True Crime Uncensored with Burl Barer and Mark Boyer

Jeff McArthur has written two fascinating books that illumine two little known aspects of Al Capone's life and career.  Uncovering these stories is one thing. Researching the truth of these stories and turning that information into compelling books is something else entirely.

Joining us on True Crime Uncensored, Jeff tells us the process and challenges he encountered researching and writing these two fascinating books: The Great Heist and Two Gun Hart.

Special thanks to Dan Zupansky, host of TRUE MURDER, for his help in the production of this episode which Burl explains at the end of the broadcast

Never again could anyone say, "It will never happen here!"

Because it did.

October 25, 2023 was just an ordinary night in Lewiston, a small, working class city of 37,000 in central Maine. Friends and families had gathered to do what they loved to do with the people they wanted to be with at a bowling alley called Just-in-Time Recreation Center and Schemengees, a popular sports bar and restaurant. They felt immune from the violent crime that seemed to wrack the rest of the country in a state that the FBI had just named the safest in America.

Then Robert Card II, a deeply paranoid Army Reserve soldier, walked into both places with a high-powered rifle and opened fire, killing 18 people and wounding 13 more. He then fled to a third location, where according to the evidence and the testimony of his best friend, he likely planned to lay in wait and kill his ex-co-workers when they came to work the next morning.

The tragedy is that the numerous red flags he had raised in the months before weren't enough to stop him before he carried out his terrible plan. A combination of watered-down gun control laws and law enforcement and military negligence made sure of that.

In THE LEWISTON SHOOTINGS - An All-American Tragedy, author and award-winning journalist Robert Conlin traces the shootings that deeply scarred a community that thought it was the last place on earth where a mass shooting would take place

We've been big fans of Christian Cipollini for years -- his books are excellent, his TV documentaries insightful, and he is a wonderful guest on our show.

Enjoy a fun filled hour with Burl, Mark and Christian!

HART D. FISHER PRESENTS THE AMERICAN HORRORS

6TH ANNUAL FILM FESTIVAL IN LAKE GENEVA, WI.

OCTOBER 5-7TH!

Hart, Burl, and Mark talk about horror, Hart's battle with NEXFLIX, his real life tragic true crime, and more

Nicky Jackson serves as coordinator of the criminal justice program and is a professor of criminal justice. She serves as Executive Director for the Center for Justice and Post-Exoneration Assistance (CJPA) at Purdue Northwest.

I love to cook! I even have my own recipe page on Facebook.

Some of Jackson’s teaching areas include domestic violence, sexual assault, victimology, wrongful convictions, ethics, juvenile delinquency, school violence, criminology, minority issues in criminal justice, criminal law and law enforcement.

Nicky Jackson is president of The Willie T. Donald Exoneration Ad

Mary Collins was  stabbed 113  times, and then her body was stuffed inside a mattress in the apartment of the "friends" who invited her over to "hangout."   

Mary underwent unimaginable torture before she passed. Collins’ grandmother, Mia Alderman, is our guest.

OUR GUEST IS THE BRILLIANT KATHERINE RAMSLAND.

Elmer Wayne Henley, Jr. was only fourteen when he first became entangled with serial rapist and murderer Dean Corll in 1971. Fellow Houston, Texas, teenager David Brooks had already been ensnared by the charming older man, bribed with cash to help lure boys to Corll's home. Corll baited Henley with the same deal he'd given Brooks: $200 for each boy they could bring him.

Henley didn't understand the full extent of what he had signed up for at first. But once he started, Corll convinced him that he had crossed the line of no return and had to not only procure boys but help kill them and dispose of the bodies, as well. When Henley first took a life, he felt doomed. By the time he was seventeen, he'd helped with multiple murders and believed he'd be killed, too. But on August 8, 1973, he picked up a gun and shot Corll. When he turned himself in, Henley showed police where he and Brooks had buried Corll's victims in mass graves.

The Serial Killer's Apprentice tells the story of Corll and his accomplices in its fullest form to date. It also explores the concept of "mur-dar" (the predator's instinct for exploitable kids), current neuroscience about adolescent brain vulnerabilities, the role of compartmentalization, the dynamic of a murder apprenticeship, and how tales like Henley's can aid with early intervention.

What a Story!

At only 5 years old, as bullets rained down upon his childhood home, Big Steve Prohaska was forced to make a choice. Stay, and die at the hands of the Cali Cartel, or run, leave his fallen family behind, and survive. Steve chose survival. So marked the beginning of a journey that would take him from the dilapidated halls of a Colombian orphanage to the whitebred suburbs of Connecticut and, eventually, to the realization of the American dream.
Told with remarkable honesty, From Orphan to Millionaire is the compelling autobiographical account of the many ups, downs, twists and turns that made Big Steve Prohaska into the successful businessman, entrepreneur, father and entertainment mogul he is today.

Join Steve as he recounts the struggles he faced as a Colombian immigrant assimilating into American life. Experience first-hand his thrilling, dangerous lifestyle as he tells the story of his transition from strip club manager to nightclub owner, and the federal investigation that nearly cost him everything. And become inspired as he explains his changes in mindset over the years - from survivor, to hustler, to boss, to monster - that allowed him to traverse that difficult and unique path: From Orphan to Millionaire.

Before NETFLIX produced the shocking documentary, The Making of a Murderer. Burl Barer was all over Prosecutor Michael Griesback about the police framing Steven Avery for murder, and once he was released....did they do it again? Burl believes this is a vile frameup! (get it? Vile? Listen and you will understand) This is a classis episode!

From his own daring 4th of July heists in NYC to the $159,000,00 one man heist in Europe, Punch has the inside info.