True Murder: The Most Shocking Killers

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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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THE BUNDY MURDERS-Kevin M. ...

08.05.2020

In this revised, updated and expanded edition, the author explores the life of Theodore Bundy, one of the more infamous--and flamboyant--American serial killers on record. Bundy's story is a complex mix of psychopathology, criminal investigation, and the U.S. legal system. ...

True Murder: The Most Shocking Killers episodes:

08.05.2020 THE BUNDY MURDERS-Kevin M. Sullivan In this revised, updated and expanded edition, the author explores the life of Theodore Bundy, one of the more infamous--and flamboyant--American serial killers on record. Bundy's story is a complex mix of psychopathology, criminal investigation, and the U.S. legal system. ...
07.31.2020 THE WORLD ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SERIAL KILLERS-Susan Hall The World Encyclopedia of Serial Killers is the most comprehensive set of its kind in the history of true crime publishing. Written and compiled by Susan Hall, the four-volume set has more than 1600 entries of male and female serial ...
07.29.2020 The Sneak S2 The Sneak: Murders at Whiskey Creek follows a world champion surfer as he pulls off the biggest jewel heist in American history. Things turn deadly as he is implicated in two murders afterwards. Interviews with him and his accomplices expose ...
07.27.2020 HELL IN THE HEARTLAND-Jax Miller S-Town meets I'll Be Gone in the Dark in this stranger-than-fiction cold case from rural Oklahoma that has stumped authorities for two decades, concerning the disappearance of two teenage girls and the much larger mystery of murder, possible police cover-up, ...
07.24.2020 TIL DEATH DO US-Patrick Gallagher In August 1945, Gladys Lincoln of Sacramento contacted prosperous Dr. W. D. Broadhurst of Caldwell, Idaho, and rekindled a romance from twenty years earlier. After many passionate letter exchanges and several sexually-charged meetings, they were married in Reno, Nevada on ...
07.20.2020 Wondery Presents GURU:The Dark Side of Enlightenment When we face challenges in life, we seek answers from people we believe can help us. When tragedy strikes an exclusive retreat with a self-help superstar, many people are left to wonder: how far is too far? James Arthur Ray ...
07.17.2020 RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES-Harold Schechter Bestselling true-crime master Harold Schechter explores the real-life headline-making psychos, serial murderers, thrill-hungry couples, and lady-killers who inspired a century of classic films.The necktie murders in Alfred Hitchcock’s Frenzy; Chicago’s Jazz Age crime of passion; the fatal hookup in Looking ...
07.14.2020 ONCE UPON A TIME...IN THE VALLEY In the roaring 1980s X world, Traci Lords reigned supreme. No one questioned her right to sovereignty. Only, it turned out, the biggest star in Adult, wasn’t one. As America would discover in July 1986, when the FBI busted down ...
07.13.2020 THE BEST NEW TRUE CRIME STORIES-Mitzi Szereto #1 New Release in Forensic Psychology ─ Small Town Charm With Deadly ConsequencesA collection of non-fiction accounts by international writers and experts on small town true crime shows readers that the real monsters aren’t hiding in the woods, they’re inside ...
07.10.2020 HOW TO CATCH A KILLER-Katherine Ramsland There are two parts to every crime story: how they did it and why they got caught.This book is about the second part, and how it changes the way we catch serial killers. No two stories about the capture of ...
07.06.2020 WANNA'BE COP KILLER-Dan Zupansky Gabriel Wortman was a 51-year-old Denturist with a successful practice where he worked with his common-law partner. They were staying in the tiny seaside community of Portapique, Nova Scotia, Canada.The Coronavirus pandemic had been declared by the World Health Organization ...
07.01.2020 Wondery Presents GURU:The Dark Side of Enlightenment When we face challenges in life, we seek answers from people we believe can help us. When tragedy strikes an exclusive retreat with a self-help superstar, many people are left to wonder: how far is too far? James Arthur Ray ...
06.26.2020 OPERATION JACKNAP-Jack Teich Two hundred FBI agents and Nassau County police officers combined forces to form a dragnet, hunt for his kidnappers, and rescue him.Teich lay handcuffed and chained to the walls of a closet in the Bronx with a medical bandage wrapped ...
06.19.2020 BOY MISSING-Rebecca Morris It's one of the most shocking unsolved missing-child cases in the world. Where is Kyron Horman? Why hasn't the woman who police suspect is responsible for his 2010 disappearance-Kyron's stepmother-been charged? That the seven-year-old disappeared from his grade school got ...
06.17.2020 MURDER IN HOLLYWOODLAND-by Wondery It's February 2nd 1922, and all of Hollywood is about to wake up and learn that William Desmond Taylor, the most famous film director in town, was murdered in his home last night. The investigation will shine a light on ...
06.16.2020 EVIL AT LAKE SEMINOLE-Steven B. Epstein Did Mike accidentally drown in a Florida lake?Or was his disappearance the result of a sinister plot to kill him?The crisp, predawn hours of December 16, 2000, began much as they had many Saturdays for avid duck hunter Mike Williams—on ...
06.10.2020 TORTURED WITH LOVE-J.T. Hunter What is the price of passion? What is the power of love?Meet Martha Beck, a young nurse dedicated to healing others, until her own hurting heart lured her down a darker path. Loneliness led her to Raymond Fernandez, but love ...
06.04.2020 MOSQUITO POINT ROAD-Michael Benson A compilation of six fascinating historical true crime stories, all geographically attached or close to the author’s childhood home. There’s Killer of the Cloth, The Baby in the Convent, Mosquito Point Road, Death of a First Baseman, The Blue Gardenia, ...
05.28.2020 HUNTING WHITEY-Dave Wedge For the first time, Boston reporters Casey Sherman and Dave Wedge draw on exclusive interviews and exhaustive investigative reportage to tell the complete story of Whitey Bulger, one of the most notorious crime bosses in American history—alongside Al “Scarface” Capone ...
05.27.2020 INTRODUCING HOPE IN DARKNESS In June 2016, American Joshua Holt traveled to Venezuela to get married. As part of a crackdown on crime under the government of Nicolás Maduro, he and his wife were suddenly rounded up and taken to El Helicoide, a now-infamous ...
05.26.2020 CAITLIN ROTHER TRUE CRIME RETROSPECTIVE-Caitlin Rother In the late 1980s, Caitlin Rother wrote for the Berkshire Eagle and the Springfield Union-News in Massachusetts. She returned to California and went to work as a reporter for the Los Angeles Daily News after working a year as a ...
05.19.2020 KIDNAPPED BY A CLIENT-Sharon Muse “He promised to kill me when he got out. I believed him. If I wanted justice, I had to fight both him and the courts...maybe kill him first. If I didn’t do something, I was going to die.”This is not ...
05.14.2020 THE DOCTOR, THE HITMAN, AND THE MOTORCYCLE GANG-Annie McCormick THE DOCTOR, THE HITMAN, AND THE MOTORCYCLE GANG: The True Story of One of New Jersey’s Most Notorious Murder for Hire Plots is the true story of the murder of April Kauffman, a beloved and vivacious local radio personality and ...
05.05.2020 JOHN WAYNE GACY: HUNTING A PREDATOR-John Borowski On December 21, 1978, John Wayne Gacy was arrested. Upon an initial search of the crawlspace beneath his ranch house in Norwood Park Township, Illinois, the authorities discovered the remains of several bodies. Eventually, the skeletal remains of 29 young ...
05.02.2020 MAYBE YOU DIE-Nancy Lee Nina, a new graduate from fashion design in college, gladly accepts the offer to have her palm read as a graduation gift. Smiling, the palm reader tells Nina that she has a long lifeline, as she traces it on her ...
04.29.2020 LOSING JON-David Parrish David Parrish was in disbelief when he learned that nineteen-year-old Jon Bowie’s body had been found hanged from a backstop at the local high school’s baseball field and the death declared a suicide. David had known Jon and his twin ...
04.24.2020 A TANGLED WEB-Leslie Rule It was a bleak November in 2012 when Cari Lea Farver vanished from Omaha, Nebraska. Cari, thirty-seven, was a devoted mother, reliable employee, and loyal friend—not the type to shirk responsibilities, abandon her son, and run off on an adventure ...
04.22.2020 AMERICAN SCANDAL by WONDERY Wondery Presents American ScandalJoin Lindsay Graham, the host of Wondery’s show American Scandal as he dives deep into the heart of the most shocking moments of fraud and deception in American history. In this six-part series “The Hare Krishna Murders” ...
04.14.2020 FIRST DEGREE RAGE-Paula May Terrifying things are happening to Kay Weden, a forty-something single mom and high school teacher in Salisbury, North Carolina. Despite having no known enemies, Kay’s home, car, and peace of mind are under attack throughout 1993. Most chilling of all ...
04.11.2020 KILLER FICTION-Sondra London At a high school dance in 1964, 17 year-old Sondra London met a bright, handsome, well mannered Catholic boy, 18 year-old Gerard John Schaefer. They hung out all the time and soon fell in love. But after a year, as ...
04.03.2020 THE TRUE STORY OF THE 1966 HENDERSONVILLE TRIPLE MURDERS-Terrance Ryerson Neal The story raced across the news wires in 1966. Residents jumped in their cars and drove to Lake Summit to see the gruesome crime scene. On a late, hot July summer night in 1966, in a small North Carolina mountain ...
03.26.2020 STEPHEN AND JOYCE SINGULAR TRUE CRIME RETROSPECTIVE Stephen Singular is the author of 25 non-fiction books, many of them about high-profile criminal cases. His first book in 1987 was Talked to Death: The Life & Murder of Alan Berg, which became the basis for the 1989 Oliver ...
03.24.2020 JOE EXOTIC by WONDERY Joe Exotic devoted his life to raising and breeding lions, tigers, and other exotic animals at his Oklahoma zoo. He croons ballads, shoots guns, and puts it all on YouTube. But he’s also made a lot of enemies. And the ...
03.23.2020 THE "SUPREME GENTLEMAN" KILLER-Brian Whitney Elliot Rodger considered himself to be intelligent, refined, handsome, fashionable and charming. He spent years trying to be cool so women would like him. He thought if he just wore expensive and fashionable clothing, had a better car, or if ...
03.18.2020 THE BODY SNATCHER'S WIFE-Barbra Reifel As seen on ID Discovery’s The Devil You Know, Who the (Bleep) Did I Marry?, and TabloidThe shocking true story of how Barbra’s picket fence turned to prison bars, trapped in her twisted husband’s dangerous web of addiction, abuse, and ...
03.17.2020 EVEN THE RICH-WONDERY Celebrities, royals, heirs and heiresses—you may think you know them, you may think you envy them, but you have no idea what really goes on behind the scenes. Wondery’s new series Even the Rich pulls gives you a hilarious behind-the-scenes ...
03.16.2020 BEAST OF NEW CASTLE-Larry Sells and Margie Porter "'No witnesses, no problems.' Thompson’s mantra was supposed to be reassuring to the smaller man, but Percy felt the shadow of his own death coming. There was one witness. Him. And he cowered, wondering when his neck would be broken, ...
03.12.2020 THE TRIALS OF ALBERT STROEBEL-Chad Reimer In April, 1893, John Marshall, an immigrant and successful farmer on Sumas Prairie in British Columbia, was found dead lying sprawled across the veranda of his farmhouse. The farmer's face was a mess, his nose smashed in and cracked blood ...
03.06.2020 DOOMSDAY CULTS-Alan R. Warren Jim Jones convinced his 1000 followers they would all have to commit suicide since he was going to die. Shoko Asahara convinced his followers to release a weapon of mass destruction, the deadly sarin gas, on a Tokyo subway. The ...
03.05.2020 THE DATING GAME KILLER In 1978, Rodney Alcala won a date on the popular TV show, The Dating Game. What no one knew was that he was a prolific serial killer in the middle of a cross-country murder spree. In this six-part series, co-hosts ...
03.04.2020 GONE AT MIDNIGHT-Jake Anderson 21 year-old Vancouver student Elisa Lam was last heard from on January 31, 2013, after she checked into downtown L.A.’s Cecil Hotel—a 600-room building with a nine-decade history of scandal and tragedy. The next day, Elisa vanished. A search of ...
02.28.2020 A CROSSING OF PATHS-THE HILLSIDE STRANGLER CASE-Ron Crisp Ron Crisp invites the reader to follow him through his investigation of the Leslie Barry murder; the trial of Art Anzures for the murder; the evidence that led him to his 3 suspects; how his investigation of the Barry murder ...
02.24.2020 MICHAEL BENSON TRUE CRIME RETROSPECTIVE-Michael Benson Michael Benson is one of today's most popular true-crime writers. His books--including Betrayal In Blood, Murder In Connecticut, Killer Twins, The Burn Farm, Mommy Deadliest, A Killer's Touch, Evil Season, Watch Mommy Die, A Knife in the Heart, Escape From ...
02.19.2020 AMERICAN SHERLOCK-Kate Winkler Dawson Berkeley, California, 1933. In a lab filled with curiosities–beakers, microscopes, Bunsen burners, and hundreds upon hundreds of books–sat an investigator who would go on to crack at least two thousand cases in his forty-year career. Known as the “American Sherlock ...
02.18.2020 EVIL DESIRES-Dean T. Olson Sexual predators exist in our society and their evil desire leads them to commit heinous, brutal crimes with little concern for their victims or the toll it takes on the community. Violent sociopaths have no interest in the needs or ...
02.13.2020 DIANE FANNING TRUE CRIME RETROSPECTIVE-Diane Fanning Diane Fanning is the author of fourteen true crime books published by St. Martin's Press and Berkley Books including the Edgar Award nominated Written in Blood, about Michael Peterson of Netflix's The Staircase and the best-selling Mommy's Little Girl, about ...
02.12.2020 WONDERY PRESENTS DYING FOR SEX When host Nikki Boyer’s best friend Molly is diagnosed with Stage IV breast cancer, she decides to do something bold. She leaves an unhappy marriage and embarks on a series of sexual adventures to feel alive. Over this six-part miniseries, ...
02.11.2020 DEVIL'S PLAYGROUND-Nova West A young pregnant mother is killed, and a small town demands justice, a conviction, someone to blame. When an unlikely suspect is convicted, it raises a question: Is this the culprit, a scapegoat, or a martyr? This question prompted a ...
02.07.2020 18 TINY DEATHS-Bruce Goldfarb The story of a woman whose ambition and accomplishments far exceeded the expectations of her time, 18 Tiny Deaths follows the transformation of a young, wealthy socialite into the mother of modern forensics...Frances Glessner Lee, born a socialite to a ...
01.29.2020 THE GARDEN STATE PARKWAY MURDERS-Christian Barth In “The Garden State Parkway Murders,” true crime writer and attorney Christian Barth dives into the harrowing story of the unsolved murders of Elizabeth Perry and Susan Davis. College friends, the two women were brutally knifed to death and their ...

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True Murder: The Most Shocking Killers episodes:

THE BUNDY MURDERS-Kevin M. Sullivan

THE WORLD ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SERIAL KILLERS-Susan Hall

The Sneak S2

HELL IN THE HEARTLAND-Jax Miller

TIL DEATH DO US-Patrick Gallagher

Wondery Presents GURU:The Dark Side of Enlightenment

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES-Harold Schechter

ONCE UPON A TIME...IN THE VALLEY

THE BEST NEW TRUE CRIME STORIES-Mitzi Szereto

HOW TO CATCH A KILLER-Katherine Ramsland

WANNA'BE COP KILLER-Dan Zupansky

Wondery Presents GURU:The Dark Side of Enlightenment

OPERATION JACKNAP-Jack Teich

BOY MISSING-Rebecca Morris

MURDER IN HOLLYWOODLAND-by Wondery

EVIL AT LAKE SEMINOLE-Steven B. Epstein

TORTURED WITH LOVE-J.T. Hunter

MOSQUITO POINT ROAD-Michael Benson

HUNTING WHITEY-Dave Wedge

INTRODUCING HOPE IN DARKNESS

CAITLIN ROTHER TRUE CRIME RETROSPECTIVE-Caitlin Rother

KIDNAPPED BY A CLIENT-Sharon Muse

THE DOCTOR, THE HITMAN, AND THE MOTORCYCLE GANG-Annie McCormick

JOHN WAYNE GACY: HUNTING A PREDATOR-John Borowski

MAYBE YOU DIE-Nancy Lee

LOSING JON-David Parrish

A TANGLED WEB-Leslie Rule

AMERICAN SCANDAL by WONDERY

FIRST DEGREE RAGE-Paula May

KILLER FICTION-Sondra London

THE TRUE STORY OF THE 1966 HENDERSONVILLE TRIPLE MURDERS-Terrance Ryerson Neal

STEPHEN AND JOYCE SINGULAR TRUE CRIME RETROSPECTIVE

JOE EXOTIC by WONDERY

THE "SUPREME GENTLEMAN" KILLER-Brian Whitney

THE BODY SNATCHER'S WIFE-Barbra Reifel

EVEN THE RICH-WONDERY

BEAST OF NEW CASTLE-Larry Sells and Margie Porter

THE TRIALS OF ALBERT STROEBEL-Chad Reimer

DOOMSDAY CULTS-Alan R. Warren

THE DATING GAME KILLER

GONE AT MIDNIGHT-Jake Anderson

A CROSSING OF PATHS-THE HILLSIDE STRANGLER CASE-Ron Crisp

MICHAEL BENSON TRUE CRIME RETROSPECTIVE-Michael Benson

AMERICAN SHERLOCK-Kate Winkler Dawson

EVIL DESIRES-Dean T. Olson

DIANE FANNING TRUE CRIME RETROSPECTIVE-Diane Fanning

WONDERY PRESENTS DYING FOR SEX

DEVIL'S PLAYGROUND-Nova West

18 TINY DEATHS-Bruce Goldfarb

THE GARDEN STATE PARKWAY MURDERS-Christian Barth

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