True Murder: The Most Shocking Killers

True Murder: The Most Shocking Killers

Dan Zupansky -

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

DEADLY HEIST-Steven B. Epstein

DEADLY HEIST-Steven B. Epstein

At just 21 years of age, friends Todd Wilson and Scott McCarthy were virtually inseparable. The pair reported for duty at United Bank of Denver at 6:00 a.m. on Father's Day 1991-McCarthy's first day on the job. They joined two more experienced guards and began making their rounds. By 9:30 a.m., all four were dead. The killer then descended upon the cash vault where he held six petrified tellers at gunpoint before absconding with nearly $200,000.Eighteen days later, the Denver Police Department a

Feb 17, • 1:07:54

HELL PUT TO SHAME-Earl Swift

HELL PUT TO SHAME-Earl Swift

On a Sunday morning in the spring of 1921, a small boy made a grim discovery as he played on a riverbank in the cotton country of rural Georgia: the bodies of two drowned men, bound together with wire and chain and weighted with a hundred-pound sack of rocks. Within days a third body turned up in another nearby river, and in the weeks that followed, eight others. And with them a deeper horror: all eleven had been kept in virtual slavery before their deaths. In fact, as America was shocked to lea

Feb 10, • 1:03:59

BLOOD AND THE BADGE-Michael Cannell

BLOOD AND THE BADGE-Michael Cannell

For the first time in forty years, former New York Times editor Michael Cannell has unearthed the full story behind two ruthless New York cops who acted as double agents for the Mafia.No episode in NYPD history surpasses the depravities of Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa, two decorated detectives who covertly acted as mafia informants and paid assassins in the Scorsese world of 1980s Brooklyn.For more than ten years, Eppolito and Caracappa moonlighted as the mob’s early warning alert system

Feb 3, • 1:03:57

A MURDER ON CAMPUS-Brian and Cameron Santana

A MURDER ON CAMPUS-Brian and Cameron Santana

On April 15, 1973, two high school students discovered Virginia Marie Olson’s body near the campus of the University of North Carolina at Asheville. Olson’s murder was horrifically violent—she had been bound, raped, and stabbed to death, leaving the Asheville community in shock. The cold case that followed would span over 50 years, involving three generations of detectives and the Asheville Police Department and the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation as they worked tirelessly to uncove

Jan 27, • 1:12:45

THE JOHN WAYNE GACY MURDERS-John Borowski

THE JOHN WAYNE GACY MURDERS-John Borowski

An eight part miniseries, The John Wayne Gacy Murders: Life and Death in Chicago (2024) is the first ever historical, comprehensive and chronological miniseries to study the life and crimes of the infamous serial killer. From his birth to the ongoing investigation of identifying unknown victims, this is the groundbreaking documentary project that filmmaker John Borowski has dedicatedly worked on for five years—uncovering extraordinary new facts and dispelling certain myths about the case. Borows

Jan 20, • 1:12:49

OBSESSED-David McGrath

OBSESSED-David McGrath

In the tranquil towns of New England during the 1970s, a sinister mystery unfolded when several boys vanished without a trace and the community’s peace was shattered. With law enforcement stymied in its search for answers, whispers of a possible serial killer surfaced, especially after one boy’s body was found years after his disappearance. But what happened to the others remained a heart-wrenching puzzle.In 2013, author David McGrath, a former host on the Law Enforcement Today Network and an in

Jan 13, • 1:21:28

THE SINNERS ALL BOW-Kate Winkler Dawson

THE SINNERS ALL BOW-Kate Winkler Dawson

Acclaimed journalist, podcaster, and true-crime historian Kate Winkler Dawson tells the true story of the scandalous murder investigation that became the inspiration for both Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter and the first true-crime book published in America.On a cold winter day in 1832, Sarah Maria Cornell was found dead in a quiet farmyard in a small New England town. When her troubled past and a secret correspondence with charismatic Methodist minister Reverend Ephraim Avery was uncov

Jan 6, • 51:33

JonBenet's Secret Santa

JonBenet's Secret Santa

M'Linda Kula is very familiar with this SECRET SANTA and the many links that tie him to JonBenet Ramsey. Each link is carefully explained within this book, to lead from one connection to the next between JonBenet and the SECRET SANTA. Find out who this SECRET SANTA is and how this chameleon was able to evade the authorities. This same individual also used a term of endearment common to the Ramsey family for JonBenet, in front of his peers and classmates at a karate school. When asked if he was "

Dec 30, 2024 • 46:47

JonBenet Ramsey and Det. Lou Smit

JonBenet Ramsey and Det. Lou Smit

On Christmas Night 1996, six-year-old JonBenet Ramsey was murdered in her family’s home in Boulder, Colorado. A ransom note was found in the home, but it was hours before her father, John, found her body in the basement. She had been strangled with a garrote and her skull was fractured. The media sensationalized the tragic death of the “child beauty queen” and public speculation and rumors ran rampant. What followed was one of the most notorious unsolved murder investigations in American history

Dec 23, 2024 • 57:37

POSTMORTEM-Courtney Lund O'Neil

POSTMORTEM-Courtney Lund O'Neil

On a December night in 1978, Courtney Lund O’Neil’s mother, teenaged Kim Byers, saw her friend Rob Piest alive for the last time. At the end of his shift at the pharmacy where they both worked, fifteen-year-old Rob went outside to speak to a contractor named John Wayne Gacy about a possible job.That night Rob became Gacy’s final victim; his body was later found in the Des Plaines River. Kim’s testimony, along with a receipt belonging to her found in Gacy’s house, proving that Rob had been there,

Dec 16, 2024 • 56:34

RAISED BY A SERIAL KILLER-April Balascio

RAISED BY A SERIAL KILLER-April Balascio

The untold story behind the hit true crime podcast The Clearing, this unforgettable memoir traces one daughter’s moving quest to understand her larger-than-life childhood as she searches for the truth about her father, the serial killer Edward Wayne Edwards.One evening in 2009, April Balascio was searching online, as she had been every night, for unsolved murders in the towns her family had lived growing up, when she stumbled across the latest investigations into the “Sweetheart Murders” cold ca

Dec 9, 2024 • 1:08:57

TRIAL BY AMBUSH-Marcia Clark

TRIAL BY AMBUSH-Marcia Clark

In this dramatic true account about the power of sensationalized crime, one woman’s case is exposed for its sexism, flagrant disregard for the truth, and, ultimately, the dangers posed by an unbridled prosecution. Unwanted and neglected from birth, Barbara Graham had to overcome the odds just to survive. Her beauty was both a blessing and a curse―offering her too many options of all the wrong kind. Her innate sensitivity left her vulnerable to the harsh realities of the street, where she was lef

Dec 2, 2024 • 45:28

RED HOOK-Frank Dimatteo and Michael Benson

RED HOOK-Frank Dimatteo and Michael Benson

Long before Brooklyn was known as the world’s hippest neighborhood, it was the deadliest - the seedy, dangerous underbelly of New York City, where mobsters and gangs could commit murder and dump dead bodies without getting caught.For more than a hundred years, the Red Hook section of Brooklyn was Ground Zero for organized crime. Whoever controlled the piers controlled everything. From the infamous Irish gang known as The White Hand at the turn of the century, to the notorious Italian Gallo broth

Nov 25, 2024 • 59:30

CHAINED BIRDS-Carla Conti

CHAINED BIRDS-Carla Conti

After three years in Europe, former journalist Carla Conti just wanted to settle her family into the suburbs of Philadelphia. But her high school friend Scott Powell, a lawyer handling a brutal prison stabbing case, needed a favor. Before she knew it, Carla became part of the defense team and mired in the terrifying world of federal prison gangs, penal abuse, and corruption.Then, when she agreed to write a tell-all book on the violent machinations behind the court case — with Scott’s client as a

Nov 18, 2024 • 1:23:53

THE 'BABY DOLL' SERIAL KILLER-B.R. Bates and Jerry Cliff

THE 'BABY DOLL' SERIAL KILLER-B.R. Bates and Jerry Cliff

He was unassuming, sweet, and friendly. “Saved” in church as a teen, he never caused trouble. In the Navy, they called him Opie. Though he was a big guy, he had a soft, boyish demeanor. “The boy next door,” said those who worked with and knew him.But John Eric Armstrong had a dark secret—hidden even from those closest to him.Prowling Detroit's well-known pocket of prostitution on historic Michigan Ave, this young husband and father picked up unsuspecting women who thought they were simply meetin

Nov 11, 2024 • 1:10:02

DARK TIDE-Edna Cowell Martin and Megan Atkinson

DARK TIDE-Edna Cowell Martin and Megan Atkinson

Including never-before-seen photos and handwritten letters from Ted Bundy, Dark Tide’s message is as gut-wrenching as it is clear, asking the question: how well do we know those we trust most?Edna’s world turned upside down when her close cousin, Ted Bundy, was linked to the gruesome murders that had plagued her hometown of Seattle. Both devastating and dangerous, she reveals her journey of discovering the truth about her cousin who was more like a sibling, a man she loved, admired, and thought

Nov 4, 2024 • 1:28:59

MURDER! MOLLY AND THE MOB-Rod Kackley

MURDER! MOLLY AND THE MOB-Rod Kackley

Murder! Molly And The Mob: A (1950's) Shocking True Crime Story  by Rod Kackley delves into one of the most chilling unsolved mysteries from the heart of 1950s America.Set against the gritty backdrop of Joliet, Illinois—a suburban outpost of Chicago’s criminal underworld—this true crime narrative follows the life and sudden disappearance of Molly Zelko, a fearless journalist whose scathing pen became her weapon against corruption, organized crime, and the rampant gambling that threatened to pois

Oct 28, 2024 • 1:11:56

THE VELVET HAMMER-Judge Belvin Perry Jr. & Amy Mitchell

THE VELVET HAMMER-Judge Belvin Perry Jr. & Amy Mitchell

After retiring from twenty-five years on the bench, former chief judge, Belvin Perry Jr., reveals a rare and disturbingly vivid first-hand perspective of the most gruesome death penalty cases in which he played a key role, including the infamous Casey Marie Anthony, who was dubbed “America’s Most Hated Mom” after her shocking acquittal.The Velvet Hammer is the gripping, true crime memoir of former Chief Judge Belvin Perry Jr., who sentenced some of Florida’s most evil and notorious murderers to

Oct 21, 2024 • 59:45

Listen Now: Kill List

Listen Now: Kill List

In the depths of the dark net, tech journalist Carl Miller makes a disturbing discovery: a secret Kill List targeting hundreds of innocent people on a murder for hire website. When the police decide not to investigate, Carl is thrown into a race against time to warn those in danger and uncover the truth about the people who want them dead. From Wondery and Novel, comes a true story about obsession, control and the price of life and death. Listen to Kill List on the Wondery App or wherever you ge

Oct 21, 2024 • 6:10

THE MENENDEZ MURDERS-UPDATED EDITION-Robert Rand

THE MENENDEZ MURDERS-UPDATED EDITION-Robert Rand

Listen to Robert Rand, the investigative journalist and author of the definitive book on the Menendez case—and the disquieting true story behind Netflix’s  Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story.A successful entertainment executive making $2 million a year. His former beauty queen wife. Their two sons on the fast track to success. But it was all a façade.The Menendez saga has captivated the American public since 1989. The killing of José and Kitty Menendez on a quiet Sunday evening in Beverl

Oct 14, 2024 • 1:02:34

EDEN UNDONE-Abbott Kahler

EDEN UNDONE-Abbott Kahler

At the height of the Great Depression, Los Angeles oil mogul George Allan Hancock and his crew of Smithsonian scientists came upon a gruesome scene: two bodies, mummified by the searing heat, on the shore of a remote Galápagos island. For the past four years Hancock and other American elites had traveled the South Seas to collect specimens for scientific research. On one trip to the Galápagos, Hancock was surprised to discover an equally exotic group of humans: European exiles who had fled polit

Oct 7, 2024 • 1:17:41

OBSESSED-Mark Hewitt

OBSESSED-Mark Hewitt

In Obsessed: My Relentless Pursuit of the Zodiac Killer, Dr. Mark Hewitt invites readers into his gripping journey of unraveling one of America's most enduring mysteries. Dr. Hewitt, an expert on the Zodiac case, and author of the acclaimed Zodiac Serial Killer Trilogy, shares his transformation from a pastor to a dedicated true crime investigator.This memoir details Dr. Hewitt's meticulous research, personal encounters, and the profound impact of the Zodiac case on his life. Moving to Californi

Sep 30, 2024 • 1:11:38

THE BOOK OF MURDER-Matt Murphy

THE BOOK OF MURDER-Matt Murphy

Examining murder from an insider’s perspective, Matt Murphy—a former senior deputy district attorney and current ABC News Legal Analyst—discusses cases from his career, how they strained his personal life, and how he found peace seeking justice for victims and their families.Part taxonomy of murder, part prosecutor’s handbook, and part personal memoir, The Book of Murder goes through a dozen cases and his recollections of his twenty-six years in the Orange County DA’s office (seventeen in the Ho

Sep 23, 2024 • 1:06:01

THE LEWISTON SHOOTINGS-Robert Conlin

THE LEWISTON SHOOTINGS-Robert Conlin

October 25, 2023 was just an ordinary night in Lewiston, a small, working class city of 37,000 in central Maine. Friends and families had gathered to do what they loved to do with the people they wanted to be with at a bowling alley called Just-in-Time Recreation Center and Schemengees, a popular sports bar and restaurant. They felt immune from the violent crime that seemed to wrack the rest of the country in a state that the FBI had just named the safest in America.Then Robert Card II, a deeply

Sep 16, 2024 • 1:00:12

THE ELECTROCUTION OF BABY LAWRENCE-James E. Overmyer

THE ELECTROCUTION OF BABY LAWRENCE-James E. Overmyer

In September 1943, in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, prominent citizen and attorney John Noxon Jr. was arrested for the murder of his 6-month-old Down Syndrome baby Lawrence. Baby Lawrence, according to Noxon, was accidentally electrocuted. Authorities initially accepted Noxon's account but grew suspicious when they discovered he had burned evidence before police could examine it. District Attorney Charles Alberti and Police Chief Sullivan brought a small army of scientists and medical experts to co

Sep 9, 2024 • 1:09:47

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Sep 9, 2024 • 2:20

THAT BEAST WAS NOT ME-Jeffrey L. Smalldon

THAT BEAST WAS NOT ME-Jeffrey L. Smalldon

In 1975, after Manson Family member Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme’s attempt to kill President Gerald Ford, the FBI found a cache of letters in the would-be assassin’s Sacramento apartment. The return address belonged to future forensic psychologist Jeffrey Smalldon, then a young undergraduate.A decade later, after the shocking murders of two co-workers, Smalldon’s quest to understand the twisted minds and motivations of killers became personal in a way it never had been before.THAT BEAST WAS NOT ME d

Sep 2, 2024 • 1:16:39

THE DEVIL AT HIS ELBOW-Valerie Bauerlein

THE DEVIL AT HIS ELBOW-Valerie Bauerlein

Power, privilege, and blood—this is the definitive and thrilling true story of Alex Murdaugh’s violent downfall, from a veteran Wall Street Journal reporter who has become an authority on the case. Alex Murdaugh was a benevolent dictator—the president of the South Carolina trial lawyers’ association, a political boss, a part-time prosecutor, and a partner in his family’s law firm. He was always ready with a favor, a drink, and an invitation to Moselle, his family’s 1,700-acre hunting estate. The

Aug 26, 2024 • 1:08:23

IN THE WIND-Ron Peterson Jr.

IN THE WIND-Ron Peterson Jr.

The true story of a trailblazing detective’s search for a beautiful college coed who vanished without a trace.In 1981, detective Kay Schucker was the lead investigator in the high-profile missing persons case of Old Dominion University student Janice Starr. The beautiful co-ed disappeared without a trace from ODU’s Norfolk, Virginia campus. Among the only leads was Janice’s diary, which included detailed journal entries about her daily activities. As Kay studied the diary—going several years bac

Aug 19, 2024 • 1:15:21

BLOOD TRAIL-Rick Reed

BLOOD TRAIL-Rick Reed

Joseph Weldon Brown confessed to more than a dozen murders across seven states. He was convicted and sentenced for killing a woman whose body he dismembered and scattered across three Indiana counties. In prison, he hogtied and strangled his cellmate, then asked the judge to lock him up for life because if he was released, he would continue killing.Police detective Rick Reed was on the scene when Brown led authorities to the scattered remains of Ginger Gasaway in 2000. After Brown’s arrest, he c

Aug 12, 2024 • 1:12:37

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Aug 12, 2024 • 2:20

THE DEVIL BEHIND THE BADGE-Rick Jervis

THE DEVIL BEHIND THE BADGE-Rick Jervis

The shocking true-crime story of a U.S. Border Patrol agent turned serial killer, the four sex workers whom he mercilessly killed, and the upended border town of Laredo where his heinous crimes occurred.Twelve days is all it took.Melissa Ramirez, Claudine Anne Luera, Guiselda Hernandez, and Janelle Ortiz were four marginalized women striving to make ends meet as sex workers. They looked out for one another. But they would soon share a connection that none of them could have imagined. When Meliss

Aug 5, 2024 • 1:13:27

REAP THE WHIRLWIND-Peter Houlahan

REAP THE WHIRLWIND-Peter Houlahan

The bestselling author of Norco ’80 returns to True Murder with a riveting story of mid-1980s San Diego that placed one young Black man at the center of a whirlwind of crime and punishment that profoundly altered Southern California.March 31, 1985. Two white patrol officers in search of a gang member followed a pickup truck carrying seven young Black men up a dirt driveway in the Encanto neighborhood of Southeastern San Diego. Minutes later, gunshots rang out, and the truck’s driver, Sagon Penn,

Jul 29, 2024 • 1:35:10

GUILTY CREATURES

GUILTY CREATURES

Mike and Denise Williams had a tight knit, seemingly unbreakable bond with childhood friends, Brian and Kathy Winchester. The two couples were devout, hardworking Baptists who lived perfect, quintessentially Southern lives. Their friendship seemed ironclad. That is, until December 16, 2000, when Denise’s husband Mike disappeared while duck hunting on Lake Seminole.After no body was found, everyone assumed that Mike had drowned in a tragic accident, his body eaten by alligators. But things took a

Jul 22, 2024 • 1:02:51

LOST HILLS-Dana Goodyear

LOST HILLS-Dana Goodyear

It’s a case that has stumped generations of detectives and Internet sleuths. On Sept. 16, 2009, 24-year-old Richardson was arrested at an oceanside Malibu restaurant and taken to Malibu/Lost Hills Sheriff’s Station. With no money, no phone, and no ride, and in the midst of what was later described by law enforcement as a severe bipolar episode, Richardson was released by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Dept. just after midnight, and disappeared into the night. Her whereabouts confounded authori

Jul 15, 2024 • 1:00:53

WHEN A KILLER CALLS-John Douglas

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, law enforcement quickly realized they were dealing with a sophisticated and highly dangerous criminal. A letter arrived the next day entitled “Last Will & Testament,” in which Shari, knowing she was to be murdered, wrote bravely and achingly of her love for her parents,

Jul 8, 2024 • 54:35

THE WITCH OF NEW YORK-Alex Hortis

THE WITCH OF NEW YORK-Alex Hortis

Before the sensational cases of Amanda Knox and Casey Anthony—before even Lizzie Borden—there was Polly Bodine, the first American woman put on trial for capital murder in America’s debut media circus.On Christmas night, December 25, 1843, in a serene village on Staten Island, shocked neighbors discovered the burnt remains of twenty-four-year-old mother Emelin Houseman and her infant daughter, Ann Eliza. In a perverse nativity, someone bludgeoned to death a mother and child in their home—and the

Jul 1, 2024 • 1:18:50

A HARVEST OF INNOCENCE-Dan Stidham

A HARVEST OF INNOCENCE-Dan Stidham

A Harvest of Innocence is Dan Stidham's story, until now untold, regarding his involvement in the West Memphis 3 murder case. He stepped into its current as a young lawyer, unaware of its strength and the immutable, unpredictable eddies that would forever change his life and his view of the law. He tells it now because it must be told. He spent most of the past 30 years viewed in widely disparate lights. In the beginning, to some he was a pariah, a man so bold as to represent a teenager accused

Jun 24, 2024 • 1:31:51

THE DEVIL IN MY FRIEND-Ivor Davis

THE DEVIL IN MY FRIEND-Ivor Davis

Award-winning author and journalist Ivor Davis, author of Manson Exposed: A reporter's 50-year journey into Madness and Murder discusses he and his wife Sally's investigation into their longtime friend and neighbor when he is arrested for the murder of his wife and stepson.Ivor and Sally Davis were horrified when their Malibu neighbors, Verna Roehler and her son, Doug died in a terrible boating accident. The nightmare only continued when her husband, their friend, Fred Roehler, was arrested and

Jun 17, 2024 • 1:01:49

THE MURDER OF MARY FALZONE-Rod Kackley

THE MURDER OF MARY FALZONE-Rod Kackley

Step back in time to the winter of 1929, where the magic of Christmas in Brooklyn, New York, was shattered by a heinous act that reverberated through the ages. In "The Murder of Mary Falzone: A Shocking True Crime Story,” Rod Kackley unravels the chilling tale of a family torn apart by an explosion that claimed the lives of Mary, Philip, and Rose Falzone, innocent children whose lives were extinguished by a bomb disguised as a holiday gift.As the city grappled with the aftermath of this unspeaka

Jun 10, 2024 • 56:21

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Jun 10, 2024 • 2:20

OF MOBSTERS AND MOVIE STARS-Joan Renner

OF MOBSTERS AND MOVIE STARS-Joan Renner

No Hollywood script can compare to the terror of the 37 true tales in OF MOBSTERS AND MOVIE STARS: The Bloody "Golden Age" of Hollywood!In this gripping historical account, expert crime historian Joan Renner explores the shadowy world of fame and crime during Hollywood's most glamorous era. As Los Angeles transformed into the epicenter of film, it also became a haven for notorious criminals and mobsters, weaving a complex tapestry of allure and danger that is sure to intrigue.Renner brings to li

Jun 3, 2024 • 1:06:10

LONG HAUL-Frank Figliuzzi

LONG HAUL-Frank Figliuzzi

In 2004, the FBI was tipped off to a gruesome pattern of unsolved murders along American roadways. Today at least 850 homicides have been linked to a solitary breed of predators: long-haul truck drivers. They have been given names like the “Truck Stop Killer,” who rigged a traveling torture chamber in the rear of his truck and is suspected to have killed fifty women, and “The Interstate Strangler,” who once answered a phone call from his mother while killing one of his dozen victims. The crisis

May 27, 2024 • 1:04:28

THE DAY MY MOTHER NEVER CAME HOME-Reggie L. Reed Jr.

THE DAY MY MOTHER NEVER CAME HOME-Reggie L. Reed Jr.

On August 23, 1987, the body of Selonia Reed, 26, was found partially clothed in the passenger seat of her car in an empty parking lot in Hammond, Louisiana. She had sustained incredible blunt force trauma to her head and face, her upper body suffering more than a dozen stab wounds from an-ice pick type weapon. Killed elsewhere, her body drained of blood, she had been displayed, sexually violated with an umbrella. Police investigated but with little evidence the case soon went cold.Selonia's son

May 20, 2024 • 58:38

DEAD END-Bob Cyphers

DEAD END-Bob Cyphers

In 1992, a store clerk was found shot to death in broad daylight at the Boot Village in St. Charles, Missouri. Nothing was stolen and there was no sexual assault. This bizarre and seemingly isolated murder was quickly connected with others in Indianapolis, Wichita, Terre Haute, and Raytown. The media dubbed the suspect “The I-70 Serial Killer.” He has never been captured, and the story quickly fell out of the media’s attention. But the cases never went cold for the officers in those cities.In 20

May 13, 2024 • 58:56

CONNECTED BY FATE-LaDonna Humphrey

CONNECTED BY FATE-LaDonna Humphrey

Connected by Fate unfolds against the haunting backdrop of the Ozark National Forest, where the unresolved murder of Melissa Witt has cast a long shadow over the dense woodlands for almost three decades. The mystery, woven into the fabric of the remote mountaintop, has become a part of the lore of the land, with the true identity of the murderer eluding capture, concealed by the forest's imposing presence.Enter LaDonna Humphrey, driven by a profound sense of justice and a personal commitment to

May 6, 2024 • 1:01:40

RECKLESS-Douglas Thompson

RECKLESS-Douglas Thompson

John F. Kennedy's life is promoted by sentimental myth-makers as pure legend, but a sinister shadow lies across his life. JFK's death was such a shocking event that the vivid memory of his assassination still blinds us to much of what went before. It is almost always seen through the prism of that single, terrible day in Dallas, obscuring the dark corners of his life and government. For JFK, power was soundbites over policy, the White House a fairytale castle, and the President a hypersexualised

Apr 29, 2024 • 1:05:49

THE LAST STORY-Arthur Kane

THE LAST STORY-Arthur Kane

Jeff German, a veteran Las Vegas Review-Journal investigative reporter, was no stranger to controversy or the danger of his work. For more than four decades, he wrote stories relentlessly confronting the mob, corrupt politicians, and greedy bureaucrats. As a result, he was often threatened—enough that he and his friend and fellow investigative reporter, Arthur Kane, sometimes joked about reporting on these threats if they were ever acted upon. Then, in the spring of 2022, German received a tip a

Apr 22, 2024 • 59:06

THE SERIAL KILLER'S APPRENTICE-Katherine Ramsland

THE SERIAL KILLER'S APPRENTICE-Katherine Ramsland

Elmer Wayne Henley, Jr. was only fourteen when he first became entangled with serial rapist and murderer Dean Corll in 1971. Fellow Houston, Texas, teenager David Brooks had already been ensnared by the charming older man, bribed with cash to help lure boys to Corll’s home. When Henley unwittingly entered the trap, Corll evidently sensed he’d be of more use as a second accomplice than another victim. He baited Henley with the same deal he’d given Brooks: $200 for each boy they could bring him. H

Apr 15, 2024 • 1:03:15

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Apr 15, 2024 • 2:20

BEHOLD THE MONSTER-Jillian Lauren

BEHOLD THE MONSTER-Jillian Lauren

Jillian Lauren had no idea what she was getting into when she wrote her first letter to prolific serial killer Samuel Little. All she knew was her research had led her to believe he was good for far more murders than the three for which he had been convicted. While the two exchanged dozens of letters and embarked on hundreds of hours of interviews, Lauren gained the trust of a monster. After maintaining his innocence for decades, Little confessed to the murders of ninety-three women, often drawi

Apr 9, 2024 • 43:15

THE COURAGE TO FACE COVID-19-John Leake

THE COURAGE TO FACE COVID-19-John Leake

At the beginning of 2020, Dr. Peter McCullough was a highly regarded practicing physician, program director, teacher, and clinical investigator at a major academic medical center in Dallas, Texas. When COVID-19 arrived in March, he felt a duty to find a treatment for the disease. He wasn't alone. Other doctors all over the world were also searching for a cure. They followed the longstanding principle that it's best to tackle a sickness early, before it becomes life threatening. This is the story

Apr 8, 2024 • 1:13:51

I WILL RUIN YOU-Emilio Corsetti

I WILL RUIN YOU-Emilio Corsetti

Moments before boarding a passenger flight on 11 May 2019 as the first officer, pilot Christian "Kit" Martin, a former army ranger, was arrested by a swarm of heavily armed officers for the murders of three of his neighbors. The arrest captured global attention as Martin's mugshot, clad in a pilot's uniform, spread across the internet, sparking a media firestorm with headlines such as "Monster in the Cockpit."A combat helicopter pilot, Kit Martin had seen his life unravel aft

Apr 1, 2024 • 1:08:59

KILLING TIME WITH JOHN WAYNE GACY-Karen Conti

KILLING TIME WITH JOHN WAYNE GACY-Karen Conti

John Wayne Gacy raped, tortured, and murdered 33 boys and young men, burying most of them in the crawlspace under his Chicago home. Karen Conti was in high school at the time watching the bodies being removed on the television news.Fourteen years pass. Through a twist of fate, Conti, now a young and inexperienced attorney, is called upon to handle Gacy’s final death row appeals. The serial killer soon becomes her most famous, difficult, and haunting client.Thirty years after Gacy’s execution, Co

Mar 25, 2024 • 1:04:08

THE MEANING OF MALICE-John Leake

THE MEANING OF MALICE-John Leake

Sandra Bridewell was a beguiling Dallas socialite in the seventies and early eighties. Her first husband was a prominent dentist who was found shot to death in their home in 1975. The medical examiner ruled his death a suicide. Her second husband, Robert Bridewell, developed the Mansion on Turtle Creek—the first property of Rosewood Hotels and Resorts. Shortly after Mr. Bridewell died of lymphoma in 1982, his treating doctor’s wife was found shot to death in her car at Love Field a few hours aft

Mar 18, 2024 • 1:14:25

WOMEN WHO MURDER-Mitzi Szereto

WOMEN WHO MURDER-Mitzi Szereto

From historical accounts to modern cases, explore the captivating psychology behind these killer women, unraveling their motives and unveiling the dark complexities of human behavior.The fair sex. We’ve often heard this clichéd expression being used to refer to women. Although it has become increasingly outdated, the mindset still exists that women are the gentle and nurturing sex. When it comes to murder, that notion gets turned on its head. And this isn’t a recent phenomenon; we can find plent

Mar 11, 2024 • 1:02:10

THE BERMAN MURDERS-Doug Kari

THE BERMAN MURDERS-Doug Kari

At daybreak on January 6, 1986, a couple on a camping trip in the Mojave Desert set out for a stroll and never returned. The local sheriff’s office eventually discovered that Barry and Louise Berman had been murdered. As years passed and the double homicide remained unsolved, the Berman case spawned speculation and conjecture. Despite extensive investigation by local and federal authorities, to date there’s never been an arrest made in the case – let alone a conviction. But this doesn’t mean the

Mar 4, 2024 • 1:11:08

FILTHY MURDERS OF YE OLDE ROCHESTER-Michael Benson

FILTHY MURDERS OF YE OLDE ROCHESTER-Michael Benson

In the late 1800's in Rochester, New York, Monroe County—there were 5 sensational murders. The first story is about the home invasion murder of a young wife and mother. Her body was found in the cellar, a flour sack tied tightly around her neck, and her skirt hiked up. At first, of course, the husband is arrested amid rumors he and his wife are swingers. The husband's supporters protest he couldn't be the killer—it must have been a transient. The man is released in favor of a preferable suspect,

Feb 26, 2024 • 57:41

ZENITH MAN-McCracken Poston Jr.

ZENITH MAN-McCracken Poston Jr.

Was this small-town TV repair man “a harmless eccentric or a bizarre killer” (Atlanta Journal Constitution). For the first time, Alvin Ridley’s own defense attorney reveals the inside story of his case and trial in an extraordinary tale of friendship and an idealistic young attorney’s quest to clear his client’s name—and, in the process, rebuild his own life.In October 1997, the town of Ringgold in northwest Georgia was shaken by reports of a murder in its midst. A dead woman was found in Alvin

Feb 19, 2024 • 1:09:19

A MURDER IN HOLLYWOOD-Casey Sherman

A MURDER IN HOLLYWOOD-Casey Sherman

From the outside, Hollywood starlet Lana Turner seemed to have it all―a thriving film career, a beautiful daughter, and the kind of fame and fortune that most people could only dream of. But when the famous femme fatale began dating mobster Johnny Stompanato, thug for the infamous west coast mob boss Mickey Cohen, her personal life became violent and unpredictable. Lana's teenage daughter, Cheryl, watched her beloved mother's life deteriorate as Stompanato's intense jealousy took over. Eventuall

Feb 12, 2024 • 59:12

THE EDGE OF DOUBT-David Miraldi

THE EDGE OF DOUBT-David Miraldi

In the tight-knit community of Lorain, Ohio, a whirlwind of horror swept through as unsettling allegations surfaced - a trusted bus driver and her alleged companion accused of shattering the innocence of preschoolers in the respected Head Start program. The verdict? Life-long prison sentences that would cast a shadow over a community, and initiate an untiring quest for truth.'The Edge of Doubt' is a meticulously researched true crime narrative that delves into the reverberations of a sensational

Feb 5, 2024 • 53:38

STARKWEATHER-Harry MacLean

STARKWEATHER-Harry MacLean

On January 21, 1958, nineteen-year-old Charles Starkweather changed the course of crime in the United States when he murdered the parents and sister of his fourteen-year-old girlfriend (and possible accomplice), Caril Ann Fugate, in a house on the edge of Lincoln, Nebraska. They then drove to the nearby town of Bennet, where a farmer was robbed and killed. When Starkweather’s car broke down, the teenagers who stopped to help were murdered and jammed into a storm cellar. By the time the dust sett

Jan 29, 2024 • 56:32

THE COLONIAL PARKWAY SERIAL KILLINGS and ALAN WADE WILMER SR.-Blaine Pardoe

THE COLONIAL PARKWAY SERIAL KILLINGS and ALAN WADE WILMER SR.-Blaine Pardoe

In their book, A Special Kind of Evil: The Colonial Parkway Serial Killings, authors Blaine Pardoe and Victoria Hester wrote about Alan Wade Wilmer, Sr., who was the prime suspect in the 1988 disappearance and murders of Richard Keith Call and Cassandra Hailey. He was under police surveillance and fit the profile the F.B.I. had developed. An expert polygrapher administered a polygraph exam to Wilmer—and he passed. As a result he was cleared as a suspect.On January 8th, 2024, the Virginia State P

Jan 22, 2024 • 56:08

MISTRESS OF LIFE AND DEATH-Susan J. Eischeid

MISTRESS OF LIFE AND DEATH-Susan J. Eischeid

By the time of her execution at thirty-six, Maria Mandl had achieved the highest rank possible for a woman in the Third Reich. As Head Overseer of the women’s camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau, she was personally responsible for the murders of thousands, and for the torture and suffering of countless more.In this riveting biography, Susan J. Eischeid explores how Maria Mandl, regarded locally as “a nice girl from a good family,” came to embody the very worst of humanity. Born in 1912 in the scenic Aust

Jan 15, 2024 • 1:00:45

WRECKING CREW-John Ferak

WRECKING CREW-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 against Steven Avery, who had already beaten one wrongful conviction only to be charged again with the murder of Teresa Halbach in 2005. This case captured global attention through the Netflix documentary "Making A Murderer."In this anniversary edition of WRECKING CREW: Demolishing the Case Against Steven Avery, Ferak not only lays out

Jan 8, 2024 • 56:40

MONSTER MIRROR-Dr. Micheal Caparrelli

MONSTER MIRROR-Dr. Micheal Caparrelli

Chances are, you’ve already met the Son of Sam in movies, documentaries, books, etc. May I introduce you to David, a fellow human being with familiar vulnerabilities? The monster you met in print collides with the man I met in person. Irrefutably, the precious lives he ended scream from the graves about his barbarism. Yet, my 100 hours, 34 sessions with him will open your eyes to a guy who resembles your brother or friend.Here’s David, a lifer at Shawangunk Correctional, who still scratches his

Jan 2, 2024 • 53:39

MURDERABILIA-Harold Schechter

MURDERABILIA-Harold Schechter

From veteran true crime master Harold Schechter comes a unique look into the history of crime told through the dark objects left behind. The false teeth of a female serial killer from 1908, the cut-and-paste confession of the Black Dahlia killer, the newly cracked cipher of the Zodiac killer, the shotgun used in the Clutter family murders, which were made famous by Truman Capote's true crime classic In Cold Blood—these are more than simple artifacts that once belonged to notorious murderers. The

Dec 11, 2023 • 48:19

KILLERS AMIDST KILLERS-Billy Jensen

KILLERS AMIDST KILLERS-Billy Jensen

Best-selling author, cohost of the hit podcast The Murder Squad, and true-crime investigative journalist Billy Jensen goes to Columbus, Ohio, where he examines the unsolved cases of 18 dead and missing women whom he suspects were the victims of serial killers on the loose and operating under cover of the opioid epidemic in America's heartland.In Chase Darkness with Me, listeners learned Billy Jensen's journalist origin story, his struggles, his call to adventure, and his first successes in solvi

Dec 5, 2023 • 1:00:01

Listen Now-Dr. Death: Bad Magic

Listen Now-Dr. Death: Bad Magic

From Wondery, and hosted by Laura Beil - The new season of Dr. Death, BAD MAGIC is a story of miraculous cures, magic and murder. When a charismatic young doctor announces revolutionary treatments for cancer and HIV, patients from around the world turn to him for their last chance. As medical experts praise Serhat Gumrukcu’s genius, the company he co-founded rockets in value to over half a billion dollars. But when a team of researchers makes a startling discovery, they begin to suspect the bril

Dec 4, 2023 • 5:53

THE ASSASSINS OF YOUTH-Part 1

THE ASSASSINS OF YOUTH-Part 1

On Halloween morning, 1984, 17 year-old Scott Christopher Dove left home in his car heading to classes at high school and disappeared. 8 days later his abandoned car was discovered behind the psychiatric hospital, across the street from the high school. Evidently he had been abducted.On December 1st, 30 days after he had disappeared, Scott Dove’s body was discovered, dumped in a gravel pit, his body left for someone to find. He had been stabbed multiple times, and had bled to death.Immediately i

Dec 3, 2023 • 42:29

THE ASSASSINS OF YOUTH: Part 2-Satan, Marijuana and Murder

THE ASSASSINS OF YOUTH: Part 2-Satan, Marijuana and Murder

In 1937 U.S. drug czar Harry Anslinger claimed that Marijuana was the Assassin of Youth, connecting Marijuana use to psychosis, rape and murder. It began a wave of years of Marijuana hysteria, with harsh sentences imposed for users and dealers. The hysteria was clearly still evident in the mid-80's.Satan's Choice Motorcycle Club was a Canadian outlaw motorcycle club that by 1970 had more than 400 members, making it the second largest outlaw motorcycle club in the world, behind only the Hell’s An

Dec 3, 2023 • 37:13

CONFLICTING LOYALTIES-Aiden Gabor

CONFLICTING LOYALTIES-Aiden Gabor

A memoir of a double life as a Mafia enforcer and a DOJ informant taking down corrupt cops and politicians.Aiden Gabor was still a teenager when Department of Justice agents approached him with an ultimatum: spend his life in prison for racketeering, embezzlement, extortion, and conspiracy to commit murder, or become an undercover agent.Conflicting Loyalties is a sharp, honest memoir in three parts: the bloody life of a mob soldier from outside la famiglia; the death-defying, paranoid existence

Nov 20, 2023 • 50:12

MY LIFE OF CRIME-Erin Moriarty

MY LIFE OF CRIME-Erin Moriarty

Erin Moriarty, a CBS News journalist for three decades, has been a correspondent on "48 Hours" since 1990. In addition to reporting for "48 Hours," Moriarty's work is featured on all CBS News broadcasts and platforms, including "CBS Sunday Morning," "CBS Mornings" and the CBS News Streaming Network. Her reporting has earned Moriarty virtually every major journalism award available. Erin Moriarty's award-winning original true-crime podcast, "My Life of

Nov 13, 2023 • 51:50

CONVICTING A MURDERER-Brenda Schuler and Shawn Rech

CONVICTING A MURDERER-Brenda Schuler and Shawn Rech

CONVICTING A MURDERER unveils the shocking truth behind one of the most controversial criminal cases in history.In Netflix's MAKING A MURDERER docuseries, which had 100 million viewers, Steven Avery was portrayed as an innocent victim of corrupt law enforcement, but theres more to the story than what we were shown. CONVICTING A MURDERER is narrated by Candace Owens who sets the record staright by exposing the hidden evidence in the murder of Theresa Halbach. CONVICTING A MURDERER is a 10-part do

Nov 6, 2023 • 48:25

THE ASSASSINS OF YOUTH

THE ASSASSINS OF YOUTH

On Halloween morning, 1984, 17 year-old Scott Christopher Dove left home in his car heading to classes at high school and disappeared. 8 days later his abandoned car was discovered behind the psychiatric hospital, across the street from the high school. Evidently he had been abducted.On December 1st, 30 days after he had disappeared, Scott Dove’s body was discovered, dumped in a gravel pit, his body left for someone to find. He had been stabbed multiple times, and had bled to death.Immediately i

Oct 30, 2023 • 42:25

MONSTERS ON THE LOOSE-Richard Carrico

MONSTERS ON THE LOOSE-Richard Carrico

In 1931, San Diego’s idyllic image as a beach town with peaceful suburbs concealed a harrowing reality: a series of unsolved crimes targeting women, fueling fear and vulnerability. MONSTERS ON THE LOOSE tells the tragic and true stories of three women murdered early that year: Virginia Brooks, Louise Teuber, and Hazel Bradshaw.Local law enforcement, out-of-town criminologists, and investigators from what would become the FBI pursued hundreds of leads. Statewide, newspapers covered every angle an

Oct 23, 2023 • 1:04:28

Listen Now: MrBallen's Medical Mysteries

Listen Now: MrBallen's Medical Mysteries

Follow MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries wherever you get your podcasts. You can binge the first 8 episodes, early and ad-free on Amazon Music. Download the Amazon Music app today. The human body is a miracle. But when it’s not working, it can be the stuff of nightmares. On this new series from master storyteller MrBallen, we’re sharing medical horror stories and diagnostic mysteries that are surgically calibrated to make your blood run cold. From bizarre, unheard-of diseases and miraculous recoverie

Oct 17, 2023 • 7:18

BTK: Dr. Katherine Ramsland

BTK: Dr. Katherine Ramsland

In August 2023, BTK once again made headlines worldwide when he was named the prime suspect in an Oklahoma teen’s 1976 disappearance and a Missouri woman’s killing in 1990. The investigation started with the reexamination of the disappearance of Cynthia Kinney, a 16-year-old cheerleader last seen at a laundromat in Pawhuska, Oklahoma.Osage County Sheriff Eddie Virden decided to investigate a possible link between Rader and Kinney's disappearance when he learned that Rader had included the phrase

Oct 16, 2023 • 43:13

MURDER IN A SUNDOWN TOWN-Alexandra Kitty

MURDER IN A SUNDOWN TOWN-Alexandra Kitty

In Murder in a Sundown Town, author Alexandra Kitty looks at the shocking 1968 homicide of Carol Jenkins, a sweet and resilient 21-year-old woman stabbed in the heart on her first day on the job selling encyclopedias in Martinsville, Indiana. What seemed to be an easily solved homicide turned into a four-decade cold case and became a tragic story about racism, sexism, gossip, and walls of silence. It is a case of injustice and persistence that still leaves as many questions as answers. In an age

Oct 9, 2023 • 1:01:18

WHILE IDAHO SLEPT-J. Reuben Appelman

WHILE IDAHO SLEPT-J. Reuben Appelman

Just after 4:00 am on November 13, 2022, four University of Idaho students were viciously stabbed to death in an off-campus house. The killings would shake the small blue-collar college town of Moscow, Idaho, dominate mainstream news coverage, and become a social media obsession, drawing millions of clicks and views. While a reticent Moscow Police Department, the FBI, and the Idaho State Police searched for the killer, unending conjecture and countless theories blazed online, in chatrooms and pl

Oct 2, 2023 • 1:01:41

RUSSIAN CANNIBALS-Nico Claux

RUSSIAN CANNIBALS-Nico Claux

Almost one third of Russian serial killers have committed cannibalism during their murder spree, but not much is known about their crimes outside of the Federation.This book follows the stories of 13 cannibals from the Motherland: Alexander Spesivtsev “The Siberian Ripper”, Dimitry and Natalia Baksheev, Nikolai “Metal Fang” Dzhumagaliyev, all these killers were characterized by the same fetish: the erotic desire to consume the flesh of a person. Cursed by an uncontrollable hunger, they have comm

Sep 25, 2023 • 1:02:57

Listen Now: 48 Hours

Listen Now: 48 Hours

One of television's most popular true-crime series is now adapted for your ears with the “48 Hours” podcast. Every week, award-winning CBS News correspondents investigate the most intriguing crime and justice cases. Here’s a preview of a new “48 Hours” episode, “The Night of the Idaho Student Murders”. "48 Hours" correspondent Peter Van Sant sits down with family members of Kaylee Goncalves and Xana Kernodle, two of the four University of Idaho students shockingly murdered the night of

Sep 25, 2023 • 8:14

Listen Now-Even The Rich: Viva Selena!

Listen Now-Even The Rich: Viva Selena!

