True Murder: The Most Shocking Killers

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Every week host Dan Zupansky will interview the true crime authors that have written about the most shocking killers of all time.

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UNDER A COLD MOON-Tony H. L...

06.24.2022

Under a Cold Moon is the extraordinary true story of a man that devastated two worlds. A killer that used the chump card as his cover for two brutal murders. His first victim lay under the rocks for fifteen nights. ...

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06.24.2022 UNDER A COLD MOON-Tony H. Latham Under a Cold Moon is the extraordinary true story of a man that devastated two worlds. A killer that used the chump card as his cover for two brutal murders. His first victim lay under the rocks for fifteen nights. ...
06.21.2022 WHEN THE MOON TURNS TO BLOOD-Leah Sottile WHEN THE MOON TURNS TO BLOOD examines the culture of end times paranoia and a trail of mysterious deaths surrounding former beauty queen Lori Vallow and her husband, grave digger turned doomsday novelist, Chad Daybell.When police in Rexburg, Idaho perform ...
06.20.2022 Wondery Presents: The Execution Of Bonny Lee Bakley On May 4, 2001, Bonny Lee Bakley was found fatally shot in a car on a dark North Hollywood street. The prime suspect was her husband, famed actor Robert Blake. But Bonny, a longtime con artist, had plenty of enemies. ...
06.17.2022 TED BUNDY: THE YEARLY JOURNAL-Kevin M. Sullivan Due to Sullivan’s extensive writing about Ted Bundy (which has produced six books), he’s become a sort of magnet over the years, drawing out many people who were part of the Bundy story, but have otherwise kept a low profile ...
06.10.2022 AMERICAN MONSTER-J.T. Hunter Summertime in Florida. Tourists flock to the subtropical paradise for its beautiful beaches, abundant sunshine, and the magical allure of Disney World. For one Midwestern mother and her two teenaged daughters, a trip to the Sunshine State seemed like a ...
06.06.2022 SOUTH DAKOTA'S MATHIS MURDERS-Noel Hamiel South Dakota's Mathis Family Murders brought death and deception to the heartland.It was perhaps the most infamous murder case in state history. Ladonna Mathis was shot twice in the head at point-blank range inside the family's metal shed serving as ...
05.30.2022 DRIFTING INTO DARKNESS-Mark I. Pinsky Two grisly murders—a brutal double parricide—a suicide, and a fourth death under suspicious circumstances. Drifting Into Darkness is a tangled tale of family dysfunction, fatal attraction, and greed, a saga that wends its way from the elegant Southern mansions of ...
05.27.2022 MURF-Terrance Ryerson Neal What do mobster Meyer Lansky, banker John D. MacArthur and Jack "Murf the Surf" Murphy, have in common? The biggest secret of the century about the biggest crime of the century, that's what! Now, for the first time ever, the ...
05.23.2022 THE MURDER GENE-Karen Spears Zacharias As the soft-spoken, highly intelligent son of missionaries in Morganton, North Carolina, Luke Chang gave no indication of the killer he would become. But after hacking into a teacher's computer at his school, a stint in the Marines was his ...
05.20.2022 SNAKE EYES-Bitty Martin By 1966, Hot Springs, Arkansas wasn’t your typical sleepy little Southern town. Once a favorite destination for mobsters like Al Capone and Lucky Luciano, illegal activities continued to lure out-of-state gamblers, flim-flam men, and high rollers to its racetracks, clubs, ...
05.18.2022 THE ALASKAN BLONDE-James T. Bartlett Nicknamed “the most beautiful woman in Alaska,” 31-year-old Diane Wells was bruised and bloodied when she screamed for help in the early hours of October 17, 1953. Her husband Cecil, a wealthy Fairbanks businessman, had been shot dead, and she ...
05.13.2022 SERIAL KILLERS: Dr. Joni Johnston Learn the terrifying truth behind the world's deadliest serial killers…Serial killers haunt our dreams and inspire the terrifying villains of TV shows and horror movies. But how much do you really know about the minds behind the world's deadliest killers? ...
05.04.2022 TRAILED-Kathryn Miles In May 1996, two skilled backcountry leaders, Lollie Winans and Julie Williams, entered Virginia’s Shenandoah National Park for a week-long backcountry camping trip. The free-spirited and remarkable young couple had met and fallen in love the previous summer while working ...
04.30.2022 MAKING A PSYCHOPATH-Mark Freestone Find out what truly creates and defines a psychopath, from the leading expert who helped to create Killing Eve's Villanelle.Dr. Mark Freestone has worked on some of the most interesting, infamous and disturbing cases of psychopathology in recent years. His ...
04.25.2022 MADMAN IN THE WOODS-Jamie Gehring A haunting account of the sixteen years when a young Jamie Gehring and her family lived closer than anyone to Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber As a child in Lincoln, Montana, Jamie Gehring and her family shared their land, their home, ...
