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 MURDER OF MAGGIE HUME-Victoria Hester and Blaine Pardoe
On August 16, 1982, an unidentified attacker brutalized and strangled Maggie Hume at her apartment in Battle Creek, Michigan. The daughter of a beloved local football coach, her seemingly senseless m…
01:17:58 |
Thu 08 Jan 2015
THE GOOD NURSE-Charles Graeber
After his December 2003 arrest, registered nurse Charlie Cullen was quickly dubbed "The Angel of Death" by the media. But Cullen was no mercy killer, nor was he a simple monster. He was a favorite so…
01:37:42 |
Wed 10 Dec 2014
HOUSE OF SECRETS-Lowell Cauffiel
On an October night in 1993, at one of the campgrounds dotting Florida's Gulf Coast, ex-con Eddie Lee Sexton told his daughter Pixie to silence her crying baby. Incredibly, the young mother smothered…
01:09:49 |
Thu 04 Dec 2014
THE VAMPIRE NEXT DOOR-J. T. HUNTER
John Crutchley seemed to be living the American Dream. Good-looking and blessed with a genius level IQ, he had a prestigious, white-collar job at a prominent government defense contractor, where he h…
01:24:58 |
Thu 27 Nov 2014
UNDER COVER OF THE NIGHT-Diane Fanning
It was planned to look like a suicide.
But even in the best-laid plans, evidence is left behind…
Jocelyn Branham Earnest was found dead on the floor of her living room in Forest, Virginia. By her side …
But even in the best-laid plans, evidence is left behind…
Jocelyn Branham Earnest was found dead on the floor of her living room in Forest, Virginia. By her side …
01:12:19 |
Thu 20 Nov 2014
MURDER IN SUBURBIA-Emily Webb
Murder in Suburbia features the stories of more than 20 murder cases that have happened in the quiet streets of Australia’s suburbs and small towns.
These stories show that the most brutal and harrowi…
These stories show that the most brutal and harrowi…
01:01:47 |
Thu 13 Nov 2014
WHY WE LOVE SERIAL KILLERS-Dr. Scott Bonn
In Why We Love Serial Killers, Drew University criminology professor Scott Bonn, PhD, simultaneously examines the public’s and media’s fascination with the monsters among us and the ways in which tha…
01:32:54 |
Thu 06 Nov 2014
DEATH OF A CHEERLEADER-Kevin M. Sullivan
In this Notorious USA collection, Death of a Cheerleader, New York Times bestselling author Gregg Olsen and true crime journalist Kevin M. Sullivan write about notorious crimes in the Bluegrass State…
01:34:15 |
Thu 23 Oct 2014
MAN OVERBOARD-Burl Barer
1982: Oregon businessman Phil Champagne, age 52, dies in a tragic boating accident off Lopez Island. He is survived by one ex-wife, four adult children, an octogenarian mother, and two despondent bro…
01:39:34 |
Tue 14 Oct 2014
BLOODY LIES-John Ferak
The remote farming community of Murdock, Nebraska, seemed to be the least likely setting for one of the heartland's most ruthless and bloody double murders in decades. In fact, the little town had go…
01:41:58 |
Thu 11 Sep 2014
TRUE DETECTIVE-Gary Sweet
For years David Elliot Penton stalked elementary schools and playgrounds looking for young girls from low-income neighborhoods to abduct, rape and murder. He thought of them as "throwaway kids"-hardl…
01:28:48 |
Thu 21 Aug 2014
THE INNOCENT KILLER-Michael Griesbach
The story of one of the nation's most notorious wrongful convictions, that of Steven Avery, a Wisconsin man who spent eighteen years in prison for a crime he did not commit. But two years after he wa…
01:24:13 |
Thu 14 Aug 2014
THE GREAT HEIST-Jeff McArthur
On a sunny September morning in 1930, six men entered the Lincoln National Bank in Nebraska's capital city armed with revolvers and Thompson submachine guns. In eight minutes they emerged with more t…
01:02:58 |
Fri 08 Aug 2014
LUCKY LUCIANO-Christian Cipollini
Charles Lucky Luciano is one of the most researched, discussed and dissected American mobsters of all time. His name has become synonymous with NY City's high drama gangland days of prohibition bootl…
00:56:37 |
Thu 07 Aug 2014
CHARLES MANSON BEHIND BARS-Mark Hewitt
For the past forty years, Charles Manson has languished in prison for his participation in the Manson family murders of 1969. He is America’s icon of evil, the one who brought down the curtain on the…
01:08:12 |
Thu 24 Jul 2014
VIOLENT CRIMES IN AMERICA-Amanda Seaton
Violent crimes in America have become an epidemic within the past decade or so, with more juvenile offenders taking to the streets, homicide and murder rates have skyrocketed, as science does their b…
01:02:22 |
Thu 10 Jul 2014
THE TRUE AMERICAN-Anand Giridharadas
The True American tells the story of Raisuddin Bhuiyan, a Bangladesh Air Force officer who dreams of immigrating to America and working in technology. But days after 9/11, an avowed "American terrori…
01:06:45 |
Thu 19 Jun 2014
KILLER NURSE-John Foxjohn
She was hired to nurse them back to health...instead, she took their lives.
For months, the DaVita Dialysis Center in Lufkin, Texas had been baffled by the rising number of deaths and injuries occurri…
For months, the DaVita Dialysis Center in Lufkin, Texas had been baffled by the rising number of deaths and injuries occurri…
01:12:08 |
Thu 05 Jun 2014
THE MAD SCULPTOR-Harold Schechter
Beekman Place, once one of the most exclusive addresses in Manhattan, had a curious way of making it into the tabloids in the 1930's: “SKYSCRAPER SLAYER,” “BEAUTY SLAIN IN BATHTUB” read the headlines…
01:22:29 |
Thu 22 May 2014
BOGEYMAN-Steve Jackson
"For years he stalked elementary schools, neighborhoods and playgrounds looking for young girls to abduct, rape and murder. As though invisible, he brazenly struck in broad daylight, pulling children…
01:47:20 |
Fri 16 May 2014
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