True Murder: The Most Shocking Killers - 222472

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

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San Francisco, a city founded in part by criminals, was once one of the most dangerous cities in America. Its Barbary coast was called “a unique criminal district that was the scene of more viciousness and depravity, but it possessed ...

True Murder: The Most Shocking Killers - 222472 episodes:

08.19.2019 INNOCENT BLOOD-Terry Ganey Like a real-life Hannibal Lecter--the psychopathic murderer from Thomas Harris' "Silence of the Lambs"--Charles Hatcher was cunning, sadistic and totally remorseless. He was a man with no conscience. He killed sixteen people, three of them children. Hatcher was also responsible ...
08.13.2019 TRUTH AND HONOUR-Greg Marquis Truth and Honour explores the 2011 murder of Saint John businessman Richard Oland, of the prominent family that owns Moosehead Breweries, the ensuing police investigation and the arrest, trial, and conviction of the victim's son, Dennis Oland, for second degree ...
08.06.2019 MURDER ON BIRCHLEAF DRIVE-Steven B. Epstein Was Jason the monster who bludgeoned his beautiful wife to death, leaving his toddler alone for hours to walk through her blood? If so--would he get away with it? To the outside world, Jason and Michelle Young lived a storybook ...
08.01.2019 SHALLOW GRAVES-Maureen Boyle Eleven women went missing over the spring and summer of 1988 in New Bedford, Massachusetts, an old fishing port known as the Whaling City, where Moby Dick, Frederick Douglass, textile mills, and heroin-dealing represent just a few of the many ...
07.26.2019 1926 HOMICIDE IN AMERICA-David Kulczyk 1926 was the year that Americans all over the country said screw it. And screw it they did... mixing too much bootleg booze, marijuana, cocaine, and heroin, with fast cars, sex, and jazz music can only lead to trouble. The ...
07.21.2019 IN CHAINS-Alan R. Warren Human trafficking is the trade of people for forced labor or sex. It also includes the illegal extraction of human organs and tissues. And it is an extremely ruthless and dangerous industry plaguing our world today. Most believe human trafficking ...
07.11.2019 AMERICAN PREDATOR-Maureen Callahan Ted Bundy. John Wayne Gacy. Jeffrey Dahmer. The names of notorious serial killers are usually well-known; they echo in the news and in public consciousness. But most people have never heard of Israel Keyes, one of the most ambitious and ...
07.08.2019 SECRETS OF A MARINE'S WIFE-Shanna Hogan In June 2014, 19-year-old Erin Corwin was living a quiet life in Twentynine Palms, California, expecting her first child with her husband, U.S. Marine Corporal Jon Corwin?until the day she drove off into the desert and never returned. As temperatures ...
07.05.2019 MURDER WITHOUT MOTIVE-Det. Raymond Pingatore The true story of the night innocence and evil crossed paths. On a summer night in 2000, Amy Shute and Jason Burgeson were set upon by five predatory youths outside a Providence, Rhode Island, club. It began as a twisted ...
06.27.2019 RACE TO JUSTICE-Larry Sells and Margie Porter Cynthia Albrecht, the executive chef of the Penske-Marlboro racing team and darling of the IndyCar circuit, went missing on October 25, 1992-the night before her divorce from Michael Albrecht became final. Drivers and racing crews from across the country converged ...
06.19.2019 MURDER BY MILKSHAKE-Eve Lazarus When forty-year-old Esther Castellani died a slow and agonizing death in 1965, the official cause was at first undetermined. The day after Esther's funeral, her husband, Rene, packed up his girlfriend, Lolly; his daughter, Jeannine; and Lolly's son, Don, in ...
06.14.2019 NEEDLE WORK-Fred Rosen A Michigan couple’s affair leads to two grisly murders by heroin injection in this true crime account from the acclaimed author of Lobster Boy. When Carol Giles’s friend Nancy Billiter was found dead—she had been bound, sexually violated, and injected ...
06.11.2019 SUBMERGED-Janice Hisle A young bride drowns in her bathtub. Her husband of four months is accused of murder. What happened in their tiny suburban bathroom—and why—was never resolved. A compelling true-crime drama, based on exclusive new information, Submerged exposes hidden angles of ...
06.11.2019 Drinks, Dinner & Death-Alan R. Warren In the middle-class neighborhood of Muswell Hill, underneath a spectacular residence located at 23 Cranley Gardens, a gruesome discovery was about to be unearthed. While working on drainage pipes of the house at that location, a plumber discovered several bones ...
06.04.2019 TED BUNDY: The Angel of Decay-Paul Lonardo It has been thirty years since Ted Bundy, arguably this country’s most notorious serial killer, was put to death in the electric chair by the state of Florida in 1989, but there continues to exist in our society a morbid ...
05.30.2019 CHASING COSBY-Nicole Weisensee Egan The definitive account of Bill Cosby's transition from revered father figure to convicted criminal. Bill Cosby's decades-long career as a sweater-wearing, wholesome TV dad came to a swift and stunning end on April 26, 2018, when he was convicted of ...