04.19.2022 22 MURDERS-Part 2-Paul Palango A shocking exposé of the deadliest killing spree in Canadian history, and how police tragically failed its victims and survivors.As news broke of a killer rampaging across the tiny community of Portapique, Nova Scotia, late on April 18, 2020, details ...
04.15.2022 22 MURDERS-Part 1-Paul Palango A shocking exposé of the deadliest killing spree in Canadian history, and how police tragically failed its victims and survivors.As news broke of a killer rampaging across the tiny community of Portapique, Nova Scotia, late on April 18, 2020, details ...
04.12.2022 THE GIRL I NEVER KNEW-LaDonna Humphrey For over two decades the identity of Melissa Witt’s murderer has been hidden among the dense trees and thorny undergrowth rooted deeply in the uneven ground of a remote mountaintop in the Ozark National Forest.Determined to find answers, LaDonna Humphrey ...
04.08.2022 HELL'S HALF-ACRE-Susan Jonusas A suspense filled tale of murder on the American frontier—shedding new light on a family of serial killers in Kansas, whose horrifying crimes gripped the attention of a nation still reeling from war.In 1873 the people of Labette County, Kansas ...
04.02.2022 RIPPLE-Jim Cosgrove For nine years, South Carolina officials struggled to identify “the boy in the woods,” a young man whose body had been discovered just south of Myrtle Beach in a fishing village called Murrells Inlet.Meanwhile, 1,200 miles away in Kansas City, ...
03.29.2022 VAMPIRES, GATORS AND WACKOS-Frank Stanfield From a teen vampire cult that killed one member’s parents to naked people who tell cops, “nothing to see here,” Frank Stanfield has seen it all in thirty years as a newspaper editor and reporter, mostly in Florida.Vampires, Gators, and ...
03.25.2022 SEX AND THE SERIAL KILLER-William Steel In the early 1980s, William Steel's life took a turn towards the macabre when he quite literally ran into Robert Durst in midtown Manhattan. Steel was attending a school for locksmithing and security systems at the time, and Durst -- ...
03.19.2022 SHIP OF BLOOD-Charles Oldham ON AN OCTOBER NIGHT IN 1905, a horrifying scene was found on a wooden vessel off the coast of Cape Fear, North Carolina. Onboard the Harry A. Berwind, one crewman lay dead, his blood streaming down the deck. The four ...
03.16.2022 MURDER AT TEAL'S POND-David Bushman and Mark T. Givens A brilliantly researched reinvestigation into the nearly forgotten century-old murder that inspired one of the most seductive mysteries in the history of television and film. In 1908, Hazel Drew was found floating in a pond in Sand Lake, New York, ...
03.12.2022 RIDING WITH EVIL-Ken Croke Sons of Anarchy meets The Departed in this fast-paced, high-wire act memoir from former ATF agent Ken Croke, the first federal agent in history to go undercover and successfully infiltrate the infamous—and infamously violent—Pagan Motorcycle Club, a white supremacist biker ...
03.01.2022 SHADOWMAN-Ron Franscell The pulse-pounding account of the first time in history that the FBI’s Behavioral Science Unit created a psychological profile to catch a serial killerOn June 25, 1973, a seven-year-old girl went missing from the Montana campground where her family was ...
02.26.2022 BONE DEEP-Charles Bosworth Jr. and Joel J. Schwartz THE TRUE STORY BEHIND NBC’S MARQUEE MINI-SERIES "THE THING ABOUT PAM" STARRING RENEE ZELLWEGER AS PAM HUPP AND JOSH DUHAMEL AS JOEL SCHWARTZ, PREMIERING FEBRUARY 2022.The explosive, first-ever insider’s account of the case that’s captivated millions – the murder of ...
02.24.2022 PUT THE MONEY IN MY PURSE-Judith A. Yates Drawing on media reports, interviews and court records, this book recounts the stories of women bank robbers in the United States, from the time of the Revolutionary War to the present. Ranging from sensational to poignant to comical, the heists ...
02.18.2022 THE MURDER OF THORA CHAMBERLAIN-Rod Kackley November 2, 1945: On her way to a high school football game with friends, a fourteen-year-old girl vanishes after driving away with a man who says he needs a babysitter. The FBI unleashes its top kidnapping expert, an agent who ...
02.12.2022 MURDER OF A MAFIA DAUGHTER: Expanded and Updated 20th Anniversary Edition-Cathy Scott In this Expanded 20th Anniversary Edition of Murder of a Mafia Daughter, seasoned crime writer Cathy Scott provides in-depth new details of serial killer Robert Durst's arrest, trial, and conviction for the brutal murder of Susan Berman. Besides never-before-seen photos ...
02.10.2022 BATH MASSACRE: New Edition-Arnie Bernstein The new edition of this Michigan Notable Book includes a new introduction and stories from interviews with two additional survivors, Myrna (Gates) Coulter and Ralph Witchell, which took place after the first edition was published in 2009.On May 18, 1927, ...
01.31.2022 WHEN A KILLER CALLS-John Douglas On May 31, 1985, two days before her high school graduation, Shari Smith was abducted from the driveway of her family home in South Carolina. Based on the crime scene and the abductor’s repeated and taunting calls to the family, ...