Selena Quintanilla was a force of nature. But when a loyal friend betrayed her, she met a fate she never deserved. Even the Rich is a podcast from Wondery that tells you the stories of the crazy lives of the greatest family dynasties to pop culture superstars. In their new season “Viva Selena!”, you’ll hear how she made a massive cultural impact, and became a legend the world will never forget. All before her 24th birthday, she had already left a legacy across cultures that would continue for ge

Sep 20, 2023 • 6:24

MURDER OUTSIDE THE BACK DOOR-John Tommasi

MURDER OUTSIDE THE BACK DOOR-John Tommasi

Greed, arrogance and lust led Robert Anderson to kill his wife of nearly twenty years. He was a pillar of the community. He owned four Service Master franchises, he was a Kiwanis member and former President, and a former teacher and Athletic Director at Salem High School. The combination of his love for money and infatuation with a younger girl led him to the brutal beating of his wife and subsequent attempt to frame an employee and former student. The death of his wife in Lawrence Mass, was con

Sep 18, 2023 • 50:05

MARY & BILL: An Ohio Cold Case-Justin Glanville

MARY & BILL: An Ohio Cold Case-Justin Glanville

In 1970, Mary Petry and Bill Sproat, two university students in love, were murdered in a Columbus, Ohio apartment. The crime was so brutal it drew comparisons to the Manson murders of the previous year. The case has never been solved. Host/Producer Justin Glanville and the sisters of the two victims track down friends, witnesses to the original investigation and the Columbus police to understand why the case remains unsolved, despite the existence of solid DNA evidence and the fact that police s

Sep 11, 2023 • 52:28

I AM ABIGAIL-Jamie Collins and Abigail Alvarado

I AM ABIGAIL-Jamie Collins and Abigail Alvarado

My name is Abigail Alvarado. When I was nine, Child Protective Services removed me and my siblings from my mother’s home—a known crack house—due to neglect. After an extended stay at a children’s shelter in San Antonio, Texas, we were adopted by our Uncle Chevo, a Sergeant in the Army, and his wife, Laura. We moved to Hawaii, where they were stationed, thinking it would be paradise. For me, it became a living hell. What followed was 16 years of harrowing abuse, brainwashing, manipulation, stalki

Sep 5, 2023 • 55:23

I AM A  KILLER-Danny Tipping and Ned Parker

I AM A KILLER-Danny Tipping and Ned Parker

What goes through the mind of a killer when they commit murder? Based on the massively successful Netflix documentary series of the same name, this book features ten of the most compelling cases from the first two series and is full of exclusive never-seen-before material.The authors, Ned Parker and Danny Tipping secured exceptional access to high-security prisons across America. The majority of the killers will die in prison – either by serving their sentence of life without parole or they are

Sep 4, 2023 • 54:45

GRIM PARADISE-Rod Sadler

GRIM PARADISE-Rod Sadler

When widow Frances Lacey was murdered in July 1960 on Mackinac Island, only a few meager clues were found by police, and the case soon turned cold. But more than sixty years later, will those same clues finally solve the mystery?On July 24, 1960, the quaint charm and serenity of Mackinac, nestled between Michigan’s Upper and Lower Peninsulas, was shattered by Lacey’s brutal death. Despite a massive manhunt and thousands of pages of police reports, her killer was never caught.Now, in GRIM PARADIS

Aug 28, 2023 • 58:38

THE COMBAT ZONE-Jan Brogan

THE COMBAT ZONE-Jan Brogan

At the end of the 1976 football season, more than forty Harvard athletes went to Boston's Combat Zone to celebrate. In the city's adult entertainment district, drugs and prostitution ran rampant, violent crime was commonplace, and corrupt police turned the other way. At the end of the night, Italian American star athlete Andy Puopolo, raised in the city's North End, was murdered in a stabbing. Three African American men were accused of the crime. His murder made national news and led to the even

Aug 21, 2023 • 1:01:17

DEER CREEK DRIVE-Beverly Lowry

DEER CREEK DRIVE-Beverly Lowry

The stunning true story of a murder that rocked the Mississippi Delta and forever shaped one author’s life and perception of home.In 1948, in the most stubbornly Dixiefied corner of the Jim Crow south, society matron Idella Thompson was viciously murdered in her own home: stabbed at least 150 times and left facedown in one of the bathrooms. Her daughter, Ruth Dickins, was the only other person in the house. She told authorities a Black man she didn’t recognize had fled the scene, but no evidence

Aug 14, 2023 • 59:33

THE CRATER LAKE MURDERS-Monty Orrick

THE CRATER LAKE MURDERS-Monty Orrick

When two General Motors executives drove into Crater Lake National Park in July 1952, no one could predict they would be dead within an hour—not even their killers. It was a crime of opportunity, a botched robbery during the middle of summer in a crowded national park. When Albert Jones and Charles Culhane were found shot to death two days later, the story became a national obsession. The FBI used every resource and available agent but, as time wore on, the investigation ran out of steam. A lack

Aug 14, 2023 • 51:25

MURDER BY THE BATHHOUSE DOOR-John Tommasi

MURDER BY THE BATHHOUSE DOOR-John Tommasi

They watched the 1996 movie Scream over and over again. One of the boys was truly infatuated with the movie and wanted to be part of it. He along with two friends, lured two teenage girls to a local park in Salem, New Hampshire late one night where the girls were brutally murdered by being stabbed over and over again.Read how they were tracked to Michigan from New Hampshire and how they were brought to justice. MURDER BY THE BATHHOUSE DOOR: The true story of the murder of 2 teenage girls by 3 bo

Aug 7, 2023 • 52:25

BOSTON TABLOID-Don Stradley

BOSTON TABLOID-Don Stradley

The disappearance of a twenty-one-year-old woman from a Massachusetts suburb became one of the most discussed crimes of the twentieth century. The discussion intensified when the public learned that she worked as a prostitute in Boston's notorious red-light district, the “Combat Zone,” and was linked by a trail of blood to a famous professor from Tufts University.When Robin Benedict vanished the investigation and media circus that gripped the city of Boston hadn't been seen since the days of the

Jul 31, 2023 • 1:02:20

SMALL JUSTICE-Jim Ridings

SMALL JUSTICE-Jim Ridings

Stephen B. Small died in one of the most horrific ways a person can die -- being buried alive. He was one of the richest men in Kankakee, Illinois, in 1987, which made him the target of a desperate cocaine dealer who wanted to collect a million dollar ransom. Everything went tragically wrong. Danny Edwards was caught, convicted and was sentenced to death. His life was spared after all death sentences were commuted to life in prison by Governor George Ryan. A conviction of Danny Edwards was a sur

Jul 24, 2023 • 39:34

BAD HENRY-Ron Chepsiuk

BAD HENRY-Ron Chepsiuk

Henry Louis Wallace terrorized Charlotte, North Carolina, from May 1992 to March 1994.Wallace preyed on lower economic class Black women between 17 and 35 years old. He knew most of his victims, some through his job at Taco Bell, and gained their trust with his friendly demeanor and gentle nature—concealing a monster fueled by drug abuse and rage against women.A rarity in that he was an African American serial killer, his murderous rampage spurred controversy throughout the city. Community membe

Jul 18, 2023 • 49:30

BEHOLD THE MONSTER-Jillian Lauren

BEHOLD THE MONSTER-Jillian Lauren

Jillian Lauren had no idea what she was getting into when she wrote her first letter to prolific serial killer Samuel Little. All she knew was her research had led her to believe he was good for far more murders than the three for which he had been convicted. While the two exchanged dozens of letters and embarked on hundreds of hours of interviews, Lauren gained the trust of a monster. After maintaining his innocence for decades, Little confessed to the murders of ninety-three women, often drawi

Jul 17, 2023 • 54:41

Listen Now: Suspect "Five Shots in the Dark"

Listen Now: Suspect "Five Shots in the Dark"

Leon Benson spent 24 years in an Indiana state prison for the 1998 murder of a young man named Kasey Schoen. His conviction hinged on the testimony of two eyewitnesses – but what if their memories turned out to be wrong? And what if the people who knew what really happened had never been allowed to speak? Suspect Season 3: Five Shots in the Dark is the story of two victims: one murdered, one sentenced to life. Follow host Matt Shaer and attorney Lara Bazelon as they investigate how the justice s

Jul 17, 2023 • 6:20

JUST IN THE NICK OF TIME-David B. Savitz

JUST IN THE NICK OF TIME-David B. Savitz

A 19-year-old accused of killing his parents is diagnosed with an unusual psychiatric disorder and spends a torturous six years in the Colorado judicial and mental health systems before his case experiences an unexpected end. “Just in the Nick of Time is one of the most profound cases of Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD), all told from the perspective of the person who interacted most with the personalities, his criminal defense lawyer David Savitz. It is a book about what happens when a menta

Jul 10, 2023 • 56:00

LAST CHILD SEEN-Maureen Boyle

LAST CHILD SEEN-Maureen Boyle

On an unseasonably warm winter evening in Pennsylvania, 15-year-old Patty Desmond sneaked out through the basement of her house. She had a history of running away, and that, combined with an argument with her mother, gave police reason to suspect she'd come home in a week or two. The year was 1965. That night was the last time her family ever saw her.Conrad Eugene Miller was well-known to local law enforcement. An older married man with a child, Miller's association with Patty was questionable a

Jul 3, 2023 • 48:26

LITTLE, CRAZY CHILDREN-James Renner

LITTLE, CRAZY CHILDREN-James Renner

In September of 1990, in the Cleveland suburb of Shaker Heights, sixteen-year-old Lisa Pruett, a poetry lover and member of a church youth group, was on her way to a midnight tryst with her boyfriend, when she was viciously stabbed to death only thirty feet from the boy’s home.The murder cast a palpable gloom over the upscale community and sparked accusations, theories, and rumors among Lisa’s friends and peers. Together they wove a damning narrative that circled back to a likely suspect: “weird

Jun 26, 2023 • 56:40

COAL COUNTRY KILLING-Steve Jackson

COAL COUNTRY KILLING-Steve Jackson

Coal Country Killing: A Culture, A Union, And The Murders That Changed It All, revolves around the cold-blooded 1969 assassination of United Mineworkers of America “reform candidate” Jock Yablonski, and murder of his wife and daughter in their Pennsylvania farmhouse. But driving the story are the extraordinary efforts of a tenacious special prosecutor and his “army” of investigators to bring the gunmen, the union boss who ordered the murders, and his henchmen who saw them carried out, to justice

Jun 19, 2023 • 1:01:48

THE MAN WITH THE KILLER SMILE-Mitchel P. Roth

THE MAN WITH THE KILLER SMILE-Mitchel P. Roth

On a cold, windy December night in 1926, hell was unleashed on a tenant farm near Farwell, the last Texas town before the New Mexico border. Prone to the bottle and fits of rage, the burly man with the smiling blue eyes was in no mood to quarrel with his third wife over his bootleg whisky and sexual abuse of his stepdaughter. He went from room to room in the house, killing his wife and each child with primitive cutting tools and his bare hands. By the time he concluded his bloody work, he had ta

Jun 13, 2023 • 56:24

BLOOD ON THE TRACKS-Rod Kackley

BLOOD ON THE TRACKS-Rod Kackley

Discover the dark side of human nature with Blood on the Tracks.This true crime book takes you on a journey through the most heinous murder cases in history, including unsolved mysteries that will leave you wondering.Each story is expertly researched and crafted to provide a captivating account of the events leading up to the crime and the investigation that followed.From the infamous Thanksgiving Massacre to the shocking case of the Vanishing Bride & Groom, to the unbelievable story of a Do

Jun 12, 2023 • 52:52

AMERICAN AUTOPSY-Dr. Michael Baden

AMERICAN AUTOPSY-Dr. Michael Baden

Dr. Michael Baden has been involved in some of the most high-profile civil rights and police brutality cases in U.S. history, from the government’s 1976 re-investigation of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., to the 2014 death of Michael Brown, whose case sparked the initial Ferguson protests that grew into the Black Lives Matter movement. The playbook hasn’t changed since 1979, when Dr. Baden was demoted from his job as New York City’s Chief Medical Examiner after ruling that the deat

Jun 5, 2023 • 58:34

WHITE SMOKE-Patrick Strudwick

WHITE SMOKE-Patrick Strudwick

When the body of a young, gay, Black man, Gemmel Moore, was pulled out of the West Hollywood apartment of Ed Buck-a white, millionaire donor to the Democratic Party-the coroner called it an accidental overdose. The police didn’t arrest Buck. And the media refused to report on it.But just 18 months later, when a second Black man, Timothy Dean, was found dead in the same apartment from the same drug, the police still didn’t arrest Buck, sparking a series of terrifying questions. Why was Buck still

May 29, 2023 • 53:49

THE DELPHI MURDERS-Nic Edwards

THE DELPHI MURDERS-Nic Edwards

On February 13, 2017, two Indiana teenagers, Abigail Williams, 13, and Liberty German, 14, went for a walk in the woods near the abandoned Monon High Bridge. They never returned home. Their bodies were discovered on Valentine's Day morning, sparking a torrent of news coverage and social media speculation that engrossed the attention of people around the world. A grainy photo of the suspected killer walking across the bridge and a chilling cellphone recording of his voice saying "down the hi

May 23, 2023 • 56:20

INTRODUCING AMERICAN SCANDAL: The "Kids For Cash" Kickback Scheme

INTRODUCING AMERICAN SCANDAL: The "Kids For Cash" Kickback Scheme

In the early 2000s, residents of northeastern Pennsylvania started to notice an alarming trend – children were being sent away to jail in high numbers, and for crimes so mild they might normally result in a grounding. The FBI began looking at two local judges, on the heels of an investigation into the mafia. And when the full picture emerged, it made national headlines. This is just a preview of American Scandal: The "Kids for Cash" Kickback Scheme. You can listen to the full episode w

May 22, 2023 • 6:35

DETAILS ARE UNPRINTABLE-Allan Levine

DETAILS ARE UNPRINTABLE-Allan Levine

The narrative of Details Are Unprintable primarily unfolds over a seven-month period from October 1943 to April 1944—from the moment the body of twenty-two-year old Patricia Burton Lonergan is discovered in the bedroom of her New York City Beekman Hill apartment, to the arrest of her husband of two years, Wayne Lonergan, for her murder, and his subsequent trial and conviction. But this story goes back in time to the 1920s, when Wayne Lonergan grew up in Toronto and then forward to his post-priso

May 16, 2023 • 58:01

INTRODUCING: MORBID

INTRODUCING: MORBID

It’s all a lighthearted nightmare on the MORBID podcast. Hosted by Alaina Urquhart and Ash Kelley, Morbid is a full dose of true crime with a splash of comedy. Join us all month long as we celebrate 5 years of MORBID with a special anniversary series, a festive edition of listener tales, and more surprises to come. Listen to Morbid wherever you get your podcasts: Wondery.fm/MB_TMHey Prime Members you can listen to Morbid early and ad-free on Amazon Music. Download the Amazon Music app today. Fol

May 15, 2023 • 7:13

DEADLY CALIFORNIA-David Kulczyk

DEADLY CALIFORNIA-David Kulczyk

David Kulczyk’s eighth book, Deadly California is another tome of off the wall murders, accidents and robberies gone wrong that have happened in California. With true crime tales stretching from 1912 to 1964, occurring in the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, Northern and Southern California, and Sacramento. Unforgettable stories such as When Sally Shot Harry; Double Murder on O Street; Keller and Sergeant Liquor Store and Corpus Delicti. DEADLY CALIFORNIA: Murders, Accidents, and Robberies G

May 8, 2023 • 43:54

DEADLY CALIFORNIA-David Kulczyk

DEADLY CALIFORNIA-David Kulczyk

David Kulczyk’s eighth book, Deadly California is another tome of off the wall murders, accidents and robberies gone wrong that have happened in California. With true crime tales stretching from 1912 to 1964, occurring in the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, Northern and Southern California, and Sacramento. Unforgettable stories such as When Sally Shot Harry; Double Murder on O Street; Keller and Sergeant Liquor Store and Corpus Delicti. DEADLY CALIFORNIA: Murders, Accidents, and Robberies G

May 8, 2023 • 42:15

TREMORS IN THE BLOOD-Amit Katwala

TREMORS IN THE BLOOD-Amit Katwala

Late one evening in the summer of 1922, Henry Wilkens burst through the doors of the emergency room covered in his wife’s blood. But was he a grieving husband, or a ruthless killer who conspired with bandits to have her murdered?To find out, the San Francisco police turned to technology and a new machine that had just been invented in Berkeley by a rookie detective, a visionary police chief, and a teenage magician with a showman’s touch.John Larson, Gus Vollmer and Leonarde Keeler hoped the lie

May 1, 2023 • 51:15

PRECIOUS FEW CLUES-Marla Bernard

PRECIOUS FEW CLUES-Marla Bernard

On an unseasonably warm April evening in 2001, the headless body of a tiny girl was found discarded in a makeshift dump site in the woods on the southeast side of Kansas City, Missouri.One long night turned into four long years for Sgt. David Bernard and the Kansas City Police Department’s 1020 Squad. They followed 1,500 leads, had a replica of the child’s head sculpted from her skull, and ultimately conducted the single most extensive area canvass in the KCPD's history. Erica Michelle Marie Gre

Apr 24, 2023 • 58:27

KORESH-Stephan Talty

KORESH-Stephan Talty

No other event in the last fifty years is shrouded in myth like the 1993 siege of the Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas. Today, we remember this moment for the 76 people, including 20 children, who died in the fire; for its inspiration of the Oklahoma City bombing; and for the wave of anti-government militarism that followed. What we understand far less is what motivated the Davidians’ enigmatic leader, David Koresh.Drawing on first-time, exclusive interviews with Koresh’s family and survivors of

Apr 17, 2023 • 54:28

THE CIGAR-Frank Dimatteo and Michael Benson

THE CIGAR-Frank Dimatteo and Michael Benson

From real-life "Mafia Survivor" Frank Dimatteo, the gripping account of the life and crimes of the most feared mafia boss of all time: Carmine “Lilo” Galante, the prime mover behind the legendary French Connection.The brutal and blood-stained true story of one of the most feared bosses in American Mafia history, who rose from tenement street thug to notorious hit man to a prime mover behind the legendary French Connection. And the bodies piled up.The son of Sicilian immigrants, Camillo

Apr 10, 2023 • 44:11

SEVENTY TIMES SEVEN-Alex Mar

SEVENTY TIMES SEVEN-Alex Mar

On a spring afternoon in 1985 in Gary, Indiana, a fifteen-year-old girl kills an elderly woman in a violent home invasion. In a city with a history of racial tensions and white flight, the girl, Paula Cooper, is Black, and her victim, Ruth Pelke, is white and a beloved Bible teacher. The press swoops in.When Paula is sentenced to death, no one decries the impending execution of a tenth grader. But the tide begins to shift when the victim’s grandson Bill forgives the girl, against the wishes of h

Apr 3, 2023 • 50:29

UNEXPECTED-Chris Thomas

UNEXPECTED-Chris Thomas

Chris Thomas is not yet thirty years old when he finds himself managing the immense pressure, eccentric personalities, and extenuating circumstances of an international story, where one small misstep could adversely impact the search for a missing teenager and the reputation of her family. Now, twenty years later, Thomas takes readers behind the scenes, providing new details, perspectives, and commentary on finding Elizabeth Smart.In the process of reflecting on Elizabeth's search and rescue, Th

Mar 28, 2023 • 53:21

DEATH BY TALONS-Tiddy Smith

DEATH BY TALONS-Tiddy Smith

On December 9, 2001, Kathleen Peterson was found dead at the bottom of a staircase in her Durham, NC home. Her scalp was laced with deep incisions, and her blood was strewn from outside to inside the house.The sinister truth of that night turned her murder into North Carolina's most enigmatic criminal case, capturing media attention across the globe.Police zeroed in on Kathleen’s husband, Michael Peterson, and charged him with murder.But Was It The Truth?A neighbor, Larry Pollard, came up with a

Mar 21, 2023 • 49:42

JonBenet's SECRET SANTA, MY MURDERER-M'Linda Kula

JonBenet's SECRET SANTA, MY MURDERER-M'Linda Kula

M'Linda Kula is very familiar with this SECRET SANTA and the many links that tie him to JonBenet Ramsey. Each link is carefully explained within this book, to lead from one connection to the next between JonBenet and the SECRET SANTA. Follow the pieces of the puzzle to find out who this SECRET SANTA is and how this chameleon was able to evade the authorities. Included within is a pair of government generated documents for the same man under different aliases/assumed names. This alone should rais

Mar 14, 2023 • 51:48

THE ANGEL MAKERS-Patti McCracken

THE ANGEL MAKERS-Patti McCracken

The Angel Makers is a true-crime story like no other—a 1920s midwife who may have been the century’s most prolific killer leading a murder ring of women responsible for the deaths of at least 160 men.The horror occurred in a rustic farming enclave in modern-day Hungary. To look at the unlikely lineup of murderesses—village wives, mothers, and daughters—was to come to the shocking realization that this could have happened anywhere, and to anyone. At the center of it all was a sharp-minded village

Mar 13, 2023 • 45:21

SICARIUS: Sondra London

SICARIUS: Sondra London

From his cell on Death Row in Florida, confessed serial killer Danny Rolling started writing and illustrating this novel about the Daggerman Sicarius in 1999, seven years before his 2006 execution for the five murders he committed in 1990.Drawing on years of research, Rolling follows zoologist Sir Winser Ashmole to the African island of Mauritius, to assist Dr. Borgum Konoff in saving endangered species.But the doctor is dabbling in sinister forces, torturing the island girls in a mad quest for

Mar 6, 2023 • 1:01:50

LOU AND JONBENET-John Wesley Anderson

LOU AND JONBENET-John Wesley Anderson

On Christmas Night 1996, six-year-old JonBenet Ramsey was murdered in her family’s home in Boulder, Colorado. A ransom note was found in the home, but it was hours before her father, John, found her body in the basement. She had been strangled with a garrote and her skull was fractured. The media sensationalized the tragic death of the “child beauty queen” and public speculation and rumors ran rampant. What followed was one of the most notorious unsolved murder investigations in American history

Feb 27, 2023 • 59:59

ERIE'S BACKYARD STRANGLER-Justin Dombrowski

ERIE'S BACKYARD STRANGLER-Justin Dombrowski

On a cold morning in December 1960, 60-year-old Laura Mutch was found strangled behind a house in downtown Erie....At a time when the Gem City was at its peak, including a triumphant run for the coveted 'All-American City' award, the murder created a pandemonium. As the investigation progressed, attacks on women in and around the city of Erie continued, sending citizens - and seasoned investigators - to the brink of total chaos. Infamous attacks such as the brutal stabbing of 72-year-old Clara C

Feb 20, 2023 • 52:40

THE BEST NEW TRUE CRIME STORIES: Crimes of Famous and Infamous Criminals-Mitzi Szereto

THE BEST NEW TRUE CRIME STORIES: Crimes of Famous and Infamous Criminals-Mitzi Szereto

Actors, musicians, TV personalities, and other public figures in the spotlight aren’t always who they appear to be. You might be surprised by just how many have led nefarious, double lives, and have become infamous criminals!Power, status, and a rich lifestyle aren’t barriers to criminal behavior. Yes, people from all walks of life commit crimes. But the people featured here are not your typical neighbors or subway passengers—they are household names and Hollywood stars. Get the stories behind t

Feb 14, 2023 • 50:39

THE REAL-LIFE MURDER CLUBS-Nicola Stow

THE REAL-LIFE MURDER CLUBS-Nicola Stow

What happens when ordinary people, in real-life murder clubs, set out to investigate crimes, both recent and cold cases?The Netflix hit Don’t F**k with Cats was based on the 2012 Montreal murder of thirty-three-year-old Lin Jun by his porn-star boyfriend, Luka Magnotta. Previously Magnotta had anonymously posted videos of himself killing kittens. This spurred horrified Facebook sleuths into working tirelessly to uncover his identity and location.Other investigations include:A self-taught forensi

Feb 8, 2023 • 46:18

THE KILLING SPREE-Anita Paddock

THE KILLING SPREE-Anita Paddock

John Edward Swindler never learned to read or write and instead became a bona fide criminal at the age of fifteen. His crimes quickly advanced from car theft to arson. At three hundred pounds, with long, fuzzy red hair and pimply skin, his appearance was so frightening that he intimidated fellow inmates into performing crimes from their jail cells. He sodomized other convicts, who dared not refuse him. He was moved in and out of solitary confinement in an attempt to break him of his violent ways

Feb 6, 2023 • 49:40

BUTCHER'S WORK-Harold Schechter

BUTCHER'S WORK-Harold Schechter

A Civil War veteran who perpetrated one of the most ghastly mass slaughters in the annals of U.S. crime. A nineteenth-century female serial killer whose victims included three husbands and six of her own children. A Gilded Age “Bluebeard” who did away with as many as fifty wives throughout the country. A decorated World War I hero who orchestrated a murder that stunned Jazz Age America. While other infamous homicides from the same eras—the Lizzie Borden slayings, for example, or the “thrill kill

Jan 30, 2023 • 43:54

TRIAL LAWYER-Richard Zitrin

TRIAL LAWYER-Richard Zitrin

Internationally known legal ethics professor Richard Zitrin's work as a trial lawyer placed him on the front lines of fighting systemic racism, pervasive elitism, and injustice against individuals in the legal system. In Trial Lawyer, he shares details of the most compelling cases he's encountered and exposes the dilemmas he faced throughout his one-of-a-kind career. The profound, the consequential, the shocking, the bizarre, and even the humorous, Trial Lawyer brings to life what it means to re

Jan 24, 2023 • 51:05

Wondery Presents: Frozen Head

Wondery Presents: Frozen Head

Hosted by Ash Kelley and Alaina Urquhart from the hit show Morbid.When 90-year-old Laurence Pilgeram drops dead on the sidewalk outside his condo, you might think that’s the end of his story. But, really, it’s just the beginning. Because Laurence and others like him have signed up to be frozen and brought back to life in the future. And that belief will pull multiple generations of the Pilgeram family into a cryonics soap opera filled with dead pets, gold coins, grenades, fist fights, mysterious

Jan 23, 2023 • 4:04

NEVER FORGIVE, NEVER FORGET-Rod Kackley

NEVER FORGIVE, NEVER FORGET-Rod Kackley

No body means no crime, which makes this the perfect murder.Doug Stewart even has an ironclad alibi. He's been seen hundreds of miles away when his lovely wife, Venus, vanishes. What better plan could any murderer hope for?But Doug's forgotten one thing: the power of a mother's love.Venus' mother believes her daughter's husband lured her outside. They fought. He won. Venus' mom wants her daughter back, dead or alive.Never Forgive, Never Forget: A Shocking True Crime Story by Rod Kackley tells th

Jan 17, 2023 • 46:38

HIDDEN DEMONS-Margery B. Metzger

HIDDEN DEMONS-Margery B. Metzger

On January 7, 1994, residents of the Berkshire Hills woke up to a typical snowy winter day in the majestic woods of Western Massachusetts. The quaint New England towns, the idyllic scenery and the people who lived there could have stepped out of a Norman Rockwell painting.Rocked as imaginable evil converged on them, a pall would be cast over the region and its inhabitants for years to follow.That day, a trial was beginning for a college student who celebrated his 18th birthday by purchasing an a

Jan 16, 2023 • 51:20

A LOVELY GIRL-Deborah Larkin

A LOVELY GIRL-Deborah Larkin

The incredible story of a 1958 murder that ended with the last woman to ever be executed in California—a murder so twisted it seems ripped from a Greek tragedy.Deborah Larkin was only ten years old when the quiet calm of her California suburb was shattered. Thirty miles north, on a quiet November night in Santa Barbara, a pregnant nurse named Olga Duncan disappeared from her apartment. The mystery deepens when it is discovered that Olga’s mother in-law—a deeply manipulative and deceptive woman—h

Jan 9, 2023 • 53:19

COLD BLOODED MURDER-Brad Hunter

COLD BLOODED MURDER-Brad Hunter

Murder is the most vile crime known to man. It can be triggered by love or money or sex. Those are the three big ticket items for homicide. But people are strange. They will kill for the most obscure and ridiculous of reasons. In 30 years covering murder, Brad Hunter has discovered each one has its own flavour. Cops and friends can be stunned by the evil lurking within a seemingly ordinary man or woman. In this collection of some of the most memorable cases Brad has reported on, there are serial

Jan 3, 2023 • 55:41

MURDER IN THE FOX VALLEY-Jim Ridings

MURDER IN THE FOX VALLEY-Jim Ridings

The western suburbs of Chicago were being terrorized by a serial rapist and murderer in the 1970s and 1980s. Bruce Lindahl was a psychotic rapist and killer who preyed on girls and young women for almost a decade. He managed to escape detection because he did not leave his rape victims alive. But in 1980, he kidnapped and raped Debra Colliander in Aurora, Illinois. She escaped before he could murder her, and Lindahl finally was arrested. Two months later, just before he was to go on trial on cha

Jan 2, 2023 • 47:28

ROOTED IN DECEPTION-Laura Churchill Duke

ROOTED IN DECEPTION-Laura Churchill Duke

From the award-winning author of Two Crows Sorrow comes another historical true crime story about secret identities, deception, and murder.At the turn of the century, an ex-convict from Ireland arrives in the back country of rural Nova Scotia, whereupon he is accused of murdering a man and burying him in the victim’s own cellar under a pile of potatoes. Rooted in Deception follows the life of John Kavanagh and how this petty criminal deceives everyone in his path until he is eventually accused o

Dec 21, 2022 • 52:02

Wondery Presents Suspect Season 2: Vanished In The Snow

Wondery Presents Suspect Season 2: Vanished In The Snow

For more than three and a half decades, the disappearance of 12-year-old Jonelle Matthews was a mystery – a riddle neither authorities nor her family members could solve. The residents of her cloistered Colorado hometown had scoured every inch of prairie. Jonelle’s face had been on milk cartons nationwide. Even the President of the United States had appealed to the public for help. Still, every lead had fizzled. Every person of interest had turned out to be a dead end. Then, in 2019, Jonelle’s r

Dec 19, 2022 • 6:40

THE MAN WITH THE KILLER SMILE-Mitchel P. Roth

THE MAN WITH THE KILLER SMILE-Mitchel P. Roth

On a cold, windy December night in 1926, hell was unleashed on a tenant farm near Farwell, the last Texas town before the New Mexico border. Prone to the bottle and fits of rage, the burly man with the smiling blue eyes was in no mood to quarrel with his third wife over his bootleg whisky and sexual abuse of his stepdaughter. He went from room to room in the house, killing his wife and each child with primitive cutting tools and his bare hands. By the time he concluded his bloody work, he had ta

Dec 12, 2022 • 56:50

I DON'T LIKE MONDAYS-N. Leigh Hunt

I DON'T LIKE MONDAYS-N. Leigh Hunt

In 1979, Brenda Spencer, a seemingly average teenage girl living in a nice suburban neighborhood, made and executed plans that would place her in infamy and set a violent and terrifying national precedent. She received a rifle for Christmas and a month later set her sights and opened fire on the elementary school across the street.The event is forever glorified by the song ‘I Don’t Like Mondays’ by The Boomtown Rats and marks the bloody beginning of the American phenomenon of school shootings. L

Dec 7, 2022 • 49:26

FRANK SINATRA AND THE MAFIA MURDERS-Mike Rothmiller

FRANK SINATRA AND THE MAFIA MURDERS-Mike Rothmiller

Mike Rothmiller and Douglas Thompson draw on previously secret LAPD intelligence files, a cache of FBI documents released to the authors in 2021, and extensive interviews with prime sources, including many who worked with Frank Sinatra and many more who tracked his long and fatal association with the American Mafia, notably his ongoing connection, after his original godfather was assassinated: Sam 'Momo' Giancana, who shared a lover with President John F. Kennedy.Sixteen days after the assassina

Dec 5, 2022 • 54:15

THE FOREVER WITNESS-Edward Humes

THE FOREVER WITNESS-Edward Humes

A relentless detective and an amateur genealogist solve a haunting cold case—and launch a crime-fighting revolution that tests the fragile line between justice and privacy. In November 1987, a young couple on an overnight trip to Seattle vanished without a trace. A week later, the bodies of Tanya Van Cuylenborg and her boyfriend Jay Cook were found in rural Washington. It was a brutal crime, and it was the perfect crime: With few clues and no witnesses, an international manhunt turned up empty,

Dec 1, 2022 • 1:07:24

RUSSIAN SERIAL KILLERS VOLUME 1-Nico Claux

RUSSIAN SERIAL KILLERS VOLUME 1-Nico Claux

Much is known about American and European serial killers, but did you know that more than 150 homicidal maniacs have plagued the former Soviet Union during the last 100 years? Nicknamed “The Night Creature”, “The Urals Strangler” or “The Balashikha Ripper” in their native motherland, these sex fiends have committed some of the most heinous series of murders in the history of modern criminology.This book follows the stories of 25 maniacs: unable to control their dark fantasies, they savagely tort

Nov 28, 2022 • 50:51

INSIDE THE MIND OF JOHN WAYNE GACY-Brad Hunter

INSIDE THE MIND OF JOHN WAYNE GACY-Brad Hunter

Brad Hunter has spent over thirty years writing about some of America's most horrific crimes. In this new book he enters the mind of John Wayne Gacy, the real-life 'Killer Clown', often said to be the inspiration for Stephen King's evil Pennywise in It. Gacy lured victims to his home with the promise of work or a warm bed and then duped them into putting on handcuffs, claiming he wanted to show them a magic trick. He would then rape and torture his victims before killing them by suffocating or s

Nov 21, 2022 • 50:51

THEIR BLOODY LIES AND PERSECUTION OF DAVID CAMM-Gary M. Dunn

THEIR BLOODY LIES AND PERSECUTION OF DAVID CAMM-Gary M. Dunn

Although featured nationally on 48 Hours, Dateline, and the Oxygen Network, the detailed, complete, and totally unbelievable story of the case of DAVID CAMM has never been fully revealed as police, prosecutors, forensic scientists, and judges either sought or facilitated the convictions of an innocent man while ignoring a mountain of exculpatory evidence.While David was being pursued, persecuted, and incarcerated, Kim, Brad, and Jill Camm’s true killer, a devil-worshiping, sexually obsessed, 11-

Nov 16, 2022 • 1:16:26

SARGE!-Debra DiMaggio

SARGE!-Debra DiMaggio

“SARGE!” is a fascinating memoir by the late Chicago Police Detective Sergeant John A. DiMaggio, one of the most decorated officers on the force during a career that spanned the years 1957 to 1991. Among his awards are two Superintendent’s Awards of Valor, Mayor Richard J. Daley’s Praiseworthy Acknowledgment Plaque for Exceptional Act of Bravery Involving Risk of Life, a Presidential Citation of Appreciation, the Illinois Police Association Award of Valor, and many more.Upon his retirement in 19

Nov 14, 2022 • 44:05

KILL. BURY. FORGET.-Rod Kackley

KILL. BURY. FORGET.-Rod Kackley

January 14, 1927 — A.J. Mathis, a wealthy, elderly chicken rancher, is missing. One of the last of the cowboy sheriffs, Jim McDonald, is convinced A.J. is dead. Murdered. And McDonald says he knows who did it and vows to “prove it on her.”McDonald’s leading and only suspect is a former saloon singer and prostitute, Eva Dugan. Short, stocky, and plain, Eva takes off with a younger man in A.J.’s Dodge Coupe. They drive from Arizona to Texas before Eva makes her way to White Plains, New York.While

Nov 8, 2022 • 1:00:25

BY THE SIDE OF THE ROAD-Marla Bernard

BY THE SIDE OF THE ROAD-Marla Bernard

In the early hours of March 22, 1989, two friends – career criminals with violent felony convictions - drove around the eastern Kansas City area in a stolen car committing a series of crimes. The weather was mild for late March in Kansas City; the sky was clear, and there was the pale remnant of a Full Moon that bore the dubious name of Death Moon, the last full moon of winter.A little before 7 a.m., 15-year-old Ann Harrison walked to the end of her driveway on Kansas City’s east side to wait fo

Nov 7, 2022 • 50:45

Amazon Music Presents COLD: The Search for Sheree

Amazon Music Presents COLD: The Search for Sheree

Sheree Warren left her job in Salt Lake City on a mild October evening in 1985. She told a coworker she was headed to meet her estranged husband, Charles Warren, at a car dealership. But she never made it, Sheree vanished. When her car mysteriously surfaced weeks later, hundreds of miles away in Las Vegas, no one could say how it got there. When a young mother disappears under unexplained circumstances, police always turn suspicious eyes towards the husband. And although there was distrust aroun

Nov 1, 2022 • 9:28

STRANGLED-LaDonna Humphrey and Alecia Lockhart

STRANGLED-LaDonna Humphrey and Alecia Lockhart

LaDonna Humphrey gains a new ally in her effort to find justice in the 1994 unsolved murder case of Melissa Ann Witt when Alecia Lockhart reveals a dark and troubling secret from her past. Together, Humphrey and Lockhart must delve inside a dangerous and twisted world known as the "dark web" to unlock a series of mysteries, including Alecia's haunting connection to Melissa Witt's murder. Strangled is the shocking and suspenseful account of the war Humphrey and Lockhart wage on a warped and depr

Oct 31, 2022 • 54:53

EXTREME PUNISHMENT-Steven B. Epstein

EXTREME PUNISHMENT-Steven B. Epstein

A devoted father. One of the most accomplished criminal law scholars in the country. Someone wanted him dead. But why?On the morning of July 18, 2014, 41-year-old Florida State law professor Dan Markel dropped his boys off at preschool, hit the gym, and headed home to his quiet, tree-canopied neighborhood. Within seconds of pulling into his garage, two .38-caliber bullets fired from point-blank range were lodged in his brain.His brutal slaying defied explanation. The case went stone cold for nea

Oct 24, 2022 • 50:55

SILENT SILHOUETTE....WHO KILLED DEBORAH SUE-George Jared

SILENT SILHOUETTE....WHO KILLED DEBORAH SUE-George Jared

Deborah Sue Williamson was a newly married young woman living in Lubbock Texas on Aug. 24, 1975. One night while her husband was away at work, she was brutally stabbed 17 times in the carport of their home. Many suspects were investigated, but no one was charged. The case went cold until the mid-1980s when Henry Lee Lucas, a man notorious for admitting to murders he didn't commit confessed to her murder. It was profiled in the Netflix doc series The Confession Killer. There was only one problem.

Oct 17, 2022 • 1:00:54

EXPOSED-Dr. Mark Hewitt

EXPOSED-Dr. Mark Hewitt

The solution to the Zodiac serial killer case is as clear as it is controversial. One man, a letter writer, bomb maker, and code creator, was living in the area at the time of the Zodiac murders, had easy access to all the crime scenes, and had had a psychotic break at the time the Zodiac began his heinous murder campaign. A genius-level mathematician, he was clever enough to disguise his handwriting, avoid leaving evidence like fingerprints, and produce diabolically difficult ciphers to taunt t

Oct 10, 2022 • 59:29

THE BEST NEW TRUE CRIME STORIES-Mitzi Szereto

THE BEST NEW TRUE CRIME STORIES-Mitzi Szereto

Unsolved crimes, unanswered questions. Crimes are meant to be solved. But what happens when they’re not? For the individuals involved—from the victims and their families to police investigators—this is the most frustrating part of all. For them there’s no resolution, no justice, no tidy boxes in which to pack away all the bits and pieces of a puzzle that finally links together. Instead, they are only left with questions that may never get answered. Chilling cold cases & unexplained mysteries

Oct 6, 2022 • 47:44

ALL THAT IS WICKED-Kate Winkler Dawson

ALL THAT IS WICKED-Kate Winkler Dawson

Acclaimed crime historian, podcaster, and author of American Sherlock Kate Winkler Dawson tells the thrilling story of Edward Rulloff—a serial murderer who was called “too intelligent to be killed”—and the array of 19th century investigators who were convinced his brain held the key to finally understanding the criminal mind.Edward Rulloff was a brilliant yet utterly amoral murderer—some have called him a “Victorian-era Hannibal Lecter”—whose crimes spanned decades and whose victims were chosen

Oct 4, 2022 • 59:35

Introducing: The Generation Why Podcast

Introducing: The Generation Why Podcast

The Generation Why Podcast released its first episode in 2012 and pioneered the true crime genre in the podcasting world. Two friends, Aaron & Justin, break down theories and give their opinions on unsolved murders, controversies, mysteries and conspiracies. One of the longest running true crime podcasts out there, Generation Why has a little something for every true crime listener. Follow The Generation Why Podcast on Amazon Music, or wherever you listen to podcasts. Or you can listen ad-fr

Oct 3, 2022 • 8:30

NOTHING BUT THE NIGHT-Greg King and Penny Wilson

NOTHING BUT THE NIGHT-Greg King and Penny Wilson

Nearly a hundred years ago, two wealthy and privileged teenagers―Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb―were charged and convicted in a gruesome crime that would lead to the original “Trial of the Century”. Even in Jazz Age Chicago, the murder was uniquely shocking for the motive of the killers: well-to-do Jewish scions, full of promise, had killed fourteen-year-old Bobby Franks for the thrill of it. The trial was made even more sensational by the revelation of a love affair between the defendants and

Sep 26, 2022 • 1:07:49

AMERICAN DEMON-Daniel Stashower

AMERICAN DEMON-Daniel Stashower

Boston had its Strangler. California had the Zodiac Killer. And in the depths of the Great Depression, Cleveland had the Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run.On September 5th, 1934, a young beachcomber made a gruesome discovery on the shores of Cleveland’s Lake Erie: the lower half of a female torso, neatly severed at the waist. The victim, dubbed “The Lady of the Lake,” was only the first of a butcher’s dozen. Over the next four years, twelve more bodies would be scattered across the city. The bodies w

Sep 19, 2022 • 56:28

BLOOD & INK-Joe Pompeo

BLOOD & INK-Joe Pompeo

On September 16, 1922, the bodies of Reverend Edward Hall and Eleanor Mills were found beneath a crabapple tree on an abandoned farm outside of New Brunswick, New Jersey. The killer had arranged the bodies in a pose conveying intimacy. The murder of Hall, a prominent clergyman whose wife, Frances Hall, was a proud heiress with illustrious ancestors and ties to the Johnson & Johnson dynasty, would have made headlines on its own. But when authorities identified Eleanor Mills as a choir singer

Sep 13, 2022 • 59:37

THE COLUMBUS STOCKING STRANGLER-William Rawlings

THE COLUMBUS STOCKING STRANGLER-William Rawlings

During an eight-month period in 1977 and 1978, the city of Columbus, Georgia, was terrorized by a mysterious serial killer who raped and ritualistically strangled seven elderly women in one of the community's finer neighborhoods. Despite intensive efforts on the part of police the Stocking Strangler, as he came to be known, managed to elude capture. After the last murder in April 1978, the case went cold. In the spring of 1984, a series of fortuitous events connected to an unrelated murder and a

Sep 8, 2022 • 1:11:59

SIX INCHES DEEPER-William Rawlings

SIX INCHES DEEPER-William Rawlings

On August 31, 1972, Hellen Hanks, a pretty thirty-four-year-old mother of three disappeared from her place of employment at Wilcox Advertising in Valdosta, Georgia. After a brief investigation by local and state authorities, the case went cold. In the fall of 1980, a farmer clearing a field south of town discovered a buried object, a box containing the dismembered remains of the missing woman. After several months of investigation, police arrested "Foxy" Wilcox, his son Keller Wilcox,

Aug 31, 2022 • 1:02:24

Introducing: Blood Ties S3: Strange Days

Introducing: Blood Ties S3: Strange Days

Our family members are not always who we think. When Eleonore Richland exposed her father’s dark legacy, she vowed to clean up the family business – and hired her half-brother, Santino Reyes, to help her do it. But old habits die hard. In the shocking new third season, Eleonore reckons with what her father always taught her growing up: medicine is a bloody business. From Wondery, the makers of “The Shrink Next Door” and “Dr. Death,” Blood Ties stars Gillian Jacobs (Community, Love), Christian Na

Aug 29, 2022 • 5:42

THE TUSKEGEE STRANGLER-Linda Lou Long

THE TUSKEGEE STRANGLER-Linda Lou Long

Every serial killer is a “nice guy”—until he’s found out. The shocking, true account of a Southern charmer who left a trail of victims in his wake.Jerry Marcus fooled them all. He was “a nice guy,” always helped at home, did well in school, an athlete, and always employed. When things went wrong, he was the first to help clean up the mess. He was the last person anyone suspected of being a serial killer.After Marcus was caught and sentenced to life in prison in the late ’70s, author Linda Lou Lo

Aug 25, 2022 • 55:50

THE RED WIDOW-Sarah Horowitz

THE RED WIDOW-Sarah Horowitz

Paris, 1889: Margeurite Steinheil is a woman with ambition. But having been born into a middle-class family and trapped in a marriage to a failed artist twenty years her senior, she knows her options are limited.Determined to fashion herself into a new woman, Meg orchestrates a scandalous plan with her most powerful resource: her body. Amid the dazzling glamor, art, and romance of bourgeois Paris, she takes elite men as her lovers, charming her way into the good graces of the rich and powerful.