05.24.2019 TED BUNDY'S MURDEROUS MYSTERIES-Kevin Sullivan New from the author of the WildBluePress classics The Trail of Ted Bundy and The Bundy Secrets! Ted Bundy’s Murderous Mysteries is a deep-dive into the archival record of America’s most notorious serial killer. It’s a veritable goldmine of information ...
05.22.2019 AND EVERY WORD IS TRUE-Gary McAvoy Truman Capote’s bestselling book “In Cold Blood” has captivated worldwide audiences for over fifty years. It is a gripping story about the consequences of a trivial robbery gone terribly wrong in a remote village of western Kansas. But what if ...
05.14.2019 THE KILLER ACROSS THE TABLE-Mark Olshaker The FBI’s pioneer of criminal profiling, former special agent John Douglas, has studied and interviewed many of America’s most notorious killers—including Charles Manson, ”Son of Sam Killer” David Berkowitz and ”BTK Strangler” Dennis Rader—trained FBI agents and investigators around the ...
05.08.2019 THE LAZARUS FILES-Matthew McGough A deeply-reported, riveting account of a cold case murder in Los Angeles, unsolved until DNA evidence implicated a shocking suspect – a female detective within the LAPD’s own ranks. On February 24, 1986, 29-year-old newlywed Sherri Rasmussen was murdered in ...
05.02.2019 DEATH ON THE RIVER-Diane Fanning In Death on the River, bestselling true crime author Diane Fanning recounts a tragic kayak accident that left one man dead—and his fiancée arrested for his murder. A DREAM GETAWAY. A REAL-LIFE NIGHTMARE... It seemed like the perfect romantic afternoon: ...
04.28.2019 I AM JESSICA-Jessi Toronjo and Jamie Collins A SHOCKING 1989 QUADRUPLE FAMILY MURDER AND THE LITTLE GIRL LEFT BEHIND TO TELL THE STORY. As a child, I was known as "Jessica Pelley." When I was nine, I went to a sleepover at a friend's house for the ...
04.24.2019 Pardonable Matricide-Tobin T. Buhk In January 1889, as London constables hunted for Jack the Ripper and theaters around the world presented theatrical renditions of the Jekyll and Hyde story, Jackson, Michigan, Police Captain Jack Boyle searched for the murderer of Mary Latimer. This book ...
04.19.2019 ALICE & GERALD-Ron Franscell Would you kill for love? True-crime master Ron Franscell tells the grisly story of Alice and Gerald Uden, a loving couple who murdered at least four people, and live happily ever after--while cops try for decades to piece together a ...
04.10.2019 THE HOT ONE-Carolyn Murnick A true-crime, coming-of-age story with a tragic twist: a New York editor’s quest to uncover the truth about the brutal murder of her wild and seductive friend in a “riveting…and thoughtful examination of how we grow up and apart. As ...
04.05.2019 THE MOORS MURDERS-Ian Brady and Myra Hindley-Alan R. Warren It was in Manchester, England in 1965, when the police were called to a possible crime scene at the residence of Ian Brady and girlfriend Myra Hindley. What they found in the upstairs spare bedroom were the remains of 17-year-old ...
03.26.2019 DEAD IN THE WATER-Penny Farmer This is a study of the brutal torture and murder of the author's brother and his longtime girlfriend 40 years ago. In July 1978, two bodies were found in the sea off the coast of Guatemala and proved to be ...
03.20.2019 MURDER! 12 SHOCKING TRUE CRIME STORIES-Rod Kackley Murderers. Homicidal Maniacs. Serial Killers. The police who put them behind bars. A mother kills her children one by one. A teenage girl runs away from home for Spring Break and never returns. Rumor has it; the alligators devoured her ...
03.14.2019 UNSOLVED MURDERS: TRUE CRIME CASES UNCOVERED-Amber Hunt Ever wondered who murdered JonBenét Ramsey, or who terrorized San Francisco as the Zodiac Killer? Puzzled over the notorious Black Dahlia murder, or the mysterious Long Island Serial Killer case? This true crime book makes you the detective, investigating some ...
03.05.2019 YOU HAVE A VERY SOFT VOICE, SUSAN-Susan Fensten This is not a typical story of Internet stalking. It is an unusual case of friendship and deception so pitiless and unyielding that it opened a door to Hell into the author’s life. This is an unforgettable story for today’s ...
02.27.2019 THE GRINDR SERIAL KILLER: STEPHEN PORT-Alan R. Warren In today’s world where meeting people for the purpose of having sex with a simple click on your phone, a new type of gay sex called ‘Party N Play’ or ‘Chemsex’ has become all the rage in the mainstream. Several ...
02.21.2019 ISDAL WOMAN. Life and Death.Norway's Biggest Mystery-Lauren Robinson This is a true life and death mystery. A case that dates back to November 1970. A time before cell phones, CCTV cameras, Tightened border security, DNA... Although this strange and haunting cold case occurred in Bergen, Norway, in theory, ...
02.12.2019 BURNED: A Story of Murder and the Crime That Wasn't-Edward Humes Was a monstrous killer brought to justice or an innocent mother condemned? On an April night in 1989, Jo Ann Parks survived a house fire that claimed the lives of her three small children. Though the fire at first seemed ...