01.27.2022 AMERICAN INJUSTICE-David Rudolf In the past thirty years alone, more than 2,800 innocent American prisoners – their combined sentences surpassing 25,000 years – have been exonerated and freed after being condemned for crimes they did not commit. Terrifyingly, this number represents only a ...
01.25.2022 DARK ROSES-Michael Benson Thirteen new insomnia inducing murder stories from True Crime master Michael Benson, including: Monster of the Low Country, Born to Raise Hell, The Hollywood Ripper, The Murder of Craig Rideout, Call Me Daddy, Savage Waitress, King Creep, A Dark Stretch ...
01.20.2022 THE BEST NEW TRUE CRIME STORIES: PARTNERS IN CRIME-Mitzi Szereto Dive Deep Into the Crime Stories of Criminal CouplesFrom harrowing heists to murderous mayhem, this collection of true crime stories will have you on the edge of your seat as you discover exactly why two criminal minds are scarier than ...
01.13.2022 BEYOND KILLER FICTION-Sondra London 25 years on, Florida's first serial killer GJ Schaefer returns with a new expanded volume of illustrated killer fiction, featuring the stories used to convict him of double murder in 1973. The ex-cop and serial killer was doing two life ...
01.10.2022 TAKING DOWN BACKPAGE-Maggy Krell For almost a decade, Backpage.com was the world’s largest sex trafficking operation. Seven days a week, twenty-four hours a day, in 800 cities throughout the world, Backpage ran thousands of listings advertising the sale of vulnerable young people for sex. ...
01.06.2022 BTK: CONFESSION OF A SERIAL KILLER-Dr. Katherine Ramsland In 1974, Dennis Lynn Rader stalked and murdered a family of four in Wichita, Kansas. Since adolescence, he had read about serial killers and imagined becoming one. Soon after killing the family, he murdered a young woman and then another, ...
12.31.2021 FORGOTTEN CALIFORNIA MURDERS-David Kulczyk Forgotten California Murders 1915 to 1968 chronicles homicides that happened so long ago they have been forgotten even by the families of the killers and the victims. Their crimes are no less shocking than the murders that have had books ...
12.20.2021 AMERICAN SCANDAL American Scandal is a podcast from Wondery that explores the darker stories that have shaped the United States. From the Unabomber to Bernie Madoff, these are stories that reveal the underbelly of America: ruthless, secretive, and power-hungry. The new season ...
12.18.2021 MURDER CAPITAL OF THE WORLD-Emerson Murray Over 25 people murdered in just over two and a half years. What was happening in the small coastal town of Santa Cruz between October 1970 and Feburary 1973?John Linley Frazier’s home invasion murders of the Ohta family and Dorothy ...
12.14.2021 THE MURDER OF MARY TAKAHASHI-Rod Kackley A woman’s dead body is tossed off a cruise ship. It’s homicide on the high seas, a story of murder and greed, a true crime story you’ll never forget. Why are you always killed by the one you love? A ...
12.09.2021 BUTCHER OF HANOVER-Alan R. Warren Butcher of Hanover focuses on the serial killer of at least 27 young men and boys in Germany in the post-World War 1 era. At the center of this murder case were Fritz Haarmann and Hans Grans, who were lovers ...
12.06.2021 THE VANISHED Few things are more devastating than a loved one going missing. On The Vanished podcast from Wondery, host Marissa Jones tells stories of missing persons that have gone overlooked by mainstream media. In a recent episode, Marissa looks into the ...
12.03.2021 IMMUNITY FOR MURDER-David M Beers In the small city of Binghamton in upstate New York, 23-year-old Veronica Taft, a single mother with four small children, all under the age of five, was convicted of Murder and Manslaughter for the brutal murder of her two-year-old son ...
11.25.2021 THE WVU COED MURDERS-Geoffrey Fuller and Sarah James McLaughlin Some said that the killer couldn't be a local. Others claimed that he was the wealthy son of a prominent Morgantown family. Whispers spread that Mared and Karen were sacrificed by a satanic cult or had been victims of a ...
11.24.2021 THE JFK ASSASSINATION DISSECTED-Cyril Wecht and Dawna Kaufmann Since President John F. Kennedy's 1963 murder in Dallas, medical examiner and lawyer Dr. Cyril Wecht was initially inclined to accept the official theory that one person alone was responsible for the crime. But as Wecht delved into the evidence ...
11.22.2021 THE SHRINK NEXT DOOR Veteran journalist Joe Nocera’s neighbor in the Hamptons was a therapist named Ike. Ike counted celebrities and Manhattan elites as his patients. He’d host star-studded parties at his eccentric vacation house. But one summer, Joe discovered that Ike was gone ...
11.20.2021 THE WOLFPACK-Peter Edwards A man watching the Cup on a restaurant patio is shot dead on a busy Sunday afternoon in Toronto. Another dies in a sidewalk ambush just outside a bus-tling college campus. Two men in a Vancouver hotel lobby are gunned ...
11.16.2021 KLAN OF DEVILS-Stanley Nelson In the summer of 1965, several Ku Klux Klan members riding in a pickup truck shot two Black deputies on patrol in Washington Parish, Louisiana. Deputy Oneal Moore, the driver of the patrol car and father of four daughters, died ...