Aug 22, 2022 • 58:43

THE FISHERMEN AND THE DRAGON-Kirk Wallace Johnson

THE FISHERMEN AND THE DRAGON-Kirk Wallace Johnson

By the late 1970s, the fishermen of the Texas Gulf Coast were struggling. The bays that had sustained generations of shrimpers and crabbers before them were being poisoned by nearby petrochemical plants, oil spills, pesticides, and concrete. But as their nets came up light, the white shrimpers could only see one culprit: the small but growing number of newly resettled Vietnamese refugees who had recently started fishing. Turf was claimed. Guns were flashed. Threats were made. After a white c

Aug 12, 2022 • 59:10

GANGSTERS vs. NAZIS-Michael Benson

GANGSTERS vs. NAZIS-Michael Benson

As Adolph Hitler rose to power in 1930s Germany, a growing wave of fascism began to take root on American soil. Nazi activists started to gather in major American cities, and by 1933, there were more than one-hundred anti-Semitic groups operating openly in the United States. Few Americans dared to speak out or fight back—until an organized resistance of notorious mobsters waged their own personal war against the Nazis in their midst. Gangland-style. . . .In this thrilling blow-by-blow account, a

Aug 11, 2022 • 57:34

JIMMY THE KING-Gus Garcia-Roberts

JIMMY THE KING-Gus Garcia-Roberts

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 the case to a dubious resolution, a wayward local teenager emerged with a convenient story to tell. For his cooperation, Jimmy Burke was rewarded with a job as a cop.Thus began Burke’s unlikely ascent to the top of one of the country’s largest l

Aug 5, 2022 • 57:04

AURORA-Dr. Lynne Fenton

AURORA-Dr. Lynne Fenton

A compelling look at violence and trauma from the psychiatrist who treated mass shooter James Holmes, perpetrator of the infamous movie theater massacre.As an expert and speaker on mass shootings and gun violence, Dr. Lynn Fenton knew it was impossible to “spot a killer.” But when she met her new patient, troubled grad student James Holmes, the hair on her arms stood up. She feared he was going to kill. Yet she could find no way to thwart him. A few months later, Holmes struck: he entered a pack

Jul 27, 2022 • 56:19

THE CASTLETON MASSACRE-Sharon Anne Cook and Margaret Carson

THE CASTLETON MASSACRE-Sharon Anne Cook and Margaret Carson

A former United Church minister massacres his family. What led to this act of femicide, and why were his victims forgotten?On May 2, 1963, Robert Killins, a former United Church minister, slaughtered every woman in his family but one. She (and her brother) lived to tell the story of what motivated a talented man who had been widely admired, a scholar and graduate from Queen’s University, to stalk and terrorize the women in his family for almost twenty years and then murder them.Through extensive

Jul 19, 2022 • 1:00:24

SIMPLE, SAFE & SECRET-Eve Carson

SIMPLE, SAFE & SECRET-Eve Carson

It was a brisk April morning in 1990 when a woman walking her dog stopped cold in her tracks. She reeled back from something strange and disturbing blocking the drainage tile: a human skull. Forensic examination showed that it was the remains of Joan Webster, the 25-year-old Harvard graduate student whose disappearance had rattled the community and stumped investigators for the past eight and a half years. The prosecutors had a suspect, Leonard Paradiso, who was tried and convicted for the murde

Jul 14, 2022 • 55:22

HELLTOWN-Casey Sherman

HELLTOWN-Casey Sherman

Before Charles Manson, there was Tony Costa—the serial killer of Cape Cod1969: The hippie scene is vibrant in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Long-haired teenagers roam the streets, strumming guitars and preaching about peace and love... and Tony Costa is at the center of it all. To a certain group of smitten young women, he is known as Sire—the leader of their counter-culture movement, the charming man who speaks eloquently and hands out hallucinogenic drugs like candy. But beneath his benign pers

Jul 7, 2022 • 51:08

THE LAST JEWISH GANGSTER-David Larson

THE LAST JEWISH GANGSTER-David Larson

In 1944 Brooklyn, newborn Michael J. Hardy is rejected by his mother so she can run with gangster Bugsy Siegel, Hardy's godfather. Shirley Rook quickly rose to the top of the criminal ranks. As the Queen of New York City crime, she laundered Mob money, ran the city's largest bookmaking operation, and handed payouts to dirty cops, politicians, and judges.To win his mother's love and respect, Hardy became a fearless gangster. Throughout his career as a criminal, he robbed banks and drug dealers al

Jul 5, 2022 • 49:17

12/26/75-Tony Reid

12/26/75-Tony Reid

For Tony Reid, this case began as a claim of innocence in the murder of Donna Jo Richmond in 1975. While the errors in the original investigation and a flawed trial resulted in a guilty verdict, the reassessment confirmed that the defendant was framed but the question became: by whom? Working with a new team of investigators, which included two of the original detectives, the probe uncovered a startling new possibility: Was the real culprit a serial offender?Turning to the public for information

Jun 30, 2022 • 1:29:01

UNDER A COLD MOON-Tony H. Latham

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. His second lay under the dirt for sixty-one. Two women. Two murders. One spurned slayer.In this cold tale, the author exposes the dark secrets of a man that stalked older women. Latham weaves this story from an insider’s window. A writer that was in the thick of things and interviewed

Jun 24, 2022 • 51:37

WHEN THE MOON TURNS TO BLOOD-Leah Sottile

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 a wellness check on seven J.J. Vallow and his sister, sixteen-year-old Tylee Ryan, both children are nowhere to be found. Their mother, Lori Vallow, gives a phony explanation, and when officers return the following day with a search warrant, sh

Jun 21, 2022 • 1:10:06

Wondery Presents: The Execution Of Bonny Lee Bakley

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. She left behind a trail of men she’d scammed, and she had a volatile relationship with Christian Brando, the troubled son of movie star Marlon Brando. Not since the O.J. Simpson case had the eyes of the nation been so fixated on a homicide. The search for Bonny’s killer took detecti

Jun 20, 2022 • 6:14

TED BUNDY: THE YEARLY JOURNAL-Kevin M. Sullivan

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 over the decades; and these first-person contacts continue to this day. As such, this is the first book in a new series of books, whose aim is to bring new revelations to the public about Bundy, the victims, the murders, and the almost murders that failed Bundy for one reaso

Jun 17, 2022 • 1:05:09

AMERICAN MONSTER-J.T. Hunter

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 dream vacation. But the promise of a sunset cruise by a friendly stranger turned that dream into a deadly nightmare. This is the true story of that tragic encounter and the hunt for the Sunset Killer, a modern American Monster. AMERICAN MONSTER: T

Jun 10, 2022 • 1:06:08

SOUTH DAKOTA'S MATHIS MURDERS-Noel Hamiel

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 their makeshift home. Two of her three children, ages 2 and 4, were also shot in the head. The brutality of the killings shocked the state and set off a frenzy of law enforcement activity. Despite its intensity, the investigation never found the murd

Jun 6, 2022 • 51:46

DRIFTING INTO DARKNESS-Mark I. Pinsky

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 Montgomery, Alabama, to the New Age salons of Boulder, Colorado, to rural, windswept Wyoming.On Thanksgiving weekend in 2004, philanthropists Charlotte and Brent Springford Sr.―a wealthy, socially prominent Montgomery couple―were brutal

May 30, 2022 • 1:03:55

MURF-Terrance Ryerson Neal

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 true story of the 1964 museum robberies and the 1966 Hendersonville, North Carolina triple murders.Based on an in-person interview with Jack Murphy, aka Murf, in 2015, the author tells a revised version of the story that Murf swore was true. This dramatic narrative

May 27, 2022 • 50:25

THE MURDER GENE-Karen Spears Zacharias

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 only option.As a young recruit, Luke was taunted for being a virgin who didn't cuss, drink, or smoke pot. That all changed when Luke met Casey Byrams, a fun-loving musician and fellow Marine from Cullman, Alabama. Their friendship set off a series of events th

May 23, 2022 • 56:23

SNAKE EYES-Bitty Martin

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, and bordellos. Still, the town was shaken to its core after a girl was found dead on a nearby ranch. The ranch owner claimed it was an accident. Then the rancher was found to be the killer of another woman – his fourth wife. Th

May 20, 2022 • 47:26

THE ALASKAN BLONDE-James T. Bartlett

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 claimed they were the victims of a brutal home invasion.Blonde, glamorous and 20 years younger than Cecil, police were immediately suspicious of Diane's account, and the investigation soon turned toward her alleged lover, black musician Johnny Warren, who

May 18, 2022 • 1:17:05

SERIAL KILLERS: Dr. Joni Johnston

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? What drives these murderers to kill and kill again? And what fuels our fascination with the true stories of their horrific crimes?Now forensic psychologist, private investigator, and crime writer Dr. Joni E. Johnston brings you the answers to t

May 13, 2022 • 53:39

TRAILED-Kathryn Miles

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 at a world-renowned outdoor program for women. During their final days in the park, they descended the narrow remnants of a trail and pitched their tent in a hidden spot. After the pair didn’t return home as planned, park range

May 4, 2022 • 53:07

MAKING A PSYCHOPATH-Mark Freestone

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 expertise has led to a consultant role on several TV series, helping them accurately portray their fictional villains. Now, he shares his phenomenal insight into the minds of some of the world's most violent real-life criminals.Angela "th

Apr 30, 2022 • 51:07

MADMAN IN THE WOODS-Jamie Gehring

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, and their dinner table with a hermit with a penchant for murder. But they had no idea that the odd recluse living in the adjacent cabin was anything more than a disheveled man who brought young Jamie painted rocks as gifts. Ted was simply Ted, and erratic behavior, sur

Apr 25, 2022 • 1:06:07

22 MURDERS-Part 2-Paul Palango

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 were oddly hard to come by. Who was the killer? Why was he not apprehended? What were police doing? How many were dead? And why was the gunman still on the loose the next morning and killing again? The RCMP was largely silent then, and continued to

Apr 19, 2022 • 58:54

22 MURDERS-Part 1-Paul Palango

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 were oddly hard to come by. Who was the killer? Why was he not apprehended? What were police doing? How many were dead? And why was the gunman still on the loose the next morning and killing again? The RCMP was largely silent then, and continued to

Apr 15, 2022 • 59:56

THE GIRL I NEVER KNEW-LaDonna Humphrey

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 has spent the past seven years hunting for Melissa’s killer. Her investigation, both thrilling and unpredictable, has led her on a journey like no other.The Girl I Never Knew is an edge-of-your-seat account of LaDonna Humphrey’s passionate fight

Apr 12, 2022 • 57:33

HELL'S HALF-ACRE-Susan Jonusas

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 made a grisly discovery. Buried by a trailside cabin beneath an orchard of young apple trees were the remains of countless bodies. Below the cabin itself was a cellar stained with blood. The Benders, the family of four who once resided on the property were

Apr 8, 2022 • 57:31

RIPPLE-Jim Cosgrove

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, Missouri, Frank McGonigle's family searched for him at Grateful Dead concerts and in the face of every long-haired hitchhiker they passed. Consumed by guilt for how they'd treated him, Frank's eight siblings slowly came to understand that — like Jerry Garc

Apr 2, 2022 • 1:01:00

VAMPIRES, GATORS AND WACKOS-Frank Stanfield

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 Whackos: A Newspaperman’s Life recalls rustlers hiding ranchers’ bodies in a bottomless pit and a Jane Doe so mauled people believed it was a bear attack. It exposes cops who bungle murder cases and praises those who are heroes. There are tales of bears, sharks, s

Mar 29, 2022 • 54:56

SEX AND THE SERIAL KILLER-William Steel

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 -- the black sheep of a family that controls billions of dollars in New York real estate -- decided he could use a man of those specific talents. Little did Steel realize that his new acquaintance was not only the prime suspect in his first wife's mysterious disappeara

Mar 25, 2022 • 1:00:24

SHIP OF BLOOD-Charles Oldham

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 officers all were gone-murdered, too, it would turn out, their bodies dumped into the sea. Only three sailors remained alive, one tied up, all telling different stories, all blaming each other. The three sailors were Black. The dead officers were white.So began a legal spectacle tha

Mar 19, 2022 • 49:26

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

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, beaten to death. The unsolved murder inspired rumors, speculation, ghost stories, and, almost a century later, the phenomenon of Twin Peaks. Who killed Hazel Drew? Like Laura Palmer, she was a paradox of personalities—a young, beautiful puzzle with sec

Mar 16, 2022 • 1:01:23

RIDING WITH EVIL-Ken Croke

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 gang. Longtime ATF agent Ken Croke had earned the right to coast to the end of a storied career, having routinely gone undercover to apprehend white supremacists, gun runners, and gang members. But after a chance encounter wi

Mar 12, 2022 • 59:23

SHADOWMAN-Ron Franscell

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 vacationing. Somebody had slit open the back of their tent and snatched her from under their noses. None of them saw or heard anything. Susie Jaeger had vanished into thin air, plucked by a shadow.The largest manhunt in Montana’s history ensued, l

Mar 1, 2022 • 1:23:15

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

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 Betsy Faria and the wrongful conviction of her husband – told by Joel J. Schwartz, the defense attorney who fought for justice on behalf of Russel Faria, and New York Times bestselling author Charles Bosworth Jr.On December

Feb 26, 2022 • 1:00:15

PUT THE MONEY IN MY PURSE-Judith A. Yates

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 of frontier outlaws, gun molls, insurrectionists, housewives, grandmas and young mothers "literally robbing for Pampers" are narrated as part of the social history of women in America. PUT THE MONEY IN MY PURSE: A History of Female Bank Robbers

Feb 24, 2022 • 59:54

THE MURDER OF THORA CHAMBERLAIN-Rod Kackley

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 helped bring John Dillinger down. Will that be enough to find the girl and her abductor? Agents chase the suspected kidnapper from California to Illinois and back again. Arrested in Los Angeles, he admits abducting the child. He also tells the FBI he killed the girl and t

Feb 18, 2022 • 1:01:09

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

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 of Susan, also included is Durst’s $40,000 mask he planned to use to elude police while on the lam.Susan Berman grew up in Las Vegas luxury as the daughter of Davie Berman, casino mogul and notorious Mafia leader. After her fathe

Feb 12, 2022 • 58:48

BATH MASSACRE: New Edition-Arnie Bernstein

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, the small town of Bath, Michigan, was forever changed when Andrew Kehoe set off a cache of explosives concealed in the basement of the local school. Thirty-eight children and six adults were dead, among them Kehoe, who had literally blown himsel

Feb 10, 2022 • 59:41

WHEN A KILLER CALLS-John Douglas

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, law enforcement quickly realized they were dealing with a sophisticated and highly dangerous criminal. A letter arrived the next day entitled “Last Will & Testament,” in which Shari, knowing she was to be murdered, wrote bravely and achingly of her love for her paren

Jan 31, 2022 • 59:02

AMERICAN INJUSTICE-David Rudolf

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 fraction of the actual number of persons wrongfully accused and convicted over the same period. Renowned criminal defense and civil rights attorney David Rudolf has spent decades defending the wrongfully accused. In American Injustice, he dra

Jan 27, 2022 • 55:45

DARK ROSES-Michael Benson

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 of Road, Family of Terror, The Tell-Tale Knot, Vengeance is Mine, Breckenridge, and A Few Thoughts on the Black Dahlia. Dozens of photos! An excerpt from the book’s final story: "It is the most famous American murder case not involving a cel

Jan 25, 2022 • 59:43

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

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 one, especially when they belong to lovers.Discover Infamous Legends and Lesser-Known Criminals and find out why they have become solidified in true crime history. From Ted Bundy to Jeffrey Dahmer, serial killers and other criminals often work alone. But when they

Jan 20, 2022 • 51:30

BEYOND KILLER FICTION-Sondra London

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 sentences for the murder of two teenage girls, when he himself murdered in 1995. Sondra London first published a collection of these stories in 1989, under the imprimatur of Media Queen. Feral House published Killer Fiction in 1997. Now comes the new expanded col

Jan 13, 2022 • 1:20:09

TAKING DOWN BACKPAGE-Maggy Krell

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. Reaping a cut off every transaction, the owners of the website raked in millions of dollars. But many of the people in the advertisements were children, as young as 12, and forced into the commercial sex trade through fear, violence and coerci

Jan 10, 2022 • 49:02

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

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, until he had ten victims. He named himself “B.T.K.” (bind, torture, kill) and wrote notes that terrorized the city. He remained on the loose for thirty years. No one who knew him guessed his dark secret. He nearly got away with his crimes, but in 2004, he began

Jan 6, 2022 • 49:13

FORGOTTEN CALIFORNIA MURDERS-David Kulczyk

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 and films made about them. FORGOTTEN CALIFORNIA MURDERS 1915-1968-David Kulczyk Follow and comment on Facebook-TRUE MURDER: The Most Shocking Killers in True Crime History https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100064697978510Check out TRUE MURDER P

Dec 31, 2021 • 1:00:17

AMERICAN SCANDAL

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 of American Scandal looks at the controversial decision made by a young government official named Daniel Ellsburg to leak the Pentagon Papers, the documents that led Americans to demand an end to the catastrophic Vietnam War. Once Ellsburg

Dec 20, 2021 • 7:51

MURDER CAPITAL OF THE WORLD-Emerson Murray

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 Cadwallader in 1970 and the serial murder sprees of Herbert Mullin and Edmund Kemper left tremors in Santa Cruz that can still be felt today.Local law enforcement, victims’ families and friends, classmates and acquaintances of the killers, local historians, voices fro

Dec 18, 2021 • 1:04:24

THE MURDER OF MARY TAKAHASHI-Rod Kackley

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 research vessel finds a woman’s decomposing corpse floating in the Tyrrhenian Sea, about twenty miles off the Italian shoreline.Cruise ships frequent the area. Investigators’ best guess is that she came from one of those boats. But which one? And is it a case of accidental death, suicide, or even mur

Dec 14, 2021 • 57:45

BUTCHER OF HANOVER-Alan R. Warren

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 while committing these murders. It wasn't until the skulls and bones started washing ashore from the Leine River in Hanover that Germany realized they had a cold-blooded serial killer in their country.As you read the exploration of the case in this book, ask yourself, did Haarmann murder eac

Dec 9, 2021 • 1:04:48

THE VANISHED

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 disappearance of James Foster Chance. The 48-year-old man from Texas went missing in March of 2021. Devastated and without any leads, James’ family began searching for him. But in their search they began uncovering clues that James was not the man they th

Dec 6, 2021 • 8:02

IMMUNITY FOR MURDER-David M Beers

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 Lyric. She was sentenced to 25-years-to-life in state prison, with her surviving children taken away and placed in foster care.After more than five years in prison, Taft was set free after a bombshell Appellate Court decision found the verdict was against the weig

Dec 3, 2021 • 1:15:01

THE WVU COED MURDERS-Geoffrey Fuller and Sarah James McLaughlin

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 madman poised to strike again. Then the handwritten letters began to arrive: You will locate the bodies of the girls covered over with brush--look carefully. The animals are now on the move.Investigators didn't find too few suspects--they had far too many. There was the campus ja

Nov 25, 2021 • 58:21

THE JFK ASSASSINATION DISSECTED-Cyril Wecht and Dawna Kaufmann

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 with boundless curiosity and unprecedented access, he came to understand that America had, instead, suffered a coup d'etat at the hands of rogue elements within our own government.Nobody else has Wecht's up-close and personal experience in uncovering the

Nov 24, 2021 • 49:13

THE SHRINK NEXT DOOR

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 and everything he’d thought he’d known about his neighbor -- and the house next door -- was wrong. From Wondery, the company behind Dirty John and Dr. Death, and Bloomberg, “The Shrink Next Door” is a story about power, control and turning t

Nov 22, 2021 • 8:28

THE WOLFPACK-Peter Edwards

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 down in an attack that sends an American soccer star scrambling for cover. In Mexico, a Canadian is killed at a Nuevo Vallarta coffee shop, his death barely registering amidst the terrifying death tolls of President Calderón’s war on drugs and the cartels’ response; while a Mon

Nov 20, 2021 • 1:04:28

KLAN OF DEVILS-Stanley Nelson

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 instantly. His partner, Creed Rogers, survived and radioed in a description of the vehicle. Less than an hour later, police in Mississippi spotted the truck and arrested its driver, a decorated World War II veteran named Ernest Ray McElveen. They returned McElveen to Wash

Nov 16, 2021 • 1:20:05

EYES OF A MONSTER-Ron Peterson Jr.

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 unraveling the mystery. Mayer located a reluctant witness who was a teenager back in 1981. She recalled a suspicious man lurking outside Olivia’s apartment the morning of the murder and provided a detailed description of the man. Det

Nov 9, 2021 • 1:13:00

THE KILLER PSYCHE

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 a clinical psychiatric nurse and FBI Criminal Profiler to dissect the motivations and behaviors of the most terrifying felons in history. In a recent episode, Candace examines the mind of Ed Gein, the notorious murderer who inspired the movies "The

Nov 8, 2021 • 8:21

MONSTER-David McGrath

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. What the world could never have known is that Chapman did not act alone. He worked in concert with other serial predators unbeknownst to parents and law enforcement. Chapman was suspected in multiple child murders, and was a complet

Nov 6, 2021 • 1:35:20

WHAT EVIL LURKS-Donna Fielder

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 tiny Texas coastal town of Webster. Kelli Cox vanished from the police department parking lot in the Texas college town of Denton. Anjanette Sorrentino fled into woods in Harris County, trying to escape a man with murderous intentions. He caught her. Tiffany Johnston was raped

Oct 28, 2021 • 1:05:04

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

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 true when he offered to help boost her career. However, this mentorship quickly turned into sexual grooming, leading to years of physical, emotional, and sexual abuse.After struggling to free herself of the relationship and rebuild on her own, Lizzette

Oct 27, 2021 • 1:13:03

Introducing: SHADOW OF TRUTH

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 murdered during a school day, and yet no one saw or heard a thing. The police arrested the janitor, Roman Zadorov, and he eventually confessed, but this was far from being the end of it. Based on the hit true-crime series from Netflix, the podcast "Shadow of Truth" will

Oct 27, 2021 • 5:58

SERIAL SLAUGHTER ZODIAC KILLER-Anne Penn

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. "This is the Zodiac Speaking" & "This is the murderer of the 2 teenagers last Christmas at Lake Herman & the girl on the 4th of July." Making sure they knew his kills, connecting the dots for them. Fading

Oct 21, 2021 • 58:53

THE FLAT TIRE MURDERS-Michael P. Burns

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 found in canals. These cases became known as the Flat Tire Murders and the Canal Murders. Only one case was ever solved. More than four decades have passed since these crimes, and no arrests were ever made.This is the first book to explore these murders in depth, as well as a bi

Oct 20, 2021 • 1:01:24

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

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 trailer they shared with Vicky’s adult son. Or did she? According to police reports, Vicky called 911 and confessed to the crime.Was this another sad case of murder amongst addicts or something more?Betty Frizzell escaped her family’s legacy of crime,

Oct 12, 2021 • 1:11:20

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

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 justice, they uncover unsettling secrets about Joe, the local police department, and the village of Fox Lake. From Wondery, the makers of The Shrink Next Door and Dr. Death comes the third season of Over My Dead Body: Fox Lake. Hosted by Matt Baglio. Listen to Over My Dead Body: wondery.fm/FL_TrueMurder F

Oct 11, 2021 • 6:07

MYSTERY AT THE BLUE SEA COTTAGE-James Stewart

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 actor, and a debonair doctor.In January 1923, 20-year-old Fritzie Mann left home for a remote cottage by the sea to meet a man whose identity she had revealed to no one. The next morning, the barely clad body of the beautiful and bewitching dancer w

Oct 8, 2021 • 1:17:42

BRINGING DOWN CULLOTTA-David Bowman

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, Bowman tells us how he worked his way into the most elite criminal organization in Las Vegas. He recounts how he became the "point man" in the Las Vegas Organized Crime Strike Force's investigation of the Chicago Outfit and Tony Spilotro and his right-hand man Frank Cullo

Oct 5, 2021 • 1:36:47

TED BUNDY: Examining The Unconfirmed Survivor Stories-Erin Banks

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 reports with data compiled by investigators, psychologists and contemporaries of Ted Bundy, as found in police files, psychological assessments and relevant literature. Includes thorough investigations into the accounts of “Blondie”

Sep 29, 2021 • 1:02:56

INTRODUCING THIS IS ACTUALLY HAPPENING

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 Follow and comment on Facebook-TRUE MURDER: The Most Shocking Killers in True Crime History https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100064697978510Check out TRUE MURDER PODCAST @ truemurderpodcast.com

Sep 28, 2021 • 9:04

WATCH ME DIE-Bill Kimberlin

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 also eats meals with them and, in some cases, is the last person to speak with them before they are executed. From the moment they are placed on suicide watch until the moment they are pronounced dead right in front of him, Kimberlin will walk you through the

Sep 23, 2021 • 1:01:38

DEEP IN THE WOODS-Bryan Johnston

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 closet. The perps—a career bank robber, a petty thief, and his nineteen-year-old never-been-in-trouble Mormon wife—quickly become the targets of the biggest manhunt in Northwest history. The caper plays out like a Hollywood thriller with countless twists and improbable development

Sep 22, 2021 • 59:59

DEFENDING A SERIAL KILLER-Jim Potts

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, raped, and murdered. Michael Dee Mattson was convicted of these crimes and sentenced to death.Law clerk by day, family man by night.In 1982, Jim Potts—a brilliant, idealistic, African American law student—is honored when one of his professors

Sep 15, 2021 • 1:08:16

THE WHEELS OF JUSTICE-Renee Fehr

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 was convicted for murder.THE WHEELS OF JUSTICE is equal parts the story of a monstrous killer, a harrowing look at domestic violence, and an inspirational story of a family that wouldn’t quit until justice prevailed. THE WHEELS OF JUSTICE: The True Story of a 27-

Sep 8, 2021 • 1:10:39

REDHANDED-Suruthi Bala and Hannah Maguire

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, where they discovered a mutual obsession for all things true crime, Suruthi Bala and Hannah Maguire drunkenly promised to one day start their own murder podcast. Six weeks later they ordered their first microphones and the rest is history. From the hosts of the hit podcast

Sep 3, 2021 • 51:10

16 MINUTES-Diane Marger Moore

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 virtually unrecognizable. Then, they were told to look for a baby. What they discovered looked more like a monster from a horror film. The small skull had been incinerated, and the legs and arms were nothing more than charred stumps. The only identifiable hu

Sep 1, 2021 • 1:02:10

Introducing: SUSPECT

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: was it the guy in the devil mask, the guy dressed as Jesus, the bank robber, the construction worker? As a complex investigation winds its way through forensic evidence, witness testimony, DNA, and even a psychic, the police zero in on one suspect in particular -- but why? From

Aug 31, 2021 • 6:00

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

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 obsession and vengeance.Crimes fueled by emotions. Love, passion, obsession, jealousy, and betrayal. When it comes to the emotions, people can react in strange and unexpected ways. Whether it's a heart hurt by unrequited love, o

Aug 27, 2021 • 1:03:04

THE EAST RIVER RIPPER-George R. Dekle Sr.

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 confronted by his own Ripper-style murder case in the death of Carrie Brown, a.k.a. "Old Shakespeare," a colorful character who worked as a prostitute and had a penchant for quoting Shakespeare. Given the near-hysteria surrounding this vicious

Aug 24, 2021 • 1:26:26

THE IOWA MURDERS-Rod Kackley

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 men with nothing to lose. Completely random attacks. Neither case had anything else in common except they both shocked the nation and even the world.What’s worse, being murdered by a loved one or a stranger who jumps out of the bushes when you are most vulnerable?Previously published

Aug 20, 2021 • 55:01

Introducing-Dr. Death Season 3: Miracle Man

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. As Benita crosses professional lines to be with him, she learns how far Paolo will go to protect his secrets. And halfway around the world, four doctors at a prestigious medical institute make shocking discoveries of their own that call everything into questio

Aug 17, 2021 • 6:08

SOLVING THE WEST GEORGIA MURDER OF GWENDOLYN MOORE-Clay Bryant

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 along with his father, Buddy Bryant, Hogansville chief of police. The victim, Gwendolyn Moore, had been in a violent marriage. That was no secret. But her husband had connections to a political machine that held sway over the Troup County Sheriff's Office

Aug 16, 2021 • 1:05:03

SCRAPPED-Lisa Peebles and John O'Brien

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 the truth and exonerate Gary Thibodeau, the man convicted in the 1994 kidnapping and murder of 18-year-old Heidi Allen.Scrapped: Justice and a Teen Informant exposes the underbelly of a system built more for finality than justice. It's the tr

Aug 10, 2021 • 1:28:29

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

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 under the hot sun at Marriott’s Great America amusement park north of Chicago. On their drive home, the tired

Aug 5, 2021 • 1:11:25

DANNY ROLLING SERIAL KILLER-Sondra London

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 Serial Killer is revealed in a series of interviews and appearances including NBC Dateline, Court TV, talk radio and courtroom drama. Meoli shows off Rolling’s art, with a stunning painting Rolling called his Masterpiece and his hand-written explanation

Jul 30, 2021 • 1:19:59

RAGING ON-Paula May

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 entire city with his reign of terror in the lives of his ex-fiancé Kay Weden, a woman he refused to let go, her son Jason whom he despised, and her mother Catherine Miller who got in his way. In FIRST DEGREE RAGE, Underwood arrogantly evaded justice for h

Jul 29, 2021 • 1:00:53

Introducing The Grand Scheme: Snatching Sinatra

Introducing The Grand Scheme: Snatching Sinatra

Introducing The Grand Scheme: Snatching Sinatra Hosted and narrated by John Stamos, The Grand Scheme: Snatching Sinatra is a complicated, nuanced story of one imperfect man trying to redeem himself by pulling off the perfect crime. Did you ever feel like everything’s broken, and it’s your job to fix it? That’s how Barry Keenan was feeling back in 1963. He was broke, unemployed, hooked on booze and pills, and his family was falling apart. Barry needed a miracle. And against all odds, he got one.

Jul 27, 2021 • 9:00

THE BEST NEW TRUE CRIME STORIES-Mitzi Szereto

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 coworkers to doting parents. Some might be your jack-of-all-trades friend, or others might be your family member with an altruistic persona. The Best New True Crime Stories: Well-Mannered Crooks, Rogues

Jul 22, 2021 • 1:01:59

COLD BLOODED-Anita Paddock

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 Gentry, and Police Detective Ray Tate were discovered. They had been executed in cold blood and discarded like so much trash. What kind of person murders four people in cold blood? Did the right one go to prison? COLD BLOODED: A Chilling, True Tale of Terror, Rape and Mur

Jul 19, 2021 • 1:02:36

BOMBSHELL-Mike Rothmiller

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 legendary star's tumultuous personal involvement with him and his brother, President John Kennedy, and how they sought to silence her.The new evidence and testimony is provided by Mike Rothmiller who, as a detective of the Organized C

Jul 15, 2021 • 1:10:37

KILLER PSYCHE

KILLER PSYCHE

When a shocking crime occurs, people ask “WHY?” Was it about power, ego, or revenge? On KILLER PSYCHE, retired FBI criminal profiler Candice DeLong draws on her decades of experience to reveal why these murderers and criminals committed these acts. She will reveal fascinating new details about what drove these people, including cases she worked on first-hand. Candice has been called the FBI’s “real-life Clarice Starling,” and she will share specific psychological methods and profiling techniques

Jul 13, 2021 • 6:48

COUPLE FOUND SLAIN-Mikita Brottman

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 the devil. He was eventually diagnosed with schizophrenia and ruled “not criminally responsible” for the murders on grounds of insanity.But after the trial, where do the "criminally insane" go? Brottman reveals Brian's inner life leading up to the murder,

Jul 7, 2021 • 1:02:44

SEATTLE'S JUNGLE KILLER-Mike Ciesynski

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 whose mission it was to "hunt the men who hunt women". In this real-life murder investigation, you discover how Det. Ciesynski and his partners pursued a serial killer's trail, and how technique, persistence -- and luck -- prompted the killer to confess th

Jul 2, 2021 • 1:04:57

GRILLING DAHMER-Robyn Maharaj

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 one of America's most notorious serial killers, the "Milwaukee Cannibal" Jeffrey Dahmer.As the media clamored for details, Kennedy spent the next six weeks, sixteen hours a day, locked in an interrogation room with Dahmer. There the 31-year-old killer described

Jun 30, 2021 • 1:28:12

THE MURDER OF BIGGIE SMALLS-Cathy Scott

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. The Notorious B.I.G. exploded onto the hip-hop scene in 1995 with his platinum-selling album Ready to Die. Biggie Smalls, born Christopher Wallace and performing as Notorious B.I.G., grew up in the Bed-Stuy neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York

Jun 24, 2021 • 1:02:05

VICTIM F-Denise Huskins and Aaron Quinn

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 about what to do. Finally he put his trust in law enforcement and dialed 911. But instead of searching for Denise, the police accused Aaron of her murder. His story, they told him, was just unbelievable. When Denise was released alive, the police turned their fire on h

Jun 15, 2021 • 57:51

THE GHOST-Maureen Boyle

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 from the Police Department, and this was just an average traffic stop.Until it wasn’t.The devoted husband and father of two little boys was about to meet any law enforcement officer’s nightmare. Moments later, he would lay dying in a pool of his own blood on that

Jun 10, 2021 • 1:01:46

ROCHESTER'S MOST STARTLING CRIMES-Michael Benson

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 in the town of Chili. Read about serial killers Arthur Shawcross and Robert Bruce Spahalski, the savage murders of Kathy Bernhard and George-Ann Formicola, the all-in-the-family murders of Tabatha Brya

Jun 9, 2021 • 1:19:28

Introducing: THE DEVIL WITHIN

Introducing: THE DEVIL WITHIN

It’s a case that has haunted Jefferson Township, New Jersey, for more than 30 years. On a snowy January night, 14-year-old Tommy Sullivan did the unthinkable: he murdered his mother in cold blood, set fire to their house, and then took his own life.Out of the flames of this horrible tragedy, investigations revealed that Tommy was, himself, a part of a Satanic Cult, sparking a nationwide hysteria now known as the “Satanic Panic” This monumental moment in American culture led to communities nation

Jun 8, 2021 • 8:58

RAZOR WIRE WILDERNESS--Stephanie Dickinson

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 directly inside incarceration and face to face with inmates.Krystal Riordan watched as her boyfriend beat a teenage Jennifer Moore to death in a vermin-infested New Jersey hotel room. Could she have stopped it? Or could she be his next victi

Jun 4, 2021 • 1:12:42

COLD BLOODED-Frank Stanfield

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, too.Detectives and journalists swarming over three states soon uncovered a web of blood-drinking occult rituals, illicit sex, wildly dysfunctional families and spiritual warfare. Then, when police officers captured the teen

May 27, 2021 • 1:07:06

HARRY-Steve Daniels

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 normal teenager. A member of the high school track team, Harry harbored a deep resentment that would make its ugly appearance on a cold winter’s day in 1963. In systematically executing his family, Harry became the first documented teenage mass murder

May 19, 2021 • 1:03:08

THE DENVILLE 13-Peter Zablocki

THE DENVILLE 13-Peter Zablocki

Denville in the 1950s was an idyllic place to live, yet a dark chapter in the era's history has remained uncovered. During the summer of 1953, a wealthy traveler with a secret rap sheet as a convicted sex offender arrived in town to continue his misdeeds. A group of thirteen local boys ranging in age from fourteen to twenty-two took it upon themselves to teach the man a lesson and drive him out of town. What resulted was his brutal death and the largest number of people ever indicted for murder

May 13, 2021 • 1:06:29

DEATH ON OCEAN BOULEVARD-Caitlin Rother

DEATH ON OCEAN BOULEVARD-Caitlin Rother

I got a girl, hung herself in the guest house."The call came on the morning of July 13, 2011, from the historic Spreckels Mansion, a lavish beachfront property in Coronado, California, owned by pharmaceutical tycoon and multimillionaire Jonah Shacknai. When authorities arrived, they found the naked body of Jonah's girlfriend, Rebecca Zahau, gagged, her ankles tied and her wrists bound behind her. Jonah's brother, Adam, claimed to have found Rebecca hanging by a rope from the second-floor ba

May 12, 2021 • 1:11:49

FLIGHT 7 IS MISSING-Ken H. Fortenberry

FLIGHT 7 IS MISSING-Ken H. Fortenberry

Dubbed by The New York Times as one of the "most vexing and unexplained" mysteries in aviation history, the crash of Pan American World Airways Flight 7 in November 1957 resulted in 44 deaths and remains officially unsolved to this day. But Ken H. Fortenberry, an award-winning journalist whose father was the copilot and navigator aboard the ill-fated plane, has devoted nearly sixty years of his life to unraveling this cold-case mystery, and has come to a staggering conclusion: that the

May 5, 2021 • 1:08:28

THE NEW MENENDEZ DEFENDERS-Robert Rand

THE NEW MENENDEZ DEFENDERS-Robert Rand

Interest in the Menendez brothers’ case has exploded in the last few months. Over 770 million views on TikTok. The groundswell began in 2017 with the TV premieres of several documentaries and NBC’s eight-episode limited series Law & Order True Crime: The Menendez Murders.Social media users were overwhelmingly sympathetic to the brothers during the NBC show, which debuted during the early days of the #MeToo and #MenToo era.Investigative journalist and author Robert Rand's 2018 book The Menend

Apr 28, 2021 • 1:05:00

MURDER LOST TO TIME-Joseph A. Lapello

MURDER LOST TO TIME-Joseph A. Lapello

The year is 1917. Less than two decades into the new century and already the Great War is occurring in the muddy fields of France. Soon there will be the Spanish Influenza which will kill many more millions. An inauspicious start to a new millennium, to be sure. In one of Canada’s largest cities, Toronto, there has been a murder. A cab driver is found dead in west-end Toronto, stabbed multiple times. The cabbie’s name is Carmine Lapello (AKA Tony Lapello, Tony Ross), an Italian Canadian. Inquest

Apr 23, 2021 • 1:18:18

Introducing IN GOD WE LUST

Introducing IN GOD WE LUST

A woman named Becki is lounging by the pool at the Fontainebleau Hotel when she decides to proposition a strapping pool attendant. Go on a date with her...and her husband. What begins as an unconventional proposition will soon throw them all into the international spotlight. And that’s because the couple is none other than Jerry Falwell Jr. and his wife Becki, two of the most powerful figures in Evangelical America. Wondery presents In God We Lust, hosted by Brooke Siffrin and Aricia Skidmore-Wi

Apr 20, 2021 • 6:36

THE NAPA MURDER OF ANITA FAGIANI ANDREWS-Raymond A. Guadagni

THE NAPA MURDER OF ANITA FAGIANI ANDREWS-Raymond A. Guadagni

In 1974, the brutal murder of Anita Fagiani Andrews, a fifty-one-year-old former beauty queen and mother of two, shook the small working-class town of Napa. Detectives, criminalists and forensic experts raced to identify who'd struck Anita down in her own bar, but despite their efforts, the case went cold. Decades passed, during which the town grew into a world-renowned wine region and tourist destination, but the case remained an open question. After thirty-seven years, thanks to DNA evidence,

Apr 13, 2021 • 1:05:43

AT ANY COST-Selim Algar

AT ANY COST-Selim Algar

Wealthy, beautiful, and brilliant, Shele Danishefsky had fulfillment at her fingertips. Having conquered Wall Street, she was eager to build a family with her much younger husband, promising Ivy League graduate Rod Covlin. But when his hidden vices surfaced, marital harmony gave way to a merciless divorce. Rod had long depended on Shele's income to fund his tastes for high stakes backgammon and infidelity--and she finally vowed to sever him from her will. In late December 2009, Shele made an app

Apr 9, 2021 • 47:34

GAZING INTO THE ABYSS-Steve Daniels

GAZING INTO THE ABYSS-Steve Daniels

Law enforcement professionals and criminologists long have been challenged to arrive at a consensus over the most accurate ways to classify serial killers. With predators as diverse as the lesser-known William Zamastil to slick con artists such as Ted Bundy, one description certainly does not fit all when it comes to grouping the depraved minds that comprise America’s most prolific murderers.Veteran criminal profiler Steve Daniels takes a detailed look into the behavioral intricacies that separa

Apr 6, 2021 • 1:02:05

Introducing MY FUGITIVE

Introducing MY FUGITIVE

Nina Gilden Seavey was twelve on May 5, 1970, the day an Air Force building in St. Louis burned to the ground. Her dad represented a young man accused of the crime: Howard Mechanic. Facing serious federal time, Howard went on the run and became one of the longest-running fugitives in U.S. history. As an adult, Nina picked up the trail. What ever happened to Howard Mechanic?This eight-part series is the tangled story of her search for answers. Hundreds of Freedom of Information requests. Hundreds

Apr 5, 2021 • 4:39

THE ENIGMA OF TED BUNDY-Kevin Sullivan

THE ENIGMA OF TED BUNDY-Kevin Sullivan

If you want a view into the world that lies behind the Ted Bundy murders, this last work in a series of six books on Bundy, is definitely for you. For within these pages you’ll read of the many questions still surrounding this fascinating and intricate case, as well as the answers that are only now being provided here. There’s so much more to learn, and new information is still surfacing about Bundy, his victims and his potential victims. As such, there is new testimony included from those who h

Apr 1, 2021 • 1:36:16

Introducing: SPY AFFAIR

Introducing: SPY AFFAIR

A charismatic Russian woman arrives in the US on a mission to improve relations between the two countries, and she soon makes some powerful friends. But who is Maria Butina? And who is she working for? As Maria gets closer to the rich and connected she also attracts the attention of the FBI. In the politically charged world of US-Russia relations, everyone has secrets and almost nothing is what it seems. From Wondery, the makers of The Shrink Next Door and Dr. Death comes SPY AFFAIR a story abou

Mar 30, 2021 • 5:58

THE GOSPEL OF BLOOD-Nico Claux

THE GOSPEL OF BLOOD-Nico Claux

The Gospel of Blood is the autobiography of Nico Claux, a French morgue attendant whose morbid obsessions led him to grave robbery, cannibalism and murder in the early 1990s. It is a bone-chilling chronicle of a real-life vampire who prowled the Gothic cemeteries of Paris, unearthing coffins and mutilating the bodies inside. A practicing Satanist, Claux escalated to murder after working for a year in several morgues, receiving orders to kill from the corpses he had autopsied.The Gospel of Blood

Mar 28, 2021 • 1:41:52

THE ARKANSAS HITCHHIKE KILLER-Janie Nesbitt Jones

THE ARKANSAS HITCHHIKE KILLER-Janie Nesbitt Jones

Faulkner County native Red Hall was a serial killer who confessed to murdering at least twenty-four people. Most of his victims were motorists who picked him up as he hitchhiked around the United States. In the closing months of World War II, he beat his wife to death and went on a killing spree across the state. His signature smile lured his victims to their doom, and even after his capture, he maintained a friendly manner, being described by one lawman as "a pleasant conversationalist.&qu

Mar 27, 2021 • 1:38:41

Introducing: MAN-Slaughter

Introducing: MAN-Slaughter

MAN-Slaughter tells intertwining stories about how one gunshot on a cold Wisconsin night in 1970 dramatically changed multiple lives. A bullet brutally tore through decorated law enforcement veteran LaVerne Stordock. Decades later, his niece, Dorothy Marcic, transformed herself into an amateur detective in a quest for truth and closure about that night. At the center of Dorothy’s investigation is Suzanne Brandon, LaVerne’s second wife, who confessed to the shooting -- and who Dorothy believes co

Mar 17, 2021 • 6:12

'THE SON OF SAM' AND ME-Carl Denaro

'THE SON OF SAM' AND ME-Carl Denaro

In 1976, a killer who called himself ‘The Son of Sam’ shot and killed a half dozen people and wounded as many more in New York City. During his crime spree, the madman left bizarre letters mocking the police and promising more deaths.After months of terrorizing the city while garnering front-page headlines and international attention, a man named David Berkowitz was arrested. He confessed to the shootings, claiming to be obeying a demon that resided in a dog that belonged to his neighbor “Sam.”A

Mar 13, 2021 • 1:07:46

MANIAC-Harold Schechter

MANIAC-Harold Schechter

Harold Schechter, Amazon Charts bestselling author of Hell’s Princess, unearths a nearly forgotten true crime of obsession and revenge, and one of the first—and worst—mass murders in American history.In 1927, while the majority of the township of Bath, Michigan, was celebrating a new primary school—one of the most modern in the Midwest—Andrew P. Kehoe had other plans. The local farmer and school board treasurer was educated, respected, and an accommodating neighbor and friend. But behind his ord

Mar 12, 2021 • 1:06:30

THE BABYSITTER-Liza Rodman and Jennifer Jordan

THE BABYSITTER-Liza Rodman and Jennifer Jordan

Growing up on Cape Cod in the 1960s, Liza Rodman was a lonely little girl. During the summers, while her mother worked days in a local motel and danced most nights in the Provincetown bars, her babysitter—the kind, handsome handyman at the motel where her mother worked—took her and her sister on adventures in his truck. He bought them popsicles and together, they visited his “secret garden” in the Truro woods. To Liza, he was one of the few kind and understanding adults in her life. Everyone tho

