True Crime Uncensored with Burl Barer and Mark Boyer

Colombian cocaine godmother Griselda Blanco and her assassins swept through the city with a bloody and ruthless ambition that left countless dead bodies along the way. Lt. Diaz organized and spearheaded the multi-agency task force CENTAC-26 to combat Blanco and the cartels.

Raul came to the US at age thirteen accompanied by only his younger brother and overcame insurmountable odds after finally finding law enforcement as his calling. He never did things the traditional way, and that wasn’t a popular position in the regulated world of police work.

His successes came at a costly price, both professionally and personally, putting him in the crosshairs of those with an axe to grind, shockingly on both sides of law enforcement. The man profiled in books, documentaries, and the Netflix series Griselda is here to share the story previously told by others—now, finally told by the one man who knows the truth behind every kilo, kidnapping, and corpse.

About Author Lt. Raul J. Diaz

Author Lt. Raul J. DiazRaul was born in Cuba in 1947 and migrated to the US in 1961. He joined the Miami Metro-Dade Police as a uniform patrolman, worked his way up through the Organized Crime Bureau, Terrorist and Security Unit, Vice, Intelligence and Narcotics, Homicide, and Miami International Airport. During his 13 years of service with MDPD he received numerous commendations and awards from the US Congress; federal, state and local agencies; private citizens and organizations; and foreign governments. Raul retired honorably from the department in 1983 with the rank of lieutenant and entered private practice by founding ICDA Investigations, where he still serves as President and CEO. Raul enjoys fishing, photography, music, reading, and spending time with his two daughters and two grandchildren.

About Author Sean Oliver

Author Sean OliverSean has never engaged a drug lord in a shootout but is the author of ten books including his most recent release, Monkey Morales. He has written four Amazon #1 bestselling nonfiction books, as well as three novels in the supernatural thriller genre. Additionally, he has written several screenplays and is a 2021 Writer’s Digest Writing Competition winner in the script category for a pilot called Trixie. Sean is also an actor and voice artist with over a hundred major motion picture and TV credits. He’s directed national television commercials and currently co-hosts Kliq This: The Kevin Nash Podcast with WWE Hall of Famer Kevin Nash. Sean was born and raised in West New York, NJ, a stronghold of Cuban immigration in the 70s and 80s, and currently teaches in New Jersey where he lives with his wife and two daughters.

A Sniper in the Woods - and a Town Under Siege. The 48-Day Manhunt That Terrorized America.

A Silent Forest. A Sniper’s Bullet. A Community Held Hostage.
On the night of September 12, 2014, the autumnal quiet of the Pocono Mountains was shattered by the crack of a .308-caliber rifle. At the Pennsylvania State Police barracks in Blooming Grove, Corporal Bryon Dickson and Trooper Alex Douglass fell, victims of a calculated ambush launched from the darkness of the treeline.

The shooter was not a phantom, but a neighbor: Eric Matthew Frein, a survivalist and military reenactor who had spent years preparing for a private war against the state. As Frein vanished into the dense, unforgiving woodlands he knew intimately, he sparked one of the largest and most expensive manhunts in American history. It also landed him on the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted list.

Lying in Wait takes readers deep inside the forty-eight-day siege that transformed a peaceful region into a "Green Hell" of fear and paranoia. From the terrified silence of lockdown to the high-tech war room of the pursuit, Howard Frank reconstructs the harrowing search for a "mission-oriented killer" who viewed murder as an art form.

Drawing on forensic reports, court transcripts, interviews with key players, and the killer’s own chilling journals, this is the definitive account of a domestic terrorist who mistook his own delusions for revolution, and the relentless machinery of justice that rose to meet him.

Howard Frank is an award-winning journalist, a senior content writer and a native New Yorker. Howard transitioned from a successful career in the fashion industry to spend over a decade as a frontline reporter, eventually bringing his investigative rigor to the world of high-level scientific instrumentation.

A dedicated mental health advocate and true crime author, Frank specializes in the shadowed architecture of the criminal psyche. He is the author of two gripping works that explore the extremes of human experience: TALK TO THE DEVIL - A raw, tear-stained memoir of surviving severe clinical depression, hailed for its unflinching honesty and its role in breaking the silence surrounding mental illness, and CHAMELEON: A chilling, meticulously researched account of a double murder in the Poconos, praised for its deep-dive into the fractured mind of killer Michael John Parrish.

