Zodiac occupies a special place among serial killers. Claiming the lives of at least 5 young victims and taunting the police in telephone calls and cryptic letters, he terrorized Northern Califor…
01:34:01 |
Thu 18 Aug 2016
DEVIL IN THE DARKNESS-J.T. Hunter
He was a hard-working small business owner, an Army veteran, an attentive lover, and a doting father. But he was also something more, something sinister. A master of deception, he was a rapist, arson…
01:12:02 |
Fri 12 Aug 2016
LEGACY OF DECEPTION-Stephen Singular
Legacy of Deception crashes through the wall of silence constructed by the L.A.P.D. and exposes facts that prove the case was far more sinister than meets the eye. In presenting a scenario of what re…
01:27:36 |
Thu 04 Aug 2016
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