Mar 9, 2021 • 1:17:56

COLD CASE STORY-Stephanie Kane

COLD CASE STORY-Stephanie Kane

Cold Case Story is based on the brutal murder of a housewife in the Denver suburbs in 1973. A college student back then, Stephanie Kane was more than a witness to this terrible crime. For nearly thirty years, she remained silent. Then, in 2001, she tried to exorcise the crime by fictionalizing it in a mystery novel called Quiet Time. But instead of laying the murder to rest, Quiet Time brought it roaring back to life.Cold Case Story is about a family that fractured along the fault lines of a mur

Mar 5, 2021 • 1:16:02

OUT OF THE MOUTHS OF SERIAL KILLERS-Mary Brett

OUT OF THE MOUTHS OF SERIAL KILLERS-Mary Brett

WHY DO SERIAL KILLERS KILL?OUT OF THE MOUTHS OF SERIAL KILLERS​ by author Mary Brett is as close as you will ever come to discovering the answer ... and in the killer’s own words!In this one-of-a-kind book, author Mary Brett corresponded with some of America’s most evil convicted serial killers and asked just one question: ​WHY? Their return letters give an insightful look into the dark mind of each killer. The reader also will be able to scrutinize direct quotes, unedited, from ​interrogation s

Feb 24, 2021 • 1:03:53

THE WICKED KING WICKER-Michael Benson

THE WICKED KING WICKER-Michael Benson

There was a time when New York City was dying a fast death. The slums were warzones, the government bankrupt and sputtering. Mobsters disassembled one another nightly and dropped hefty bags of mixed parts off the Canarsie pier. Gangs rumbled in the city’s playgrounds and ghost towns, each battle busted up by the sound of gunfire or a police siren. Co-eds were raped and sent home shattered. Wide swaths of real estate, former ghettos, were abandoned and left to the squatters. Times Square, once se

Feb 19, 2021 • 1:30:11

THE WESTSIDE PARK MURDERS-Keith Roysdon

THE WESTSIDE PARK MURDERS-Keith Roysdon

On a warm night in September 1985, teenagers Kimberly Dowell and Ethan Dixon were brutally murdered in Westside Park in Muncie, Indiana. Their killer has never been charged. Early on, police focused on a family member of one of the teens as a primary suspect. The investigation even ruled out fantastic scenarios, including a theory that the perpetrator was a Dungeons & Dragons devotee. The case grew cold. Only decades later did a dogged police investigator narrow the scope to a suspect whose

Feb 17, 2021 • 1:19:22

AMERICAN SERIAL KILLERS-Peter Vronsky

AMERICAN SERIAL KILLERS-Peter Vronsky

Fans of Mindhunter and true crime podcasts will devour these chilling stories of serial killers from the American "Golden Age" (1950-2000). With books like Serial Killers, Female Serial Killers and Sons of Cain, Peter Vronsky has established himself as the foremost expert on the history of serial killers. In this first definitive history of the "Golden Age" of American serial murder, when the number and body count of serial killers exploded, Vronsky tells the stories of the

Feb 10, 2021 • 1:04:56

SATIN PUMPS-Steve Kosareff

SATIN PUMPS-Steve Kosareff

It was the midcentury murder that fascinated a nation and kept it glued for two years to radio, television and newspapers through three trials.Did the handsome, wealthy doctor and his beautiful young paramour plan to kill his glamorous socialite wife?Or did the gun accidentally discharge as he claimed?Early in the evening on July 18, 1959, Dr. Bernard Finch and his girlfriend, Carole Ann Tregoff, drove from their Las Vegas love-nest to the Finch home in the Los Angeles suburb of West Covina to s

Feb 4, 2021 • 1:32:01

WILDER INTENTIONS-C.J. Wynn

WILDER INTENTIONS-C.J. Wynn

ANGILA WAS STABBED 44 TIMES.THIS WAS PERSONAL.On a November morning in 2015, Christopher Jackson waited for his fiancée, Angila Wilder, to pick him up from work as she always did. But this time, she didn’t show—and Christopher’s calls went unanswered. The police found what looked like a scene from a horror movie at their home. The backdoor kicked in. A bedroom splattered with blood. And a pregnant young woman violently stabbed to death.Could Christopher have murdered the woman he claimed to love

Jan 29, 2021 • 56:48

TRUE CRIME CHRONICLES-Volume 2-Mike Rothmiller

TRUE CRIME CHRONICLES-Volume 2-Mike Rothmiller

They were all subjects of true crime newspaper reporting in the 1800s. And now these stories and that of many others are brought together in their original form in a two-volume set: TRUE CRIME CHRONICLES: ​Serial Killers, Outlaws, and Justice ... Real Crime Stories From The 1800s.Compiled and commented on by New York Times bestselling author and former detective Mike Rothmiller, these classic works of journalism resurrect astonishing stories that will take the reader on a fascinating journey bac

Jan 28, 2021 • 1:04:03

Wondery Presents: THE APOLOGY LINE

Wondery Presents: THE APOLOGY LINE

If you could call a number and say you’re sorry, and no one would know…what would you apologize for? For fifteen years, you could call a number in Manhattan and do just that. This is the story of the line, and the man at the other end who became consumed by his own creation. He was known as “Mr. Apology.” As thousands of callers flooded the line, confessing to everything from shoplifting to infidelity, drug dealing to murder, Mr. Apology realized he couldn’t just listen. He had to do something,

Jan 19, 2021 • 6:46

BAD MEDICINE-Charlotte Bismuth

BAD MEDICINE-Charlotte Bismuth

In 2010, a brave whistleblower alerted the police to Dr. Stan Li’s corrupt pain management clinic in Queens, New York. Li spent years supplying more than seventy patients a day with oxycodone and , trading prescriptions for cash. Emergency room doctors, psychiatrists, and desperate family members warned him that his patients were at risk of death but he would not stop.In Bad Medicine, former prosecutor Charlotte Bismuth meticulously recounts the jaw dropping details of this criminal case that wo

Jan 18, 2021 • 1:13:45

THE RICHARD STREICHER JR. MURDER-Gregory Fournier

THE RICHARD STREICHER JR. MURDER-Gregory Fournier

During the depths of the Great Depression in Ypsilanti, Michigan, a seven-year-old boy is found frozen to death under the Frog Island footbridge in Depot Town after being reported missing the night before by his parents. Upon examination, the Washtenaw County coroner discovers the child is the victim of foul play.After three years of investigation, the Ypsilanti and Michigan state police are no closer to making an arrest than they were when Richard Streicher Jr.'s body was discovered. Local goss

Jan 15, 2021 • 1:35:44

THE SNOW KILLINGS-Marney Rich Keenan

THE SNOW KILLINGS-Marney Rich Keenan

Over 13 months in 1976-1977, four children were abducted in the Detroit suburbs, each of them held for days before their still-warm bodies were dumped in the snow near public roadsides. The Oakland County Child Murders spawned panic across southeast Michigan, triggering the most extensive manhunt in U.S. history. Yet after less than two years, the task force created to find the killer was shut down without naming a suspect. The case "went cold" for more than 30 years, until a chance di

Jan 15, 2021 • 1:31:56

THE MURDER OF KELSEY BERRETH-Rod Kackley

THE MURDER OF KELSEY BERRETH-Rod Kackley

A successful young mother, Kelsey Berreth, vanishes on Thanksgiving Day 2018. The FBI is afraid they’ll have to do a deal with the devil to find her. Kelsey, a pilot so good she taught the military how to fly, goes shopping at a Safeway store, and simply disappears. Her fiance, Patrick Frazee, says he doesn't have a clue. In fact, he says they broke up just a few days before. He's as mystified as everyone else. But Kelsey's mother, Cheryl, is afraid she knows what happened to her daughter. A tas

Jan 13, 2021 • 1:25:07

Introducing The Vanished

Introducing The Vanished

On the evening of October 6, 2019, Rosemary Rodriguez went to dinner with her boyfriend and her mother. On the way home, they dropped Rosemary's mother off and headed to her boyfriend's home. According to her boyfriend, Rosemary left his residence in Longview, Texas, after a brief argument. Two days later, a colleague called Rosemary's family to tell them she hadn't been to work, something very much out of character for Rosemary. Rosemary's family immediately called the police to report her miss

Jan 7, 2021 • 7:51

THE WOMAN WHO STOLE VERMEER-Anthony M. Amore

THE WOMAN WHO STOLE VERMEER-Anthony M. Amore

The extraordinary life and crimes of heiress-turned-revolutionary Rose Dugdale, who in 1974 became the only woman to pull off a major art heist.In the world of crime, there exists an unusual commonality between those who steal art and those who repeatedly kill: they are almost exclusively male. But, as with all things, there is always an outlier—someone who bucks the trend, defying the reliable profiles and leaving investigators and researchers scratching their heads. In the history of major art

Jan 6, 2021 • 1:03:27

TRUE CRIME CHRONICLES-Mike Rothmiller

TRUE CRIME CHRONICLES-Mike Rothmiller

What do Wyatt Earp, Belle Gunness, Big Foot the Renegade, Billy the Kid, and Dr. H.H. Holmes, and The Black Hand have in common?They were all subjects of true crime newspaper reporting in the 1800s, and now these stories and that of many others are brought together in their original form in a two-volume set: TRUE CRIME CHRONICLES: Serial Killers, Outlaws, and Justice … Real Crime Stories From The 1800s.Compiled and commented on by New York Times bestselling author Mike Rothmiller, these classic

Dec 30, 2020 • 1:05:55

FRED ROSEN TRUE CRIME RETROSPECTIVE-IN MEMORY OF

FRED ROSEN TRUE CRIME RETROSPECTIVE-IN MEMORY OF

*This interview was recorded in 2019. The late, great Fred Rosen passed away Dec. 2020.Fred Rosen is a former columnist for the Arts and Leisure Section of The New York Times. He is also one of the most important and successful figures in true crime writing, and the author of several true crime classics.He got off to an incredible start with Lobster Boy in 1995, Blood Crimes in 1996, and Gang Mom and The Mad Chopper both published in 1998. Deacon of Death was published in 2000, Needle Work in 20

Dec 25, 2020 • 1:28:14

TRIAL BY FIRE-Scott James

TRIAL BY FIRE-Scott James

All it took for a hundred people to die during a show by the hair metal band Great White was a sudden burst from four giant sparklers that ignited the acoustical foam lining the Station nightclub. But who was at fault? And who would pay? This being Rhode Island, the two questions wouldn't necessarily have the same answer.Within 24 hours the governor of Rhode Island and the local police chief were calling for criminal charges, although the investigation had barely begun, key evidence still needed

Dec 16, 2020 • 1:25:29

TERROR IN YPSILANTI-Gregory A. Fournier

TERROR IN YPSILANTI-Gregory A. Fournier

Between the summers of 1967 through 1969, before the term serial killer was coined, a predatory killer stalked the campuses of Eastern Michigan University and the University of Michigan seeking prey until he made the arrogant mistake of killing his last victim in the basement of his uncle's home. All-American boy John Norman Collins was arrested, tried, and convicted of the strangulation murder of Karen Sue Beineman. The other murders attributed to Collins never went to trial, with one exception

Dec 10, 2020 • 1:33:18

Wondery Presents: DEATH OF A STARLET

Wondery Presents: DEATH OF A STARLET

Nineteen eighty was going to be Dorothy Stratten’s year. Playboy’s Hugh Hefner thought it might even be her decade. She was just 20 years old, the girl next door with the shy smile and whispery voice who didn’t know her own beauty. But who was Dorothy really? And how did her rise to fame ultimately lead to her death? This is a six-part series about love, sex and murder in 1970s Hollywood when glitter pants and roller skates were all the rage, and the Playboy mansion hosted the biggest party in t

Dec 8, 2020 • 5:58

MY DADDY IS A HERO-Lena Derhally

MY DADDY IS A HERO-Lena Derhally

A husband. A father. A killer. Chris Watts was a family man. Everybody, including his family, believed that. Yet, on August 13, 2018, he murdered Shanann, his pregnant wife, and two young daughters, burying Shanann and their unborn son in a shallow grave and dumping their daughters’ bodies in separate oil tanks. As terrible as his story is, it is also a warning because, to this day, living behind bars, Watts is still acting out the character traits that made him kill in the first place.In this,

Dec 5, 2020 • 1:31:50

BEHIND THE HORROR-Dr. Lee Mellor

BEHIND THE HORROR-Dr. Lee Mellor

Uncover the twisted tales that inspired the big screen's greatest screams.Which case of demonic possession inspired The Exorcist? What horrifying front-page story generated the idea for A Nightmare on Elm Street? Which film was inspired by an 18th-century Japanese folktale? Unearth the terrifying and true tales behind some of the scariest horror movies to ever haunt our screens, including the Enfield poltergeist case that was retold in The Conjuring 2 and the serial killer who inspired Hannibal

Nov 25, 2020 • 1:37:39

THE KILLER'S SHADOW-John Douglas and Mark Olshaker

THE KILLER'S SHADOW-John Douglas and Mark Olshaker

The legendary FBI criminal profiler and international bestselling author of Mindhunter and The Killer Across the Table returns with this timely, relevant book that goes to the heart of extremism and domestic terrorism, examining in-depth his chilling pursuit of, and eventual prison confrontation with Joseph Paul Franklin, a White Nationalist serial killer and one of the most disturbing psychopaths he has ever encountered.Worshippers stream out of an Midwestern synagogue after sabbath services, u

Nov 18, 2020 • 1:32:12

REQUIEM FOR A FEMALE SERIAL KILLER-Phyllis Chesler

REQUIEM FOR A FEMALE SERIAL KILLER-Phyllis Chesler

This psychological crime thriller takes us inside the mind of a unique female serial killer, a prostitute who murdered seven adult men-a case with which the author was intimately involved. The issues raised by this high-profile criminal case remain unresolved to this day.Women, even prostitutes, have the right to self-defense in theory, but in practice, the story is more complicated.This book will challenge everything you ever thought about prostitutes, serial killers, and justice in America.Ail

Nov 12, 2020 • 1:16:38

Wondery Presents DO NO HARM

Wondery Presents DO NO HARM

Wondery (Dr. Death, Dirty John, The Shrink Next Door) and NBC News (Dateline, The Thing About Pam, Motive for Murder) present Do No Harm.The Bright family was thrust into a medical and legal system so committed to protecting vulnerable children from abuse, it failed to protect innocent parents. From the hospital room to the courtroom, we walk in the footsteps of the Bright family as they battle to keep their children and fight against a system determined to tear them apart.Listen today at:wonder

Nov 10, 2020 • 0:00

IF I CANT HAVE YOU-UPDATE-Rebecca Morris

IF I CANT HAVE YOU-UPDATE-Rebecca Morris

Every once in a great while a genuine murder mystery unfolds before the eyes of the American public. The tragic story of Susan Powell and her murdered boys, Charlie and Braden, is the only case that rivals the Jon Benet Ramsey saga in the annals of true crime. When the pretty, blonde Utah mother went missing in December of 2009 the media was swept up in the story – with lenses and microphones trained on Susan's husband, Josh. He said he had no idea what happened to his young wife, and that he an

Nov 4, 2020 • 1:34:56

MURDER TIMES SIX-Alan R. Warren

MURDER TIMES SIX-Alan R. Warren

It was a crime unlike anything seen in British Columbia. The horror of the "Wells Gray Murders" almost forty years ago transcends decades.On August 2, 1982, three generations of a family set out on a camping trip – Bob and Jackie Johnson, their two daughters, Janet, 13 and Karen, 11, and Jackie's parents, George and Edith Bentley. A month later, the Johnson family car was found off a mountainside logging road near Wells Gray Park completely burned out. In the back seat were the inciner

Oct 30, 2020 • 1:36:09

INTRODUCING: DR. DEATH SEASON 2

INTRODUCING: DR. DEATH SEASON 2

If someone you love is diagnosed with cancer you want them to get the best treatment from the best doctors. In 2013, patients in Michigan thought Farid Fata was that doctor. Between his prestigious education, years of experience and pleasant bedside manner, Fata was everything you could want in a doctor. But he was not who he appeared to be. From Wondery, this is the story of hundreds of patients in Michigan, a doctor, and a poisonous secret.Laura Beil, returns with a second season of the award-

Oct 27, 2020 • 0:00

THE MAKING OF A SERIAL KILLER-Sondra London

THE MAKING OF A SERIAL KILLER-Sondra London

The True Story of the 1990 Gainesville Student Murders in the Killer's Own Words. 2nd Edition. Murder confessions & drawings done on Death Row in Florida during the early 1990's. The man convicted of the vicious murders of five college students in Gainesville, Florida, discusses his motivations and actions in committing the crimes, reflects on what made him into a killer, and his struggle to come to terms with what he did.New prologue, new illustrations and a new preview of the companion vol

Oct 22, 2020 • 1:35:31

THE AGE OF ZODIAC-Michael Benson

THE AGE OF ZODIAC-Michael Benson

You probably know part of the Zodiac story. The guy killed five, wounded two, wrote letters in code, and drew tremendous press. There was a great movie about the case. But true crime veteran Michael Benson is taking a brand new look at that most-interesting of cold cases, coming from the mindset that the Zodiac’s combination of diverse killing styles, codemaking, and letter writing means more than one guy was involved. The Zodiac has team-work written all over it. And so, perhaps, a Zodiac Club.

Oct 17, 2020 • 1:31:20

THE CORPSEWOOD MANOR MURDERS IN NORTH GEORGIA-Amy Petulla

THE CORPSEWOOD MANOR MURDERS IN NORTH GEORGIA-Amy Petulla

Author Amy Petulla uncovers the curious case that left two men dead and the incredible story still surrounded by controversy, speculation and myth.In 1982, Tony West and Avery Brock made a visit to notorious Corpsewood Manor under the pretense of a celebration. They brutally murdered their hosts. Dr. Charles Scudder and companion Joey Odom built the "castle in the woods" in the Trion forest after Scudder left his position as professor at Loyola. He brought with him twelve thousand dose

Oct 14, 2020 • 1:32:29

FRANCIS "TWO GUN" CROWLEY'S KILLINGS IN NEW YORK AND LONG ISLAND-Jerry Aylward

FRANCIS "TWO GUN" CROWLEY'S KILLINGS IN NEW YORK AND LONG ISLAND-Jerry Aylward

On a May morning in 1931, Nassau County police officer Fred Hirsch was gunned down by the notorious New York City gangster Francis Crowley. Nicknamed "Two Gun" for tricking and murdering cops with a second loaded firearm, Crowley left a bloody trail from the Bronx to Long Island. He shot and wounded two men at a local dance hall and a New York City police detective and murdered one of Nassau County's finest. Eventually, he was tracked to a hideout in Manhattan, where a two-hour gun bat

Oct 6, 2020 • 1:32:37

Wondery Presents CLICK BAIT With BACHELOR NATION

Wondery Presents CLICK BAIT With BACHELOR NATION

Everyone loves a good bit of gossip. Go inside the juiciest stories on Click Bait with Bachelor Nation. Hosts Tayshia Adams, Hannah Ann Sluss and Joe Amabile, know what it's like to live in the spotlight. They’ve seen that fame can mean being praised, adored, and sabotaged. Sometimes all in the same day! On Click Bait, they share what they’ve learned from their wild days at Bachelor Mansion to bring you a new kind of celebrity news podcast. Each week, they break down the biggest stories in pop c

Oct 1, 2020 • 6:20

FURIOUS HOURS-Casey Cep

FURIOUS HOURS-Casey Cep

Reverend Willie Maxwell was a rural preacher accused of murdering five of his family members for insurance money in the 1970s. With the help of a savvy lawyer, he escaped justice for years until a relative shot him dead at the funeral of his last victim. Despite hundreds of witnesses, Maxwell’s murderer was acquitted—thanks to the same attorney who had previously defended the Reverend. Sitting in the audience during the vigilante’s trial was Harper Lee, who had traveled from New York City to her

Sep 28, 2020 • 1:07:57

KILLING WOMEN-Rod Sadler

KILLING WOMEN-Rod Sadler

Will A Serial Killer Soon Walk The Streets Again?Don Miller was quiet and reserved. As a former youth pastor, he seemed a devout Christian. No one would have ever suspected that the recent graduate of the Michigan State University School of Criminal Justice was a serial killer.However, when Miller was arrested for the attempted murder of two teenagers in 1978, police quickly realized he was probably responsible for the disappearances of four women. Offered a still-controversial plea bargain, he

Sep 25, 2020 • 1:32:29

KILLER CULTS-Joyce and Stephen Singular

KILLER CULTS-Joyce and Stephen Singular

What's scarier than a murderer? Someone with the charisma to compel others to kill for them . . . or to kill themselves. Meet these cult leaders--and get an inside look at their beliefs and how they controlled others.Some cults, led by leaders like Charlie Manson, Jim Jones, and David Koresh, are notorious. But others are less well known, such as Shoko Asahara and his doomsday cult, Aum Shinrikyo, who orchestrated the sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway. Or Joseph Di Mambro and Luc Jouret, who

Sep 16, 2020 • 1:05:28

"Wondery Presents Even The Rich: The Kennedys"

"Wondery Presents Even The Rich: The Kennedys"

On July 19th, 1969, Senator Edward Kennedy, scion of the greatest political dynasty in modern America, drove his Oldsmobile into a pond. He escaped. But his passenger, a woman named Mary Jo Kopechne, drowned. In the days that followed, he leveraged the Kennedy political machine to shield himself from scrutiny and safeguard his presidential aspirations. As the investigation progressed, his story about the events leading up to the crash started to fall apart. Soon he faced accusations that not eve

Sep 15, 2020 • 5:13

THE ATLANTA RIPPER-Jeffery Wells

THE ATLANTA RIPPER-Jeffery Wells

An examination of the unsolved mystery of the Jack the Ripper-style serial killer who terrified early 20th century Atlanta, Georgia.As Atlanta finished rebuilding after the Civil War, a new horror arose from the ashes to roam the night streets. Beginning in 1911, a killer whose methods mimicked the famed Jack the Ripper murdered at least twenty black women, from prostitutes to working-class women and mothers. Each murder attributed to the killer occurred on a Saturday night, and for one terrifyi

Sep 12, 2020 • 1:08:34

THE FIRST CELEBRITY SERIAL KILLER IN SOUTHWEST OHIO-Richard O. Jones

THE FIRST CELEBRITY SERIAL KILLER IN SOUTHWEST OHIO-Richard O. Jones

Just before Christmas 1902, Alfred Knapp strangled his wife in her sleep. He put her body in a box and sent the box floating down the Great Miami River, telling everyone that Hannah had left him. When the truth came out, Knapp confessed to four other murders. Newspapers across the Midwest sent reporters to interview the handsome strangler. Despite spending most of his adulthood in prison, he had a charming, boyish manner that made him an instant celebrity serial killer. True crime historian Rich

Sep 10, 2020 • 1:27:53

THE JERSEY SHORE THRILL KILLER-John E. O'Rourke

THE JERSEY SHORE THRILL KILLER-John E. O'Rourke

Beachgoers usually dread riptides and rainy days, but from 1974 to 1983, a different fear gripped the New Jersey Shore: young women were disappearing. Their abductor was Richard Biegenwald, a man released for good behavior after serving seventeen years in prison for murder and spending time in a psychiatric facility. Police arrested him on suspicion of rape, and it was not until they connected him to a woman's death in Asbury Park that he finally stopped his rampage. Investigators later linked h

Sep 9, 2020 • 1:32:49

TRUE

TRUE

“TRUE - A podcast that features the strange, unique, and often wacky side of criminality. These are the stories that will make you wonder if they came from Hollywood - or if Hollywood took it from them.” Follow and comment on Facebook-TRUE MURDER: The Most Shocking Killers in True Crime History https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100064697978510Check out TRUE MURDER PODCAST @ truemurderpodcast.com

Sep 8, 2020 • 3:51

TO KILL OR BE KILLED-Joni Ankerson

TO KILL OR BE KILLED-Joni Ankerson

Obviously, I knew better than to take a life — but that was before. Before him.The day we met in October of 1997, I was working at the District Court in Traverse City, Michigan as a Deputy Clerk. It was like most other days with arraignments, sentencings, civil case hearings and the like. People shuffling in and out, everyone taking care of their important business with court appearances, document filings, paying tickets, fines and bonding loved ones out of jail.I loved my job. It was extremely

Sep 4, 2020 • 1:35:45

THE BAD BOYS OF BUTLER COUNTY-Sarah Sexton Miller

THE BAD BOYS OF BUTLER COUNTY-Sarah Sexton Miller

In the 1890s, a "band of robbers" terrorized Butler County, running illegal beer joints, bilking the railroad, robbing businesses and the elderly, and murdering anyone who got in their way. It is the last decade of the 1800s. Fears of Jack the Ripper, still uncaptured, have White Chapel and the rest of London on edge. Yet across the ocean, in a small southern town in Alabama, murder runs so rampant, even England is reporting the news. THE BAD BOYS OF BUTLER COUNTY: A Band of Robbers: T

Sep 2, 2020 • 1:02:18

END GAME-GOLDEN STATE KILLER-Anne Penn

END GAME-GOLDEN STATE KILLER-Anne Penn

End Game of The Most Dangerous Game GOLDEN STATE KILLER takes you through the journey of trying to find a serial cat burglar, a serial rapist and a serial killer. After a lifetime of tracing and tracking, waiting and watching one of the most dangerous serial killers the State of California has ever seen, Anne Penn takes us through the chapters including the guilty pleas of Joseph James DeAngelo June 29, 2020. End Game at last, the criminal will spend his final days in prison. This is the place h

Aug 28, 2020 • 1:05:27

SEATTLE'S FORGOTTEN SERIAL KILLER-Cloyd Steiger

SEATTLE'S FORGOTTEN SERIAL KILLER-Cloyd Steiger

In 1969, the body of a young woman was discovered in the woods of Renton, rocking the communities along Puget Sound. Three more brutal murders followed, drawing the attention of multiple police agencies as they tried to piece together the meager clues left behind. The seemingly unrelated cases challenged detectives, who struggled to realize they were all connected to one man: Gary Gene Grant. Before the term "serial killer" was even coined, Grant stalked his prey, destroying lives and

Aug 18, 2020 • 1:03:11

WITH ONE SHOT-Dorothy Marcic

WITH ONE SHOT-Dorothy Marcic

The lovely widow had confessed to the coldblooded murder of her husband. But Dorothy Marcic suspected a more sinister tale at the heart of her beloved uncle’s violent death. The brutal murder of LaVerne Stordock, a respected family man and former police detective, shocked his Wisconsin community. On the surface, the case seemed closed with the confession of Stordock’s wife, Suzanne. But the trail of secrets and lies that began with his death did not end with his widow’s insanity plea. Dorothy Ma

Aug 13, 2020 • 1:04:23

THE BUNDY MURDERS-Part 2-Kevin M. Sullivan

THE BUNDY MURDERS-Part 2-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. This in-depth examination of Bundy's life and his killing spree that totalled dozens of victims is drawn from legal transcripts, correspondence and interviews with detectives and prosecutors. Using these sources, new informati

Aug 11, 2020 • 1:32:39

THE BUNDY MURDERS-Part 1-Kevin M. Sullivan

THE BUNDY MURDERS-Part 1-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. This in-depth examination of Bundy's life and his killing spree that totalled dozens of victims is drawn from legal transcripts, correspondence and interviews with detectives and prosecutors. Using these sources, new informati

Aug 5, 2020 • 1:32:46

THE WORLD ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SERIAL KILLERS-Susan Hall

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 killers from around the world.Defined by the FBI as a person who murders 3 or more people over a period of time with a hiatus of weeks or months between murders, serial killers have walked among us from the dawn of time as these books will demonstrate. While the entr

Jul 31, 2020 • 1:03:16

The Sneak S2

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 even more murders, and an even darker story.Subscribe today: http://wondery.fm/thesneak_truemurder

Jul 29, 2020 • 5:41

HELL IN THE HEARTLAND-Jax Miller

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, and an unimaginable truth...On December 30, 1999, in rural Oklahoma, sixteen-year-old Ashley Freeman and her best friend, Lauria Bible, were having a sleepover. The next morning, the Freeman family trailer was in flames and both girls were m

Jul 27, 2020 • 50:41

TIL DEATH DO US-Patrick Gallagher

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 May 20, 1946. After a passion-filled three-day weekend together, the doctor returned to his home in Idaho, and Gladys returned to Sacramento … and to her husband, Leslie Lincoln! But Gladys was much more than a bigamist.Gladys

Jul 24, 2020 • 1:34:02

Wondery Presents GURU:The Dark Side of Enlightenment

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 was an Oprah-endorsed self-help teacher who achieved fame, fortune, and influence. But friends and family members of his followers questioned his unorthodox methods, and tried to stop him. From Wondery, the makers of “Dirty John,” “Dr. Death,” and “The Shrink Next Door,” come

Jul 20, 2020 • 6:24

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES-Harold Schechter

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 for Mr. Goodbar; the high school horrors committed by the costumed slasher in Scream. These and other cinematic crimes have become part of pop-culture history. And each found inspiration in tr

Jul 17, 2020 • 1:09:30

ONCE UPON A TIME...IN THE VALLEY

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 her door. Traci Lords was really Nora Kuzma, who entered the industry as a 15-year-old high school sophomore. Traci, the victim, was saved. And the industry, the villain, was very nearly destroyed. But what if the victim here was also the villain; the villain, also the vi

Jul 14, 2020 • 4:54

THE BEST NEW TRUE CRIME STORIES-Mitzi Szereto

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 our towns.Small towns aren’t always what they seem. We’ve been told nothing bad happens in small towns. You can leave your doors unlocked, and your windows wide open. We picture peaceful hamlets with a strong sense of community, and everyon

Jul 13, 2020 • 1:02:30

HOW TO CATCH A KILLER-Katherine Ramsland

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 a serial killer are the same. Sometimes, the killers make crucial mistakes; other times, investigators get lucky. And the process of profiling, hunting, and apprehending these predators has changed radically over time, particularly in the field of criminal forensics, which has exploded in the

Jul 10, 2020 • 1:25:54

WANNA'BE COP KILLER-Dan Zupansky

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 and with the resulting personal restrictions Wortman was not allowed to work. He felt it necessary to stockpile food, firearms and $800 dollars in gasoline. He also decided to transfer money from his bank account to a Brink's

Jul 6, 2020 • 36:59

Wondery Presents GURU:The Dark Side of Enlightenment

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 was an Oprah-endorsed self-help teacher who achieved fame, fortune, and influence. But friends and family members of his followers questioned his unorthodox methods, and tried to stop him. From Wondery, the makers of “Dirty John,” “Dr. Death,” and “The Shrink Next Door,” come

Jul 1, 2020 • 6:23

OPERATION JACKNAP-Jack Teich

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 around his head to cover his eyes. His captors demanded that his wife, Janet, drop a bag with $750,000 (the equivalent of four million dollars in today’s currency) in a locker at Penn Station, making the Jack Teich ransom one of the highest in U.S. history at the ti

Jun 26, 2020 • 1:29:27

BOY MISSING-Rebecca Morris

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 the attention of parents around the world. The twists of the case -adultery, sexting, murder-for-hire-keep the story in the media spotlight. New York Times bestselling author Rebecca Morris tells the minute-by-minute, day-by-da

Jun 19, 2020 • 1:09:14

MURDER IN HOLLYWOODLAND-by Wondery

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 some of Hollywood's most scandalous affairs, backroom deals, and underground drug dens. This real life Murder Mystery is one of the most iconic "whodunnit" cases of the 20th century that will leave you guessing and second guessing who killed William Desmond Taylor for weeks to co

Jun 17, 2020 • 4:55

EVIL AT LAKE SEMINOLE-Steven B. Epstein

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 Lake Seminole, where he’d go to relax after a stressful workweek. The Florida State grad was juggling fatherhood with a thriving real estate appraisal career. And that very evening, he and his high school sweetheart, Denise, planned to celebrate their sixth weddin

Jun 16, 2020 • 1:16:10

TORTURED WITH LOVE-J.T. Hunter

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 led her all the way to the electric chair.This is the tragic story of the Lonely Hearts Killers. TORTURED WITH LOVE: The True Crime Romance of the Lonely Hearts Killers-J.T. Hunter Follow and comment on Facebook-TRUE MURDER: The Most Shocking Killers in True Crime History &n

Jun 10, 2020 • 1:18:17

MOSQUITO POINT ROAD-Michael Benson

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, and Pure/Evil. Three of the killers are female. MOSQUITO POINT ROAD: Monroe County Murder & Mayhem-Michael Benson Follow and comment on Facebook-TRUE MURDER: The Most Shocking Killers in True Crime History https://www.facebook.com/

Jun 4, 2020 • 1:23:40

HUNTING WHITEY-Dave Wedge

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 and Vito Genovese—and a longtime FBI informant. The leader of Boston’s Winter Hill Gang and #1 on the FBI’s Most Wanted list, Bulger was indicted for nineteen counts of murder, racketeering, narcotics distribution, and extortion. B

May 28, 2020 • 1:06:02

INTRODUCING HOPE IN DARKNESS

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 prison in the heart of Caracas, known for torture, physical violence and overcrowding. They would spend the next two years there. With the help of journalist Becky Bruce, Josh tells the story of how they managed to find Hope in Darkness. Subscribe today: wondery.fm/true

May 27, 2020 • 9:58

CAITLIN ROTHER TRUE CRIME RETROSPECTIVE-Caitlin Rother

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 freelancer for the Los Angeles Times. Beginning in 1993, she worked as a metro news and investigative reporter for The San Diego Union-Tribune. Caitlin left the paper to write non-fiction books in 2006. Caitlin Rother became a Pulitzer-nominated investigative journalist,

May 26, 2020 • 1:33:53

KIDNAPPED BY A CLIENT-Sharon Muse

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 a manufactured dialogue from a thriller but the words of attorney Sharon Muse. They came after she survived an attempted kidnapping, rape, and murder at the hands of Hank Morrison, a former client. On April 7, 2006, Muse miraculously escaped from the sociopathic Morrison, only to find that the threat

May 19, 2020 • 1:35:25

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

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 veterans’ advocate who was found shot to death in the bedroom of her home in Linwood, the affluent town just outside Atlantic City, New Jersey, in May of 2012. In the months leading up to her death, she had uncovered a tangled web of deceit surrounding her husband. She fea

May 14, 2020 • 1:33:14

JOHN WAYNE GACY: HUNTING A PREDATOR-John Borowski

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 men were unearthed on Gacy’s property. Another 4 bodies were pulled from the river where Gacy dumped them off the Smith Bridge in Channahon, Illinois, bringing the body count to 33 total. In 1978 Gacy held the title of America’s most prolific s

May 5, 2020 • 1:03:20

MAYBE YOU DIE-Nancy Lee

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 hand. As soon as the words are uttered, the palm reader’s facial expression turns to one of fear. In broken English, she whispers, “Break – very bad break in middle of life. Maybe you die.”Nina does come close to death at age thirty-four when she and her family are involved in a serious

May 2, 2020 • 1:29:34

LOSING JON-David Parrish

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 brother since they were boys. He had coached them on the baseball field and welcomed them into his home for sleepovers with his own sons. However, when David learned how Jon’s body was found, he felt compelled to find the facts behind this incomprehensible tragedy.

Apr 29, 2020 • 1:29:04

A TANGLED WEB-Leslie Rule

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 while her dying father took his last breaths. Yet, the many texts from her phone indicated she had done just that.It appeared that Cari had dumped her new boyfriend, quit her job, and relinquished custody of her son to her mother—all by text. While Cari

Apr 24, 2020 • 58:37

AMERICAN SCANDAL by WONDERY

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” he explores an eastern religion with pure intentions that, in the hands of its western followers, became a criminal enterprise of drug running, molestation and murder. For the full episode go to: https://www.spreaker.com/show/truemurderTrue Murde

Apr 22, 2020 • 5:43

FIRST DEGREE RAGE-Paula May

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 are the senseless attacks on her only son and the shot fired in the night through a wall of her house, which narrowly misses his head as he sleeps.Kay’s new love interest is the charming Viktor Gunnarsson. He’s a handsome Swede who left his home co

Apr 14, 2020 • 1:28:45

KILLER FICTION-Sondra London

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 young lovers will, they went their separate ways. She thought she'd never see him again.Then in 1972 came the screaming headlines: “6 Dead, 28 May Be,” and the ghoulish stories about the smiling cop turned sadistic killer and corpse-loving fiend, hoarding mementos of his mutilated vic

Apr 11, 2020 • 1:36:14

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

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 town, the days-old bodies of two local men were found on a hillside overlooking a lake south of town. Nearby was a woman's body, a tire jack shoved into her genitals. Author Terrance Ryerson Neal discovered the crime in 2014, forty-eight years after it happened, and still unsolved. Now,

Apr 3, 2020 • 1:31:06

STEPHEN AND JOYCE SINGULAR TRUE CRIME RETROSPECTIVE

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 Stone film, “Talk Radio", and set the tone for his journalistic career. Since 1991, Denver native Joyce Jacques Singular has partnered with Stephen on eight of the true-crime books. The 1995 study of the O.J. Simpson case, Legacy of Deception, went beneath the media h

Mar 26, 2020 • 1:28:24

JOE EXOTIC by WONDERY

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 biggest of all is the owner of a big cat sanctuary in Florida named Carole Baskin. The feud between Joe Exotic and Carole gets messy, vicious, and outrageous -- until both of them are pushed far beyond their limits. From Wondery, comes ‘Joe Exotic: Tiger King’, the story about two

Mar 24, 2020 • 5:39

THE "SUPREME GENTLEMAN" KILLER-Brian Whitney

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 he were rich, then women would throw themselves at him. In fact, he thought himself to be “The Supreme Gentleman.”Yet, women paid no attention to him. His only conclusion was that they were genetically flawed, and because of this they ignored him and threw t

Mar 23, 2020 • 1:12:30

THE BODY SNATCHER'S WIFE-Barbra Reifel

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 world-infamous crime.Barbra Reifel, former wife of notorious Body Snatcher Michael Mastromarino, has appeared on Oprah, Nancy Grace, ID Discovery, and Lifetime. Never before has her raw account been laid so bare. Fairytale shattered, deceit and danger beyond her wi

Mar 18, 2020 • 1:31:41

EVEN THE RICH-WONDERY

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 look at the stories of some of the greatest family dynasties in history. From the Murdochs to the Royals, and the Kardashians to the Kennedy’s, Even the Rich is part history, part comedy, part gossip, and all fascinating. Listen today: wondery.fm/truemurderET

Mar 17, 2020 • 8:58

BEAST OF NEW CASTLE-Larry Sells and Margie Porter

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, when his body would be ripped apart with bullets."Maybe the youngest son of a violent criminal named Hoggy Thompson was born a beast. Maybe rage was beaten into him.One thing was certain, by the time he reached manhood, Jerry Thompson was a savage killer.

