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
SERGEANT SMACK-Ron Chepesiuk
True crime author Ron Chepesiuk uncovers one of the biggest hoaxes in the history of the international drug trade in Sergeant Smack: The Legendary Lives and Times of Ike Atkinson, Kingpin, and his Ba…
01:02:56 |
Thu 23 Sep 2010
UNDER THE BRIDGE-Rebecca Godfrey
On a moonlit night in November 1997, 14-year-old Reena Virk went to a party with some of her friends near the idyllic waters of Victoria, British Columbia. She never returned home. A week later, her …
01:06:30 |
Sat 18 Sep 2010
TRUE CRIME BOOK REVIEWS-Kim Cantrell
Kim Cantrell has been reading true crime for 20+ years, becoming hooked after checking out a true crime story from her high school library. Her interest in the judicial system led to a career as a le…
01:03:28 |
Thu 09 Sep 2010
SAVAGE SON-Corey Mitchell
It was a night of celebration for the Whitaker family. Their son Bart was graduating from college. But when Bart's brother Kevin opened the door to their house, a masked intruder shot him point blank…
01:03:51 |
Thu 01 Jul 2010
Episode 24-THE MOST SHOCKING KILLER IN TRUE CRIME HISTORY-APPEALS
May 21st and the appeal for the Jack-the-Ripper-meets Hannibal Lector killer Sidney Teerhuis. Why is he the most shocking killer of all time and what does Susan Sarandon's stolen gold necklace have t…
01:01:28 |
Thu 24 Jun 2010
HONEYMOON WITH A KILLER-Don Lasseter
Rebecca Salcedo had an easy smile, a sexy body, and strong appetites-she wanted the world. Bruce Cleland, she decided, would buy it for her. The shy engineer quickly fell victim to her charms, gettin…
01:02:30 |
Thu 17 Jun 2010
LETHAL CHARMER-Patricia Springer
Fort Worth businessman Stephen Barbee was handsome, popular and married to a wonderful woman. There was just one problem: His ex-girlfriend, Lisa Underwood, was pregnant-and asking for money...As gue…
01:02:34 |
Thu 03 Jun 2010
RUNAWAY DEVIL-Robert Remington
In April 2006, a twelve-year-old girl named JR committed a brutal crime that terrified parents everywhere: after weeks of plotting, she and her twenty-three-year-old boyfriend stabbed to death her mo…
01:02:59 |
Thu 27 May 2010
SLOW DEATH-Jim Fielder
Beside New Mexico's Elephant Butte Lake stood a windowless trailer which owner David Parker Ray, 59, and his girlfriend Cynthia Hendy, 39, called The Toybox. A $100,000 homemade torture chamber, it w…
01:03:43 |
Thu 20 May 2010
BODY HUNTER-Patricia Springer
To the people of Olney, Texas, 39 year-old Faryion Wardrip was an upright citizen-a happily married man, a valued employee, and a respected Sunday school teacher. In January, 1999, investigators revi…
01:02:12 |
Thu 06 May 2010
Episode 16-RIPPER-Linda Rosencrance
Rhode Island detectives knew they had a serial killer in their midst. But the victims were women who lived and worked in a sexual underground-and whose bodies were never found. Then, prostitutes bega…
01:01:49 |
Thu 29 Apr 2010
-Episode #15-BLOOD LUST-Sheila Johnson
From the time he was a teenager, Jeremy Bryan Jones had let his violent passions run wild: attacking, raping, and mutilating. Then, in Mobile County, Alabama, Jones' rampage was stopped. But no one k…
01:02:54 |
Thu 22 Apr 2010
Episode #14- TROPHY KILL: THE SHALL WE DANCE MURDER-Dan Zupansky
On the eve of the release of Trophy Kill: The Shall We Dance Murder-The Trial and Revelations of a Psychopathic Killer, True Murder host Dan Zupansky opens the phone lines for questions about the boo…
01:02:32 |
Thu 15 Apr 2010
BODY PARTS- Caitlin Rother
36-year-old Wayne Adam Ford walked into the Humboldt County Sheriff's Office in Northern California with a woman's severed breast in his pocket. He ended up convicted of the grisly torture and murder…
01:05:20 |
Thu 08 Apr 2010
# 12-Body Count-Author Burl Barer
On August 26, 1997, the half-naked body of prostitute Heather Hernandez, 20 was found in an empty lot in Spokane Washington. The same day, the decomposed corpse of prostitute Jennifer Joseph, 16, was…
01:02:14 |
Thu 01 Apr 2010
THROUGH THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW-Rod Gehl
For half a year, the man who came to be known as the Abbotsford killer terrorized the valley community.
On Friday, Oct. 13, 1995, two teenage girls - Tanya Smith, 16, and Misty Cockerill, 15 - were at…
On Friday, Oct. 13, 1995, two teenage girls - Tanya Smith, 16, and Misty Cockerill, 15 - were at…
01:02:17 |
Thu 25 Mar 2010
# 10-Lethal Intent-Aileen Wournos by Sue Russell
On November 30th, 1989,in Florida a man was shot 4 times by a naked, hard-faced blonde prostitute. He suffered a slow, agonizing death while the woman stripped him of his valuables and drove his Cadi…
01:02:55 |
Fri 19 Mar 2010
CANNIBAL KILLERS-Moira Martingale
These are no ordinary killers. They are monsters who murder, mutilate and carry out the most gruesome, unimaginable act of all....eating the flesh of their victims.
CANNIBAL KILLERS - Includes the wo…
CANNIBAL KILLERS - Includes the wo…
01:02:19 |
Wed 24 Feb 2010
TROPHY KILL-Dan Zupansky
July 1st, 2003 and the Miramax movie Shall We Dance starring Jennifer Lopez, Richard Gere and Susan Sarandon was being filmed in Winnipeg. Police were called when Susan Sarandon reported her gold nec…
01:02:22 |
Thu 11 Feb 2010
True Murder-Episode 4-Nick Pron-Lethal Marriage-Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka
Paul Bernardo was a handsome and charming young man with a violent sexual nature. Then he met a pretty woman named Karla Homolka and together they abducted, raped, terrorized and murdered several vic…
01:02:40 |
Thu 04 Feb 2010
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