From the precision of the laboratory to the dark corners of the forensic world, Frank remains a singular voice in the study of the human condition.

About Author Howard Frank

Three accomplished men of vast experience share personal stories that are fascinating, absurd, scary, and or inspirimg --

exanples? sure! Burl tells about being pumped full of synthetic female hormones in a UCLA medical experiment and the bizarre side effects that made him crazier than before --but a potentially good mother=! Mark also was in a UCLA study where they wanted to remove the top of his skull.

Frank and Mark talk TO LIVE AND DIE IN L.A,, BLUES BROTHERS, WAR OF THE ROSES and BURL tells how he caused a major revision in MR HOLLAND'S OPUS .

and so much more!!!

MICHELE WOOD IS OUR SPECIAL GUESTModel Detective – Inside the Mind of a Female Homicide Boss Leading Murder Investigations in a Man’s World,
She Broke the Glass Ceiling—With Handcuffs.

MODEL DETECTIVE: A True Story of Heels, Handcuffs and Homicides takes readers where true crime has never gone before-inside the heart, mind, and soul of a Chicago homicide detective whose grit and instincts prove that a woman's place is in the homicide division.

Sergeant Michele Wood, a 25-year veteran of the Chicago Police Department, has spent nearly two decades in the Detective Division. With hundreds of arrests, and an extraordinary record of solving murders, she has led homicide teams while also appearing as a legal expert on ABC's 20/20 and other national true crime series.

In MODEL DETECTIVE, Wood takes readers through complex murder cases-revealing how she interprets evidence and uses her perspective as a woman to succeed in a male-dominated world. Wood's skills attest to her high success rate and stellar reputation on the force and explains why she's Chicago's (and probably the country's) only detective who previously worked as a flight attendant, moonlighted as a fitness-magazine model, and continues her on-air fame as a crime TV expert. From the story of her Chicago upbringing to the extraordinary perils of policing in Chicago, MODEL DETECTIVE is the raw inspiring, tale of courage, resilience and determination in America's most violent city.

"I'm not normally into true crime, but Model Detective was a fascinating read. Michele describes each crime scene like it was out of a movie, adding even more details like the scents and smells and how the moments felt. I was captivated!"
-Cole Walliser - Director and Content Creator

"Michele Wood spent her career doing what few can: sitting across from killers, breaking cases that others couldn't, and carrying the weight of the dead home with her, while the world saw only the surface. Sharp, honest, and darkly funny, Model Detective is a rare look at the realities of homicide work and the woman who lived it."
- Steph Watts - Executive Producer / Investigative Journalist / The True Crime OG

For 25 years, Sergeant Michele Wood has chased the truth through Chicago's most violent crimes. A homicide supervisor, FBI-certified hostage negotiator, and national true-crime expert. She's lived the cases most people only watch on television.

Jimmy was a homeless teen on the streets of Hollywood with a pregnant girlfriend and a strong desire to be accepted and take care of his girlfriend and the baby -- instead he found himself the fall guy in a pre-arranged scenario where he gets sent to prison for murder, 20 years later, he is out of prison and eager to clear his name.

jimmy is the main character in the book WHERE MURDER LIES; DEATH AND DECEPTION IN WEST HOLLYWOOD.

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The 911 call was harrowing.

"I think I killed my stepmom. My name is Ian Anselmo. Sue-Ellen Anselmo, she's in the car with me. My dad is going to kill me. I guess I strangled her. I don't remember doing it. I remember the argument."

The call disintegrated quickly, with the 20-year-old howling and sobbing so pitifully that the dispatcher could not understand what he was saying, except that he was calling from a cemetery.

The graveyard had its own lurid past as the site of a murderous teen vampire cult initiation 20 years earlier, now it was a bloody crime scene, and would later become the site of the pregnant woman's burial, more family violence, and the removal of her body.

The call was just the beginning. Investigators would discover a family cult stained with allegations of sexual assault, domestic violence, child abuse, brain-washing, and total patriarchal control.