Mar 16, 2020 • 1:13:33

THE TRIALS OF ALBERT STROEBEL-Chad Reimer

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 covering his forehead around a jagged black hole. The shocked neighbour who discovered the body rushed to summon the authorities. An autopsy, coroner's inquest and murder investigation followed. Two days later, a handyman named Albert Stroebel was arrested for

Mar 12, 2020 • 1:31:04

DOOMSDAY CULTS-Alan R. Warren

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 Order of the Solar Temple lured the rich and famous, including Princess Grace of Monaco, and convinced them to die a fiery death now on Earth to be reborn on a better planet called Sirius. Charles Manson convinced his followers to kill, in an attempt to incite an apocalyp

Mar 6, 2020 • 1:34:00

THE DATING GAME KILLER

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 Tracy Pattin (Hollywood & Crime) and Stephen Lang (Avatar, Don’t Breathe) take listeners on an unbelievable journey into Alcala’s twisting secret life. He hid behind normal jobs as a typesetter at a prominent newspaper and a summer camp counselor. How did this predatory monster fool e

Mar 5, 2020 • 8:25

GONE AT MIDNIGHT-Jake Anderson

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 the hotel yielded nothing. More than a week later, complaints by guests of foul-smelling tap water led to a grim discovery: Elisa’s nude body floating in a rooftop water tank, in an area extremely difficult to access without setting off alarms. The only c

Mar 4, 2020 • 1:02:24

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

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 led him to the defense of Angelo Buono in the Hillside Strangler case; and what happened in his personal life as a result of his attempts to expose the systematic cover-up in California V. Angelo Buono. The single most important clue in the case came from the statement of a

Feb 28, 2020 • 1:31:37

MICHAEL BENSON TRUE CRIME RETROSPECTIVE-Michael Benson

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 Dannemora, Nightmare In Rochester, Haunting Homicides and The Devil at Genesee Junction--tell vividly of today's most heinous criminals, and the clever and stalwart lawmen who bring them to justice. He is currently a regular commentator for tw

Feb 24, 2020 • 1:25:24

AMERICAN SHERLOCK-Kate Winkler Dawson

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 Holmes,” Edward Oscar Heinrich was one of America’s greatest–and first–forensic scientists, with an uncanny knack for finding clues, establishing evidence, and deducing answers with a skill that seemed almost supernatural.Heinrich was

Feb 19, 2020 • 55:13

EVIL DESIRES-Dean T. Olson

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 safety of anyone else and see ordinary people as either targets or competitors. They have no hesitation taking what they want from their victims. Whether they are rapists, pedophiles, or murderers, these monsters will do whatever it takes to get their needs met and t

Feb 18, 2020 • 1:12:11

DIANE FANNING TRUE CRIME RETROSPECTIVE-Diane Fanning

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 the infamous Casey Anthony case. For the work she began with Through The Window about serial killer Tommy Lynn Sells, she received the "Defender of Innocence" award from the Downstate Illinois Innocence Project.Diane's 14 true crim

Feb 13, 2020 • 1:02:22

WONDERY PRESENTS DYING FOR SEX

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, Molly shares the details of her hilarious escapades in a story about friendship, death, and what you do with the time you have left. From Wondery, the creators of Dirty John and The Moment comes Dying For Sex. Listen now at: wondery.fm/truemurderDFS

Feb 12, 2020 • 7:35

DEVIL'S PLAYGROUND-Nova West

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 mother and daughter to go beyond the official version to search for the truth. As they delved deeper into the story of this murder and conviction, they found themselves asking, how many victims came out of this tragedy, and how many perpetrators? Why did it feel lik

Feb 11, 2020 • 1:24:41

18 TINY DEATHS-Bruce Goldfarb

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 wealthy and influential Chicago family in the 1870s, was never meant to have a career, let alone one steeped in death and depravity.Yet she developed a fascination with the investigation of violent crimes, and made it her life's work. Best known f

Feb 7, 2020 • 1:11:04

THE GARDEN STATE PARKWAY MURDERS-Christian Barth

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 bodies left off the parkway in the early hours of May 30, 1969.Among the numerous suspects Barth identifies are infamous serial killers Ted Bundy and Gerald Eugene Stano, who were living within an hour’s drive from the murder scene at the time they occ

Jan 29, 2020 • 1:32:03

ARC ROAD-Tony Tiffin

ARC ROAD-Tony Tiffin

The Gwinnett County, Georgia, Police Department was formed by tough, honorable men who were brought in to clean up the county after the sheriff made moonshining his personal business. With a low budget—officers had to buy their own uniforms, guns, even bullets—the police had to take anyone with a pulse who could stand upright. Even with the odds against them, the police department grew into a force feared by the criminals and respected by county citizens.Late one night in spring of 1964, the pol

Jan 21, 2020 • 1:28:08

DUCT TAPE KILLER-Phil and Sandy Hamman

DUCT TAPE KILLER-Phil and Sandy Hamman

When Piper Streyle failed to show up for work, a coworker called her home. Piper’s three-and-a-half-year-old daughter, Shaina, answered and said, “A mean man carried Mommy away.” Then the line went dead. In the tranquil region of southeast South Dakota, word of the young mother who was brazenly abducted from her home in broad daylight shocked residents. Piper was the second woman to vanish, following the startling incident of a young woman who narrowly escaped abduction by fighting for her life

Jan 17, 2020 • 1:30:38

FRED ROSEN TRUE CRIME RETROPSPECTIVE-Fred Rosen

FRED ROSEN TRUE CRIME RETROPSPECTIVE-Fred Rosen

Fred Rosen is a former columnist for the Arts and Leisure Section of The New York Times. He is also one of the most important and successful figures in true crime writing, and the author of several true crime classics.He got off to an incredible start with Lobster Boy in 1995, Blood Crimes in 1996, and Gang Mom and The Mad Chopper both published in 1998. Deacon of Death was published in 2000, Needle Work in 2001. Both Body Dump and Flesh Collectors were published in 2002. The Historical Atlas o

Jan 14, 2020 • 1:24:41

BURL BARER RETROSPECTIVE-Burl Barer

BURL BARER RETROSPECTIVE-Burl Barer

Burl Barer definitely is a legendary figure in true crime writing and broadcasting, co-hosting the very first true crime podcast, True Crime Uncensored. He is an Edgar Award winning author and two-time Anthony Award nominee. Burl Barer is the author of 9 truly important true crime books.In 2000, Murder in the Family was published, In 2004, Broken Doll, In 2008, Mom Said Kill. In 2011, Fatal Beauty, In 2012, Body Count and also Head Shot were published, Man Overboard in 2014, and with co-author F

Jan 9, 2020 • 1:33:21

REIGN OF INJUSTICE-David M. Beers

REIGN OF INJUSTICE-David M. Beers

On September 12, 2001, Michele Harris went missing from a small town in upstate New York. She has never been found, and the mystery surrounding her disappearance remains. Four years after she went missing, her wealthy husband, Cal Harris, was arrested and charged with her murder.With neither a body nor a murder weapon, Cal was shockingly tried and convicted of her murder. Then new evidence surfaced. His conviction was overturned, and a new trial granted. But once again, he was convicted and sent

Jan 7, 2020 • 1:31:06

THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE TED BUNDY MURDERS-Kevin Sullivan

THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE TED BUNDY MURDERS-Kevin Sullivan

"Sullivan's A-to-Z coverage of Ted Bundy provides a solid guide to the people and places that define the man and the monster, including some not present in other Bundy narratives. It nicely rounds out his Bundy oeuvre and gives readers an extensive reference tool on one of the world's most infamous serial killers." - Katherine Ramsland, author of Confession of a Serial Killer: The Untold Story of Dennis Rader, the BTK Killer.A writer of history and true crime, Kevin M. Sullivan is the

Jan 3, 2020 • 1:27:09

my_son_the_killer_the_untold_story_of_luka_magnotta_brian_whitney

my_son_the_killer_the_untold_story_of_luka_magnotta_brian_whitney

INFOCOMMENTSTrue Crime, #1 lunatic 1 ice pick, #anna yourkin, #brian whitney, #gore site, #luka magnottaBEFORE NETFLIX'S DON'T F**CK WITH CATS: Hunting an Internet Killer-Brian Whitney had an exclusive interview with Luka Magnotta for his book, My Son The Killer.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

Dec 31, 2019 • 1:26:52

THE BEST NEW TRUE CRIME STORIES: SERIAL KILLERS-Mitzi Szereto and Mark Fryers

THE BEST NEW TRUE CRIME STORIES: SERIAL KILLERS-Mitzi Szereto and Mark Fryers

Serial killers Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy, and Jeffrey Dahmer are often the first names that spring to mind. Many people assume serial killers are primarily an American phenomenon that came about in the latter part of the twentieth century. But such assumptions are far from the truth. Serial killers have been around for a very long time and can be found in every corner of the globe. Some of these predators have been caught and brought to justice whereas others have never been found, let alone id

Dec 18, 2019 • 1:04:15

INTRODUCING BLOOD TIES

INTRODUCING BLOOD TIES

BLOOD TIES: A scripted audio series starring Gillian Jacobs, Josh Gad, and Amy Landecker. When legendary pediatric cardiologist and businessman, Dr. Peter Richland, is killed in a plane crash two days before Christmas, secrets begin to emerge about his dealings with female colleagues throughout his career. These disturbing revelations thrust his children, Eleonore and Michael, into a fight they’re completely unprepared for. Listen now at wondery.fm/BTTrueMurder

Dec 17, 2019 • 12:35

UNHOLY MESSENGER-BTK-Joyce and Stephen Singular

UNHOLY MESSENGER-BTK-Joyce and Stephen Singular

To all appearances, Dennis Rader was a model citizen in the small town of Park City, Kansas. The self-named BTK (for Bind, Torture, Kill) had terrorized Wichita for thirty-one years. In 1974, BTK committed his first murders -- torturing and strangling four members of the Otero family -- and wrote the police an audacious letter declaring his responsibility for the Oteros' deaths and labeling himself BTK. Thus he established a pattern -- stalking and killing a series of ten victims, then bragging

Dec 10, 2019 • 1:27:45

HANNIBAL THE CANNIBAL-Alan R. Warren

HANNIBAL THE CANNIBAL-Alan R. Warren

Robert Maudsley casually walked into the cell of another inmate, who was sleeping on his bunk facedown. A savage rage quickly took over, and Maudsley started stabbing the back of the man’s head. There was blood, pieces of brain, and chunks of hair flying in a fury. After the man went limp, Maudsley grabbed the man’s head and held it in both palms and started to smash it against the walls of the cell, so hard that the plaster began to fall off the ceiling.Nurses and guards had to watch on, not be

Dec 3, 2019 • 1:08:41

EVIL THOUGHTS: WICKED DEEDS-Dr. Kris Mohandie

EVIL THOUGHTS: WICKED DEEDS-Dr. Kris Mohandie

Experience some of the most intense hostage, serial homicide, mass casualty, stalking, and violent “true-believer” cases encountered by an expert during his thirty-year police and forensic psychology career.Some of the scariest and most interesting criminals are broken down and analyzed by Dr. Kris Mohandie, an expert police and forensic psychologist who has met—and evaluated—some of the most dangerous people who have walked among us. This book has numerous first-hand accounts of his work, and i

Nov 27, 2019 • 1:07:16

THE FOREST CITY KILLER-Vanessa Brown

THE FOREST CITY KILLER-Vanessa Brown

Fifty years ago, a serial killer prowled the quiet city of London, Ontario, marking it as his hunting grounds. As young women and boys were abducted, raped, and murdered, residents of the area held their loved ones closer and closer, terrified of the monster ? or monsters ? stalking the streets. Homicide detective Dennis Alsop began hunting the killer in the 1960s, and he didn’t stop searching until his death 40 years later. For decades, detectives, actual and armchair, and the victims’ families

Nov 19, 2019 • 1:33:02

ABOVE SUSPICION-Joe Sharkey

ABOVE SUSPICION-Joe Sharkey

When rookie FBI agent Mark Putnam received his first assignment in 1987, it was the culmination of a lifelong dream, if not the most desirable location. Pikeville, Kentucky, is high in Appalachian coal country, an outpost rife with lawlessness dating back to the Hatfields and McCoys. As a rising star in the bureau, however, Putnam soon was cultivating paid informants and busting drug rings and bank robbers. But when one informant fell in love with him, passion and duty would collide with tragic

Nov 12, 2019 • 1:12:59

TANTAMOUNT-Blaine Pardoe and Victoria Hester

TANTAMOUNT-Blaine Pardoe and Victoria Hester

"This is tantamount to my insensitivity to people especially women. I will admit the others when you catch me if you can! Free-way Phantom! In 1971 and 1972, a deadly predator stalked the streets of the nation’s capital. His targets, young girls who he kidnapped, raped, and left their remains along busy roadways in plain view. Some of his victims he held captive for days, others only a few minutes. Seven victims ranging from the ages of ten to eighteen died in his hands. Then, as mysteriously as

Nov 6, 2019 • 1:11:38

THE MENENDEZ MURDERS-Robert Rand

THE MENENDEZ MURDERS-Robert Rand

A successful entertainment executive making $2 million a year. His former beauty queen wife. Their two sons on the fast track to success. But it was all a façade. The killing of José and Kitty Menendez on a quiet Sunday evening in Beverly Hills didn’t make the cover of People magazine until the arrest of their sons seven months later, and the case developed an intense cult following. When the first Menendez trial began in July 1993, the public was convinced that Lyle and Erik were a pair of gree

Oct 30, 2019 • 1:32:31

BAT MASTERSON-Fred Rosen

BAT MASTERSON-Fred Rosen

Nearly 100 years since his death, Bat Masterson still holds great influence. Remembered by many for his adventures in America’s Old West - buffalo hunter, scout, gunfighter, and even lawman as Dodge City sheriff. in 20th Century New York City he became a sportswriter. However, Masterson left a legacy that is much more intricate.Masterson always stood up for the underdog. And his real legacy was how he fought for them. After the days of the Old West were over, he laid down his gun and picked up h

Oct 24, 2019 • 1:32:15

MOMS OF THE MISSING-Steffen Hou

MOMS OF THE MISSING-Steffen Hou

"Oh my God, we found a dead body." The man's voice, calling from a mountain trail in Cleveland National Forest, was frantic. "Please hurry. I'm so scared. It's a little kid." When police arrived, they were met by a horrific sight. The girl was naked and had been positioned in such a way that detectives believed the murderer had seen his kill as some kind of a trophy. As if he were showing off his "work". The little kid was Samantha Runnion, a five-year-old girl who

Oct 21, 2019 • 1:33:42

BLOOD BENEATH MY FEET-Joseph Scott Morgan

BLOOD BENEATH MY FEET-Joseph Scott Morgan

Have you ever been locked in a cooler with piles of decomposing humans for so long that you had to shave all the hair off your body in order to get rid of the smell? Joseph Scott Morgan did. Have you ever lit a Marlboro from the ignited gas of a bloated dead man's belly? Joseph Scott Morgan has. Have you ever wept over a dead dog while not giving a shit about the dead owner laying next him? Morgan did. Were you named after a murder victim? Joseph Scott Morgan was.This isn't Hollywood fantasy—it'

Oct 14, 2019 • 1:22:19

DEAD RECKONING-Caitlin Rother

DEAD RECKONING-Caitlin Rother

Tom and Jackie Hawks loved their life in retirement, sailing on their yacht, the Well Deserved. But when the birth of a new grandson called them back to Arizona, they put the boat up for sale. Skylar Deleon and his pregnant wife Jennifer showed up as prospective buyers, with their baby in a stroller, and the Hawkses thought they had a deal. Soon after a sea trial and an alleged purchase, however, the older couple disappeared and the Deleons promptly tried to access the Hawkses’ bank accounts.As

Oct 8, 2019 • 1:13:21

HAUNTING HOMICIDES-Michael Benson

HAUNTING HOMICIDES-Michael Benson

An anthology of haunting murders written by acclaimed true-crime writer Michael Benson and his “boots on the ground,” Private Investigator Donald A. Tubman. Featured stories include the murders of Joanne Lynn, Pamela Moss, Shari Smoyer and Jack King, Tammy Jo Alexander, Damita Gibson, Victoria Jobson, Kelley Gaffield, Cathleen Krauseneck (The Brighton Ax Murder), Brittanee Drexel, Regina Mae Armstrong, Loretta Jo Gates and Terri Lynn Bills, plus many more—including updates on Rochester N.Y.’s Do

Oct 7, 2019 • 1:07:18

NORCO '80-Peter Houlahan

NORCO '80-Peter Houlahan

Norco ’80 tells the story of how five heavily armed young men, led by an apocalyptic born-again Christian, attempted a bank robbery that turned into one of the most violent criminal events in U.S. history, forever changing the face of American law enforcement. Part action thriller and part courtroom drama, Norco ’80 transports the reader back to the Southern California of the 1970s, an era of predatory evangelical gurus, doomsday predictions, megachurches, and soaring crime rates, with the threa

Oct 5, 2019 • 1:33:07

WHAT IF? Golden State Killer-Zodiac Solved-Anne Penn

WHAT IF? Golden State Killer-Zodiac Solved-Anne Penn

Golden State Killer, East Area Rapist, Original Night Stalker, Visalia Ransacker and more. The Story of The Golden State Killer’s beginnings. Who else was he as he traveled through time? Was he, is he the Zodiac Killer who terrorized us in the 1960's and who sits in the Sacramento County Jail awaiting trial? Anne Penn presents evidence of other monikers that belong to this man, spanning the almost 6 decades the killer roamed the state of California. The career and possible monikers for the same

Oct 3, 2019 • 1:07:22

DEATH SENTENCE-Joe Sharkey

DEATH SENTENCE-Joe Sharkey

The true account of the man who murdered his family in their New Jersey mansion—and eluded a nationwide manhunt for eighteen years.Until 1971, life was good for mild-mannered accountant John List. He was vice president of a Jersey City bank and had moved his mother, wife, and three teenage children into a nineteen-room home in Westfield, New Jersey. But all that changed when he lost his job. Raised by his Lutheran father to believe success meant being a good provider, List saw himself as an utte

Sep 24, 2019 • 1:19:28

WHISPERS IN THE WILLOWS-George Jared

WHISPERS IN THE WILLOWS-George Jared

Whispers in the Willows is an anthology style, true crime book that chronicles three unsolved murders, a series of Death Row executions, and the harrowing stories of two Holocaust survivors. A 22-year-old college student, Rebekah Gould, vanished from a friend’s house Sept. 20, 2004, near the town of Melbourne, Arkansas. Her partially clothed, bludgeoned body was found near a rural road not far from the house a week later. Her case has never been solved. It’s been profiled on The Dr. Oz show, and

Sep 16, 2019 • 1:12:01

FROZEN TEARS-J.B. King

FROZEN TEARS-J.B. King

In 1977, four teenagers were kidnapped and attacked near and on Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri. Only one survived. This book is written by the first responder to the call, Missouri State Highway Patrol Trooper J.B. King. He goes back in time to tell it how it was from the moment of the crime until the conviction of Military Police Game Warden Johnny Lee Thornton.His purpose is to tell the story of Pulaski County Missouri's ‘Crime of the Century’ in detail and with clarity. From the first minutes af

Sep 12, 2019 • 1:11:49

RAILROADED-Christopher Jossart

RAILROADED-Christopher Jossart

In 1968, a budding New York City entrepreneur who provided immigrants with jobs takes a Florida vacation with his family. Meanwhile, his relative, an employee, is murdered on Long Island.Upon returning to New York, Sam Sommer learns the fate of his wife’s uncle, Irving Silver, when he doesn’t show up to carpool to work. Three days pass with no clues about his death. Then a recent contractor at Sam’s deli sets up a meeting to share news on the investigation. Within moments after pulling into a do

Sep 10, 2019 • 1:06:42

DEACON'S CROSSBOW-David G. Brown

DEACON'S CROSSBOW-David G. Brown

How does a high school valedictorian, former member of the famed 101st Airborne, respected church deacon, husband and father of three end up with a first-degree murder conviction and serving life without parole? Deacon’s Crossbow is a bone-chilling and compelling work of true crime — about fate, fear, facts and personality, especially that of convict Donald S. Graham.Donald and his wife were driving home from dance lessons when they happened upon two men on Interstate 95 in Massachusetts. When D

Sep 4, 2019 • 1:06:50

CHAOS-Tom O'Neill

CHAOS-Tom O'Neill

Over two grim nights in Los Angeles, the young followers of Charles Manson murdered seven people, including the actress Sharon Tate, then eight months pregnant. With no mercy and seemingly no motive, the Manson Family followed their leader's every order-their crimes lit a flame of paranoia across the nation, spelling the end of the sixties. Manson became one of history's most infamous criminals, his name forever attached to an era when charlatans mixed with prodigies, free love was as possible a

Aug 28, 2019 • 1:06:24

NOTORIOUS SAN FRANCISCO-Paul Drexler

NOTORIOUS SAN FRANCISCO-Paul Drexler

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 more glamour, than any other area on the American continent.” “San Francisco Notorious” brings back the glamorous depravity and noir atmosphere that made it the premier location for murder thrillers like “The Maltese Falcon,” “Vertigo,” and “Zodiac.” This book conta

Aug 24, 2019 • 1:01:20

INNOCENT BLOOD-Terry Ganey

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 for a different kind of tragedy--the conviction and imprisonment of an innocent man who was mercilessly hounded by the police, the prosecutor and the community for a brutal murder that Hatcher himself committed.

Aug 19, 2019 • 1:14:35

TRUTH AND HONOUR-Greg Marquis

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 murder.Oland's trial would be the most publicized in New Brunswick history. What the trial judge called "a family tragedy of Shakespearian proportions," this real ­life murder mystery included adultery, family dysfunction, larg

Aug 13, 2019 • 1:16:54

MURDER ON BIRCHLEAF DRIVE-Steven B. Epstein

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 life--an attractive couple with great jobs, a beautiful home, a precocious two-year-old daughter, and a baby boy on the way.Soon after the 29-year-old pregnant mother's brutally beaten body was discovered on their bedroom floor, a very different picture emerged. Of a marri

Aug 6, 2019 • 1:11:18

SHALLOW GRAVES-Maureen Boyle

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 threads in the community’s diverse fabric. In Shallow Graves, investigative reporter Maureen Boyle tells the story of a case that has haunted New England for thirty years. The Crimes: The skeletal remains of nine of the women, aged nineteen to thirty-six, w

Aug 1, 2019 • 1:08:44

1926 HOMICIDE IN AMERICA-David Kulczyk

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 number of allegedly normal people senselessly committing ghastly murders in 1926 is astounding. It is like a switch got turned on and some people went mad unlike any other time in American history. 1926 HOMICIDE IN AMERICA-David Kulczyk Follow and comment on Facebook-TRUE MURD

Jul 26, 2019 • 1:01:24

IN CHAINS-Alan R. Warren

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 occurs in countries with no human rights legislation. This is a myth. All types of human trafficking are alive and well in most of the developed countries of the world like the United States, Canada, and the UK. It is estimated that $150 billion a year

Jul 21, 2019 • 1:18:33

AMERICAN PREDATOR-Maureen Callahan

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 terrifying serial killers in modern history. The FBI considered his behavior unprecedented. Described by a prosecutor as "a force of pure evil," Keyes was a predator who struck all over the United States. He buried "kill kits"--cash, weapons,

Jul 11, 2019 • 1:33:33

SECRETS OF A MARINE'S WIFE-Shanna Hogan

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 climbed into the hundreds, friends and family teamed up with local law enforcement in a grueling search of Joshua Tree National Park. Nearly two months after her disappearance, Corwin's body was found at the bottom of an abandoned mine shaft, a home

Jul 8, 2019 • 1:09:48

MURDER WITHOUT MOTIVE-Det. Raymond Pingatore

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 joyride for the young kidnappers. It ended in cold-blooded murder-and a town's relentless fight for justice. MURDER WITHOUT MOTIVE: The Amy Shute and Jason Burgeson Story-Raymond Pingatore Follow and comment on Facebook-TRUE MURDER: The Most Shocking Killers in True Crime Histor

Jul 5, 2019 • 1:13:08

RACE TO JUSTICE-Larry Sells and Margie Porter

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 on "The Brickyard," site of the Indianapolis 500, to help search for her.As the head mechanic for the Dick Simon racing team, known as “Crabby” across the race circuit, Michael had a reputation for bullying and abuse. He'd imm

Jun 27, 2019 • 1:25:55

MURDER BY MILKSHAKE-Eve Lazarus

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 the company car and took off for Disneyland. If not for the doggedness of the doctor who treated Esther, Rene, then a charismatic and handsome radio personality, would have been free to marry Lolly, who was the station's pretty twentysomethin

Jun 19, 2019 • 1:02:58

NEEDLE WORK-Fred Rosen

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 with a lethal dose of battery acid and heroin—detectives in Michigan traced Billiter’s death back to Giles and her boyfriend, Tim Collier. Police also learned that the diabolical duo shared another secret: They had murdered Giles’s husband, Jessie.

Jun 14, 2019 • 1:10:02

SUBMERGED-Janice Hisle

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 a case that captivated and divided an ordinary American community, tore apart two families and tested the criminal justice system. Compelled by conscience and curiosity, former Cincinnati Enquirer reporter Janice (Morse) Hisle—who covered

Jun 11, 2019 • 1:25:59

Drinks, Dinner & Death-Alan R. Warren

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 and a flesh-like substance covering the inside of the pipes. The pipes led to the top floor apartment of the residence. It was rented to Dennis Nilsen, a 37-year old, quiet, soft-spoken civil servant. Nilsen was also a retired policeman w

Jun 11, 2019 • 1:17:12

TED BUNDY: The Angel of Decay-Paul Lonardo

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 interest in him and the ghastly way he murdered and disposed of the women he abducted in the 1970s.Many people want to know how a person could do the things that Ted Bundy did. It’s truly frightening to think that there are fellow human beings who possess such dark desires and a

Jun 4, 2019 • 1:21:56

CHASING COSBY-Nicole Weisensee Egan

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 drugging and sexually assaulting Andrea Constand. The mounting allegations against Bill Cosby--more than 60 women have come forward to accuse him of similar crimes--and his ultimate conviction were a shock to Americans, who wanted to cleave to their im

May 30, 2019 • 1:17:49

TED BUNDY'S MURDEROUS MYSTERIES-Kevin Sullivan

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 on Bundy, his victims, and this very voluminous case. Written by the foremost authority on Ted Bundy, this latest examination of this brutal serial killer contains new, revealing, and never-before published interviews with those close to Bundy, clos

May 24, 2019 • 1:07:54

AND EVERY WORD IS TRUE-Gary McAvoy

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 robbery was not the motive at all, but something more sinister? And why would the Kansas Bureau of Investigation press the Attorney General to launch a ruthless four-year legal battle to prevent fresh details of the State’s most famous crime from being made

May 22, 2019 • 1:09:28

THE KILLER ACROSS THE TABLE-Mark Olshaker

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 world, and helped educate the country about these deadly predators and how they operate, and has become a legend in popular culture, fictionalized in The Silence of the Lambs and the hit television shows Crimina

May 14, 2019 • 1:05:57

THE LAZARUS FILES-Matthew McGough

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 the home she shared with her husband, John. The crime scene suggested a ferocious struggle, and police initially assumed it was a burglary gone awry. Before her death, Sherri had confided to her parents that an ex-girlfriend of John’s, a Los A

May 8, 2019 • 1:08:15

DEATH ON THE RIVER-Diane Fanning

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: a kayaking trip for two on the Hudson River. But it ended in tragedy when beautiful, blonde Angelika Graswald called 911 to report that her fiancé, the handsome and athletic Vincent Viafore, had fallen into the choppy frigid waters. Authorities assu

May 2, 2019 • 1:01:56

I AM JESSICA-Jessi Toronjo and Jamie Collins

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 weekend. While I was away, my entire family was murdered. I would spend the next 30 years fighting, crawling, and clawing my way through the darkness. This wasn't just a national news headline, a cold case, or a true crime show. It was my family. And my life. I was the broken little girl

Apr 28, 2019 • 1:01:14

Pardonable Matricide-Tobin T. Buhk

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 follows Captain Boyle to the bordellos of gaslight-era Detroit—populated by madams, pimps, prostitutes and gamblers. It describes the investigation that led him to a pharmacist that prowled the streets, akin to a real-life Jekyll and Hyde. Ultim

Apr 24, 2019 • 1:10:50

ALICE & GERALD-Ron Franscell

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 petrifying tale of murder and secrets. The appalling details are made even more vivid by the author's familiarity with the Wyoming times and places that formed the backdrop of his national bestseller The Darkest Night.In 1974, Alice, a desperate young mother in a gri

Apr 19, 2019 • 1:14:06

THE HOT ONE-Carolyn Murnick

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 girls growing up in rural New Jersey in the late 1980s, Ashley and Carolyn had everything in common: two outsiders who loved spending afternoons exploring the woods. Only when the girls attended different high schools did they begin to grow apart. While Carolyn strugg

Apr 10, 2019 • 1:01:45

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

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 Edward Evans, who had been cut into pieces with an axe. After an investigation and search, the police found two suitcases that were full of graphic pictures and a videotape of a young 10-year-old girl, Lesley Ann Downey who had been missing for months. The pictures show

Apr 5, 2019 • 1:10:34

DEAD IN THE WATER-Penny Farmer

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 the remains of Chris Farmer and Peta Frampton, respectively a medical graduate and a law graduate, aged 25 and 24, from Greater Manchester. They had been beaten, tortured, and killed, their bodies weighted down and dumped in the sea from the yacht on which they had been crewing. For nearly 40

Mar 26, 2019 • 1:27:23

MURDER! 12 SHOCKING TRUE CRIME STORIES-Rod Kackley

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 body after a gang rape. A loving couple starts killing prostitutes on Sunset Strip. How many hookers will have to die? A man electrocutes his wife. Was it murder or a sexual fetish that went wrong?For the first time ever, 12 of Rod Kackley's shocking true crime st

Mar 20, 2019 • 1:13:06

UNSOLVED MURDERS: TRUE CRIME CASES UNCOVERED-Amber Hunt

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 of the most infamous unsolved cases of the 20th and 21st centuries. Crime scenes, crucial evidence, witnesses, and persons of interest are clearly and concisely presented, along with essential details and clues, so you can judge for yoursel

Mar 14, 2019 • 1:15:31

YOU HAVE A VERY SOFT VOICE, SUSAN-Susan Fensten

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 digital world driven by social media in all of its permutations and cruelest forms. The story begins with Susan Fensten’s online search for her father’s family, a search that soon turns into a two-year frightening odyssey of internet stalking and threats when a posting on a g

Mar 5, 2019 • 1:43:29

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

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 young gay men were being found dead, appearing to have overdosed on the favorite sex drugs used at these chemsex parties, in a city church yard in east London. Was this what the metro police claimed it was, “a sex drug overdose," or was there something more going on here?It would soo

Feb 27, 2019 • 1:05:36

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

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, it could be solved by anyone, from anywhere in the world. Because no-one knows where the woman came from.The woman appeared from nowhere - she travelled around with many false identities - and she died in a remote valley in what looked like a classic case of sui

Feb 21, 2019 • 1:06:48

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

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 a tragic accident, investigators soon reported finding evidence proving that Parks had sabotaged wiring, set several fires herself, and even barricaded her four-year-old son inside a closet to prevent his escape. Though she insisted she did nothing wrong, Jo Ann Parks received a

Feb 12, 2019 • 1:28:14

UNDER THE TRESTLE-Ron Peterson Jr.

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 again. Her abandoned car was found parked beneath a railroad trestle bridging the New River, with blood in the trunk. The investigation led police to a secluded cabin on Claytor Lake, where there was evidence of a violent attack. Former Virginia Tech football playe

Feb 5, 2019 • 1:17:23

FRUSTRATED WITNESS-Willis Morgan

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 and safety laws. Willis Morgan was at the Hollywood Mall on the same day. It was there he had an unnerving encounter with serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, known as the Milwaukee Cannibal, just before Adam went missing. However his witness statements about Dahmer

Jan 31, 2019 • 1:41:24

THE DEPRIVED-Steffen Hou

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 to death row simply because they were at the wrong place at the wrong time. The book looks into the murder cases, investigations and trials that put them on death row, and describes what life is like when you are exonerated after decades in the death house.

Jan 24, 2019 • 1:12:02

GITCHIE GIRL UNCOVERED-Phil and Sandy Hamman

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 of what happened at Gitchie Manitou the night of November 17, 1973, remained a mystery to all but a few. Then the lone survivor broke her silence. Five teenage friends had driven to the park to spend a few hours around a campfire. By morning, four had been murdered, and only she was

Jan 17, 2019 • 1:03:55

NIGHTMARE IN ROCHESTER-Michael Benson

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 first and last initial. Each, the legend said, had been dumped in a town that also began with that letter. The victims had all been last seen in an urban setting and their lifeless bodies were found raped and carelessly dumped along a rural roadsi

Jan 9, 2019 • 1:07:45

PATHOLOGICAL-Henry J. Cordes

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 with the bodies of an 11-year-old boy and the housekeeper. Both had been murdered with kitchen knives plunged into their throats. Who would do something so vile, and why? Lacking answers, Mois and other detectives working the case were stumped.Five years later, a st

Dec 17, 2018 • 1:20:33

SUMMER'S ALMOST GONE-J.T. Townsend

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 Bricca murder headlines. Jerry, his pretty wife Linda, and their young daughter Debbie were found stabbed to death in their home in the city’s Bridgetown neighborhood. Striking between the 4th and 5th slayings of the Cincinnati Strangler in 1966, the Bricca

Dec 12, 2018 • 1:08:27

INNOCENCE LOST-The Crimes That Changed Australia-Amanda Howard

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 taken so ruthlessly: WHY? Seasoned crime writer Amanda Howard has spent 18 years studying and interviewing killers and criminals across the globe to get answers to this question. In interviewing many of these criminals face to face in prison, she is given a r

Dec 11, 2018 • 1:12:01

SHOTS IN THE DARK-Daniel Zimmerman

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 turned out) waiting in ambush for the ex-convict and recent prison escapee. In the aftermath, a young woman and her toddler son lay dead.The story of Rocco Balliro, a petty criminal and enforcer for New England crime boss Raymond L.S. Patriarca, played out in gla

Dec 7, 2018 • 1:11:27

WARNINGS UNHEEDED-Andy Brown

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 tragedy struck without warning? On 20 June 1994, a former airman sought vengeance with a rifle at the Fairchild Air Force Base hospital. Four days later a rogue pilot crashed a B-52 outside of Fairchild's Nuclear Weapon Storage Area. Both tragedies had been predicted and repeate

Dec 4, 2018 • 1:19:18

SAVING ANNIE-Book Two-The Investigator-Steve Jackson

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’ story didn’t quite mesh with the facts. And some of his other actions raised suspicions as well, including just days after her death trying to collect on a million-dollar life insurance policy he’d taken out on his unemployed, 23-year-old girlfrie

Nov 29, 2018 • 1:01:51

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

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 of Teresa Halbach in 2005. The case became the wildly successful Netflix "Making A Murderer" documentary. In WRECKING CREW: Demolishing The Case Against Steven Avery, Ferak lays out in exacting detail the post-conviction strategy of Kath

Nov 27, 2018 • 1:18:46

IF I CAN'T HAVE YOU-Rebecca Morris

IF I CAN'T HAVE YOU-Rebecca Morris

A DEVOTED MOTHER GOES MISSINGEvery 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 missing in December of 2009, the media was swept up in the story?with lenses and microphones trained on Susan's husband, Josh. He said he had no idea what happened to Susan?and that he and the boys had been camping in the middle of a snowstorm. It was hard to know what

Nov 20, 2018 • 1:33:12

THE LAST MAN STANDING-Alan R. Warren

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 7-year-old Maria Ridulph from their neighborhood in Sycamore, Illinois and killed her in December 1957. It was a case that tore the child’s family apart, as well as dividing and terrifying the town as the days, then the months, and finally the yea

Nov 15, 2018 • 1:18:12

TOXIC RAGE-A.J. Flick

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 told a friend. “I can live right there by the mountains and go hiking. It’s a great deal for me there. The partner I’ll be working with is ultracool. He’s giving me the keys to the kingdom.”Brad Schwartz, the doctor who hired Brian, was ambitious and possessed surgical s

Nov 13, 2018 • 1:17:10

THE CREEP AMONG US-Anne Penn

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 is. The story continues after the ARREST of Joseph James DeAngelo on April 24, 2018 in Sacramento, California. The trial estimated to begin in about four years will be unprecedented as several jurisdictions will try DeAngelo in Sacramento at the same time. There have

Nov 9, 2018 • 1:21:31

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

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

BEFORE NETFLIX'S DON'T F**CK WITH CATS: Hunting an Internet Killer-Brian Whitney had an exclusive interview with Luka Magnotta for his book, My Son The Killer. 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 attention like the young murderer and internet sensation.A male escort and sometimes model, M

Nov 7, 2018 • 1:26:52

INCONVENIENCE GONE-Diane Marger Moore

INCONVENIENCE GONE-Diane Marger Moore

Where is Brandon Sims? The four-year-old had not been seen since July 3, 1992, when he attended a birthday party with his twenty-year-old mother, Michelle Jones. Jones was employed, confident, talented, smart, assertive and involved in many community activities in Indianapolis, Indiana. In contrast, when he was last seen, Brandon Sims, an only child, was a serious, quiet, thin boy who rarely maintained eye contact with his mother. After that night, he was never seen again. His body has never bee

Nov 1, 2018 • 1:05:17

WRITTEN IN BLOOD-Diane Fanning

WRITTEN IN BLOOD-Diane Fanning

Michael Peterson was driven to succeed.An army brat-turned-marine, he saw combat in Vietnam, and returned a decorated soldier. An avid reader, his dreams of being an acclaimed novelist came true. His desire to find love was fulfilled when he married brilliant executive Kathleen Atwater, the first female student accepted at Duke University’s School of Engineering. The Petersons seemed the ideal academic couple— well-respected, prosperous, and happy.All that came crashing down in December of 2001,

Oct 30, 2018 • 1:03:55

A MONSTER OF ALL TIME-J.T. Hunter

A MONSTER OF ALL TIME-J.T. Hunter

Ambitious, attractive, and full of potential, five young college students prepared for the new semester. They dreamed of beginning careers and starting families. They had a lifetime of experiences in front of them. But death came without warning in the dark of the night.Brutally ending five promising lives, leaving behind three gruesome crime scenes, the Gainesville Ripper terrorized the University of Florida, casting an ominous shadow across a frightened college town.What evil lurked inside him

Oct 26, 2018 • 1:10:20

SUDDEN TERROR-Larry Crompton

SUDDEN TERROR-Larry Crompton

The original comprehensive case files of the East Area Rapist who became known as The Original Night Stalker. A serial rapist turned serial murderer, he held California in a grip of fear for way too long. Larry Crompton tells us of the attacks that began in Northern CA in 1976 that continued on until 1986 that we know of. Prior to Sacramento attacks there was a serial prowler called the Visalia Ransacker with over 125 break in prowlings under his belt. Detective Crompton had a feeling all of the

Oct 23, 2018 • 1:07:46

BEHIND THE MURDER CURTAIN-Bruce Sackman

BEHIND THE MURDER CURTAIN-Bruce Sackman

When Veterans Hospital patients on the road to recovery suddenly die in increasing numbers, it’s up to VA Special Agent in Charge Bruce Sackman to find out why. His shocking discovery rips open the hidden world of what goes on behind the bedside curtains when a killer doctor or nurse decides a patient must die.Behind the Murder Curtain is the true story of Bruce Sackman, Special Agent in Charge of the Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Inspector General. Sackman’s main responsibilities had

Oct 16, 2018 • 1:05:38

THE KILLING GAME-Alan R. Warren

THE KILLING GAME-Alan R. Warren

In 1968 young girls went missing in California and New York, massive searches started and soon bodies began to turn up. This is the story of Rodney Alcala, the charming, good looking photographer that was in NYU studying under Roman Polanski and even once had won on the popular TV game show " Dating Game" but now wanted for rape, torture and murder of several young girls. He would make the girls suffer until they passed out, then rape them, and when they came too , he would beat them a

Oct 12, 2018 • 1:26:20

LITTLE SLAUGHTERHOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE-Harold Schechter

LITTLE SLAUGHTERHOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE-Harold Schechter

At a remote little inn not far from the Kansas homestead of Laura Ingalls Wilder lived the Bender family. These pioneers welcomed unwary visitors with jackrabbit stew and a sledgehammer to the skull.In time, their apple orchard gave up its secrets - a burial ground for their mutilated victims, each stripped of their possessions. The devilish enterprise on "Hell's Half-Acre" would earn the Bloody Benders an undying place in the annals of American infamy. But it was the mysterious fate o

Oct 9, 2018 • 1:10:48

THE GRIM SLEEPER-Victoria Redstall

THE GRIM SLEEPER-Victoria Redstall

During the mid-1980s, a brutal killing spree began in Los Angeles as several women were murdered, having been sexually assaulted and shot in the chest with the same .25 calibre gun. The man responsible was Lonnie David Franklin Jr. However, his identity wouldn't be revealed for more than 20 years, by which time he had become one of America's most prolific serial killers. At the time, Los Angeles was a city struggling under the weight of racial inequalities and a crack epidemic that was sweeping

Oct 4, 2018 • 1:09:02

KILLER MINDS-Amanda Howard

KILLER MINDS-Amanda Howard

Amanda Howard is a bestselling true crime author, fiction writer and violent crimes consultant who has written 19 books over the past 14 years including ten books on a wide range of true crime cases. She has also interviewed some of the world's most heinous serial killers over two decades and has collected a vast pool of information on various types of killers, their motives and rituals.In Killer Minds Amanda Howard investigates 60 cases of serial murder from around the world. Using primary reso

Oct 2, 2018 • 1:03:22

EXPOSED:THE ZODIAC REVEALED-Mark Hewitt

EXPOSED:THE ZODIAC REVEALED-Mark Hewitt

One question remains unanswered: Who is the Zodiac?There have been many hypotheses about the killer’s identity, some sober and evidence-based, some wildly speculative, all touching upon any one or more of the 2,500 suspects in the Zodiac serial killer case. But until now, the truth has not been known. In HUNTED, Dr. Mark Hewitt presented the facts of the case: the attacks, the letters, the phone calls, and the police response. In PROFILED, he demonstrated the psychology of serial killers and gav

Sep 26, 2018 • 1:32:35

ACCUSED-Amber Hunt and Amanda Rossmann

ACCUSED-Amber Hunt and Amanda Rossmann

When Elizabeth Andes was found bound, stabbed, and strangled in her Ohio apartment in 1978, police and prosecutors decided within hours it was an open-and-shut case.Within days, Bob Young, a 23-year-old football player who’d found his college sweetheart’s lifeless body on their bedroom floor, was charged with her murder. To this day, police and prosecutors still say they had the right guy--even though two juries, one criminal and one civil, disagreed, and Young walked away a free man.Beth’s case

Sep 18, 2018 • 1:06:10

SAVING ANNIE-Steve Jackson

SAVING ANNIE-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’ story didn’t quite mesh with the facts. And some of his other actions raised suspicions as well, including just days after her death trying to collect on a million-dollar life insurance policy he’d taken out on his unemployed, 23-year-old girlfrien

Sep 14, 2018 • 1:07:12

HEARTLESS-Katherine Ramsland

HEARTLESS-Katherine Ramsland

THE newest installment in the New York Times bestselling series of tales of America’s most notorious criminals and the crimes that shaped the places we call home. This time you’ll have no better guide through the darkest side of Iowa than Katherine Ramsland, one of America’s most legendary true crime authors and researchers. Dr. Ramsland is a Wall Street Journal bestselling author and one of my personal favorite authors in any genre. She digs in deep and uncovers things that others before her ha

Sep 13, 2018 • 1:05:13

THE ALASKA MAIL-BOMB CONSPIRACY-Burl Barer

THE ALASKA MAIL-BOMB CONSPIRACY-Burl Barer

On September 14, 1991,in Anchorage, Alaska,  a very pregnant Peggy Barnett along with her 9-year old daughter drove to the post office to deliver a package to an associate, George Kerr in Chugiak, fifteen miles outside of Anchorage. George's father David Kerr picked up the package three days later and brought it home. He and his wife Michelle were in the kitchen when David opened the package. The explosion was so intense, neighbours feared there had been an earthquake. David died instantly but M

Sep 6, 2018 • 1:36:26

THE AXEMAN OF NEW ORLEANS-Miriam Davis

THE AXEMAN OF NEW ORLEANS-Miriam Davis

From 1910 to 1919, New Orleans suffered at the hands of its very own Jack the Ripper–style killer. The story has been the subject of websites, short stories, novels, a graphic novel, and most recently the FX television series American Horror Story. But the full story of gruesome murders, sympathetic victims, accused innocents, public panic, the New Orleans Mafia, and a mysterious killer has never been written. Until now. The Axeman repeatedly broke into the homes of Italian grocers in the dead o

Aug 28, 2018 • 1:06:14

THE KILL JAR-J. Reuben Appelman

THE KILL JAR-J. Reuben Appelman

J. Reuben Appelman cracks open one of America’s most notorious murder sprees while simultaneously banging the gavel on his own history with violence. A deftly-crafted true crime story with grit, set amid the decaying sprawl of Detroit and its outliers.With a foreword by Catherine Broad, sister of victim Timothy King.Four children were abducted and murdered outside of Detroit during the winters of 1976 and 1977, their bodies eventually dumped in snow banks around the city. J. Reuben Appelman was

Aug 24, 2018 • 1:37:24

SONS OF CAIN-Peter Vronsky

SONS OF CAIN-Peter Vronsky

From the author of Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters comes an in-depth examination of sexual serial killers throughout human history, how they evolved, and why we are drawn to their horrifying crimes.Before the term was coined in 1981, there were no "serial killers." There were only "monsters"--killers society first understood as werewolves, vampires, ghouls and witches or, later, Hitchcockian psychos.In Sons of Cain--a book that fills the gap between dry aca

Aug 15, 2018 • 1:35:47

TED AND ANN-Rebecca Morris

TED AND ANN-Rebecca Morris

The gripping story of one of the the most fascinating cold cases of the 20th century - Was eight-year-old Ann Marie Burr serial killer Ted Bundy's first victim? She disappeared from their Tacoma, Washington neighborhood early on a summer morning in 1961. Her body was never found, there were no clues, no ransom demand and no arrest. Was Bundy telling the truth when he told a hypothetical story about killing Ann and dumping her into a muddy pit? With new information about Ted Bundy’s childhood, in

Aug 7, 2018 • 1:34:53

DEACON OF DEATH-Fred Rosen

DEACON OF DEATH-Fred Rosen

Baptist deacon, family man, pillar of his Florida community . . . and serial killer of prostitutes: chilling true crime from the author ofLobster Boy.By day, Sam Smithers was the deacon of his Baptist church in Plant City, Florida, a respected neighbor to many, and a devoted husband and father. But after the sun set, he became something else: a violent attacker—and killer—of prostitutes.Smithers’s twisted double life came to light when a local woman who had hired him to take care of her property

Aug 1, 2018 • 1:23:12

HUNTING CHARLES MANSON- Caitlin Rother

HUNTING CHARLES MANSON- Caitlin Rother

In the late summer of 1969, the nation was transfixed by a series of gruesome murders in the hills of Los Angeles. Newspapers and television programs detailed the brutal slayings of a beautiful actress--twenty six years old and eight months pregnant with her first child--as well as a hair stylist, an heiress, a businessman, and other victims. The City of Angels was plunged into a nightmare of fear and dread. In the weeks and months that followed, law enforcement faced intense pressure to solve c

Jul 26, 2018 • 1:11:25

THE GOOD MOTHERS-Alex Perry

THE GOOD MOTHERS-Alex Perry

The Calabrian Mafia—known as the ’Ndrangheta—is one of the richest and most ruthless crime syndicates in the world, with branches stretching from America to Australia. It controls seventy percent of the cocaine and heroin supply in Europe, manages billion-dollar extortion rackets, brokers illegal arms deals—supplying weapons to criminals and terrorists—and plunders the treasuries of both Italy and the European Union.The ’Ndrangheta’s power derives from a macho mix of violence and silence—omertà.

Jul 17, 2018 • 1:05:05

HIS GARDEN-CONVERSATIONS WITH A SERIAL KILLER-Anne K. Howard

HIS GARDEN-CONVERSATIONS WITH A SERIAL KILLER-Anne K. Howard

"You want to know what happened? Ask Anne."—serial killer William Devin Howell A monster was on a killing spree. In just nine months, seven people went missing; all of their bodies eventually discovered in a wooded lot behind a suburban strip mall. But the investigation that led law enforcement to their suspect, William Devin Howell, is only part of the story behind HIS GARDEN: Conversations With A Serial Killer. A practicing attorney, author Anne K. Howard first contacted Howell while

Jul 13, 2018 • 1:38:16

A MURDER IN MY HOMETOWN-Rebecca Morris

A MURDER IN MY HOMETOWN-Rebecca Morris

On a fall evening in Corvallis, Oregon in 1967, 17-year-old Dick Kitchel, a senior at the high school, disappeared after attending a party. Ten days later, his body was spotted by two children as it floated down the Willamette River. He had been beaten and strangled. The investigation into his murder played out during one of the most dramatic years in America. Life in Corvallis, a college town, had offered a protective, idyllic life to many. But in 1967-68, Viet Nam, a presidential campaign, the

Jul 10, 2018 • 1:34:34

BURNED-Frank C. Girardot Jr.

BURNED-Frank C. Girardot Jr.