02.05.2019 UNDER THE TRESTLE-Ron Peterson Jr. “Under The Trestle” is the true story of the most compelling murder case in Virginia history. In 1980, beautiful Gina Renee Hall, a Radford University freshman, went to a Virginia Tech nightclub on a Saturday night. She was never seen ...
01.31.2019 FRUSTRATED WITNESS-Willis Morgan On July 27, 1981, six year old Adam Walsh was abducted from the Hollywood Mall in Hollywood, Florida and later found decapitated. The horror of the event would change America forever and bring about much needed changes to child protection ...
01.24.2019 THE DEPRIVED-Steffen Hou Thousands of Americans have been convicted and sentenced to death for crimes they never committed. Some have even been executed despite their innocence. The Deprived is a true crime book that tells the stories of Americans who have been sent ...
01.17.2019 GITCHIE GIRL UNCOVERED-Phil and Sandy Hamman “Please, no! Don’t make me go back to the park. I can draw you a map. I promise I can show you where everything happened.” The lone survivor trembled as she pleaded with investigators. For over forty years, the events ...
01.09.2019 NIGHTMARE IN ROCHESTER-Michael Benson In 1971, there began in Rochester, N.Y., a series of hideous murders, cases that offered the starkest of contrast between good and evil: perfectly innocent victims, perfectly evil predators. The three victims were little girls, each named with the same ...
12.17.2018 PATHOLOGICAL-Henry J. Cordes A Brutal Serial Killer Was Stalking Omaha. But Who Could Kill With Such Precision?Detective Derek Mois wasn’t sure what he was dealing with when in March 2008 he walked into a home in an affluent Omaha neighborhood and was confronted ...
12.12.2018 SUMMER'S ALMOST GONE-J.T. Townsend It was an unbelievable crime—hideous, unexpected, baffling. A crime destined to become the most notorious and obsessive cold case in Cincinnati history. On that long ago day in September on the cusp of autumn, we were horrified by the blaring ...
12.11.2018 INNOCENCE LOST-The Crimes That Changed Australia-Amanda Howard Some crimes are so shocking that they change a nation forever. In revealing the lives and crimes of Australia's worst murderers, rapists and kidnappers in all their horror, Innocence Lost answers the question we ask when we hear about lives ...
12.07.2018 SHOTS IN THE DARK-Daniel Zimmerman On a cold, winter’s night in early 1963, mob enforcer Rocco Anthony Balliro and a pair of associates stormed a darkened apartment on the outskirts of Boston and engaged in a fierce gun battle with several assailants (police officers, it ...
12.04.2018 WARNINGS UNHEEDED-Andy Brown The true story of Air Force men and women who struggle to prevent a mass murder and an aviation disaster, and their heroic response to both tragedies when their warnings go unheeded. Have you ever heard someone say that a ...
11.29.2018 SAVING ANNIE-Book Two-The Investigator-Steve Jackson In March 2009, pretty, vivacious Rhonda Casto plunged to her death from a 300-foot cliff in the Oregon woods. The only witness, Stephen Nichols, the father of her nine-month-old baby, Annie, told police investigators she slipped and fell. Yet, Nichols’ ...
11.27.2018 WRECKING CREW-Demolishing the Case Against Steven Avery-John Ferak In 2016-17, while working for the USA TODAY NETWORK's Wisconsin Investigative Team, author John Ferak wrote dozens of articles examining the murder case again Steven Avery, who had already beat one wrongful conviction only to be charged with the murder ...
11.20.2018 IF I CAN'T HAVE YOU-Rebecca Morris A DEVOTED MOTHER GOES MISSING Every once in a great while a genuine murder mystery unfolds before the public's eyes…Such is the tragic case of Susan Powell and her murdered boys, Charlie and Braden. When the pretty Utah mother went ...
11.15.2018 THE LAST MAN STANDING-Alan R. Warren It was a shattering death bed confession by a heartbroken mother. But would it solve the oldest cold case murder case in American jurisprudence? In January 1994, Eileen Tessier told Jack McCullough’s half-sister Janet Tessier that he, her son, kidnapped ...
11.13.2018 TOXIC RAGE-A.J. Flick Brian Stidham fell in love with Tucson, Ariz., the minute he came to town. A young and talented eye surgeon, he accepted a job with an established eye surgeon to take over his pediatric patients. “It’s a beautiful place,” Stidham ...
11.09.2018 THE CREEP AMONG US-Anne Penn The Creep Among Us, the true story of the next chapter. Investigations and research which entails some of what we know a little more than five months into solving who The East Area Rapist, Original Night Stalker, Golden State Killer ...
11.07.2018 MY SON, THE KILLER-The Untold Story of Luka Magnotta-Brian Whitney In 2012, the Canadian Press ignited a firestorm of criticism by naming killer Luka Magnotta as its “Newsmaker Of The Year.” But while the recognition was questionable for its sensitivity, there’s no doubt that few people had captured the public’s ...