It would end in an insanity defense, with Ian's lawyer calling the family atmosphere "crazy," and pitting psychiatrists and psychologists against each other, revealing questionable practices, motives and techniques by those experts.

Frank Stanfield, a 50-year newspaperman, covered the case from the beginning. It is one of the most twisted tales he has covered, including the vampire case, alligator attacks, murdered cops and countless "Florida man" stories.

THE TYLENOL MURDERS: A Father’s Confession to His Son and the son joins us on TRUE CRIME UNCENSORED

Chicago, 1982. Seven people swallowed Tylenol capsules meant to heal, then they died within minutes. America changed overnight, then the killer vanished into darkness, and that darkness lived in my home.

I was eleven, and my father was The Tylenol Killer that terrorized a nation.

He created chaos, and confessed with his last breath. I uncovered the truth, and the rot behind his badge. He built lies, and I built a case. I tore the mask from the madness and discovered that each clue led deeper into a labyrinth of deceit.

I stripped his name from mine, and I stripped his power too. He found me, and threatened my life, but I did not run. Instead, I shined a light into his darkness.

From the son who would not stay silent, THE TYLENOL MURDERS: A Father's Confession to His Son reveals a confession buried under four decades of fear, complicity, and blue-walled denial.

The truth is not a eulogy. It is an indictment. 

“Cyanide pills … I did it.” His final words weren’t confession. They were performance.”

“My father was not only a complex man. He was a dark man. His shadow was not chance or mistake. He engineered it. He weaponized it. He designed pain with precision. He walked corridors of cruelty.”

“This book is the reckoning. This book is the closure. This book is the confrontation. I tell it not because I wish to, but because I must. Some truths demand air. Some truths, once unearthed, cannot be buried again.”

Joseph Cibelli is a former salon entrepreneur turned author, legal scholar, and forensic psychologist. After decades in the beauty industry, he pursued law school and earned a PhD in forensic psychology. He wrote The Tylenol Murders, investigating a family confession and the 1982 Chicago Tylenol murders in depth.

THE TYLENOL MURDERS: A Father’s Confession to His SonWhen the Tylenol murders follow you home. The son who dared to expose the truth.

Chicago, 1982. Seven people swallowed Tylenol capsules meant to heal, then they died within minutes. America changed overnight, then the killer vanished into darkness, and that darkness lived in my home.

I was eleven, and my father was The Tylenol Killer that terrorized a nation.

He created chaos, and confessed with his last breath. I uncovered the truth, and the rot behind his badge. He built lies, and I built a case. I tore the mask from the madness and discovered that each clue led deeper into a labyrinth of deceit.

I stripped his name from mine, and I stripped his power too. He found me, and threatened my life, but I did not run. Instead, I shined a light into his darkness.

From the son who would not stay silent, THE TYLENOL MURDERS: A Father's Confession to His Son reveals a confession buried under four decades of fear, complicity, and blue-walled denial.

The truth is not a eulogy. It is an indictment. 

“Cyanide pills … I did it.” His final words weren’t confession. They were performance.”

“My father was not only a complex man. He was a dark man. His shadow was not chance or mistake. He engineered it. He weaponized it. He designed pain with precision. He walked corridors of cruelty.”

“This book is the reckoning. This book is the closure. This book is the confrontation. I tell it not because I wish to, but because I must. Some truths demand air. Some truths, once unearthed, cannot be buried again.”

Joseph Cibelli is a former salon entrepreneur turned author, legal scholar, and forensic psychologist. After decades in the beauty industry, he pursued law school and earned a PhD in forensic psychology. He wrote The Tylenol Murders, investigating a family confession and the 1982 Chicago Tylenol murders in depth.

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Best selling true crime author Cathy Scott has spent five years researching the life and career of Ann Rule and had done over 200 interviews....now with a signed publisher's agreement , Cathy is preparing the book for publication by Wild Blue Press.

She joins us to talk about the process of research that goes into this in depth bio of Ann Rule.

Authors Frank C. Girardot and Burl Barer discuss their fascinating true crime mystery

We only had half hour this week -- Mark Boyer in the studio and Burl and Frank on the phone talking about their rave reviewed new true crime book WHERE MURDER LIES