For years Lori Orr believed her Los Angeles firefighter dad was a selfless hero. When Lori’s dad was arrested and charged with four murders and countless arson fires, it was her testimony that helped keep him from being sent to Death Row. Eventually, Lori’s search for the truth lead her to the dark secrets lurking in her family’s past and to an inescapable conclusion about the remorseless killer and arsonist known as the "Pillowcase Pyro" and his reign of terror in sunny Southern Calif

Jul 3, 2018 • 1:39:05

THE GIRL ON THE VELVET SWING-Simon Baatz

THE GIRL ON THE VELVET SWING-Simon Baatz

In 1901 Evelyn Nesbit, a chorus girl in the musical Florodora, dined alone with the architect Stanford White in his townhouse on 24th Street in New York. Nesbit, just sixteen years old, had recently moved to the city. White was forty-seven and a principal in the prominent architectural firm McKim, Mead & White. As the foremost architect of his day, he was a celebrity, responsible for designing countless landmark buildings in Manhattan. That evening, after drinking champagne, Nesbit lost cons

Jun 28, 2018 • 1:18:37

FORGOTTEN SACRAMENTO MURDERS-David Kulczyk

FORGOTTEN SACRAMENTO MURDERS-David Kulczyk

Forgotten Sacramento Murders 1940-1976 explores the crimes by Sacramento's Greatest Generation. The murders that shocked Sacramento two generations ago are now only remembered by a handful of people, but during its time they startled Sacramento to its very core. Including...The original Boogie Man who in 1956 murdered a young boy in a downtown movie theater's men's room.The Mad Basher of 1941 who disappeared after his spree, only to reappear in 1956 to kill five moreTeenager Raymond Latshaw grew

Jun 21, 2018 • 1:04:43

WHEN NASHVILLE BLED-Judith A. Yates

WHEN NASHVILLE BLED-Judith A. Yates

He was evil personified. In the Spring of 1997, a serial killer held Nashville, Tennessee in an icy grip of terror. In February, he murdered two employees at a Captain D's restaurant. In March, he struck a McDonalds just miles away, killing three people and maiming one. In April, he kidnapped and slaughtered two Baskin-Robbins employees.They called him "The Fast Food Killer" but his real name is Paul Dennis Reid, Jr. When he was caught and sentenced to seven death sentences, yet a new

Jun 12, 2018 • 1:36:26

GOOD LITTLE SOLDIERS-Sondra London

GOOD LITTLE SOLDIERS-Sondra London

During WWII, Lithuanian collaborator Silvestras Griekshell had been plucked from a Nazi death camp and sent on covert missions by his Allied handlers. Now during the Cold War, he'd been redeployed as Steve Griggs, a nondescript American husband and father of four serving stateside as a cook in the U.S. Army. Though still doing black-bag jobs on the side, this dangerous, volatile man was consumed by an insatiable appetite for sadistic violence and psychological torture. And now, his obsessions in

Jun 3, 2018 • 1:17:40

SHADOW ON THE MOUNTAIN-Stephen and Joyce Singular

SHADOW ON THE MOUNTAIN-Stephen and Joyce Singular

Nancy Pfister, heir to Buttermilk Mountain, the world-renowned site of the Winter X Games, was Aspen royalty, its ambassador to the world. She lived among the rich and famous: she partied with Hunter S. Thompson, dated Jack Nicholson, had a joint baby shower with Goldie Hawn, and globetrotted with Angelica Houston. She was also a philanthropist, admired for her generosity. But behind the warm façade, she could be selfish, manipulative, and careless. Pfister enjoyed bragging about her wealth and

May 29, 2018 • 1:12:08

ALBERT FISH IN HIS OWN WORDS-John Borowski

ALBERT FISH IN HIS OWN WORDS-John Borowski

On December 13, 1934, Albert Fish was apprehended by Detective William King for the kidnapping and murder of ten-year-old Grace Budd. Fish’s defense attorney obtained the services of Dr. Fredric Wertham for Fish’s psychiatric examination. Dr. Wertham’s files were ordered closed until 2010. Documents from Wertham’s files, including confessions and writings by Albert Fish, are published here for the first time in history.FULLY ILLUSTRATED - INCLUDING: CONFESSIONS AND OTHER WRITINGSIncludes never b

May 24, 2018 • 1:10:33

CRAZY FOR YOU-Michael Fleeman

CRAZY FOR YOU-Michael Fleeman

A LOVING FATHERA typical morning in the Atlanta suburbs: Businessman Rusty Sneiderman drops his beloved son off at the Dunwoody Prep nursery. In the parking lot, a minivan pulls up next to his car. The driver pulls out a gun-and shoots Rusty four times in the chest.A HEARTBROKEN WIFESneiderman's devoted wife, Andrea, is devastated by the crime. Who could have done this? She is shocked when police trace the shooting to a man named Hemy Neuman-who happens to be Andrea's adoring boss. A DEADLY OBSE

May 17, 2018 • 1:36:49

KARLY SHEEHAN-Karen Spears Zacharias

KARLY SHEEHAN-Karen Spears Zacharias

A true recounting of the high-profile Oregon murder case that led to Karly's Law. Part memoir, part investigative journalism, this is the story Ann Rule called "A Must Read." Reminiscent of Capote's In Cold Blood, the book has been written in the tradition of new journalism. The writer's proximity to the people involved make for unrelenting storytelling. As Karly's abuse escalates, the investigations unravel at a rapid-fire pace. KARLY SHEEHAN: True Crime of Karly's Law-Karen Spears Za

May 15, 2018 • 1:43:03

BULLIED TO DEATH-Judith A. Yates

BULLIED TO DEATH-Judith A. Yates

Do you think I’m pretty.No one likes me. I hate my life. I wish I had a friend.It was the mantra of fourteen-year-old Sherokee Harriman, who in September 2015 faced her alleged bullies in a small Tennessee public park and pulled out a concealed kitchen knife. She drove the knife into her stomach as the horrified teens watched.Local media focused on sensationalism rather than truth. The word “bullicide” was used, meaning bullying drove Sherokee to kill herself.The story of Sherokee’s death flew t

May 10, 2018 • 1:37:48

THE INFAMOUS BIRMINGHAM AXE MURDERS-Jeremy W. Gray

THE INFAMOUS BIRMINGHAM AXE MURDERS-Jeremy W. Gray

A reign of terror swept the streets of Birmingham in the 1920s. Criminals armed with small axes attacked immigrant merchants and interracial couples, leaving dozens dead or injured over the course of four years. Desperate for answers, police accepted clues from a Ouija board, while citizens clamored for gun permits for protection. The city's Italian immigrants formed their own association as protection against the Black Hand, an organized band of brutal criminals. Eventually, the police turned t

May 8, 2018 • 1:04:28

THE BEAST I LOVED-Robert Davidson

THE BEAST I LOVED-Robert Davidson

Before domestic violence hot lines and safe houses were widespread, June Briand shot four bullets into her husband’s head and was sentenced to fifteen years to life. This is the shocking true story of survival—and the intense bond June shared with her pathologically violent husband, a monster who physically and sexually tortured, degraded and dominated her so relentlessly that she refused to believe he was dead even after she killed him.What kind of woman would slay her own husband? What kind of

May 3, 2018 • 1:02:44

EAR/ONS, GOLDEN STATE KILLER UNMASKED-Anne Penn

EAR/ONS, GOLDEN STATE KILLER UNMASKED-Anne Penn

On March 13, 1980, In Ventura County, California, prominent attorney Lyman Robert Smith, on the verge of being appointed a Superior Court judge, and his wife Charlene were murdered in their home. Author Anne Penn her actual name Laurie, is the couple's neice. She was close to her grandfather, Lyman's father and saw the devastaing impact the murders had on the family. Once she realized it was the work of EAR/ONS Laurie vowed to do all she could to investigate and help solve the incredible serial

May 2, 2018 • 1:09:06

GOLDEN STATE KILLER, EAR/ONS CAPTURED-DET. RICHARD SHELBY

GOLDEN STATE KILLER, EAR/ONS CAPTURED-DET. RICHARD SHELBY

Det. Richard Shelby was the first Sacramento detective to make a connection between a series of rapes that began in communities in East Sacramento. Law enforcement failed to stop him before he transformed in to a Southern California serial killer, committing  some 53 rapes and 12 homicides from 1976-1986.After Shelby's retirement, 20 years after the case had gone cold, he was contacted by his old employer,  the Sacramento Sheriff's Derpartment. They had learned , through DNA analysis, that the E

May 1, 2018 • 1:32:24

ABSOLUTE MADNESS-Catherine Pelonero

ABSOLUTE MADNESS-Catherine Pelonero

Absolute Madness tells the disturbing true story of Joseph Christopher, a white serial killer who targeted black males and struck fear into the residents of Buffalo and New York City in the 1980s. Dubbed both the .22-Caliber Killer and the Midtown Slasher, Christopher allegedly claimed eighteen victims during a savage four-month spree across the state. The investigation, aided by famed FBI profiler John Douglas, drew national attention and biting criticism from Jesse Jackson and other civil righ

Apr 26, 2018 • 1:10:02

THE SERIAL KILLER'S APPRENTICE-James Renner

THE SERIAL KILLER'S APPRENTICE-James Renner

Presenting the most notorious unsolved crimes in Northeast Ohio . . . Investigative reporter James Renner reopens cold cases and delves into dark secrets that have baffled Clevelanders for years, including:• Murder?Beverly Jarosz, just 16 years old, felt a dark foreboding in the months before she was stabbed to death in her quiet Garfield Heights home. It all started with an anonymous gift.• Stolen Identity?Joseph Newton Chandler of Eastlake was not who he claimed to be. Some think he was the Zo

Apr 19, 2018 • 1:04:23

THE FAMILY I HAD-Katie Green

THE FAMILY I HAD-Katie Green

On February 5th, 2007 Charity Lee Bennett was working her shift at Buffalo Wild Wings in Abilene Texas when two police officers came to inform her that her 4 year-old daughter Ella was dead and her 13 year-old son Paris had killed her. He had convinced the babysitter she could go home and afterwards entered the room of his sister. She was beaten and strangled and stabbed 17 times. Paris first called his school friend and then 8 minutes later called 911.On March 20th, 2018 FilmRise released the c

Apr 16, 2018 • 1:03:39

I, A SQUEALER-Lisa Espich

I, A SQUEALER-Lisa Espich

The year was 1965. The Beatles, Elvis Presley, and The Righteous Brothers filled the airwaves. Television shows like "The Adventures of Ozzy and Harriett" and "The Andy Griffith Show" mirrored the innocence of life in the dusty city of Tucson, Az. But the sunbaked desert surrounding Tucson was hiding a sinister secret. A psychopath names Charles Schmid, later nicknamed the "Pied Piper of Tucson" by Life Magazine, would steal that innocence away, along with the lives

Apr 13, 2018 • 1:33:28

HELL'S PRINCESS-Harold Schechter

HELL'S PRINCESS-Harold Schechter

In the pantheon of serial killers, Belle Gunness stands alone. She was the rarest of female psychopaths, a woman who engaged in wholesale slaughter, partly out of greed but mostly for the sheer joy of it. Between 1902 and 1908, she lured a succession of unsuspecting victims to her Indiana “murder farm.” Some were hired hands. Others were well-to-do bachelors. All of them vanished without a trace. When their bodies were dug up, they hadn’t merely been poisoned, like victims of other female killer

Apr 5, 2018 • 1:34:03

WOMAN AT THE DEVIL'S DOOR-Sarah Beth Hopton

WOMAN AT THE DEVIL'S DOOR-Sarah Beth Hopton

Discover the haunting untold true story of the woman whose crimes inspired speculation that Jack the Ripper was a woman.On October 24, 1890, a woman was discovered on a pile of rubbish in Hampstead, North London. Her arms were lacerated and her face bloodied; her head was severed from her body save a few sinews. Later that day, a blood-soaked stroller was found leaning against a residential gate, and the following morning the dead body of a baby was found hidden underneath a nettle bush. So bega

Apr 3, 2018 • 1:34:23

MURDER CHOSE ME-Det. Rod Demery

MURDER CHOSE ME-Det. Rod Demery

Investigation Discovery’s MURDER CHOSE ME, featuring legendaryShreveport, Louisiana homicide detective Rod Demery returns for its second season on Wednesday,April 4 at 10/9c, only on ID.The series follows Demery as he reflects on memorable cases from his 14 years as a homicide detective, where he miraculously achieved a confession and 100% solve rate in the more than 250 homicide cases where he served as lead detective.Demery himself is no stranger to tragedy, having experienced an incredible lo

Mar 30, 2018 • 1:02:54

BROKEN DOLL-Burl Barer

BROKEN DOLL-Burl Barer

In May, 1988, in Everett, Washington, four-year-old Feather Rahier disappeared while playing outside after dinner. Her frantic cries drew Feather's mother to the dark garage that was home to Richard Matthew Clark. Clark had stolen the child, bound and gagged her, and begun to undress her. Only at the last instant was the little girl saved by her mother's desperate intervention. The next victim wouldn't be so fortunate.Without A TraceOn the night of March 31, 1995, Roxanne Doll, 7, was abducted f

Mar 27, 2018 • 1:38:03

IN PLAIN SIGHT-Kathryn Casey

IN PLAIN SIGHT-Kathryn Casey

JUDGE. JURY. EXECUTIONER.On a cold January morning, the killer executed Assistant District Attorney Mark Hasse in broad daylight. Eight shots fired a block from the Kaufman County Courthouse. Two months later, a massacre. The day before Easter, the couple slept. Bunnies, eggs, a flower centerpiece gracing the table. Death rang their doorbell and filled the air with the rat-a-tat-tat of an assault weapon discharging round after round into their bodies.Eric Williams and his wife, Kim, celebrated t

Mar 21, 2018 • 1:33:02

THERE BUT FOR THE GRACE OF GOD-Fred Rosen

THERE BUT FOR THE GRACE OF GOD-Fred Rosen

They stared into the faces of pure evil . . . and survived!Ted Bundy . . . Jeffrey Dahmer . . .David "Son of Sam" Berkowitz . . . Dennis Rader, the BTK Killer . . .These are some of the names that strike terror into even the bravest of hearts. Human monsters, they preyed upon the unsuspecting, freely feeding their terrible hungers. Their crimes were unspeakable, as they maimed, tortured, killed, and killed again, leaving so many dead in their bloody wake. But somehow, astonishingly, se

Mar 15, 2018 • 1:32:58

LOST CONNECTIONS-Johann Hari

LOST CONNECTIONS-Johann Hari

From the New York Times bestselling author of Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs, a radical new way of thinking about depression and anxiety.What really causes depression and anxiety - and how can we really solve them? Award-winning journalist Johann Hari suffered from depression since he was a child and started taking anti-depressants when he was a teenager. He was told that his problems were caused by a chemical imbalance in his brain. As an adult, trained in the s

Mar 9, 2018 • 1:09:07

THROUGH AN UNLOCKED DOOR-Kevin Sullivan

THROUGH AN UNLOCKED DOOR-Kevin Sullivan

" We never lock our doors." This is an often-heard remark expressing a commonplace American attitude or belief that, despite whatever danger might prevail in public spaces, life inside our own homes remains (or at least should remain) safe, carefree, normal.This book covers 13 high-profile cases in which evil paid an untimely visit and found the entrance open--when everything was normal, until it wasn't. Cases include Tommy Lynn Sells, Joshua Komisarjevsky and Steven J. Hayes, Polly Kl

Mar 8, 2018 • 1:33:33

THE BLACK WIDOWER-Michael Fleeman

THE BLACK WIDOWER-Michael Fleeman

She was his second wife—to die. . . Coming off a failed marriage, a beautiful woman named Toni joined an online dating site, hoping to find true and lasting love. Harold Henthorn seemed like her dream come true—a handsome man who said he had “a heart for others.” Only weeks after meeting, they were wed. But Toni’s family began noticing Harold’s dark side—especially his controlling nature, which Toni didn’t seem to mind. Until she met her end at the bottom of a ravine. . .Was he a grieving husban

Mar 1, 2018 • 1:32:49

UNSEEN-Laura Paglin

UNSEEN-Laura Paglin

This January, FilmRise released the chilling true crime documentary “Unseen,” from award-winning director and producer Laura Paglin. For two years, women had been disappearing from Mount Pleasant – a poverty-stricken,  African-American neighborhood in Cleveland – with little investigation from police and city officials. Then in 2009, a reported rape led Cleveland police to a grisly discovery— the bodies of eleven women decomposing in the house and yard of known sex offender Anthony Sowell. How w

Feb 27, 2018 • 59:41

TAKING TORI-Kelly Banaski

TAKING TORI-Kelly Banaski

An 18-year-old woman abused from birth and a chronic con man collide to concoct the most evil pairing since Karla Homolka and Paul Bernardo. Acting on a long-time fantasy, Michael Rafferty convinced Terri-Lynne McClintic to kidnap, rape and kill 8-year-old beautiful Victoria Stafford. The events that followed divided the community and changed the lives of an entire town. TAKING TORI: The True Story of Terri-Lynne McClintic and Michael Rafferty-Kelly Banaski Follow and comment on Facebook-TRUE MU

Feb 20, 2018 • 1:02:19

DEADLY BETRAYAL-Alan R. Warren

DEADLY BETRAYAL-Alan R. Warren

A family of three tied up, each with a gun to their head, “Where’s the money? Where’s the fucking money?” one of the intruders yelled. A petrified daughter tortured and forced to listen to her parents being shot in cold blood. “I heard shots, like pops,” she told the 911 operator, “somebody's broke into our home, please, I need help!” Was this a home invasion? Or something else, more sinister, a deadly betrayal.The real-life horror story that happened inside the Pan family home shocked their nor

Feb 14, 2018 • 1:25:02

SOLE SURVIVOR-Holly Dunn

SOLE SURVIVOR-Holly Dunn

A memoir of hope, healing, and survival, sure to resonate with fans of Jaycee Dugard’s A Stolen Life and Elizabeth Smart’s My Story.On August 28, 1997, just as she was starting her junior year at the University of Kentucky, Holly Dunn and her boyfriend, Chris Maier, were walking along railroad tracks on their way home from a party when they were attacked by notorious serial killer Angel Maturino Reséndiz, aka The Railroad Killer. After her boyfriend is beaten to death in front of her, Holly is s

Feb 12, 2018 • 1:03:59

BETTER OFF DEAD-Michael Fleeman

BETTER OFF DEAD-Michael Fleeman

New York Times bestselling author Michael Fleeman, strips away the pleasant veneer of the Silver Lakes neighborhood in California to tell a shocking story about a headline-grabbing crime.Sabrina Limon, a vivacious blond mother of two and part-time "sample girl" at Costco, is handing out free food samples one day when in walks handsome young firefighter Jonathan Hearn shopping for the station.Their conversation leads to a flirtation that leads to a steamy affair that has them hooking up

Feb 9, 2018 • 1:33:15

THE SHAWCROSS LETTERS-John Paul Fay and Brian Whitney

THE SHAWCROSS LETTERS-John Paul Fay and Brian Whitney

What happens when one of the most evil men in the history of America meets a man he trusts to share his darkest secrets with? How does it affect someone already on the edge of society when he is taken under the wing of a serial killer? Partly told through the letters of Arthur Shawcross, THE SHAWCROSS LETTERS is the tale of one of America’s most notorious serial killers and his relationship with his would-be biographer, John Paul Fay. John Paul Fay was a murderabilia dealer with a troubled past.

Feb 7, 2018 • 1:31:32

I'M NOT GUILTY-The Case of Ted Bundy-Dr. Al Carlisle

I'M NOT GUILTY-The Case of Ted Bundy-Dr. Al Carlisle

TED BUNDY BRUTALLY MURDERED OVER 30 WOMENFrom his arrest until his execution in 1989, Ted Bundy was interviewed extensively by psychologists, journalists, and law enforcement. He offered insight into the thoughts and methods of other serial killers. It wasn't until the last few days of his life that he confessed to his crimes, which he attributed to a mysterious Entity he claimed compelled him to kill.Dr. Al Carlisle, Ph.D., evaluated Bundy for the Utah court in 1976. Ever since, Carlisle has pa

Jan 31, 2018 • 1:37:08

SUMMARY EXECUTION-Michael Withey

SUMMARY EXECUTION-Michael Withey

On June 1, 1981, two young activists, Silme Domingo and Gene Viernes, were murdered in Seattle in what was made to appear like a gang slaying. But the victims' families and friends suspected they were considered a threat to the dictatorship of Phillippines dicatator Ferdinand Marcos and his regime's relationship to the United States.But how could they prove it up against such powerful, and ruthless, adversaries?In SUMMARY EXECUTION attorney and author Michael Withey describes his ten-year battle

Jan 26, 2018 • 1:33:53

DEADLY DECEPTION-J.T. Hunter

DEADLY DECEPTION-J.T. Hunter

WARNING: This book contains several crime scene photos that are graphic in nature and may be very disturbing to some people. Do not proceed if under the age of 18 or are disturbed by scenes of death and violence. One after another, young women disappeared without a trace in the night. One by one, their brutalized bodies turned up, the macabre crime scenes suggesting they shared the same cruel fate. Abducted, bound, and raped, all fell prey to an unknown killer, all became the victims of a deadly

Jan 22, 2018 • 1:35:50

SIDETRACKED-Richard T. Cahill Jr.

SIDETRACKED-Richard T. Cahill Jr.

As the sun rises over the quiet city of Kingston, New York on July 12, 1988, a local transient discovers the remains of 19-year-old Anna Kithcart. She was strangled and beaten to death, with the letters “KKK” carved into her thighs. While her heartbroken family mourns, and the police work around the clock to uncover the truth, the investigation is complicated by the entrance of the Reverend Al Sharpton who insists that a racist killer is responsible. As investigators struggle to find evidence, S

Jan 17, 2018 • 1:33:05

MY BROTHER'S KEEPER-Chris Russo Blackwood

MY BROTHER'S KEEPER-Chris Russo Blackwood

The moment he found out his brother was missing and presumed dead, Ted Kergan launched a relentless effort to bring two suspected killers—a teenaged-prostitute and her much older drifter boyfriend—to justice and find Gary Kergan’s body. Little did he know his quest would consume a fortune and take thirty years to reach its dramatic conclusion.Thwarted at first by the fact that his brother’s body could not be located and a new district attorney reluctant to prosecute as a result, Kergen had to ke

Jan 11, 2018 • 1:25:16

WITCHES IN WEST MEMPHIS-George Jared

WITCHES IN WEST MEMPHIS-George Jared

Three 8-year-old boys vanished from their West Memphis neighborhood one sunny afternoon. A day later their mangled, nude bodies are found in a drainage ditch. Police and prosecutors believe the killings are related to the occult. Three teens are arrested one month later. Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, and Jessie Misskelley Jr. are convictedAward-winning journalist George Jared takes readers inside one of the most famous criminal cases in U.S. legal history. Witches in West Memphis gives a compreh

Jan 3, 2018 • 1:32:54

THE CREEK SIDE BONES-George Jared

THE CREEK SIDE BONES-George Jared

This real-life tragedy began on a stormy night with a knock at the front door. A friend needed help with his car. What happened to Carl, Lisa, Gregory, and Felicia that night is worse than any fictional horror story you’ve ever read or seen on the big screen. Little girls should never have to live in a barrel … Award-winning journalist and best-selling author George Jared takes readers on a gripping and chilling journey with his latest true-crime book, The Creek Side Bones … Reality is more horr

Dec 20, 2017 • 1:21:14

THE MIND OF THE DEVIL-Dr. Al Carlisle

THE MIND OF THE DEVIL-Dr. Al Carlisle

“He could not stop what he was doing. It was either sex or suicide.”It’s often said that we will likely never understand how a person becomes a serial killer. However, I believe we can. In fact, we must, if we are ever going to find a way to stop the sexual abuse of children. But it’s not only the victims we want to save. We also want to stop our children from transforming themselves into killers.Arthur Gary Bishop and Westley Allan Dodd had many things in common. They were both psychopathic ped

Dec 14, 2017 • 1:33:02

THE ZODIAC-PROFILED-Mark Hewitt

THE ZODIAC-PROFILED-Mark Hewitt

The Search Continues... Following up on the meticulously detailed research of HUNTED: The Zodiac Murders (Book 1), PROFILED: The Zodiac Examined (Book 2) goes beyond the case files to develop a comprehensive psychological profile that examines the personality, psychology, physical characteristics, and motives of the Zodiac. Based in the same detailed research of HUNTED, PROFILED sticks to the facts and articulates at every step how the conclusions of the profile were reached. The Zodiac serial k

Dec 7, 2017 • 1:29:45

THE KILLING GAME- Alan R. Warren

THE KILLING GAME- Alan R. Warren

In 1968 young girls went missing in California and New York, massive searches started and soon bodies began to turn up. This is the story of Rodney Alcala, the charming, good looking photographer that was in NYU studying under Roman Polanski and even once had won on the popular TV game show " Dating Game" but now was wanted for rape, torture and murder of several young girls! He would make the girls suffer until they passed out, then rape them, and when they came too , he would beat th

Nov 30, 2017 • 1:34:44

MURDER ON HIS MIND-A FAMILY MEMBER SPEAKS-Anne Penn

MURDER ON HIS MIND-A FAMILY MEMBER SPEAKS-Anne Penn

Anne Penn brings us True Crime in this edition of Murder On HIs Mind. This second edition includes A Family Member Speaks, My Name Is Laurie. The case of the Original Night Stalker aka East Area Rapist/Golden State Killer. Included Lyman Jones Smith's granddaughter Laurie talks about the effect the murders of Lyman Robert and Charlene Smith had on Lyman's father as well as the rest of the family that lived in Sacramento. What were the chances that the East Area Rapist would terrorize Sacramento

Nov 23, 2017 • 1:35:06

VIOLENT MIND-Dr. Al Carlisle

VIOLENT MIND-Dr. Al Carlisle

In March 1976, Ted Bundy was convicted of the aggravated kidnapping of a young woman near Salt Lake City, Utah. Bundy had not been accused or convicted of any violent crime except this one. No one knew then how many women Bundy had murdered, and many thought him incapable of doing so.Dr. Al Carlisle was part of the 90-Day Diagnostic team at the Utah State Prison when Bundy was sent there after the trial. Dr. Carlisle's assignment was specific: Determine to the best of his ability, without being

Nov 16, 2017 • 1:36:58

MEMBER OF THE FAMILY-Dianne Lake

MEMBER OF THE FAMILY-Dianne Lake

In this poignant and disturbing memoir of lost innocence, coercion, survival, and healing, Dianne Lake chronicles her years with Charles Manson, revealing for the first time how she became the youngest member of his Family and offering new insights into one of the twentieth century’s most notorious criminals and life as one of his "girls."At age fourteen Dianne Lake—with little more than a note in her pocket from her hippie parents granting her permission to leave them—became one of &q

Nov 10, 2017 • 1:29:58

DEATH IN THE AIR-Kate Winkler Dawson

DEATH IN THE AIR-Kate Winkler Dawson

A real-life thriller in the vein of The Devil in the White City, Kate Winkler Dawson's debut Death in the Air is a gripping, historical narrative of a serial killer, an environmental disaster, and an iconic city struggling to regain its footing. In winter 1952, London automobiles and thousands of coal-burning hearths belched particulate matter into the air. But the smog that descended on December 5th of 1952 was different; it was a type that held the city hostage for five long days. Mass transit

Nov 2, 2017 • 1:08:40

TARGETED-M.William Phelps

TARGETED-M.William Phelps

When her missing boyfriend is found murdered, his body encased in cement inside a watering trough and dumped in a cattle field, a local sheriff’s deputy is arrested and charged with his murder. But as New York Times bestselling author and investigative journalist M. William Phelps digs in, the truth leads to questions about her guilt. In his first full-length, original true-crime book for WildBlue Press, Phelps delivers a hard-hitting, unique reading experience, immersing readers in the life of

Oct 31, 2017 • 1:04:09

THE LAST CHICAGO BOSS-Kerrie Droban

THE LAST CHICAGO BOSS-Kerrie Droban

A legend in the biker community, Peter “Big Pete” James was the most revered gangster in the Outlaw Nation. He first perfected his skills with the Hells Angels, the Outlaws’ chief rival, before persuading thousands of disgruntled members from splintered Outlaws chapters to unite. Together, they formed a powerful criminal syndicate involved in extortion, contract murders, drugs and arms trafficking, money laundering and assassinations. Then a shocking medical diagnosis knocked James sideways, for

Oct 25, 2017 • 1:24:41

DEADLY VOICES-C.L. Swinney

DEADLY VOICES-C.L. Swinney

Serial Killer Herbert Mullin terrorized the Santa Cruz, California, area at the same time the infamous Co-Ed Killer, Edmund Kemper, was active. Unlike Kemper, Mullin killed anyone. Young, old, men, women, children, and even a priest in a confession booth. He didn’t adhere to a particular MO. The deadly voices told him to kill… and he killed. DEADLY VOICES: The True Story of Serial Killer Herbert Mullins-C.L. Swinney  Follow and comment on Facebook-TRUE MURDER: The Most Shocking Killers in True C

Oct 18, 2017 • 1:34:31

THE BAYOU STRANGLER-Fred Rosen

THE BAYOU STRANGLER-Fred Rosen

In 1997, the bodies of young African American men began turning up in the cane fields of New Orleans suburbs. The victims-many of them transient street hustlers-had been brutally raped and strangled, leaving Louisiana's gay community rattled. When no leads were found and the murders continued, detectives Dennis Thornton and Dawn Bergeron came together as task-force partners and were indefatigable in their decade-long effort to track down the killer. In 2006, DNA evidence finally linked the murde

Oct 12, 2017 • 1:30:06

STEVEN AVERY RETRIAL DENIED-Chad Keller and Juan Tescrue

STEVEN AVERY RETRIAL DENIED-Chad Keller and Juan Tescrue

Chad Spencer Keller, author of Beyond Avery Road: Buting and the Beast, joins us tonight for Part 2 of his interview alongside Wisconsin Political Insider using the Pseudonym of "Juan Tescrue." Tonight's discussion will detail the recent denial of Steven Avery's new trial in Manitowoc County, as they speak about what happens next from here with defense attorney Kathleen Zellner. Going forward, "Juan Tescrue" and Keller will deliver evidence as to the importance of why all eye

Oct 6, 2017 • 1:32:46

A SOCIALITE SCORNED-Kerrie Droban

A SOCIALITE SCORNED-Kerrie Droban

The victim was Gary Triano, a Tucson real estate developer with influential friends?and enemies. After finishing a round of golf at a country club, he went to the parking lot and found a gift in his car: a crudely made pipe-bomb that blew him to pieces.The bomb-maker was Ron Young, a Colorado "bad guy" wanted on weapons and fraud charges. The prosecution claimed that the woman he was dating at the time promised to pay him $400,000 to murder her ex-husband.Her name was Pamela Phillips,

Oct 3, 2017 • 1:25:10

DEATH ROW ROMEO-J.T. Hunter

DEATH ROW ROMEO-J.T. Hunter

Three young women abducted and brutally murdered. For years, their killer remained a mystery as the cases turned cold. Then a Crime Stoppers call led to his arrest. Charming and handsome, serial killer Oscar Ray Bolin married a member of his legal defense team, and he toyed with the criminal courts for decades while on Death Row. This is the first book about Bolin and his victims. DEATH ROW ROMEO: The True Story of Oscar Ray Bolin-J.T. Hunter Follow and comment on Facebook-TRUE MURDER: The Most

Sep 28, 2017 • 1:32:59

DADDY'S LITTLE SECRET-Denise Wallace

DADDY'S LITTLE SECRET-Denise Wallace

DADDY'S LITTLE SECRET:A Daughter's Quest To Solve Her Father's Brutal Murder is the poignant true crime story about a daughter who, upon her father's murder, learns of his secret double-life. She had looked the other way about other hidden facets of his life - deadly secrets that could help his killer escape the death penalty, should she come forward. An inside look at the complex and fascinating psyche of a father who shared an uncommon bond with his daughter.Denise had spent years hiding deadl

Sep 22, 2017 • 1:01:58

44 YEARS AND COUNTING-Ray Gray and Fred Rosen

44 YEARS AND COUNTING-Ray Gray and Fred Rosen

On February 6th, 1973 in Detroit Michigan, drug dealer Ruben Bryant was shot dead. 21 year-old artist Ray Gray was convicted for the murder, the conviction based on a fixed line-up and no evidence.  Raymond Gray is an internationally recognized artist. He is also in the 44th year of a life sentence for the 1973 murder of drug dealer Ruben Bryant. The state of Michigan has had in it's possession for over thirty of those years, an affidavit from one of the two hold-up men responsible for Bryant's

Sep 20, 2017 • 1:22:11

BANQUET OF CONSEQUENCES-Paul Sanders

BANQUET OF CONSEQUENCES-Paul Sanders

On Christmas Eve 2007, Judy and Wayne Anderson’s daughter, Michele, and her boyfriend, Joseph McEnroe, arrived at their home for a family meal. Unbeknownst to them, their daughter was armed with a loaded 9 mm pistol and McEnroe was carrying a .357 Magnum. Both parents were callously shot dead by the pair and their bodies hidden from view. Two and a half hours later, Michele’s brother Scott, his wife Erica and their two children, Olivia (5) and Nathan (3), arrived at the house. Within the hour, t

Sep 16, 2017 • 1:35:23

THE MIRANDA MURDERS-Matthew Rosvally

THE MIRANDA MURDERS-Matthew Rosvally

Leonard Lake was greatly influenced by a book titled The Collector where a man abducts a woman to keep forever as a sex slave. The book was fictional but when Leonard Lake met Charles Ng they discussed abducting, enslaving and torturing women. They called their plan Operation Miranda. Matthew Rosvally is the director of The Miranda Murders: Lost Tapes of Leonard Lake and Charles Ng. His film depicts the horrible acts committed in Northern California in the mid 80s, caught on film by the notoriou

Sep 9, 2017 • 1:02:59

LADY KILLERS-Tori Telfer

LADY KILLERS-Tori Telfer

When you think of serial killers throughout history, the names that come to mind are ones like Jack the Ripper, John Wayne Gacy, and Ted Bundy. But what about Tillie Klimek, Moulay Hassan, Kate Bender? The narrative we’re comfortable with is the one where women are the victims of violent crime, not the perpetrators. In fact, serial killers are thought to be so universally, overwhelmingly male that in 1998, FBI profiler Roy Hazelwood infamously declared in a homicide conference, “There are no fem

Sep 7, 2017 • 1:31:24

BEYOND AVERY ROAD-Chad Spencer Keller

BEYOND AVERY ROAD-Chad Spencer Keller

n the state of Wisconsin, after being exonerated for a wrongful conviction on September 11, 2003, Steven Avery became a very political name in a very political time. Two years later, when arrested for the 'Intentional Homicide' of Teresa Halbach during a time when he filed a $36,000,000 civil suit, Steven alleges he was ultimately "Framed" by corrupt state officials to thwart off his chances of winning the suit.However, the Wisconsin DOJ argues that it was impossible for any such &quot

Sep 1, 2017 • 1:36:23

THE GRIM SLEEPER-Christine Pelisek

THE GRIM SLEEPER-Christine Pelisek

In 2006, Christine Pelisek broke the story of a terrifying serial killer who went unchecked in Los Angeles for decades. Two years later, in her cover article for L.A. Weekly, Pelisek dubbed him "The Grim Sleeper" for his long break between murders. The killer preyed on a community devastated by crime and drugs and left behind a trail of bodies?all women of color, all murdered in a similar fashion, and all discarded in the alleys of Los Angeles.  The case of the Grim Sleeper is unforget

Aug 24, 2017 • 1:35:13

ROBERT PICKTON-C.L. Swinney

ROBERT PICKTON-C.L. Swinney

Robert Pickton, inherited a pig farm outside of Vancouver worth a million dollars and used his wealth to lure skid row hookers to his farm. This serial murder investigation the biggest, longest and costliest in Canadian history. He confessed to murdering 49 female victims; dismembering and feeding their body parts to his pigs, some of the pork which he supplied to Vancouver area restaurants. ROBERT PICKTON: The Pig Farmer Killer-C.L. Swinney    Follow and comment on Facebook-TRUE MURDER: The Mos

Aug 17, 2017 • 1:28:28

DANGEROUS GROUND-M. William Phelps

DANGEROUS GROUND-M. William Phelps

For the first time, award-winning investigative journalist M. William Phelps reveals the identity of “Raven,” the serial killer who co-starred with him on Dark Minds—and tells the story of his intriguing bond with one of America’s most disturbing killers. In September 2011, M. William Phelps made a bold decision that would change the landscape of reality-based television—and his own life.  He asked a convicted serial killer to act as a consultant for his TV series. Under the code name “Raven,” t

Aug 9, 2017 • 1:05:05

A SLAYER WAITS-Rod Sadler

A SLAYER WAITS-Rod Sadler

September, 1955, Nealy Buchanan, a trustee at the State Prison of Southern Michigan, was denied parole. Because of his trustee status, he was assigned to pick up local trash from area farms in a prison truck, which provided the perfect opportunity to escape. Running out of gas near Stockbridge, Michigan and continuing on foot, he hid out inside the barn of Howard and Myra Herrick, an elderly farm couple. Buchanon was planning to steal their car to further his escape. Surprised when Howard Herric

Aug 3, 2017 • 1:32:39

A SPECIAL KIND OF EVIL-Blaine Pardoe and Victoria Hester

A SPECIAL KIND OF EVIL-Blaine Pardoe and Victoria Hester

The Colonial Parkway Murders –the name given eight murders that took place in the Tidewater region in the late 1980’s, two of which were on the historic Colonial Parkway, the nation’s narrowest National Park. Young people in the prime of their lives were the targets. But the pattern that stitched this special kind of evil together was more like a spider web of theory, intrigue, and mathematics. Then, mysteriously, the killing spree stopped. The nameless predator, or predators, who stalked the Co

Jul 26, 2017 • 1:39:34

ROOM 1203-O.J. SIMPSON'S LAS VEGAS CONVICTION-Det. Andy Caldwell

ROOM 1203-O.J. SIMPSON'S LAS VEGAS CONVICTION-Det. Andy Caldwell

In 1995, NFL great and movie star, O.J. Simpson beat a murder rap for the death of his wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ron Goldman. But in 2007 his luck with avoiding Lady Justice ran out in Las Vegas.ROOM 1203 is the true story of the convoluted and bizarre events surrounding a violent armed robbery of a sports memorabilia collector in a Vegas hotel. On that night, Simpson put an exclamation mark on his spectacular fall from the height of Hollywood’s glamour and glitz to a shadowy w

Jul 25, 2017 • 1:01:54

LOST COAST HIGHWAY-Gray George

LOST COAST HIGHWAY-Gray George

On July 8, 1979, two skeletons were found off a remote highway in Mendocino County, California. The skeletons belonged to a pair of murdered teenagers. For thirty-six years, the teens’ identities remained a mystery. The teens’ killer was never brought to justice. In the fall of 2015, the Mendocino teens were identified through DNA testing. The identifications raised a number of questions in the community. Who murdered the Mendocino teens? Why did the teens go unidentified for so long? Were their

Jul 20, 2017 • 1:33:04

MURDER ON HIS MIND SERIAL KILLER-Anne Penn

MURDER ON HIS MIND SERIAL KILLER-Anne Penn

Murder on His Mind Serial Killer is the true crime story of the Original Night Stalker aka East Area Rapist who first terrorized Rancho Cordova/Sacramento areas in Northern California as a serial rapist. Moving on to Southern California he became the serial killer and rapist he had worked to become. The Original Night Stalker carried out the murders of at least 12 people in and around Southern California. This serial rapist and murderer moved about freely as law enforcement has been unable to ca

Jul 13, 2017 • 1:04:35

MONSTER-C.L. Swinney

MONSTER-C.L. Swinney

Peter Kurten, a German who'd been sent to prison for deserting his comrades, sat in a cell contemplating what to do when he got out. He had no control within the prison walls and it drove him mad. The things that happened to him while in custody, unlocked oppressed sadistic feelings within Peter, and forced him to unleash a level of sexual deviancy on innocent victims in and around Dusseldorf, Germany, that no one will ever forget. Young girls, women, and men would succumb to horrific attacks in

Jul 6, 2017 • 1:33:37

MURDER IN THE STACKS-David DeKok

MURDER IN THE STACKS-David DeKok

On Nov. 28, 1969, Betsy Aardsma, a 22-year-old graduate student in English at Penn State, was stabbed to death in the stacks of Pattee Library at the university’s main campus in State College.  For more than forty years, her murder went unsolved, though detectives with the Pennsylvania State Police and local citizens worked tirelessly to find her killer. The mystery was eventually solved—after the death of the murderer. This book will reveal the story behind what has been a scary mystery for ge

Jun 29, 2017 • 1:12:31

A DANGEROUS PLACE-Simon Farquhar

A DANGEROUS PLACE-Simon Farquhar

IN SEPTEMBER 1970, two boys met in the playground on their first day at secondary school in North London. They formed what would be described at the Old Bailey thirty years later as 'a unique and wicked bond'. Between 1982 and 1986, striking near lonely railway stations in London and the Home Counties, their partnership took them from rape to murder. Three police forces pooled their resources to catch them in the biggest criminal manhunt since the Yorkshire Ripper Enquiry. A Dangerous Place is t

Jun 27, 2017 • 1:35:35

Queen City Gothic-J.T. Townsend

Queen City Gothic-J.T. Townsend

Losing a loved one to murder is life's ultimate tragedy. But when the killer is never captured, a family's paralyzing grief only compounds. Years pass. Pain grows. Time heals nothing. Parents, spouses, and children of the victims never find peace. Investigators continue to lie awake night after night, year after year, thinking, "If only..." Cold cases fascinate us because of the endless possibilities. What if Alice Hochhausler hadn't driven her daughter home from work while a strangler

Jun 22, 2017 • 1:33:40

SHE IS EVIL-Judith A. Yates

SHE IS EVIL-Judith A. Yates

That woman is evil. She is evil!” Ejaz Ahmad was handsome, charismatic, and a self-made businessman. He arrived in the United States from Pakistan determined to fulfill his mother’s dying wish: to come to America, complete his education, and make his mark in the world. Settling in Memphis, Tennessee, Ejaz became owner of several businesses, father to a handsome boy, and a devout Muslim. The only thing missing in his life was a wife, someone special to protect, honor, and love. Leah Ward was a pr

Jun 15, 2017 • 1:18:34

MY SISTER'S KEEPER-CD Newton

MY SISTER'S KEEPER-CD Newton

Cleveland Strangler's best-kept secrets revealed! A man fights for justice and closure for an ex-girlfriend, an unknown survivor, the first to report to the authorities her brutal attack, by the then nameless emerging Cleveland Strangler. Sadly, her case was suspended in 4-months. A year later, Anthony Sowell, would begin his killing spree,  the infamous 11-Women of Imperial Avenue, all strangled and stashed in and around his home. Why didn't the Cleveland Sex Crimes Unit show her his recently r

Jun 8, 2017 • 1:37:52

A CLOCKWORK MURDER-Steve Jackson

A CLOCKWORK MURDER-Steve Jackson

They thought about their evil fantasy for months. Then wound up like clockwork toys ... they acted. In April 1997, pretty, 22-year-old Jacine Gielinski stopped her car at a red light in Colorado Springs, Colorado. She had no idea that the two young men looking at her from the car next to hers would in that moment decide she would be their target for unspeakable horrors. George Woldt and Lucas Salmon were an unlikely pair of best friends, much less killers. Woldt was a fast-talking, well-dressed

Jun 1, 2017 • 1:32:26

LIST OF 10-C.L. Swinney

LIST OF 10-C.L. Swinney

A narcissistic professional photographer lived a dangerous double life as a serial killer. He'd focus his rage on prostitutes mostly. It wasn't uncommon for him to bring them home then try to explain why they were there to his wife.Sexual urges met, the killer would strangle his victims and dump their bodies in places he knew the police would eventually find them. The evil murderer needed the world to know that he was smarter than the police and women meant nothing to him but a necessary sexual

May 25, 2017 • 1:26:31

BLOOD THIRST-Alan R. Warren

BLOOD THIRST-Alan R. Warren

Known as the 'Vampire Rapist' or 'Strangler Bill' for his distinctive modus operandi, Wayne Boden would rape, strangle and bite the breasts of his victims. His murdering rampage would continue in two cities over three years; he was only caught by superior evidence gathering and the help of an orthodontist. This book asks the question: How do we really know people when we don’t want to ask the questions, not only because we don’t want to know the answers for what it will tell us about them, but b

May 18, 2017 • 1:33:31

MOMMY DEAD AND DEAREST-Erin Lee Carr

MOMMY DEAD AND DEAREST-Erin Lee Carr

In Mommy Dead and Dearest, provocative documentarian Erin Lee Carr (HBO’s Thought Crimes: The Case of the Cannibal Cop) explores a grisly tale where nothing is quite what it seems. Following Dee Dee’s brutal murder, a mysterious status ended up on her facebook page announcing “The bitch is dead,” which investigators used to track her daughter, Gypsy, to a house in Wisconsin. Gypsy, who had been ill and confined to a wheelchair for nearly her entire life, was the subject of much concern in their

May 11, 2017 • 53:38

THE PHARMACIST OF AUSCHWITZ-Patricia Posner

THE PHARMACIST OF AUSCHWITZ-Patricia Posner

The Pharmacist of Auschwitz is the little known story of Victor Capesius, a Bayer pharmaceutical salesman from Romania who, at the age of 35, joined the Nazi SS in 1943 and quickly became the chief pharmacist at the largest death camp, Auschwitz. Based in part on previously classified documents, Patricia Posner exposes Capesius’s reign of terror at the camp, his escape from justice, fueled in part by his theft of gold ripped from the mouths of corpses, and how a handful of courageous survivors a

May 4, 2017 • 1:25:21

FRUSTRATED WITNESS-Willis Morgan

FRUSTRATED WITNESS-Willis Morgan

When six-year-old Adam Walsh was abducted from the Hollywood Mall on July 27, 1981, and his severed head found at the Florida Turnpike, no one could have guessed that it would take police almost thirty years to find the culprit or that even then they had still got it all so wrong. Willis Morgan was an eye witness at the mall the day Adam was taken, but rather than feel relief when the Hollywood Police Department finally convicted suspect Ottis Toole in 2008, he felt sick and frustrated. Frustrat