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True Murder: The Most Shocking Killers - 222472 episodes:

INNOCENT BLOOD-Terry Ganey

TRUTH AND HONOUR-Greg Marquis

MURDER ON BIRCHLEAF DRIVE-Steven B. Epstein

SHALLOW GRAVES-Maureen Boyle

1926 HOMICIDE IN AMERICA-David Kulczyk

IN CHAINS-Alan R. Warren

AMERICAN PREDATOR-Maureen Callahan

SECRETS OF A MARINE'S WIFE-Shanna Hogan

MURDER WITHOUT MOTIVE-Det. Raymond Pingatore

RACE TO JUSTICE-Larry Sells and Margie Porter

MURDER BY MILKSHAKE-Eve Lazarus

NEEDLE WORK-Fred Rosen

SUBMERGED-Janice Hisle

Drinks, Dinner & Death-Alan R. Warren

TED BUNDY: The Angel of Decay-Paul Lonardo

CHASING COSBY-Nicole Weisensee Egan

TED BUNDY'S MURDEROUS MYSTERIES-Kevin Sullivan

AND EVERY WORD IS TRUE-Gary McAvoy

THE KILLER ACROSS THE TABLE-Mark Olshaker

THE LAZARUS FILES-Matthew McGough

DEATH ON THE RIVER-Diane Fanning

I AM JESSICA-Jessi Toronjo and Jamie Collins

Pardonable Matricide-Tobin T. Buhk

ALICE & GERALD-Ron Franscell

THE HOT ONE-Carolyn Murnick

THE MOORS MURDERS-Ian Brady and Myra Hindley-Alan R. Warren

DEAD IN THE WATER-Penny Farmer

MURDER! 12 SHOCKING TRUE CRIME STORIES-Rod Kackley

UNSOLVED MURDERS: TRUE CRIME CASES UNCOVERED-Amber Hunt

YOU HAVE A VERY SOFT VOICE, SUSAN-Susan Fensten

THE GRINDR SERIAL KILLER: STEPHEN PORT-Alan R. Warren

ISDAL WOMAN. Life and Death.Norway's Biggest Mystery-Lauren Robinson

BURNED: A Story of Murder and the Crime That Wasn't-Edward Humes

UNDER THE TRESTLE-Ron Peterson Jr.

FRUSTRATED WITNESS-Willis Morgan

THE DEPRIVED-Steffen Hou

GITCHIE GIRL UNCOVERED-Phil and Sandy Hamman

NIGHTMARE IN ROCHESTER-Michael Benson

PATHOLOGICAL-Henry J. Cordes

SUMMER'S ALMOST GONE-J.T. Townsend

INNOCENCE LOST-The Crimes That Changed Australia-Amanda Howard

SHOTS IN THE DARK-Daniel Zimmerman

WARNINGS UNHEEDED-Andy Brown

SAVING ANNIE-Book Two-The Investigator-Steve Jackson

WRECKING CREW-Demolishing the Case Against Steven Avery-John Ferak

IF I CAN'T HAVE YOU-Rebecca Morris

THE LAST MAN STANDING-Alan R. Warren

TOXIC RAGE-A.J. Flick

THE CREEP AMONG US-Anne Penn

MY SON, THE KILLER-The Untold Story of Luka Magnotta-Brian Whitney

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