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
- 863
- Years Active
- 2010 - 2025
PRO BONO-Jeff McArthur
In 1958, 19-year-old Charlie Starkweather went on a murder spree that paralyzed Nebraska, shocked the nation, and left 11 people dead. With him when he was captured was his 14-year-old ex-girlfriend …
01:18:04 |
Thu 17 Oct 2013
TRUE CRIME-Lee Gutkind
Award-winning journalists investigate the attempted assassination of Gabrielle Giffords and the unsolved lynching of Claude Neal; an identity thief finds herself confronted by one of her victims; a t…
01:03:11 |
Thu 26 Sep 2013
LOST GIRLS-Robert Kolker
One late spring evening in 2010, Shannan Gilbert, after running through the oceanfront community of Oak Beach screaming for her life, went missing. No one who had heard of her disappearance thought m…
01:10:32 |
Thu 12 Sep 2013
DIARY OF A MOTOR CITY HITMAN-Christian Cipollini
In february 1975 a case began to unfold like nothing the quaint Detroit suburban area of Orchard Lake had ever seen. In the hours following a near head-on collision between a mysterious sedan and an …
01:02:17 |
Thu 05 Sep 2013
EVIL SEASON-Michael Benson
Joyce Wishart was living out her life's dream, running her own art gallery in sunny Sarasota, Florida. But that dream ended in nightmare when a deranged drifter named Elton Brutus Murphy walked throu…
01:02:59 |
Thu 29 Aug 2013
DRIVEN TO KILL-Gary C. King
The true crime story of sex killer Westley Allan Dodd--his victims were too small to fight...and too young to die! Includes eyewitness execution report.
By all appearances, twenty-nine-year-old Westle…
By all appearances, twenty-nine-year-old Westle…
01:13:50 |
Thu 22 Aug 2013
BLACK CAESAR-Ron Chepsiuk and Lewis Rice
This is the remarkable story of Frank Matthews, a charismatic drug kingpin from the late 1960s and 1970s, who organized a huge criminal enterprise before jumping bail in 1973 with $15-20 million and …
01:05:30 |
Thu 08 Aug 2013
KILLER DADS-Mary Papenfuss
No crime is as horrific, as mesmerizingly perplexing, as a child's murder at the hands of a parent. In most cases, the perpetrator is the father. A veteran journalist explores five examples of "famil…
01:13:58 |
Thu 01 Aug 2013
VINNY GORGEOUS-Tony DeStefano
A vain man of good looks, small means, and no family links to the mob, Vincent “Vinny Gorgeous” Basciano steadily worked his way up to acting boss of the Bonanno crime family, becoming its leader whe…
01:04:30 |
Thu 18 Jul 2013
THE ANATOMY OF EVIL-Dr. Michael H. Stone
The crimes of Charles Manson, Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, John Wayne Gacy and other high-profile killers are so breathtakingly awful that most people would label them "evil." Renowned psychiatrist Mic…
01:27:59 |
Thu 11 Jul 2013
GANGSTERS OF BOSTON-George Hassett
This book is the first comprehensive account of three centuries of thug life in the city where America began. In chilling new detail, veteran Boston journalist George Hassett reveals the legendary cr…
01:01:59 |
Thu 04 Jul 2013
SLEEP MY DARLINGS-Diane Fanning
On January 28, 2011, the Tampa Police Department received a phone call from a woman who was worried about her daughter, Julie Schenecker. A devoted Army wife and mother of two, Julie had sent her mot…
01:08:02 |
Tue 02 Jul 2013
UNTIL SOMEONE GETS HURT-Tyson Wrensch
The case that captivated the Coachella Valley and San Francisco Bay area for years!
Author Sherrie Lueder and her Literary Team, Dawn Taarud-Martinez and Kim Hansen, along with Tyson Wrensch, a forme…
Author Sherrie Lueder and her Literary Team, Dawn Taarud-Martinez and Kim Hansen, along with Tyson Wrensch, a forme…
01:06:04 |
Thu 20 Jun 2013
THE MURDER OF KENDRICK JOHNSON? -Fred Rosen and Beau Webster
Beau Webster is a Tallahassee, Florida based private investigator who is a former officer with the Fort Lauderdale Police Department. Like Travis McGee, the famous fictional private investigator crea…
01:06:15 |
Fri 14 Jun 2013
UNREPENTANT-Peter Edwards
In this explicit first-hand account, a biker who spent 46 years as a member of the Hells Angels and Satan's Choice invites bestselling author Peter Edwards into the story of life lived as we've only …
01:08:24 |
Thu 13 Jun 2013
THE MEDIA'S PROSECUTION OF CASEY ANTHONY-Keith Long
The 2011 Casey Anthony trial became the most sensational news story of the year. Time magazine called it the social media trial of the century. The 22-year-old single mom was charged with three felon…
01:22:45 |
Thu 30 May 2013
THE DYNAMICS OF MURDER-R. Barri Flowers
This multifaceted probe of murder offenses, offenders, victims, and characteristics of homicide in American society breaks new ground by examining issues generally ignored or neglected among research…
01:19:11 |
Thu 23 May 2013
Vanished Beauty (Fatal Sunset)-Mark Yoshimoto Nemkoff
Dead just one week into her Australian honeymoon, Tina Watson's body lay a hundred feet below the ocean's surface at the foot of the Great Barrier Reef. Across the globe, three days into a secret Aru…
01:08:14 |
Thu 16 May 2013
NOTES ON A KILLING-Kevin Flynn
Weaver and fiber artist Edith “Pen” Meyer knew her friend Sandy Merritt’s relationship with a married man was wrong. She had even urged Sandy to take out a restraining order against Kenneth Carpenter…
01:03:44 |
Thu 09 May 2013
NAME DROPPER-Frank C. Girardot
John Sohus, a twenty-something resident of San Marino, California, was allegedly murdered in 1985 by con man Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, who has become infamous under his most-known alias, Clark R…
01:06:55 |
Thu 25 Apr 2013
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