Apr 28, 2017 • 1:16:13

RAW DEAL-Gil Valle and Brian Whitney

RAW DEAL-Gil Valle and Brian Whitney

"When, if ever, does a thought cross the line and become a crime?"RAW DEAL is the untold story of former New York City police officer Gil Valle, who in 2012 became known throughout the world as “The Cannibal Cop.” It is part the controversial saga of a man who was imprisoned for “thought crimes,” and a look into a world of dark sexuality and violence that most readers don’t know exists, except maybe in their nightmares. After Valle’s arrest, media coverage exploded in a frenzy of lurid

Apr 20, 2017 • 1:33:37

THE MAD CHOPPER-Fred Rosen

THE MAD CHOPPER-Fred Rosen

Fred Rosen follows a killer’s trail back in time 2 decades to discover how a monster slipped through the legal systemWhen police in Tampa, Florida, arrested Larry Singleton in 1997 for brutally murdering prostitute Roxanne Hayes, they soon realized it wasn’t the man’s first violent attack. Back in 1978 he had gained notoriety as “the Mad Chopper” for raping and cutting off the arms of 15-year-old Mary Vincent on a patch of desolate, sun-scorched land 5 miles off the highway near Modesto, Califor

Apr 13, 2017 • 1:37:02

ESCAPE FROM DANNEMORA-Michael Benson

ESCAPE FROM DANNEMORA-Michael Benson

t was one of the biggest crime stories of the decade—two deadly killers, desperate and on the run. After months of planning, Ricky Matt and David Sweat cut, chopped, coerced, and connived their way out of a maximum-security prison in the wilderness of upstate New York and managed to elude police for three weeks, sending the region into lockdown and keeping the entire country on edge. The media called it “a bold escape for the ages,” and veteran true-crime writer Michael Benson leads us along the

Apr 4, 2017 • 1:13:31

ABOVE SUSPICION-Alan R. Warren

ABOVE SUSPICION-Alan R. Warren

Young girl’s panties started to go missing; sexual assaults began to occur, and then female bodies were found! Soon this quiet town of Tweed, Ontario, was in panic. What's even more shocking was when an upstanding resident stood accused of the assaults. This was not just any man, but a pillar of the community; a decorated military pilot who had flown Canadian Forces VIP aircraft for dignitaries such as the Queen of England, Prince Philip, the Governor General and Prime Minister of Canada.This is

Mar 30, 2017 • 1:32:42

THE BUNDY SECRETS-Kevin Sullivan

THE BUNDY SECRETS-Kevin Sullivan

Within the pages of THE BUNDY SECRETS:Hidden Files Of America's Worst Serial Killer is a unique, never-before-published look at the investigations undertaken to stop the depredations of America’s most infamous serial killer, Ted Bundy. Presented here in an easy-to-follow chronology are the raw, unedited and most fascinating official case files as they appeared to the detectives from the Pacific Northwest to the Rocky Mountains to Florida.Book Three In Sullivan’s ‘The Bundy Trilogy’THE BUNDY MURD

Mar 23, 2017 • 1:31:22

A NEED TO KILL-Mark Pettit

A NEED TO KILL-Mark Pettit

Three-time EMMY® award-winning investigative reporter Mark Pettit, returns to write the final chapter in his best-selling, and now newly updated book - A Need to Kill: The Death Row Drawings." Dramatic and chilling new evidence comes to light exposing the sinister thoughts running through the mind of John Joubert - the man behind the brutal murders of two young boys in Nebraska. In the spirit of Truman Capote's "In Cold Blood," Pettit delves into the Joubert case to tell the drama

Mar 15, 2017 • 1:30:20

PRISONER 4374-A.J. Griffiths-Jones

PRISONER 4374-A.J. Griffiths-Jones

For more than a century, Dr. Thomas Neill Cream has been listed as a potential 'Jack the Ripper' suspect. Indeed, he was a sinister character, preying on the unfortunate souls who were forced to make a living as streetwalkers in Victorian London, and ultimately led those poor women to an untimely and torturous death. These crimes eventually branded him the 'Lambeth Poisoner'.However, during the time of the heinous Ripper murders, Dr. Cream was incarcerated in Joliet Prison, Illinois. Over the de

Mar 7, 2017 • 1:22:43

HIS NAME WAS MURDER-Phil LeVota

HIS NAME WAS MURDER-Phil LeVota

This book tells the story of five different homicide cases from Kansas City, Missouri as told by the prosecutor who handled the cases himself, Phil LeVota. Five different stories are the five chapters that tell the different tale of true crime from the criminal's perspective, the police perspective, and the prosecution perspective. The Jackson County Prosecutor's office and the Kansas City Police department were involved in obtaining justice for the victims. From the horrific crime where the mur

Mar 2, 2017 • 1:33:48

THE SPIDER AND THE FLY-Claudia Rowe

THE SPIDER AND THE FLY-Claudia Rowe

In this superb work of literary true crime—a spellbinding combination of memoir and psychological suspense—a female journalist chronicles her unusual connection with a convicted serial killer and her search to understand the darkness inside us."Well, well, Claudia. Can I call you Claudia? I’ll have to give it to you, when confronted at least you’re honest, as honest as any reporter. . . . You want to go into the depths of my mind and into my past. I want a peek into yours. It is only fair,

Feb 22, 2017 • 1:30:30

WHO KILLED BOB CRANE?-John Hook

WHO KILLED BOB CRANE?-John Hook

The 1978 murder of actor and American icon Bob Crane remains one of the most high-profile unsolved celebrity murders of all time. Thirty-eight years after his brutal murder in Scottsdale, Arizona, millions around the world still want answers. Was John Carpenter the killer? Or did police arrest an innocent man?For nearly 40 years, police remained convinced of Carpenter’s guilt. Early DNA testing, decades ago, was unable to positively link Carpenter to the crime. The two friends lived on the edge

Feb 14, 2017 • 1:29:03

WOLF BOYS-Dan Slater

WOLF BOYS-Dan Slater

The story of two American teens recruited as killers for a Mexican cartel, and their pursuit by a Mexican-American detective. At first glance, Gabriel Cardona is the poster boy American teenager: great athlete, bright, handsome, and charismatic. But the streets of his border town of Laredo, Texas, are poor and dangerous, and it isn’t long before Gabriel abandons his promising future for the allure of the Zetas, a drug cartel with roots in the Mexican military. His younger friend Bart, as well as

Feb 9, 2017 • 1:01:23

YOU GOTTA BE DIRTY-Michael Grogan

YOU GOTTA BE DIRTY-Michael Grogan

In 1964, a band of motorcyclists mysteriously appeared in Milwaukee. Over the course of the next decade, the Outlaws Motorcycle Club (OMC) became synonymous with acts of intimidation and violence. In the ruthless world of renegade bikers, the OMC’s Milwaukee chapter became known as the “Wrecking Crew.” You Gotta Be Dirty: The Outlaws Motorcycle Club in & Around Wisconsin, examines the evolution of outlaw motorcycle clubs in the United States. From 1947 to the early 1960s, the influence of ro

Feb 6, 2017 • 1:24:01

A DAUGHTER'S DEADLY DECEPTION-Jeremy Grimaldi

A DAUGHTER'S DEADLY DECEPTION-Jeremy Grimaldi

From the outside looking in, Jennifer Pan seemed like a model daughter living a perfect life. The ideal child, the one her immigrant parents saw, was studying to become a pharmacist at the University of Toronto. But there was a dark, deceptive side to the angelic young woman.In reality, Jennifer spent her days in the arms of her high school sweetheart, Daniel. In an attempt to lead the life she dreamed of, she would do almost anything: lie about her whereabouts, forge school documents, and inven

Feb 3, 2017 • 1:27:00

AT THE END OF THE WORLD-Lawrence Millman

AT THE END OF THE WORLD-Lawrence Millman

At the End of the World is the remarkable story of a series of murders that occurred in an extremely remote corner of the Arctic in 1941. Those murders show that senseless violence in the name of religion is not only a contemporary phenomenon, and that a people as seemingly peaceful as the Inuit can become unpeaceful at the drop of a hat or, in this instance, a meteor shower.At the same time, the book is a warning cry against the destruction of what’s left of our culture’s humanity, along the de

Jan 29, 2017 • 1:07:32

POLITICS OF MURDER-Margo Nash

POLITICS OF MURDER-Margo Nash

On a hot night in July 1995, Janet Downing, a 42-year-old mother of four, was brutally stabbed 98 times in her home in Somerville, a city two miles northwest of Boston. Within hours, a suspect was identified: 15-year-old Eddie O’Brien, the best friend of one of Janet’s sons.But why Eddie? He had no prior history of criminal behavior. He was not mentally ill. He had neither motive nor opportunity to commit the crime. Yet none of that mattered because powers beyond his Somerville neighborhood deci

Jan 26, 2017 • 1:36:25

DEPRAVED-Harold Schechter

DEPRAVED-Harold Schechter

The heinous bloodlust of Dr. H.H. Holmes is notorious -- but only Harold Schechter's Depraved tells the complete story of the killer whose evil acts of torture and murder flourished within miles of the Chicago World's Fair. "Destined to be a true crime classic" (Flint Journal, MI), this authoritative account chronicles the methods and madness of a monster who slipped easily into a bright, affluent Midwestern suburb, where no one suspected the dapper, charming Holmes -- who alternately

Jan 18, 2017 • 1:26:32

THE MURDER OF SONNY LISTON-Shaun Assael

THE MURDER OF SONNY LISTON-Shaun Assael

On January 5, 1971, Sonny Liston was found dead in his home—of an apparent heroin overdose. But no one close to Liston believed that his death was acci­dental. Digging deep into a life that Liston tried hard to hide, investigative journalist Shaun Assael treats the boxer’s death as a cold case. The result ia page-turning who­dunit about a glorious and grimy era of Las Vegas.  Middle America was flocking to the Strip, transforming it from an exclusive playground for the mob to a mecca for corpo

Jan 14, 2017 • 1:00:48

POSSESSED-Kathryn Casey

POSSESSED-Kathryn Casey

The officer responding to a 911 call at one of Houston’s hippest high-rises expected the worst. After all, domestic violence situations can be unpredictable. But nothing could’ve prepared him for what he found: a beautiful woman drenched in blood . . . an older man lying dead on the floor . . . and a cobalt blue suede stiletto with tufts of white hair stuck to its five-and-a-half-inch heel. With her stunning looks, magnetic personality, and erratic behavior, Ana Trujillo had a notorious reputati

Jan 12, 2017 • 1:13:36

THE SPIRAL NOTEBOOK-Joyce and Stephen Singular

THE SPIRAL NOTEBOOK-Joyce and Stephen Singular

On July 20, 2012, twelve people were killed and fifty-eight wounded at a mass shooting in a movie theater in Colorado. In 1999, thirteen kids at Columbine High School were murdered by their peers. In 2012, twenty children and seven adults were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary. Thirty-two were killed at Virginia Tech. Twelve killed at the Washington Navy Yard. In May 2014, after posting a YouTube video of ‘retribution” and lamenting a life of “loneliness, rejection, and unfulfilled desires,” a lon

Jan 5, 2017 • 1:26:12

NOT JUST EVIL-David Wilson

NOT JUST EVIL-David Wilson

For readers of true crime sagas like Tinseltown and Little Demon in the City of Light comes a chilling account of a murder that captivated the United States in the 1920s.Twelve-year-old Marion Parker was kidnapped from her Los Angeles school by an unknown assailant on December 15, 1927. Her body appeared days later, delivered to her father by the killer, who fled with the ransom money. When William Hickman was hunted down and charged with the killing, he admitted to all of it, in terrifying deta

Dec 21, 2016 • 1:38:06

DID THEY REALLY DO IT?-Fred Rosen

DID THEY REALLY DO IT?-Fred Rosen

Nine of the most controversial violent crimes in America's history are reexamined in these compelling stories of true crime. Dr. Samuel Mudd set John Wilkes Booth's broken ankle, but was he actually part of the larger conspiracy to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln? Did Lizzie Borden brutally murder her own parents in Massachusetts? Was admitted jihadist Zacarias Moussaoui really involved in the terrorist plot to destroy the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001?In a series of provocative

Dec 15, 2016 • 1:31:36

BETRAYAL IN BLUE-Burl Barer, Frank C. Girardot Jr. and Ken Eurell

BETRAYAL IN BLUE-Burl Barer, Frank C. Girardot Jr. and Ken Eurell

NYPD officers Mike Dowd and Kenny Eurell knew there were two ways to get rich quick in Brooklyn's Lower East Side. You either became drug dealers, or you robbed drug dealers. They decided to do both. Dowd and Eurell ran the most powerful gang in New York’s dangerous 75th Precinct, the crack cocaine capitol of 1980s America. These “ Cocaine Cops” formed a lucrative alliance with Adam Diaz, the kingpin of an ever-expanding Dominican drug cartel. Soon Mike and Ken were buying fancy cars no cop coul

Dec 8, 2016 • 1:31:05

CORPSEWOOD-Daniel Ellis

CORPSEWOOD-Daniel Ellis

On December 12th, 1982, a strange house in the remote mountains of North West Georgia became a bloody slaughterhouse for two men and their dogs. One of the victims—an accomplished scientist and university professor—experimented with the occult. A self-portrait found at the crime scene appeared to depict the professor gagged with gunshot wounds to his head, exactly as his body was discovered by investigators. Had he gazed into the future and witnessed his own death—or had the painting inspired th

Dec 1, 2016 • 1:27:20

SIMILAR TRANSACTIONS-S.R. Reynolds

SIMILAR TRANSACTIONS-S.R. Reynolds

Former social-worker S.R. Reynolds has never forgotten the mishandled case of fifteen-year-old Michelle Anderson, a vibrant beauty who went missing from Reynold's Knoxville, Tennessee, neighborhood years earlier. Aided by her old professor, famed forensic anthropologist Dr. Bill Bass-founder of the University of Tennessee's 'Body Farm'-Reynolds picks up the trail of this cold case.As she presses neglected pieces of the puzzle into place, Reynolds unearths a string of heinous kidnappings and rape

Nov 26, 2016 • 1:16:44

THE LONG SHADOW OF SMALL GHOSTS-Laura Tillman

THE LONG SHADOW OF SMALL GHOSTS-Laura Tillman

On March 11, 2003, in Brownsville, Texas—one of America’s poorest cities—John Allen Rubio and Angela Camacho murdered their three young children. The apartment building in which the brutal crimes took place was already rundown, and in their aftermath a consensus developed in the community that it should be destroyed. It was a place, neighbors felt, that was plagued by spiritual cancer.In 2008, journalist Laura Tillman covered the story for The Brownsville Herald. The questions it raised haunted

Nov 17, 2016 • 1:12:27

IN COLDER BLOOD-J.T. Hunter

IN COLDER BLOOD-J.T. Hunter

Two families, mysteriously murdered under similar circumstances, just a month apart. One was memorialized in Truman Capote’s classic novel, In Cold Blood. The other was all but forgotten. Dick Hickock and Perry Smith confessed to the first: the November 15, 1959 murder of a family of four in Holcomb, Kansas. Despite remarkable coincidences between the two crimes, they denied committing the second: the December 19 murder of a family of four in Osprey, Florida. Over half a century later, a determi

Nov 10, 2016 • 1:08:43

PRESUMED GUILTY-Stephen Singular

PRESUMED GUILTY-Stephen Singular

The 20th anniversary of the death of JonBenet Ramsey is in December 2016. Stephen’s 1999 book about the murder of JonBenet explored the realm of child exploitation and its connection to the crime. In August 2016 Singular released an updated edition of Presumed Guilty: An Investigation of the JonBenet Ramsey case, the Media, and the Culture of ography on Amazon Kindle. It examines why the case still hasn’t been solved and the most important developments over the past seventeen years. Stephen will

Nov 7, 2016 • 1:02:06

SUBURBAN NIGHTMARE-Emily Webb

SUBURBAN NIGHTMARE-Emily Webb

Think nothing ever happens where you live? Suburban Nightmare is a collection of stories that are hard to believe, except they really happened – and all in the streets and homes of the Australia many of us know and live. The suburbs. These cases range from recent murders to some historical stories that will shock and surprise.One of Australia’s best young true crime writers, Emily Webb probes the black underbelly of our towns and suburbs, and exposes the darkness at the heart of Australian life.

Nov 4, 2016 • 1:24:55

THE KILLING SEASON-Joshua Zeman and Rachel Mills

THE KILLING SEASON-Joshua Zeman and Rachel Mills

A&E Network has set a November premiere for The Killing Season docuseries, from Oscar-winning executive producer Alex Gibney (Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief).The eight-episode series follows documentarians Joshua Zeman (Cropsey) and Rachel Mills as they investigate one of the most bizarre unsolved serial killer cases of our time – the deaths of ten sex workers discovered on Gilgo Beach, Long Island. Authorities believe these killings are the work of the Long Island Serial

Nov 2, 2016 • 1:23:39

ROUGH TRADE-Steve Jackson

ROUGH TRADE-Steve Jackson

One day in May 1997, a young couple on their way to work off a dirt road in the mountains of Colorado spotted a man dragging a woman’s body up a trail. The man fled, leaving behind a bloodied, dying woman. The beautiful, wooded area seemed such an incongruous place for a violent crime that the couple had a hard time believing what they were seeing. Indeed the investigation into the death of young street walker Anita Paley would lead from that idyllic spot to the seamy underbelly of Denver and a

Oct 27, 2016 • 1:30:07

LOVE GONE WRONG-Caitlin Rother

LOVE GONE WRONG-Caitlin Rother

New York Times bestselling crime authors Caitlin Rother and Gregg Olsen have joined up to release this compilation of incredible murder cases from Florida, South Carolina and Georgia. In Florida a former flight attendant murders her multimillionaire boyfriend of eighteen years, using a gun, a knife, a hammer (and possibly poisoned gin), claiming he was abusive for years and put a loaded gun to her head. A woman with a history of violent, drug-addicted boyfriends kills her latest lover after only

Oct 20, 2016 • 1:13:46

CONFESSION OF A SERIAL KILLER-Katherine Ramsland

CONFESSION OF A SERIAL KILLER-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, until he had ten victims. He named himself “B.T.K.” (bind, torture, kill) and wrote notes that terrorized the city. He remained on the loose for thirty years. No one who knew him guessed his dark secret. He nearly got away with his crimes, but in 2004, he began

Oct 15, 2016 • 1:20:12

BADGE 387-Robert Sberna

BADGE 387-Robert Sberna

For nearly 40 years, Jim Simone patrolled Cleveland's 2nd District, a drug-plagued area with one of the highest violent crime rates in the U.S. Nicknamed "Supercop," Simone generated headlines and public interest on a scale not seen since Eliot Ness searched for Cleveland's "Torso Murderer" in the 1930s.Simone entered police work after serving in Vietnam with the 101st Airborne, where he earned two bronze stars and two purple hearts. As a cop, he never shied from danger. He w

Oct 5, 2016 • 1:29:25

I SURVIVED TED BUNDY-Rhonda Stapley

I SURVIVED TED BUNDY-Rhonda Stapley

She was an innocent Mormon girl. He was America's most notorious serial killer. When their paths crossed on a quiet autumn afternoon, he planned to kill her. But this victim had an incredible will to survive and would live to tell her story nearly three decades after he met death in a Florida electric chair.Ted Bundy brutally attacked Rhonda Stapley in a secluded Utah canyon in 1974. She miraculously escaped and hid her dark secret until now. This compelling real story of triumph over tragedy is

Sep 29, 2016 • 1:27:38

CALIFORNIA'S DEADLIEST WOMEN-David Kulczyk

CALIFORNIA'S DEADLIEST WOMEN-David Kulczyk

We like to think of women as nurturers, not murderers, but women do kill.California’s Deadliest Women is the definitive guide to the murderesses of the Golden State, a horrifying compendium of women driven to kill by jealousy, greed, desperation, or their own inner demons. From Brynn Hartman, who killed her husband, comedian Phil Hartman, to chemist Larissa Shuster, who dissolved her husband in acid, to dominatrix Omaima Aree Nelson, who cooked and ate her husband, the 28 women profiled in Calif

Sep 22, 2016 • 1:06:45

ALTAMONT-Joel Selvin

ALTAMONT-Joel Selvin

In this breathtaking cultural history filled with exclusive, never-before-revealed details, celebrated rock journalist Joel Selvin tells the definitive story of the Rolling Stones’ infamous Altamont concert in San Francisco, the disastrous historic event that marked the end of the idealistic 1960s.In the annals of rock history, the Altamont Speedway Free Festival on December 6, 1969, has long been seen as the distorted twin of Woodstock—the day that shattered the Sixties’ promise of peace and lo

Sep 15, 2016 • 1:07:15

THE JOLLY ROGER SOCIAL CLUB-Nick Foster

THE JOLLY ROGER SOCIAL CLUB-Nick Foster

In the remote Bocas del Toro, Panama, William Dathan Holbert, aka "Wild Bill," is awaiting trial for the murder of five fellow American ex-patriots. Holbert's first victims were the Brown family, who lived on a remote island in the area's Darklands. There, Holbert turned their home into the "Jolly Roger Social Club," using drink- and drug-fueled parties to get to know other ex-pats. The club's tagline was: "Over 90% of our members survive." Those odds were not in hi

Sep 7, 2016 • 1:34:56

MURDERING THE PRESIDENT-Fred Rosen and Hank Garfield

MURDERING THE PRESIDENT-Fred Rosen and Hank Garfield

Shortly after being elected president of the United States, James Garfield was shot by Charles Guiteau. But contrary to what is written in most history books, Garfield didn’t linger and die. He survived. Alexander Graham Bell raced against time to invent the world’s first metal detector to locate the bullet in Garfield’s body so that doctors could safely operate. Despite Bell’s efforts to save Garfield, however, and as never before fully revealed, the interventions of Garfield’s friend and docto

Sep 1, 2016 • 1:33:33

FAILURE OF JUSTICE-John Ferak

FAILURE OF JUSTICE-John Ferak

Everyone felt the same way: small-town Nebraska widow Helen Wilson didn’t have an ounce of meanness inside her body. Then on February 5, 1985, one of the coldest nights on record, the unthinkable happened. The sixty-eight-year-old resident was murdered inside her second-floor apartment, but why?Local residents were floored. What type of monster would target a vulnerable widow to fulfill his homicidal sexual fantasies? The crime scene was eerily ritualistic. The trail of evidence turned frustrati

Aug 25, 2016 • 1:31:51

HUNTED: THE ZODIAC MURDERS-Mark Hewitt

HUNTED: THE ZODIAC MURDERS-Mark Hewitt

The Zodiac occupies a special place among serial killers. Claiming the lives of at least 5 young victims and taunting the police in telephone calls and cryptic letters, he terrorized Northern California from 1966 to 1974 and beyond. Despite his appalling acts of violence, he was never arrested—he has never even been identified.Thousands of men have been accused; nearly 2,500 have been investigated. The police lack only the name of the perpetrator. Never has there been more passionate interest in

Aug 18, 2016 • 1:30:28

DEVIL IN THE DARKNESS-J.T. Hunter

DEVIL IN THE DARKNESS-J.T. Hunter

He was a hard-working small business owner, an Army veteran, an attentive lover, and a doting father. But he was also something more, something sinister. A master of deception, he was a rapist, arsonist, and bank robber, and a new breed of serial killer, one who studied other killers to perfect his craft. He methodically buried kill-kits containing his tools of murder years before returning to reclaim them. Viewing the entire country as his hunting grounds, he often flew across the country to di

Aug 12, 2016 • 1:09:57

LEGACY OF DECEPTION-Stephen Singular

LEGACY OF DECEPTION-Stephen Singular

Legacy of Deception crashes through the wall of silence constructed by the L.A.P.D. and exposes facts that prove the case was far more sinister than meets the eye. In presenting a scenario of what really happened late one night on Bundy Avenue, Singular proves that no one was truly innocent in this horrible crime. A behind the scenes look at the O.J. Simpson case that explains why the blood evidence fell apart at trial. Veteran true crime writer, Stephen Singular, a two-time New York Times bests

Aug 4, 2016 • 1:25:00

JUSTICE FOR BONNIE-I.J. Schecter

JUSTICE FOR BONNIE-I.J. Schecter

When Karen Foster was told that something had happened to her eighteen-year-old daughter, Bonnie Craig, she knew what it meant. The Alaska State Troopers investigating the scene ruled it a hiking accident, but for Karen, the pieces didn’t add up. Bonnie would never have ditched class to go hiking. And she didn’t drive—so how would she have reached McHugh Creek, miles out of town, in the first place? Armed with little more than her own conviction, Karen set out to find the truth behind her daught

Jul 30, 2016 • 1:20:56

DAHMER DETECTIVE-Robyn Maharaj

DAHMER DETECTIVE-Robyn Maharaj

In the late hours of July 22, 1991, Milwaukee, Wisconsin changed forever. Detective Patrick “Pat” Kennedy would meet a man who had altered many lives in devastating ways. Nothing could possibly have prepared Kennedy for what he witnessed that fateful night as he rolled out to the call of a potential murder scene. The Milwaukee Cannibal, the Monster of Milwaukee, as Jeffrey Dahmer would come to be known, was the serial killer who drugged, photographed, strangled, sexually assaulted, dismembered,

Jul 21, 2016 • 1:13:15

JANE DOE JANUARY-Emily Winslow

JANE DOE JANUARY-Emily Winslow

On the morning of September 12, 2013, a fugitive task force arrested Arthur Fryar at his apartment in Brooklyn. His DNA, entered in the FBI’s criminal database after a drug conviction, had been matched to evidence from a rape in Pennsylvania years earlier. Over the next year, Fryar and his lawyer fought his extradition and prosecution for the rape—and another like it—which occurred in 1992. The victims—one from January of that year, the other from November—were kept anonymous in the media. This

Jul 18, 2016 • 1:23:59

MURDER IN THE FAMILY-Burl Barer

MURDER IN THE FAMILY-Burl Barer

On March 15th, 1987 police in Anchorage, Alaska arrived at a horrific scene of carnage. In a modest downtown apartment, they found Nancy Newman's brutally beaten corpse sprawled across her bed. In other rooms were the bodies of her eight-year-old daughter, Melissa, and her three-year-old, Angie, whose throat was slit from ear to ear. Both Nancy and Melissa had been sexually assaulted. After an intense investigation, the police narrowed the principle suspect down to 23-year-old Kirby Anthoney a t

Jul 9, 2016 • 2:00:21

MAN-EATER-Harold Schechter

MAN-EATER-Harold Schechter

In the winter of 1873, a small band of prospectors lost their way in the frozen wilderness of the Colorado Rockies. Months later, when the snow finally melted, only one of them emerged. His name was Alfred G. Packer, though he would soon become infamous throughout the country under a different name: “the Man-Eater.”After the butchered remains of his five traveling companions were discovered in a secluded valley by the Gunnison River, Packer vanished for nine years, becoming the West’s most wante

Jul 6, 2016 • 1:05:18

THE LYNCHING-Laurence Leamer

THE LYNCHING-Laurence Leamer

The New York Times bestselling author of The Kennedy Women chronicles the powerful and spellbinding true story of a brutal race-based killing in 1981 and subsequent trials that undid one of the most pernicious organizations in American history—the Ku Klux Klan.On a Friday night in March 1981 Henry Hays and James Knowles scoured the streets of Mobile in their car, hunting for a black man. The young men were members of Klavern 900 of the United Klans of America. They were seeking to retaliate afte

Jun 30, 2016 • 1:02:17

Gang Mom-Fred Rosen

Gang Mom-Fred Rosen

Mary Thompson was your average mother in early 1990s Eugene, Oregon. She was a community organizer and upstanding citizen … by day. By night? She was “Gang Mom.” Living the ultimate double life, Thompson ran a gang of teenagers—including her own son—who terrorized the unsuspecting city with drugs and violence. When a fellow gang member named Aaron Iturra was suspected of snitching on Thompson’s son, Beau, she mercilessly put a hit on him. Fred Rosen’sGang Mom gives an inside look into the true s

Jun 23, 2016 • 1:33:44

THE MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF KURT COBAIN-Matthew Richer

THE MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF KURT COBAIN-Matthew Richer

Just days before Kurt Cobain's body was discovered on April 8, 1994, Courtney Love hired private investigator Tom Grant to locate him. In The Mysterious Death of Kurt Cobain Tom Grant takes readers behind the scenes of the investigation. Here, you can read a day by day account of Grant's investigation and learn about the evidence for murder regarding Kurt Cobain's death. There are many new details contained in The Mysterious Death of Kurt Cobain, including new transcripts of recorded telephone c

Jun 21, 2016 • 1:32:08

THE SOPHIE LANCASTER STORY-Catherine Smyth

THE SOPHIE LANCASTER STORY-Catherine Smyth

In a park in Bacup, Lancashire, England on the night of August 11, 2007, 21 year-olds Sophie Lancaster and her boyfriend Rob Maltby were savagely attacked by five teenage boys, aged 14-17. They were attacked simply because they dressed 'differently'. Sophie had been attacked after trying to protect her boyfriend and was pulled from life support 13 days later. Robert survived with numerous serious injuriesThe first journalist on the scene Catherine Smyth provides a dramatic perspective to the cas

Jun 18, 2016 • 1:19:42

TRUE CRIME ADDICT-James Renner

TRUE CRIME ADDICT-James Renner

When an eleven year old James Renner fell in love with Amy Mihaljevic, the missing girl seen on posters all over his neighborhood, it was the beginning of a lifelong obsession with true crime. That obsession leads James to a successful career as an investigative journalist. It also gave him PTSD. In 2011, James began researching the strange disappearance of Maura Murray, a UMass student who went missing after wrecking her car in rural New Hampshire in 2004. Over the course of his investigation,

Jun 9, 2016 • 1:27:04

UNTYING THE KNOT-Greg Day

UNTYING THE KNOT-Greg Day

"On May 5, 1993, second-graders Christopher Byers, Stevie Branch, and Michael Moore disappeared from their West Memphis, Arkansas, homes. The following afternoon, their nude, beaten, and bound bodies were discovered in a drainage ditch less than a mile away.After a troublesome confession, three local teenagers, later dubbed the “West Memphis Three,” were arrested, tried, and convicted in early 1994. Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley received life sentences, while ringleader Damien Echols

Jun 5, 2016 • 1:29:23

ABOMINATION-William Ramsey

ABOMINATION-William Ramsey

With shocking insights into one of the most talked about murder cases in American history, Abomination: Devil Worship and Deception in the West Memphis Three Murders reveals the truth about the death of three children in West Memphis, Arkansas in 1993. By analyzing original police transcripts and court documents, William Ramsey conclusively proves that witchcraft and the occult were involved in the heinous murders, and that a continuing wall of deception has prevented the public from realizing t

May 26, 2016 • 1:25:08

WATCH ME DIE-Dr. Bill Kimberlin

WATCH ME DIE-Dr. Bill Kimberlin

Watch Me Die is a firsthand account of Ohio's death row and the state’s execution process unlike any other. Dr. Kimberlin, a trained clinical psychologist and professor of psychology, goes beyond the prison walls and into the world of death row inmates. No bars, no shackles, and no chains. Kimberlin spends time one-on-one with some of Ohio's worst killers to learn about their life on death row. Then he watches them die.  You will see how these inmates think as Kimberlin not only spends time inte

May 19, 2016 • 1:25:30

THE BLOOD ON MY HANDS-Shannon O'Leary

THE BLOOD ON MY HANDS-Shannon O'Leary

Set in 1960s and ‘70s Australia, The Blood on My Hands is the dramatic tale of Shannon O’Leary’s childhood years. O’Leary grew up under the shadow of horrific domestic violence, sexual and physical abuse, and serial murder. Her story is one of courageous resilience in the face of unimaginable horrors.The responses of those whom O’Leary and her immediate family reach out to for help are almost as disturbing as the crimes of her violent father. Relatives are afraid to bring disgrace to the family’

May 12, 2016 • 1:29:01

BLOOD STAIN-Peter Lalor

BLOOD STAIN-Peter Lalor

'There are murders and there are murders. There are bodies and there are bodies, and then there's what lies waiting behind the front door of the little brick house with its blinds drawn and air conditioner droning on, working against the oppressive Hunter Valley heat. A glimpse into the dark, cockroach corners of the soul. A lot of the blokes at the scene that day will never be the same.'On 29 February 2000, Katherine Knight committed an unspeakable act. A mother of four and a grandmother, she s

May 4, 2016 • 1:29:59

SMOOTH TALKER-Steve Jackson

SMOOTH TALKER-Steve Jackson

One morning in July 1974, Anita Andrews, the owner and bartender at Fagiani’s Cocktail Lounge in Napa, California was found dead in her bar–raped, beaten, and stabbed to death in a bloody frenzy. She’d last been seen alive the night before talking to a drifter who sat at the end of the bar, playing cards and flirting with her. But the stranger, along with Anita’s Cadillac, had disappeared. Unable to locate  a suspect, police investigators sadly watched the case grow cold over the years.Meanwhile

Apr 28, 2016 • 1:26:36

ICE AND BONE-Monte Francis

ICE AND BONE-Monte Francis

On a clear, brisk night in September of 2000, 33-year-old Della Brown was found sexually assaulted and beaten to death inside a filthy, abandoned shed in seedy part of Anchorage, Alaska. She was one of six women, mostly Native Alaskan, slain that year, stoking fears a serial killer was on the loose. A tanned and thuggish 20-year-old would eventually implicate himself in three of the women’s deaths and confess, in detail, to Della’s murder. Yet, after a three-month trial, Joshua Wade would walk f

Apr 21, 2016 • 1:05:09

CONVICTION-Juan Martinez

CONVICTION-Juan Martinez

Through two trials, America watched as Juan Martinez fought relentlessly to convict Jodi Arias of Murder One for viciously stabbing her ex-boyfriend Travis Alexander to death. What emerged was a story wrought with sex, manipulation, and deceit that stunned the public at every turn. Arias, always playing the wronged and innocent woman, changed her story continually as her bizarre behavior surrounding the crime and its aftermath came to light. Unwavering, Arias and her defense team continued to pl

Apr 14, 2016 • 1:20:12

GITCHIE GIRL-Phil Hamman

GITCHIE GIRL-Phil Hamman

A terrified voice cried out in the night."Who are you? What do you want?The sound of snapping twigs closed in on the five teenagers enjoying an evening around a glowing campfire at Gitchie Manitou State Park. The night of music and laughter had taken a dark turn. Evil loomed just beyond the tree line, and before the night was over, one of the Midwest’s most horrific mass murders had left its bloodstains spewed across the campsite. One managed to survive and would come to be known as the “Gi

Apr 7, 2016 • 1:20:25

THE TRAIL OF TED BUNDY-Kevin Sullivan

THE TRAIL OF TED BUNDY-Kevin Sullivan

Within the pages of THE TRAIL OF TED BUNDY:Digging Up the Untold Stories, you’ll hear the voices - many for the first time - of some of Ted Bundy’s friends, as they bring to light the secrets of what is was like to know him while he was actively involved in murder. The stories of his victims are here as well, as told by their friends, including the information and anecdotes that didn’t make it into the investigative files and are being published here for the first time. Two of the former detecti

Mar 31, 2016 • 1:27:00

REAL CRIME-James Hoare

REAL CRIME-James Hoare

From the notorious serial killers of the Age of Aquarius to the ruthless mob bosses of the Jazz Age and beyond, Real Crime is the first high quality true crime magazine on the newsstand. Every issue of Real Crime reveals the untold stories behind the world’s most gripping cases, the breathtaking experiences of investigators and survivors, and blow-by-blow accounts of how lawbreakers were finally brought to justice.Delivered with the same icy intensity and forensic detail of popular documentaries

Mar 23, 2016 • 1:07:04

THE KILLING SEASON-Alex French

THE KILLING SEASON-Alex French

THE KILLING SEASON is a true crime saga, the story of a double murder that went unsolved for more than 35 years, and a chilling portrait of a small town upended by unimaginable violence.In the summer of 1975, the valley town of Grand Junction, Colorado, is stunned by the grisly double murders of 24-year-old Linda Benson and her baby daughter Kelley. For Jim Fromm and Doug Rushing, the two young detectives assigned to the case, the investigation is a chance to earn their stripes and prove their m

Mar 17, 2016 • 1:22:01

A TASTE FOR MURDER-Burl Barer and Frank C. Girardot

A TASTE FOR MURDER-Burl Barer and Frank C. Girardot

Frank Rodriguez, a much-loved counselor of troubled teens, lies dead on the bedroom floor. His wife and step-daughter are in shock, and so is the medical examiner when he performs the autopsy. Aside from being dead, Frank is in perfect health. Demanding to know the cause of her husband’s death, Angie Rodriguez badgers the police, insisting that Frank was murdered. The cops attribute her assertions to overwhelming grief, but soon they too believe that Frank didn’t die of natural causes. When the

Mar 10, 2016 • 1:31:48

THE ROAD OUT OF HELL-Anthony Flacco

THE ROAD OUT OF HELL-Anthony Flacco

From 1926 to 1928, Gordon Stewart Northcott committed at least 20 murders on a chicken ranch outside of Los Angeles. His thirteen- year-old nephew, Sanford Clark, was the sole surviving victim of the killing spree. Forced to take part in the murders, Sanford carried tremendous guilt all his life. Yet despite his youth and the trauma, he helped gain some justice for the dead and their families by testify- ing at Northcott's trial-which led to his conviction and execution. It was a shocking story,

Mar 3, 2016 • 1:23:51

LETHAL INTENT-Aileen Wournos-60th-Sue Russell

LETHAL INTENT-Aileen Wournos-60th-Sue Russell

Special Rebroadcast of Lethal Intent-Aileen Wournos-60th Birthday-Sue Russell-Audible Audiobook giveaway.On November 30, 1989, in a lonely place off Florida's Interstate 95, 51-year-old Richard Mallory shuddered under the impact of four .22-caliber slugs being pumped into him by a naked, hard-faced blonde hooker. While he suffered a slow, agonizing death, she stripped him of his valuables and drove his Cadillac back to the motel where her lesbian lover was waiting. In 1990, her killing spree kic

Mar 1, 2016 • 1:02:16

SKETCHCOP-Michael W. Streed

SKETCHCOP-Michael W. Streed

Orange Police Sergeant (Ret.) Michael W. Streed is "The SketchCop." He's a one-of-a-kind crime fighter who's frequently called into action by police departments seeking help solving their most difficult cases.For over three decades, Michael has provided signature images for the country's most notorious murders, rapes, and kidnappings, including the kidnapping and murder of five-year-old Samantha Runnion, as well as the Baton Rouge Serial Killer.The SketchCop has fought crime, coast-to-

Feb 25, 2016 • 1:22:25

TOO PRETTY TO LIVE-Dennis Brooks

TOO PRETTY TO LIVE-Dennis Brooks

In this stunning true crime thriller of Facebook, catfishing, and jealousy, a double-murder begins with the click of a button.When Bill Payne and Billie Jean Hayworth began their romance, they unknowingly set in motion a diabolical plot that would end with them murdered in their own home, Hayworth holding their mercifully unharmed infant.Chris was a CIA agent who was concerned about Jenelle. Seeing the cyberbullying she had endured, and worried for her safety, Chris got in touch with Jenelle's p

Feb 18, 2016 • 1:10:45

MAKING A MURDERER-Michael Griesbach

MAKING A MURDERER-Michael Griesbach

Netflix's documentary series Making a Murderer has captivated audiences everywhere, igniting controversy and fiery debate-especailly among true crime fans.Michael Griesbach, a Wisconsin D.A. helped have Steven Avery exonerated and released from prison after being wrongfully convicted and went on to write the definitive and briliant book about the case, The Innocent Killer. Making a Murderer documentary writers and producers made a  strong case that Avery and co-accused nephew Brendan Dassey, con

Feb 11, 2016 • 1:43:29

BITTER REMAINS-Diane Fanning

BITTER REMAINS-Diane Fanning

The bestselling author of Under Cover of the Night recounts Laura Ackerson’s disappearance and murder in North Carolina, the discovery of her remains in Texas, and the aftermath… On July 13, 2011, Laura Jean Ackerson of Kinston, North Carolina, went to pick up her two toddler sons. It would be the last time she was seen alive... Two weeks later, detectives searching for the missing mother made a gruesome discovery on the shores of Oyster Creek near Richmond, Texas—the dismembered body parts of a

Feb 4, 2016 • 1:26:19

THE DEATH SHIFT-Peter Elkind

THE DEATH SHIFT-Peter Elkind

The case of San Antonio nurse Genene Jones, convicted in 1984 of murdering children in her care, and now suspected of having killed as many as 16 infants, made national headlines. A horrifying true-life medical thriller, this report by an editor of Texas Monthly is written in an understated style that adds to its impact. Despite her dismissal from a hospital post, weird medical obsessions, a history of lying and major on-the-job errors, Jones breezed from one nursing job to the next. The case ha

Jan 28, 2016 • 1:27:49

BLACK NIGHT, GOLD COAST-Gray George

BLACK NIGHT, GOLD COAST-Gray George

Ventura County is famous for its beautiful weather and its pristine coastline, not its grisly murders. That all changed on the night of May 20, 2009, when three members of a wealthy Ventura County family were slaughtered inside their luxurious beachfront home. The father was a successful businessman. The pregnant mother was a former beauty queen. Their unborn son was waiting to take his first breath of life. For nearly a year, detectives were unable to solve the bizarre beach-house slayings. Fin

Jan 21, 2016 • 1:36:25

MURDER IN GROSSE POINTE PARK-Steve Miller

MURDER IN GROSSE POINTE PARK-Steve Miller

Investigative reporter, and author of Nobody's Women, Steve Miller makes a thoroughly researched inquiry into a murder that rocked the privileged world of Grosse Pointe, Michigan.Bob Bashara: husband, father, Rotary Club president and community leader.Bob Bashara: slumlord, philanderer and BDSM enthusiast.Did he also hire a hit on his wife?Jane Bashara lived in Grosse Pointe Park, one of Metro Detroit’s wealthiest communities, when she was strangled to death in her own garage by local handyman J

Jan 14, 2016 • 1:19:02

A CHECKLIST FOR MURDER-Anthony Flacco

A CHECKLIST FOR MURDER-Anthony Flacco

Robert Peernock appeared to have the ideal life; working as a pyrotechnics engineer and computer expert and coming home to his wife and daughter, Peernock projected the American dream. Even when he and his wife separated, it seemed amicable, just a small bump for the well-to-do family. But there was madness in his house: in private, Peernock was violent, subtly manipulative, and bordering on psychotic. But the horrifying details of his home life would only come to light after Peernock finally lo

Jan 7, 2016 • 1:06:55

DEATHBEDSIDE MANNER-Dan Zupansky

DEATHBEDSIDE MANNER-Dan Zupansky

DEATHBEDSIDE MANNER-A doctor stabbed his 2 small children 46 times to punish his cheating wife.  At trial he was found Not Criminally Responsible because he was depressed and suicidal. After 6 months in hospital he was released. The murdered children’s mother was outraged. But how far would she go to avenge her children’s deaths? DEATHBEDSIDE MANNER-Psychiatrists Poison Canadian Court Room-Dan Zupansky Follow and comment on Facebook-TRUE MURDER: The Most Shocking Killers in True Crime History &n

Dec 31, 2015 • 1:12:10

JACK THE RIPPER AND THE CASE FOR SCOTLAND YARD'S PRIME SUSPECT-Robert House

JACK THE RIPPER AND THE CASE FOR SCOTLAND YARD'S PRIME SUSPECT-Robert House

An investigation into the man Scotland Yard thought (but couldn't prove) was Jack the Ripper. Dozens of theories have attempted to resolve the mystery of the identity of Jack the Ripper, the world's most famous serial killer. Ripperologist Robert House contends that we may have known the answer all along. The head of Scotland Yard's Criminal Investigation Department at the time of the murders thought Aaron Kozminski was guilty, but he lacked the legal proof to convict him. By exploring Kozminski

Dec 10, 2015 • 1:05:42

THE FORTUNE HUNTER-Suzy Spencer

THE FORTUNE HUNTER-Suzy Spencer

Multimillionaire Steven Beard, Jr. fell hard for Celeste Martinez, a shapely, blonde waitress who served him his nightly cocktail at the local country club…as well as sexual favors. In 1995, the 70-year-old widow Beard married the 32-year-old mother of twin teenagers and gave her homes, cars, and more jewelry and designer clothes than she could ever wear. But it wasn’t enough for Celeste. Claiming she was depressed, she checked into a psychiatric facility, where she met fellow patient Tracey Tar

Dec 4, 2015 • 1:22:52

GUILT BY MATRIMONY-Daleen Berry

GUILT BY MATRIMONY-Daleen Berry

In February 2014, Aspen socialite Nancy Pfister was murdered in her own home—brutally bludgeoned, wrapped in a sheet, and stuffed inside a locked closet. Fewer than twelve hours after her body was found and without any evidence, police decided a married couple from Denver had killed her. Within a few days, they arrested and charged Nancy Styler, a friend of Pfister’s who’d had a falling out with her after a business deal went sour, and Dr. Trey Styler, Nancy’s disabled husband, who recently lost

Nov 26, 2015 • 1:24:54

THEN NO ONE CAN HAVE HER-Caitlin Rother

THEN NO ONE CAN HAVE HER-Caitlin Rother

She thought she had married her soulmate. But when Carol Kennedy could no longer tolerate her husband's reckless womanizing and out-of-control spending, the artist, therapist and mother of two had to let him go. Just weeks after their divorce, Carol was found in her Arizona ranch home--bludgeoned to death with a golf club. Her ex, Steven DeMocker, was the prime suspect. Yet it took the authorities months to arrest him--and years to convict. . .Packed with twists and turns, this powerful real-lif

Nov 19, 2015 • 1:10:42

DEVIL AT GENESEE JUNCTION-Michael Benson

DEVIL AT GENESEE JUNCTION-Michael Benson

Today you’d call Ballantyne suburban, but back then, at the start of the summer of 1966, it was country — just a cluster of houses, some of them shacks, on or near Ballantyne Road, in the Town of Chili, NY. And while June 25 started like any other day it would end in a nightmare. In The Devil at Genesee Junction, veteran crime writer, Michael Benson, returns to his formerly rural hometown to take on the double homicide of his friends Kathy Bernhard and George-Ann Formiciola that took place that

Nov 12, 2015 • 1:04:45

RAMPAGE-Lee Mellor

RAMPAGE-Lee Mellor

Rampage: a state of anger or agitation resulting in violent, reckless, and destructive behaviour. In 1989, Marc Lépine mercilessly executed 14 female students at Montreal’s École Polytechnique to become Canada’s most notorious mass murderer. The following year spree killer Peter John Peters roamed from London, Ontario, to Thunder Bay, leaving a trail of bloodied bodies, broken dreams, and stolen vehicles. Both men experienced the same devastating destiny – they embarked on homicidal rampages tha

Nov 5, 2015 • 1:27:25

MOTHER'S DAY-Dennis McDougall

MOTHER'S DAY-Dennis McDougall

In June of 1985, while her teenage sons held their half-sister down, Theresa Cross beat her nineteen-year-old daughter Sheila unconscious and then stuffed her into a 2´ x 2´ storage locker. After three days, the knocking, kicking, and cries stopped. Theresa and her sons dumped the girl’s body in the desolate High Sierras. The summer before, Theresa had dug a bullet out of her daughter Suesan’s chest with a paring knife. When Suesan failed to recover (without benefit of doctors or hospital), Ther

Oct 29, 2015 • 1:35:57

BREAKING POINT-Suzy Spencer

BREAKING POINT-Suzy Spencer

One day, Andrea Yates was a loving mother. The next, the nation was shocked by the death of her five innocent children...The 911 call that shocked the country. "I just killed my children." Why were they killed?On June 20, 2001, in a middle-class Houston suburb, Andrea Yates and her husband Russell, a NASA engineer, prepared for the routine week-day ahead. But before the morning was over, tragedy would strike the quiet family and turn the day into a nightmare. Shortly before 10 a.m., An

Oct 22, 2015 • 1:39:54

BLOOD RUNS GREEN-Gillian O'Brien

BLOOD RUNS GREEN-Gillian O'Brien

It was the biggest funeral Chicago had seen since Lincoln’s. On May 26, 1889, four thousand mourners proceeded down Michigan Avenue, followed by a crowd forty thousand strong, in a howl of protest at what commentators called one of the ghastliest and most curious crimes in civilized history. The dead man, Dr. P. H. Cronin, was a respected Irish physician, but his brutal murder uncovered a web of intrigue, secrecy, and corruption that stretched across the United States and far beyond.Blood Runs G

Oct 14, 2015 • 1:23:25

THE COUNTRY BOY KILLER-J.T. Hunter

THE COUNTRY BOY KILLER-J.T. Hunter

From the bestselling author of The Vampire Next Door: The True Story of The Vampire Rapist, John Crutchley. J.T. Hunter tells the story of a friendly, baby-faced, Canadian boy next door. He came from a loving, caring, and well-respected family. Blessed with good looks and back-woods country charm, he was popular with his peers, and although an accident at birth left permanent nerve damage in one of his arms, he excelled in sports. A self-proclaimed “die hard” Calgary Flames fan, he played compet

Oct 10, 2015 • 1:07:39

MISSING: WHEN THE SON SETS-Allyn Atadero

MISSING: WHEN THE SON SETS-Allyn Atadero

A day celebrating the beauty of God's handiwork turns into a father's worst nightmare as the sun sets on his only son, Jaryd Atadero, lost in the Colorado Mountains. A highly publicized search breaks into a national story as reports surfaced concerning Jaryd's whereabouts. Did Jaryd fall prey to a territorial mountain lion? Was he a victim of the elements? Did someone take Jaryd off the mountain? Is Jaryd alive, or did he become the victim of a notorious serial killer? The second edition include

Oct 1, 2015 • 1:32:41

THE GREYHOUND BUS CANNIBAL KILLER-Dan Zupansky

THE GREYHOUND BUS CANNIBAL KILLER-Dan Zupansky

Tim McLean left Edmonton at 12 a.m. on July 30, 2008, on board a Greyhound Bus, destined for Winnipeg. At 7 p.m. the bus left one of the scheduled stops with a new passenger, Vincent Weiguang Li. Li, a tall man, with shaved head and sunglasses, sat near the front of the bus but moved next to McLean following a scheduled rest stop. McLean proceeded to fall asleep with his headphones on. Suddenly there was a blood-curdling scream and Li was standing over McLean stabbing him repeatedly in the neck

Sep 25, 2015 • 49:47

INVISIBLE DARKNESS-Stephen Williams

INVISIBLE DARKNESS-Stephen Williams

Invisible Darkness is the story of one of the more bizarre cases in recent memory--killings so sensational that they prompted the Canadian government, in the interests of justice, to silence its national press and to lock foreign journalists out of the courts.To all appearances, Paul and Karla Bernardo had a fairytale marriage--beautiful working-class girl weds bright upper-middle-class guy and they buy a fashionable dream house in the suburbs. But, bored with his straight, prestigious accountin

Sep 16, 2015 • 1:10:39

BODY DUMP-Fred Rosen

BODY DUMP-Fred Rosen

The author of the true crime classic Lobster Boy now turns his investigative skills to the chilling true story of Kendall Francois, one of the most bizarre serial sex-killers of modern times. In October, 1996, young, pretty, and petite women began vanishing off the streets of Poughkeepsie, New York. Most were prostitutes and some were addicts. By August, 1998, the toll had reached eight, when a prostitute told police she had barely escaped being strangled by Kendall Francois, 27, a 6'4", 30

Sep 10, 2015 • 1:30:27

DEATH IN CALIFORNIA-David Kulczyk

DEATH IN CALIFORNIA-David Kulczyk

With details about grim and grisly fatalities, this history of California's arcane deaths encompasses the murders and accidents that at one time shocked the West Coast. The stories of hangings, gun accidents, suicides, crashes, and overdoses of both the famous and obscure offer a bizarre, if sometimes perverse, glimpse into the Golden State's strange past. Including frightening murder tales like the rape,torture and child murder in The Ape Boy; a doctor slaughters his family in Death in Davis Ho

Aug 29, 2015 • 1:47:52

KARLA-PACT WITH THE DEVIL-Stephen Williams

KARLA-PACT WITH THE DEVIL-Stephen Williams

Karla picks up where Williams's first book on the case, Invisible Darkness, left her, painting her nails in her cell in solitary confinement in the gothic tower of Kingston's Prison for Women. After testifying against her ex-husband in 1995, Karla's life in prison was soon going to take a very different, dramatic turn. With a thriller's pace, Karla: A Pact with the Devil charts the inner life of the world's most notorious female prisoner. In Karla, Williams lets Karla and the other key players s

Aug 13, 2015 • 1:02:42

CALIFORNIA JUSTICE-David Kulczyk

CALIFORNIA JUSTICE-David Kulczyk

Introducing the victims and perpetrators responsible for California's most notorious shootouts, lynchings, and assassinations, this account shows how homemade justice is never black-and-white. In relating these histories, this discussion also analyzes how and why Hollywood storylines almost always follow the same skewed and unrealistic arc in which the bad guys abuse the good guys, the good guy take the high road until the bad guy has gone too far, and the good guy picks off the bad guys, one by

Aug 6, 2015 • 1:30:24

TO HELL I MUST GO-Rod Sadler

TO HELL I MUST GO-Rod Sadler

On a cool, spring day in 1897, Alfred Haney left his Williamston, Michigan home to earn a day's wage. He knew his wife's peculiar behavior had become more frequent, and he had planned on her seeing the town doctor, but she assured him she was feeling much better. They would go the following day instead. When he returned home later that day, he discovered a macabre murder so bizarre that it shook the entire community to its core. His mother's severed head was set on the dinner table, adorned with

Jul 30, 2015 • 1:09:29

DIXIE'S LAST STAND-John Ferak

DIXIE'S LAST STAND-John Ferak

The gray ranch along Third Avenue in the sleepy Midwestern town of less than 400 people was the recurring site of screaming, mad chaos and horrific domestic violence. Then one day, abusive husband Scott Shanahan was gone. Some thought he packed his bags and left town. Weeks passed. Months went by. Still no sign of the volatile wife beater. But what really happened to him was so shocking and so unbelievable that even grizzled, long-time law enforcement officials were aghast by the sight and awful

Jul 23, 2015 • 1:36:37

HOUSE OF HORRORS-Rob Sberna

HOUSE OF HORRORS-Rob Sberna

To his neighbors, Anthony Sowell was a friendly and helpful former Marine. But they didn't know about his dark side -- or the gruesome secret inside his house. Sowell's secret life was revealed to the nation on Oct. 29, 2009 when a Cleveland Police SWAT team entered his house to arrest him for an alleged rape. They didn't find Sowell, but they encountered a nightmarish scene -- two decomposed bodies in his third-floor living room. Eight more bodies were hidden throughout the house and buried in

Jul 17, 2015 • 1:33:36

REDBONE-Ron Stodghill

REDBONE-Ron Stodghill

Lance Herndon was at the top of his game in 1996. At age forty-one he was a self-made millionaire, the owner of Access, Inc., a successful information-systems consulting company. As a prominent member of Atlanta's young, wealthy, and powerful set, he was surrounded by black Atlanta's "beautiful people." But when he failed to show up for work one day, friends and family started to worry. Their worry soon turned to horror when he was found murdered in his own home, his head smashed in—in

Jul 3, 2015 • 1:25:56

KENTUCKY BLOODBATH-Kevin Sullivan

KENTUCKY BLOODBATH-Kevin Sullivan

From the author of VAMPIRE: The Richard Chase Murders  and The Bundy Murders comes an excursion into the truly weird and the bizarre: from a medieval-esque murder in a small town museum to the jilted boyfriend who decided that his former girlfriend needed to die on her twenty-first birthday.  And then there’s the demented son who returns home to live with his mother and stepfather, and one night in their beautiful mansion sitting atop a high bluff overlooking the Ohio River, slaughters them. KE

Jun 26, 2015 • 1:01:19

PERFECT VICTIM-Carla Norton

PERFECT VICTIM-Carla Norton

Hitchhiking from Eugene, Ore., through northern California in 1977, 20-year-old Colleen Stan thumbed a ride into hell. Her kidnappers a sadistic lumber mill worker, Cameron Hooker, and his battered wife Janice subjected her to seven years of torture and sensory deprivation. She was made a sex slave, kept locked in a wooden box and brainwashed into believing that an underground network of sadists would recapture her if she attempted to escape. Did Colleen fall in love with Cameron and make hersel

Jun 18, 2015 • 1:26:16

WEEP FOR THE LIVING-Anne Butler

WEEP FOR THE LIVING-Anne Butler

A survivor's firsthand account of attempted murder in St. Francisville, Louisiana. A former warden of Angola Prison shoots his wife five times with a pistol, then sits down to watch her die on her plantation home porch. The victim, author Anne Butler, survives to tell this true crime story, detailing the unraveling of her seven-year marriage and how it led to her near-murder. Interspersed with simple black and white snapshots, this stranger-than-fiction story of murder, survival, and forgiveness

Jun 11, 2015 • 1:19:36

FRUIT OF THE POISONOUS TREE-Richard Carson

FRUIT OF THE POISONOUS TREE-Richard Carson

First came the unsettling Ouija board prophesy that Robin Adams would die before her 17th birthday. When a minister was summoned to rid the house of frightening phenomena blamed on the Ouija board, he was taunted and denounced by a neighbor and suspected Satanist. Thus, the die was cast for one of the most bizarre murder cases in Michigan history. In 1976, when Robin vanished without a trace from the village of Caro, police were left without a body, witnesses or anything remotely resembling a cr

Jun 5, 2015 • 1:33:01

HUNTING A PSYCHOPATH-Richard Shelby

HUNTING A PSYCHOPATH-Richard Shelby

"Hunting a Psychopath" is a fascinating first hand account of the crimes of California's East Area Rapist Original Night Stalker couples killer. Detective Shelby was the first Sacramento detective to make a connection between a series of rapes that began in the middle class communities of East Sacramento in the late 1970's. His book details the efforts to apprehend this psychopath before he transformed into a southern California serial killer who preyed upon middle class couples throug

May 28, 2015 • 2:43:52

DELIVER US-Kathryn Casey

DELIVER US-Kathryn Casey

Critically acclaimed author Kathryn Casey delivers a riveting account of the brutal murders of young women in the I-45/Texas Killing FieldsOver a three-decade span, more than twenty women—many teenagers—died mysteriously in the small towns bordering Interstate 45, a fifty-mile stretch of highway running from Houston to Galveston. The victims were strangled, shot, or savagely beaten. Six met their demise in pairs. They had one thing in common: being in the wrong place at the wrong time.The day sh

May 21, 2015 • 1:36:04

FOLSOM'S 93-April Moore

FOLSOM'S 93-April Moore

From 1895 to 1937, 93 men were hanged at California's Folsom State Prison, and this book is the first to tell all of their stories, recounting long-forgotten tales of murder and swift justice, or sometimes, swift injustice that hanged an innocent man. Based on a treasury of historical information that has been hidden from the public for nearly 70 years, the full stories of these 93 executed men are presented in this collection including their origins, their crimes, the investigations that brough

May 13, 2015 • 1:14:52

NO STONE UNTURNED-Steve Jackson

NO STONE UNTURNED-Steve Jackson

The True Story of the World’s Premiere Forensic recreates the genesis of NecroSearch International as a small eclectic group of scientists and law enforcement who volunteered their services to help locate the clandestine graves of murder victims and recover the remains and evidence to assist with the apprehension and conviction of the killers. Known early on as “The Pig People” because of their experiments in locating graves using the carcasses of pigs (because of their similarities to human bod

May 7, 2015 • 1:27:21

ROBERT DURST: MURDER OF A MAFIA DAUGHTER-Cathy Scott

ROBERT DURST: MURDER OF A MAFIA DAUGHTER-Cathy Scott

Susan Berman grew up in Las Vegas luxury as the daughter of Davie Berman, casino mogul and notorious mafia leader. After her father died she learned about his mob connections. Susan then dedicated her life to learning about Vegas and its underworld chiefs. Her life took a bizarre turn in l982 when Kathie Durst—the wife of her good friend, Robert Durst, mysteriously disappeared. Durst was a prime suspect but the case was never solved. After the Kathie Durst case was reopened, the DA was about to

May 2, 2015 • 1:19:14

JONESTOWN-Will Savive

JONESTOWN-Will Savive

November 18, 1978, was a tragically unprecedented day in U.S. history that will forever be woven into the fabric of this country. It is the day that leader of Peoples Temple (PT), James Warren Jones, ordered the assassination of U.S. Congressman Leo J. Ryan and others at the Port Kaituma airstrip in South America, then led his congregation on what Guyana's police chief, Skip Roberts, testified was a "mass suicide." Decades later, however, the depth of this story is still unknown, and m

Apr 27, 2015 • 1:22:50

BLUEBEARD-Valerie Ogden

BLUEBEARD-Valerie Ogden

Bluebeard is the story documenting the history behind the reign of terror imposed on Europe by Gilles de Rais, the infamous Bluebeard. The author brings the reader into the castles, pageants, battles and dungeons of medieval Europe to explore the enigma that was the life of the man, who fought bravely and valiantly alongside Joan of Arc in pursuit of a higher cause then descended into the dark depths of sexual exploitation of children which made him an historical monster. But what is it that cau

Apr 16, 2015 • 1:24:17

FOOTSTEPS IN THE SNOW-Charles Lachman

FOOTSTEPS IN THE SNOW-Charles Lachman

Sycamore, Illinois. Christmas was three weeks away, and seven-year-old Maria Ridulph went out to play. Soon after, a figure emerged out of the falling snow. He was very friendly. Minutes later, Maria vanished, leaving behind an abandoned doll and footsteps in the snow.In April, a spring thaw gave up Maria’s body in a nearby wooded area. The case attracted national attention, including that of the FBI and President Eisenhower. In all, seventy-four men and three women fell under suspicion. But no

Apr 9, 2015 • 1:26:44

FLESH COLLECTORS-Fred Rosen

FLESH COLLECTORS-Fred Rosen

Misfit Jeremiah Rodgers, 21, and racist devil worshipper Jonathan Lawrence, 23, were serving time for petty crimes when they met in a Florida penal system mental hospital. A friendship grew from their shared lust for sadistic brutality, and once released, they teamed up to hunt human prey. In March, 1998, in Pensacola, Florida, while quietly watching TV, Leighton Smitherman was shot in the back by assailants hiding outside his home. Amazingly, he survived, not knowing that he'd been chosen at ra

Apr 2, 2015 • 1:34:02

THE BANK HOLIDAY MURDERS-Tom Wescott

THE BANK HOLIDAY MURDERS-Tom Wescott

Jack the Ripper stalked the streets of London’s East End from August through November of 1888 in what is dubbed the ‘Autumn of Terror’. However, the grisly ripping of Polly Nichols on August 31st was not the first unsolved murder of the year. The April murder of Emma Smith and the August murder of Martha Tabram both occurred on bank holidays. They baffled the police and press alike and were assumed by the original investigators to have been the first murders in the series. Where they correct? In

Mar 26, 2015 • 1:30:26

IT'S ME-John A. Cameron

IT'S ME-John A. Cameron

Edwards, a misguided boy, vowed to be the best criminal ever. He killed scores and scores of people of all ages over a sixty-six-year period, and was never caught (for murder). Included are some of the most famous murder cases in the past century. IT'S ME-EDWARD WAYNE EDWARDS-The Serial killer You never Heard Of-John A. Cameron     Follow and comment on Facebook-TRUE MURDER: The Most Shocking Killers in True Crime History https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100064697978510Check o

Mar 19, 2015 • 1:24:09

SERIAL KILLER QUARTERLY-Lee Mellor

SERIAL KILLER QUARTERLY-Lee Mellor

Dr. Katherine Ramsland wades through the heavy fog surrounding the“Moors Murders”: a series of high-profile child killings committed by Scottish sadist Ian Brady and Myra Hindley. Kim Cresswell churns the stomach with her unbelievable account of the atrocities committed by Fred and Rosemary West  Carol Anne Davis looks at one of the greatest abuses of police power in English history: the entrapment of Colin Stagg for the 1992 ripper-style murder of blonde beauty Rachel Nickell on Wimbledon Commo

Mar 12, 2015 • 1:10:50

PRETTY LITTLE KILLERS-Daleen Berry

PRETTY LITTLE KILLERS-Daleen Berry

In Pretty Little Killers, journalist Daleen Berry and investigator Geoffrey Fuller expand upon their New York Times bestselling ebook The Savage Murder of Skylar Neese to give you even more information behind one of the most horrific and shocking murders of our time. Including over 100 pages of new material, Pretty Little Killers shares the latest theories and answers the questions that have left many people baffled.After killer Shelia Eddy pled guilty to first degree murder and was sentenced to

Mar 5, 2015 • 1:23:23

BUSINESS OR BLOOD-Peter Edwards

BUSINESS OR BLOOD-Peter Edwards

Until Vito Rizzuto went to prison in 2006 for his role in a decades-old Brooklyn triple murder, he ruled the Port of Montreal, the northern gateway to the major American drug markets. A master diplomat, he won the respect of rival mafia clans, bikers and street gangs, and criminal business thrived on his turf. His family prospered and his empire grew--until one of North America's true Teflon dons finally lost his veneer. As he watched helplessly from his Colorado prison, the murders of his

Feb 28, 2015 • 1:15:03

PSYCHO KILLER SUPERSTAR-Dan Zupansky

PSYCHO KILLER SUPERSTAR-Dan Zupansky

In 2003, he began to appear in gay ographic movies, occasionally working as a dancer and escort. In 2005 he appeared as a pin-up model in an issue of Toronto's Fab magazine. In 2007, he was an unsuccessful competitor in a reality series CoverGuy and underwent numerous cosmetic surgeries, auditioning for a reality show Plastic Makes Perfect 2 in 2008 and set up at least 70 Facebook pages and 20 websites under various aliases. On May 25, 2012, an 11-minute video titled 1 Lunatic 1 Ice Pick was upl

Feb 20, 2015 • 1:16:12

ANGELS OF DEATH-Emily Webb

ANGELS OF DEATH-Emily Webb

It’s hard to imagine that anyone in the healthcare industry could have murder on his or her mind.But some do.The nineteen cases in this book range across Europe, US and Australia, documenting horrifying and sinister betrayals of trust.From Harold Shipman, Britain’s worst serial killer who murdered over 200 patients, to Roger Dean the Sydney nurse who in 2011 set fire to the nursing home where he worked killing 11 patients, these stories will make you wary and leave you shaking your head in horro

Feb 16, 2015 • 1:12:25

CHASING THE SCREAM-Johann Hari

CHASING THE SCREAM-Johann Hari

It is now one hundred years since drugs were first banned in the United States. On the eve of this centenary, journalist Johann Hari set off on an epic three-year, thirty-thousand-mile journey into the war on drugs. What he found is that more and more people all over the world have begun to recognize three startling truths: Drugs are not what we think they are. Addiction is not what we think it is. And the drug war has very different motives to the ones we have seen on our TV screens for so long

Feb 11, 2015 • 1:10:21

MURDER INC.-Christian Cippolini

MURDER INC.-Christian Cippolini

Nothing like it before. Nothing like it since. Murder Inc. was the most unusual, brutal and extensive collection of characters the American underworld had ever produced.  Culled primarily from Brooklyn's Brownsville and Ocean Hill sections, these official on-call killers of New York's larger crime Syndicate were a unified force of Jewish and Italian gangsters that treated murder as an art form for an entire decade. They were called mobsters, thugs, hoods and racketeers, but at the very core... t

Feb 5, 2015 • 1:00:35

SERIAL-Susan Simpson

SERIAL-Susan Simpson

In 1999, the body of Hae Min Lee was found in a shallow grave in Baltimore's Leakin Park. Six weeks later, her ex-boyfriend, Adnan Syed, was arrested and charged with her murder. The state's case against Syed hinged entirely on the testimony of Jay Wilds, who said that he had been with Syed on the day of the murder, and that he had assisted with the burial in Leakin Park. At trial, the prosecutor argued that although Wilds had repeatedly given false and inconsistent statements concerning the cri

Jan 29, 2015 • 1:35:27

INTENDED FOR MATURE AUDIENCES-Donna Thomas

INTENDED FOR MATURE AUDIENCES-Donna Thomas

From the cornfields of Nebraska to the top rung as a rising star of the adult industry, Timothy John Boham had everything a young man could ask for; including a beautiful young daughter. The fall from the top of the ladder to the depths of prison was short and steep as in one rash moment with one wrong decision, Boham lost it all.Seasoned true crime writer Donna Thomas spent countless hours with the subject Timothy John Boham. Thomas also worked for a period of time for the deceased victim John

Jan 22, 2015 • 1:25:19

BATH MASSACRE-Arnie Bernstein

BATH MASSACRE-Arnie Bernstein

On May 18, 1927, the small town of Bath, Michigan, was forever changed when Andrew Kehoe set off a cache of explosives concealed in the basement of the local school. Thirty-eight children and six adults were dead, among them Kehoe, who had literally blown himself to bits by setting off a dynamite charge in his car. The next day, on Kehoe's farm, what was left of his wife---burned beyond recognition after Kehoe set his property and buildings ablaze---was found tied to a handcart, her skull crushe

Jan 15, 2015 • 1:14:18

THE MURDER OF MAGGIE HUME-Victoria Hester and Blaine Pardoe

THE MURDER OF MAGGIE HUME-Victoria Hester and Blaine Pardoe

On August 16, 1982, an unidentified attacker brutalized and strangled Maggie Hume at her apartment in Battle Creek, Michigan. The daughter of a beloved local football coach, her seemingly senseless murder sparked intense scrutiny that lingers today. Award-winning author Blaine Pardoe and his daughter, Victoria Hester, crack open three decades of material on this mysterious tragedy, exposing dark secrets and political in-fighting that tore at the Battle Creek legal system for years. Compiled from

Jan 8, 2015 • 1:15:23

THE GOOD NURSE-Charles Graeber

THE GOOD NURSE-Charles Graeber

After his December 2003 arrest, registered nurse Charlie Cullen was quickly dubbed "The Angel of Death" by the media. But Cullen was no mercy killer, nor was he a simple monster. He was a favorite son, husband, beloved father, best friend, and celebrated caregiver. Implicated in the deaths of as many as 300 patients, he was also perhaps the most prolific serial killer in American history.Cullen's murderous career in the world's most trusted profession spanned sixteen years and nine hos

Dec 10, 2014 • 1:34:39

HOUSE OF SECRETS-Lowell Cauffiel

HOUSE OF SECRETS-Lowell Cauffiel

On an October night in 1993, at one of the campgrounds dotting Florida's Gulf Coast, ex-con Eddie Lee Sexton told his daughter Pixie to silence her crying baby. Incredibly, the young mother smothered the helpless infant, stuffed it's tiny corpse into a gym bag, and then buried it in a shallow grave, less than a month later. Eddie Lee ordered his son Willie to strangle the baby's bereaved father during a family picnic. Sexton was priming his third victim when the FBI and Florida Cops finally caug

Dec 4, 2014 • 1:07:46

THE VAMPIRE NEXT DOOR-J. T. HUNTER

THE VAMPIRE NEXT DOOR-J. T. HUNTER

John Crutchley seemed to be living the American Dream. Good-looking and blessed with a genius level IQ, he had a prestigious, white-collar job at a prominent government defense contractor, where he held top secret security clearance and handled projects for NASA and the Pentagon. To all outward appearances, he was a hard-working, successful family man with a lavish new house, a devoted wife, and a healthy young son.But, he concealed a hidden side of his personality, a dark secret tied to a hunge

Nov 27, 2014 • 1:22:26

UNDER COVER OF THE NIGHT-Diane Fanning

UNDER COVER OF THE NIGHT-Diane Fanning

It was planned to look like a suicide.But even in the best-laid plans, evidence is left behind…Jocelyn Branham Earnest was found dead on the floor of her living room in Forest, Virginia. By her side was a gun and a suicide note—typed, lacking a signature, and with one fingerprint on it. A fingerprint apparently belonging to Jocelyn’s estranged husband…Wesley Earnest was a respected high school administrator, poised to restart his life in a new community. Parents entrusted their children to his c

Nov 20, 2014 • 1:10:17

MURDER IN SUBURBIA-Emily Webb

MURDER IN SUBURBIA-Emily Webb

Murder in Suburbia features the stories of more than 20 murder cases that have happened in the quiet streets of Australia’s suburbs and small towns.These stories show that the most brutal and harrowing events can happen in any street or neighbourhood.Featuring contemporary cases as well as some shocking historical murders, Murder in Suburbia proves you should never say ‘it could never happen here’. MURDER IN SUBURBIA-Disturbing Stories From Australia's Dark Heart-Emily Webb   Follow and comment

Nov 13, 2014 • 58:51

WHY WE LOVE SERIAL KILLERS-Dr. Scott Bonn

WHY WE LOVE SERIAL KILLERS-Dr. Scott Bonn

In Why We Love Serial Killers, Drew University criminology professor Scott Bonn, PhD, simultaneously examines the public’s and media’s fascination with the monsters among us and the ways in which that attention impacts them. He writes about serial killers’ behaviors and the research—from the FBI’s original work to more recent models—that informs the law enforcement professionals charged with profiling, catching, and studying them. A real bonus: Dr. Bonn’s correspondence with Dennis Rader (BTK or

Nov 6, 2014 • 1:29:18

DEATH OF A CHEERLEADER-Kevin M. Sullivan

DEATH OF A CHEERLEADER-Kevin M. Sullivan

In this Notorious USA collection, Death of a Cheerleader, New York Times bestselling author Gregg Olsen and true crime journalist Kevin M. Sullivan write about notorious crimes in the Bluegrass State. In a scene right out of Hitchcock’s “Rear Window,” a young woman vanishes from a beach on a summer day and a neighbor views the abduction through his telescope. A newly wed disposes of his bride but doesn’t know what to do with her head. Selling tickets at a drive-in movie theater proves deadly. An

Oct 23, 2014 • 1:30:17

MAN OVERBOARD-Burl Barer

MAN OVERBOARD-Burl Barer

1982: Oregon businessman Phil Champagne, age 52, dies in a tragic boating accident off Lopez Island. He is survived by one ex-wife, four adult children, an octogenarian mother, and two despondent brothers. Phil didn't know he was dead until he read it in the paper. All things considered, he took it rather well. So did Phil's brother, Mitch, the beneficiary of a 1.5 million dollar policy on Phil's life. 1992: Washington restauranteur Harold Stegeman, famous for his thick, juicy steaks, is arreste

Oct 14, 2014 • 1:36:32

SEE HOW MUCH YOU LOVE ME-Amber Hunt

SEE HOW MUCH YOU LOVE ME-Amber Hunt

Seventeen-year-old Tyler Hadley posted an invitation on Facebook: party at my crib tonight. But this was no ordinary house party in the Florida suburbs; it was a grisly crime scene. Later that night, Tyler revealed to his best friend, Michael, that he’d bludgeoned his parents to death with a hammer. Michael didn’t believe him…until he entered the master bedroom and saw the bodies of Tyler’s parents on the floor—murdered, beyond the shadow of a doubt. Mary Jo and Blake Hadley had always known the

Oct 1, 2014 • 57:57

THE PAROLE OF MASS MURDERER DAVID ENNIS-Tammy Arishenkoff

THE PAROLE OF MASS MURDERER DAVID ENNIS-Tammy Arishenkoff

In August 1982, in Kelowna, British Columbia David Shearing shot grandparents George and Edith Bentley and parents Bob and Jackie Johnson at their campsite in Wells Gray Park. The sole purpose of these murders was to give him access to the two Johnson daughters Janet, age 13 and Karen, age 11 for purposes of rape, molestation and torture. He held the girls captive for almost a week and then murdered them as well. He put the bodies of the girls in the trunk of the family car with the four adults

Sep 18, 2014 • 1:11:05

BLOODY LIES-John Ferak

BLOODY LIES-John Ferak

The remote farming community of Murdock, Nebraska, seemed to be the least likely setting for one of the heartland's most ruthless and bloody double murders in decades. In fact, the little town had gone more than a century without a single homicide. But on the night of Easter 2006, Wayne and Sharmon Stock were brutally murdered in their home. The murders garnered sensational frontpage headlines and drew immediate statewide attention. Practically everybody around Murdock was filled with fear, pani

Sep 11, 2014 • 1:38:55

TRUE DETECTIVE-Gary Sweet

TRUE DETECTIVE-Gary Sweet

For years David Elliot Penton stalked elementary schools and playgrounds looking for young girls from low-income neighborhoods to abduct, rape and murder. He thought of them as "throwaway kids"-hardly missed, and soon forgotten, except by those who loved them. He was every parent's worst nightmare. The bogeyman they warned their children about ... the fiend who lurked outside bedroom windows.Christi Meeks disappeared during a game of hide-and-seek outside her mother's Mesquite apartmen

Aug 21, 2014 • 1:26:16

THE INNOCENT KILLER-Michael Griesbach

THE INNOCENT KILLER-Michael Griesbach

The story of one of the nation's most notorious wrongful convictions, that of Steven Avery, a Wisconsin man who spent eighteen years in prison for a crime he did not commit. But two years after he was exonerated of that crime and poised to reap millions in his wrongful conviction lawsuit, Steven Avery was arrested for the exceptionally brutal murder of Teresa Halbach, a freelance photographer who had gone missing several days earlier. The "Innocent Man" had turned into a cold blooded k

Aug 14, 2014 • 1:21:11

THE GREAT HEIST-Jeff McArthur

THE GREAT HEIST-Jeff McArthur

On a sunny September morning in 1930, six men entered the Lincoln National Bank in Nebraska's capital city armed with revolvers and Thompson submachine guns. In eight minutes they emerged with more than 2.7 million dollars, the largest take of any bank heist in history.A nationwide search for the bandits would lead Nebraska authorities through the rough, gangland streets of Chicago and East St. Louis, and deep into the heart of the Capone organization.The Great Heist not only chronicles the sear

Aug 8, 2014 • 1:00:53

LUCKY LUCIANO-Christian Cipollini

LUCKY LUCIANO-Christian Cipollini

Charles Lucky Luciano is one of the most researched, discussed and dissected American mobsters of all time. His name has become synonymous with NY City's high drama gangland days of prohibition bootlegging, the information of the infamous five families, and controversy over his alleged Last Testament. However, there exists many fascinating and lurid tales and theories regarding Lucky's rise and fall from the mobs top spot. Some of these stories are known, but still incited debate, such as the or

Aug 7, 2014 • 55:05

CHARLES MANSON BEHIND BARS-Mark Hewitt

CHARLES MANSON BEHIND BARS-Mark Hewitt

For the past forty years, Charles Manson has languished in prison for his participation in the Manson family murders of 1969. He is America’s icon of evil, the one who brought down the curtain on the 1960s. He has never been a quiet inmate, however. From his unbridled outbursts of rage to his tender acts of generosity, he makes his presence felt to everyone around him.He inspires awe in other inmates, he cozies up to prison guards who are eager to do him favors, and he is responsible for countle

Jul 24, 2014 • 1:06:11

VIOLENT CRIMES IN AMERICA-Amanda Seaton

VIOLENT CRIMES IN AMERICA-Amanda Seaton

Violent crimes in America have become an epidemic within the past decade or so, with more juvenile offenders taking to the streets, homicide and murder rates have skyrocketed, as science does their best to study the minds of America's most horrific killers. Amanda Seaton would like to invite you to delve into the world of crime and forensics, as she provides an analysis of those violent crimes committed by juvenile offenders, mothers, husbands, room-mates, ex-football players, and one of the mos

Jul 10, 2014 • 1:00:17

THE TRUE AMERICAN-Anand Giridharadas

THE TRUE AMERICAN-Anand Giridharadas

The True American tells the story of Raisuddin Bhuiyan, a Bangladesh Air Force officer who dreams of immigrating to America and working in technology. But days after 9/11, an avowed "American terrorist" named Mark Stroman, seeking revenge, walks into the Dallas minimart where Bhuiyan has found temporary work and shoots him, maiming and nearly killing him. Two other victims, at other gas stations, aren’t so lucky, dying at once.The True American traces the making of these two men, Strom

Jun 19, 2014 • 1:04:13

KILLER NURSE-John Foxjohn

KILLER NURSE-John Foxjohn

She was hired to nurse them back to health...instead, she took their lives.For months, the DaVita Dialysis Center in Lufkin, Texas had been baffled by the rising number of deaths and injuries occurring in their clinic. In April alone, they’d rushed thirty-four patients to the hospital. But no one expected such a horrific cause to be behind it all.Kimberly Clark Saenz was a well-liked licensed vocational nurse at the center. The East Texas nurse was a mother of two, and known for her smiles and t

Jun 5, 2014 • 1:10:06

THE MAD SCULPTOR-Harold Schechter

THE MAD SCULPTOR-Harold Schechter

Beekman Place, once one of the most exclusive addresses in Manhattan, had a curious way of making it into the tabloids in the 1930's: “SKYSCRAPER SLAYER,” “BEAUTY SLAIN IN BATHTUB” read the headlines. On Easter Sunday in 1937, the discovery of a grisly triple homicide at Beekman Place would rock the neighborhood yet again—and enthrall the nation. The young man who committed the murders would come to be known in the annals of American crime as the Mad Sculptor.The charismatic perpetrator, Robert

May 22, 2014 • 1:19:58

BOGEYMAN-Steve Jackson

BOGEYMAN-Steve Jackson

"For years he stalked elementary schools, neighborhoods and playgrounds looking for young girls to abduct, rape and murder. As though invisible, he brazenly struck in broad daylight, pulling children into his van or cars, or he crept into homes in the dead of night to carry away little girls while their families slept. He was the bogeyman they warned their children about disguised as the friendly stranger ... the fiend who lurked in the shadows outside of bedroom windows."From the NYTi

May 16, 2014 • 1:43:47

DISTURBED GROUND-Carla Norton

DISTURBED GROUND-Carla Norton

The story begins with Bert, a gentle, unassuming street person who mumbled to himself and talked to trees. He wasn't an alcoholic, but he hung out at a detox center in Sacramento, where a volunteer named Judy took an interest in him. Judy was overjoyed when she found a home for Bert with a silver-haired grandmother, Dorothea Puente, who ran a tidy boarding house in a blue-and-white Victorian. Little did Judy know that Puente (just one of the woman's many aliases) would soon become her obsession.

May 8, 2014 • 1:12:19

VANISHED: William Hryb

VANISHED: William Hryb

Nearly forty years after Jimmy Hoffa vanished from the face of the earth his disappearance still remains one of the biggest mysteries in crime history. At his zenith, Hoffa was reputed to be the most powerful figures in North America. The labor boss was never seen again after July 30, 1975 marking one of the most unexplainable cold cases ever. In Vanished: The Life and Disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa, freelance journalist William Hryb attempts to unravel the five-decade long riddle.The author takes

May 1, 2014 • 1:04:10

LICENSED TO LIE-Sidney Powell

LICENSED TO LIE-Sidney Powell

A tragic suicide, a likely murder, wrongful imprisonment, and gripping courtroom scenes draw readers into this compelling story giving them a frightening perspective on justice corrupted and who should be accountable when evidence is withheld. Licensed to Lie: Exposing Corruption in the Department of Justice is the true story of the strong-arm, illegal, and unethical tactics used by headline-grabbing federal prosecutors in their narcissistic pursuit of power. Its scope reaches from the US Depart

Apr 17, 2014 • 1:12:34

MOMMY'S A MOLE-Eve Carson

MOMMY'S A MOLE-Eve Carson

Karen Wolfe Churgin walked her dogs on April 18, 1990, on her remote wooded property on Chebacco Road. The veterinarian spotted a white sphere obstructing a drainage ditch.  When she reached to dislodge it, she reeled back in horror. She immediately called the police. “I saw something in the woods that looked like a punched-in volleyball,” Karen told the Beverly Times on April 25, 1990. “I looked closer and it was a human skull. It had suture-like zigzagged lines. Those are unique to human skul

Apr 10, 2014 • 1:16:40

THE SICILIAN MAFIA-A TRUE CRIME TRAVEL GUIDE-Carl Russo

THE SICILIAN MAFIA-A TRUE CRIME TRAVEL GUIDE-Carl Russo

The Sicilian Mafia: A True Crime Travel Guide is the first book of its kind in any language: the ultimate Cosa Nostra experience. Since 2006, author Carl Russo has photographed Mafia hotspots on the Italian island of Sicily: where  murders happened, where the godfathers lived and their victims buried. From the sunbaked fishing villages of the Mediterranean to the darkest alleys of Palermo, western Sicily is the exotic backdrop for over a 100 meticulously researched tales of murder and mayhem, wi

Apr 3, 2014 • 1:02:57

A VOICE OUT OF NOWHERE-Janice Holly Booth

A VOICE OUT OF NOWHERE-Janice Holly Booth

A Voice out of Nowhere delves deep into the mind of a psychotic killer. In this tragic true story about one young man's harrowing descent into madness and murder, A Voice out of Nowhere offers a rare glimpse inside the workings of a criminally disordered mind. In the narrative style of non-fiction novels like In Cold Blood and Columbine, best-selling author Janice Holly Booth draws from court transcripts, eye-witness statements and personal interviews to go beyond the headlines and share little-

Mar 27, 2014 • 1:37:25

NOT ALL HEROES-Gary Skogen

NOT ALL HEROES-Gary Skogen

(Aired March 12th but due to audio problems-new interview) Gary Skogen’s tour in Vietnam (1971–72) was the best year of his life. Living with fellow CID investigators in an isolated hooch overlooking the South China Sea at the U.S. base at Chu Lai, Skogen enforced military drug laws during his working hours and yet managed to pursue a life of perfect hedonism—far from the farm life in southwestern North Dakota where he grew up. With unlimited access to cheap beer, a wide variety of compliant Vie

Mar 20, 2014 • 1:19:25

BLOOD LUST-Gary C . King

BLOOD LUST-Gary C . King

Dayton Leroy Rogers, was known in Portland, Oregon as a respected businessman and devoted husband and father. But at night he abducted women, forced them into sadistic bondage games, and thrilled in their pain, terror and mutilation. His murderous spree was stopped only after-in plain view, he slashed to death his final victim...and when a hunter accidentally stumbled onto the burial grounds of seven other women Rogers had killed one-by-one in the depths of the Molalla Forest, police realized th

Feb 27, 2014 • 1:11:28

I'LL TAKE CARE OF YOU-Caitlin Rother

I'LL TAKE CARE OF YOU-Caitlin Rother

Nanette Johnston Packard, a sexy divorcee, liked to meet men at the gym and through personal ads. Soon after she began dating millionaire Bill McLaughlin, he moved her and her kids into his bay-front home in Newport Beach. But one man was never enough for Nanette...Eric Naposki, her NFL linebacker lover, fulfilled Nanette's wilder cravings. Together they schemed to make her fiance's fortune their own. When McLaughlin was gunned down, authorities had suspicions - but no proof. Pulitzer-nominated

Feb 21, 2014 • 1:13:08

FROM CRIME SCENE TO COURTROOM-Dawna Kaufmann and Dr. Cyril Wecht

FROM CRIME SCENE TO COURTROOM-Dawna Kaufmann and Dr. Cyril Wecht

In March 2009, Michael Jackson stood before the world press and announced that he would be doing a series of live concerts at London's Grand Concourse stadium, beginning in July. The shows would be called "This Is It," and he referred to them as his "final curtain call.". But Michael would never make any of the dates. In June "The King of Pop" died at his Los Angeles home.In 2004, a San Diego jury convicted Richard Tuite of fatally stabbing a 12-year-old Escondido g

Feb 7, 2014 • 1:36:23

LOBSTER BOY-Fred Rosen

LOBSTER BOY-Fred Rosen

Descended from a notorious carny family, Grady Stiles Jr. traded on the deformity that gave his hands and feet the look of lobster claws, to achieve fame as the "Lobster Boy". In November 1992, neighbor Christopher Wyant, in a conspiracy with Stiles's wife and stepson, shot Stiles in the head, leading to one of the most bizarre trials in criminal history. LOBSTER BOY-The Bizarre life and Brutal Death of Grady Stiles Jr.-Fred RosenDescended from a notorious carny family, Grady Stiles Jr

Jan 30, 2014 • 1:30:05

MOM SAID KILL-Burl Barer

MOM SAID KILL-Burl Barer

When Jerry Heimann's son arrived at his father's home in Everett, Washington, he found his grandmother, an Alzheimer's patient, alone in the house, starving and dehydrated. His father was missing. The furniture was gone. Within hours, police realised that Jerry's live-in housekeeper, Barbara Opel, had robbed him and fled. But where was Jerry?The next morning, Opel's 11-year-old son led police to Jerry's body. Soon, stunned detectives were getting confessions from a rage tag group of teens and pr

Jan 23, 2014 • 1:40:25

LETHAL INTENT-Sue Russell

LETHAL INTENT-Sue Russell

SexecutionerOn November 30, 1989, in a lonely place off Florida's Interstate 95, 51-year-old Richard Mallory shuddered under the impact of four .22-caliber slugs being pumped into him by a naked, hard-faced blonde hooker. While he suffered a slow, agonizing death, she stripped him of his valuables and drove his Cadillac back to the motel where her lesbian lover was waiting. In 1990, her killing spree kicked into high gear, with three men slain in as many weeks. Of the six of her seven male victi

Jan 16, 2014 • 1:25:19

MURDER IN BEVERLY HILLS-Cathy Scott

MURDER IN BEVERLY HILLS-Cathy Scott

Growing up, