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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An incredible four-decade account of murder, power, and corruption in one of the country’s largest police departments In 1979, the gruesome slaying of a thirteen-year-old boy riveted the suburbs of Suffolk County, New York. As the county hustled to bring ...

True Murder: The Most Shocking Killers episodes:

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 ...
11.09.2021 EYES OF A MONSTER-Ron Peterson Jr. Schoolteacher Olivia Dare Christian was murdered in her Hampton, Virginia apartment in 1981. Her killer left few clues and the murder went unsolved. Three decades later, in 2011, next-generation detective Randy Mayer re-opened Olivia’s dusty cold case file and began ...
11.08.2021 THE KILLER PSYCHE Killer Psyche is a new weekly true crime podcast from Wondery that explores the minds behind infamous killers and criminals. They cover high-profile cases that have shocked the world, and host Candice Delong uses her five decades of experience as ...
11.06.2021 MONSTER-David McGrath In an incredible 6-year investigation, True crime writer and investigative journalist David McGrath tells the unbelievable story of one of the most prolific predators in American history. Wayne Chapman admitted to abusing 100 children over a 8-year span from 1967-76. ...
10.28.2021 WHAT EVIL LURKS-Donna Fielder Laura Smither, twelve, was taken from the road in front of her home in the small suburban Texas town of Friendswood. Sandra Sappaugh barely escaped with her life when she was abducted from a Waffle House parking lot in the ...
10.27.2021 JANE DOE # 9-HOW I SURVIVED R. KELLY-Lizzette Martinez In January of 1995, 17-year-old Lizzette Martinez met Grammy-winning musician and record producer R. KELLY at Aventura Mall in Florida where he was performing. At first, it seemed that her hopes of becoming a professional singer were about to come ...
10.27.2021 Introducing: SHADOW OF TRUTH It’s one of the most haunting murder cases you’ll ever hear about, and it takes place in a small town in Israel. Tair Rada was only 13-years-old when her body was found inside a locked bathroom stall. She was viciously ...
10.21.2021 SERIAL SLAUGHTER ZODIAC KILLER-Anne Penn Serial Slaughter is the story of the infamous Zodiac Killer. The killer roamed California, especially Northern California for decades. He announced himself with dramatic flair corresponding with Law Enforcement and the media in order to gain the attention he craved. ...
10.20.2021 THE FLAT TIRE MURDERS-Michael P. Burns South Florida in the 1970s was one of the nation's most dangerous locations. Behind the image of sun and surf, young women were the victims of a brutal killer. In the mid-1970s, over a dozen young women were murdered and ...
10.12.2021 IF YOU CAN'T QUIT CRYIN', YOU CAN'T COME HERE NO MORE-Betty Frizzell On May 12, 2013, 48-year-old Vicky Isaac of rural Puxico, Missouri―a woman with a history of learning disabilities, traumatic brain injuries, and drug addiction― loaded a .22 caliber handgun and shot her violent addict husband while he slept in the ...
10.11.2021 Introducing: Over My Dead Body: Season 3-Fox Lake A small town cop known as “GI Joe” is gunned down in a swamp in the summer of 2015 and quickly becomes a martyr in the national media. But when a dogged investigator and his team set out to get ...
10.08.2021 MYSTERY AT THE BLUE SEA COTTAGE-James Stewart Set in Jazz Age San Diego against the backdrop of yellow journalism, notorious Hollywood scandals, Prohibition corruption and a lively culture war, Mystery At The Blue Sea Cottage tells the intriguing true crime story of a beautiful dancer, a playboy ...
10.05.2021 BRINGING DOWN CULLOTTA-David Bowman In October of 1977, David Bowman moved to Las Vegas as a 16 year old kid with his parents and older brother. Bowman chronicles his journey through the streets of Las Vegas for the next 3 years. Bringing Down Cullotta, ...
09.29.2021 TED BUNDY: Examining The Unconfirmed Survivor Stories-Erin Banks “Ted Bundy: Examining The Unconfirmed Survivor Stories,” is the first publication to collate the known and frequently discussed stories of those individuals who shared their encounters with Ted Bundy decades after the execution of the serial killer. It compares these ...
09.28.2021 INTRODUCING THIS IS ACTUALLY HAPPENING What would you do if a singular moment changed your life forever? This is Actually Happening is a weekly podcast from Wondery that features extraordinary life-changing stories told by the people who lived them...wondery.fm/TIAH_TrueMurder
09.23.2021 WATCH ME DIE-Bill Kimberlin Bill Kimberlin, Psy.D, invites the reader on an extensive and unbiased journey inside Ohio’s death row in WATCH ME DIE: Last Words From Death Row.You will see how these inmates think as Kimberlin not only spends time interviewing them, but ...
09.22.2021 DEEP IN THE WOODS-Bryan Johnston In 1935, nine-year-old George Weyerhaeuser, heir to one of the wealthiest families in America, is snatched off the streets two blocks from his home. The boy is kept manacled in a pit, chained to a tree, and locked in a ...
09.15.2021 DEFENDING A SERIAL KILLER-Jim Potts The Fifth and Sixth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States guarantee the right against self-incrimination, the right to remain silent, and the right to counsel.A crime wave swept California in the late 1970s. Several young girls were abducted, ...
09.08.2021 THE WHEELS OF JUSTICE-Renee Fehr “The wheels of justice turn slowly, but grind exceedingly fine.”Renee Fehr knew that Gregory Houser killed her sister Sheryl. There was not a single doubt in her mind. Yet for 27 years Houser walked free.But Renee wouldn’t rest until he ...
09.03.2021 REDHANDED-Suruthi Bala and Hannah Maguire Based off Hannah Maguire and Suruthi Bala's popular podcast of the same name, RedHanded explores real-life true crime cases to help answer once and for all if a killer is born or made.After meeting at a house party in London, ...
09.01.2021 16 MINUTES-Diane Marger Moore From The Author Of INCONVENIENCE GONEOn the early morning of March 6, 1993, an intense fire broke out in a tiny nursery. Sixteen minutes later, firefighters had extinguished the blaze, only to reveal a room burned so severely, everything was ...
08.31.2021 Introducing: SUSPECT An apartment complex hosts a big Halloween party with themed rooms and costumed partygoers. By the end of the night one of the party’s hosts is murdered. And the partygoers are the main suspects in the eyes of the police: ...
08.27.2021 THE BEST NEW TRUE CRIME STORIES: Passion, Obsession and Revenge-Mitzi Szereto Obsession, Unrequited Love, Jealousy, Revenge, and Violence Collide in this Page-Turning Anthology. How can someone you hold dear become someone you fear? This riveting anthology explores the question through some of the most compelling true crime accounts and stories of ...
08.24.2021 THE EAST RIVER RIPPER-George R. Dekle Sr. Shortly after NYPD Chief of Detectives Thomas Byrnes publicly criticized the London police for failing to capture Jack the Ripper, he received a letter purportedly from Jack himself saying New York was his next target. Not long after, Byrnes was ...
08.20.2021 THE IOWA MURDERS-Rod Kackley Someone you know or even love is the person who will kill you. Usually, that’s true.But that is not what happened in 2018 to two college students in Iowa.Two young women who had everything to live for, killed by two ...
08.17.2021 Introducing-Dr. Death Season 3: Miracle Man Paolo is a smart and handsome surgeon, renowned for his ability to perform surgeries that transform his patients’ lives. When television producer Benita covers him for a story, he’ll transform her life too, but not in the ways she expects. ...
08.16.2021 SOLVING THE WEST GEORGIA MURDER OF GWENDOLYN MOORE-Clay Bryant On a sultry August morning in 1970, the battered body of a young woman was hoisted from a dry well just outside Hogansville, Georgia. Author and investigator Clay Bryant was there, witnessing the macabre scene. Then fifteen, Bryant was tagging ...
08.10.2021 SCRAPPED-Lisa Peebles and John O'Brien Criminal defense lawyer Lisa Peebles was taken aback by a secretly recorded phone call and police interrogation video that surfaced in a 20-year-old kidnapping case. They held the stench of a cover-up. She recruited an investigative reporter to help unearth ...
08.05.2021 TERROR TOWN, U.S.A.-John Ferak From the author of WRECKING CREW, John Ferak returns to discuss his incredible book TERROR TOWN U.S.A.https://podcasts.apple.com/.../true-murder.../id393525078...https://www.spreaker.com/show/truemurderhttps://open.spotify.com/show/3lB164qZi9SySMEhC2bKuVDuring the early morning hours of July 17, 1983, fatigue became a factor for the young couple from central Illinois who spent their day ...
07.30.2021 DANNY ROLLING SERIAL KILLER-Sondra London Criminologist Anthony Meoli said Sondra London broke ground in publishing the confessions of serial killer Danny Rolling. But only part of that story could be told in 1996.Now in this unique new volume, the controversy surrounding The Making of a ...
07.29.2021 RAGING ON-Paula May From the author of FIRST DEGREE RAGE: The True Story of ‘The Assassin,’ An Obsession, and Murder comes the ongoing and chilling true crime saga of L. C. Underwood, the obsessively jealous police officer from North Carolina. Underwood shocked an ...
07.22.2021 THE BEST NEW TRUE CRIME STORIES-Mitzi Szereto Sometimes the Nicest People Make the Deadliest CriminalsEnjoy a collection of non-fiction accounts by international writers and experts on crooks, criminals, and serial killers who disguise themselves among society by being what you least expect-your friendly next-door neighbor.From mild mannered ...
07.19.2021 COLD BLOODED-Anita Paddock On a cold January morning in 1981, a knock on an apartment door began what would become one of the bloodiest crime sprees in Arkansas history. In the coming days the bodies of newlyweds Larry and Jawana Price, businessman Holly ...
07.15.2021 BOMBSHELL-Mike Rothmiller ‘Bobby called. He’s coming to California. He wants to see me.’Drawing on secret police files, Marilyn Monroe's private diary and never before published first-hand testimony, this book proves that Robert Kennedy was directly responsible for her death. It details the ...
07.07.2021 COUPLE FOUND SLAIN-Mikita Brottman On February 21, 1992, 22-year-old Brian Bechtold walked into a police station in Port St. Joe, Florida and confessed that he’d shot and killed his parents in their family home in Silver Spring, Maryland. He said he’d been possessed by ...
07.02.2021 SEATTLE'S JUNGLE KILLER-Mike Ciesynski Seattle's Jungle Killer takes you inside a world where depravity and evil are met by some of the best homicide detectives in the Seattle Police Department. One of them, author and retired detective Mike Ciesynski, was one of the guys ...
06.30.2021 GRILLING DAHMER-Robyn Maharaj In the late hours of July 22, 1991, Detective Patrick "Pat" Kennedy of the Milwaukee Police Department was asked to respond to a possible homicide. Little did he know that he would soon be delving into the dark mind of ...
06.24.2021 THE MURDER OF BIGGIE SMALLS-Cathy Scott In this second edition of The Murder of Biggie Smalls, Cathy Scott delves behind the scenes to pore over police records, coroner reports, FBI files, and interviews Biggie’s mother, Voletta Wallace, to reveal new facts surrounding the gangsta rapper’s murder. ...
06.15.2021 VICTIM F-Denise Huskins and Aaron Quinn In March 2015, Denise Huskins and her boyfriend Aaron Quinn awoke from a sound sleep into a nightmare. Armed men bound and drugged them, then abducted Denise. Warned not to call the police or Denise would be killed. Aaron agonized ...
06.10.2021 THE GHOST-Maureen Boyle Police Chief Greg Adams was out on patrol. Christmas was coming to Saxonburg, Pennsylvania—a quaint borough of just 1,300—in three short weeks. The winter air was crisp. Colored lights sparkled on houses. He was only a block and a half ...
06.09.2021 ROCHESTER'S MOST STARTLING CRIMES-Michael Benson Rochester, N.Y., is known for many things, great food, lilacs, innovative supermarkets, minor league baseball, and—unfortunately—crime. This heavily-illustrated book covers some of the most spectacular crimes in the Rochester area’s history, written by true-crime master Michael Benson, who grew up ...
06.04.2021 RAZOR WIRE WILDERNESS--Stephanie Dickinson Longtime author Stephanie Dickinson straddles the lines of true crime and memoir in “Razor Wire Wilderness,” (June 1, 2021, Kallisto Gaia Press) as she examines the lives of those affected by violence in this immaculately assembled account that takes readers ...
05.27.2021 COLD BLOODED-Frank Stanfield Investigators and Central Florida residents were horrified when 16-year-old vampire cult leader Rod Ferrell was arrested and charged with bludgeoning a cult member's parents. When they realized the slain couple's 15-year-old daughter was missing, they feared she was a victim, ...
05.19.2021 HARRY-Steve Daniels Long before the era of young people committing mass murder became a too-common event, sixteen-year-old Harry Hebard made world news when he killed all five members of his family in Kennedy-era Green Bay, Wisconsin. Harry appeared to be a relatively ...

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True Murder: The Most Shocking Killers episodes:

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

EYES OF A MONSTER-Ron Peterson Jr.

THE KILLER PSYCHE

MONSTER-David McGrath

WHAT EVIL LURKS-Donna Fielder

JANE DOE # 9-HOW I SURVIVED R. KELLY-Lizzette Martinez

Introducing: SHADOW OF TRUTH

SERIAL SLAUGHTER ZODIAC KILLER-Anne Penn

THE FLAT TIRE MURDERS-Michael P. Burns

IF YOU CAN'T QUIT CRYIN', YOU CAN'T COME HERE NO MORE-Betty Frizzell

Introducing: Over My Dead Body: Season 3-Fox Lake

MYSTERY AT THE BLUE SEA COTTAGE-James Stewart

BRINGING DOWN CULLOTTA-David Bowman

TED BUNDY: Examining The Unconfirmed Survivor Stories-Erin Banks

INTRODUCING THIS IS ACTUALLY HAPPENING

WATCH ME DIE-Bill Kimberlin

DEEP IN THE WOODS-Bryan Johnston

DEFENDING A SERIAL KILLER-Jim Potts

THE WHEELS OF JUSTICE-Renee Fehr

REDHANDED-Suruthi Bala and Hannah Maguire

16 MINUTES-Diane Marger Moore

Introducing: SUSPECT

THE BEST NEW TRUE CRIME STORIES: Passion, Obsession and Revenge-Mitzi Szereto

THE EAST RIVER RIPPER-George R. Dekle Sr.

THE IOWA MURDERS-Rod Kackley

Introducing-Dr. Death Season 3: Miracle Man

SOLVING THE WEST GEORGIA MURDER OF GWENDOLYN MOORE-Clay Bryant

SCRAPPED-Lisa Peebles and John O'Brien

TERROR TOWN, U.S.A.-John Ferak

DANNY ROLLING SERIAL KILLER-Sondra London

RAGING ON-Paula May

THE BEST NEW TRUE CRIME STORIES-Mitzi Szereto

COLD BLOODED-Anita Paddock

BOMBSHELL-Mike Rothmiller

COUPLE FOUND SLAIN-Mikita Brottman

SEATTLE'S JUNGLE KILLER-Mike Ciesynski

GRILLING DAHMER-Robyn Maharaj

THE MURDER OF BIGGIE SMALLS-Cathy Scott

VICTIM F-Denise Huskins and Aaron Quinn

THE GHOST-Maureen Boyle

ROCHESTER'S MOST STARTLING CRIMES-Michael Benson

RAZOR WIRE WILDERNESS--Stephanie Dickinson

COLD BLOODED-Frank Stanfield

HARRY-Steve Daniels

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