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True Murder: The Most Shocking Killers episodes:

UNDER A COLD MOON-Tony H. Latham

WHEN THE MOON TURNS TO BLOOD-Leah Sottile

Wondery Presents: The Execution Of Bonny Lee Bakley

TED BUNDY: THE YEARLY JOURNAL-Kevin M. Sullivan

AMERICAN MONSTER-J.T. Hunter

SOUTH DAKOTA'S MATHIS MURDERS-Noel Hamiel

DRIFTING INTO DARKNESS-Mark I. Pinsky

MURF-Terrance Ryerson Neal

THE MURDER GENE-Karen Spears Zacharias

SNAKE EYES-Bitty Martin

THE ALASKAN BLONDE-James T. Bartlett

SERIAL KILLERS: Dr. Joni Johnston

TRAILED-Kathryn Miles

MAKING A PSYCHOPATH-Mark Freestone

MADMAN IN THE WOODS-Jamie Gehring

22 MURDERS-Part 2-Paul Palango

22 MURDERS-Part 1-Paul Palango

THE GIRL I NEVER KNEW-LaDonna Humphrey

HELL'S HALF-ACRE-Susan Jonusas

RIPPLE-Jim Cosgrove

VAMPIRES, GATORS AND WACKOS-Frank Stanfield

SEX AND THE SERIAL KILLER-William Steel

SHIP OF BLOOD-Charles Oldham

MURDER AT TEAL'S POND-David Bushman and Mark T. Givens

RIDING WITH EVIL-Ken Croke

SHADOWMAN-Ron Franscell

BONE DEEP-Charles Bosworth Jr. and Joel J. Schwartz

PUT THE MONEY IN MY PURSE-Judith A. Yates

THE MURDER OF THORA CHAMBERLAIN-Rod Kackley

MURDER OF A MAFIA DAUGHTER: Expanded and Updated 20th Anniversary Edition-Cathy Scott

BATH MASSACRE: New Edition-Arnie Bernstein

WHEN A KILLER CALLS-John Douglas

AMERICAN INJUSTICE-David Rudolf

DARK ROSES-Michael Benson

THE BEST NEW TRUE CRIME STORIES: PARTNERS IN CRIME-Mitzi Szereto

BEYOND KILLER FICTION-Sondra London

TAKING DOWN BACKPAGE-Maggy Krell

BTK: CONFESSION OF A SERIAL KILLER-Dr. Katherine Ramsland

FORGOTTEN CALIFORNIA MURDERS-David Kulczyk

AMERICAN SCANDAL

MURDER CAPITAL OF THE WORLD-Emerson Murray

THE MURDER OF MARY TAKAHASHI-Rod Kackley

BUTCHER OF HANOVER-Alan R. Warren

THE VANISHED

IMMUNITY FOR MURDER-David M Beers

THE WVU COED MURDERS-Geoffrey Fuller and Sarah James McLaughlin

THE JFK ASSASSINATION DISSECTED-Cyril Wecht and Dawna Kaufmann

THE SHRINK NEXT DOOR

THE WOLFPACK-Peter Edwards

KLAN OF DEVILS-Stanley Nelson

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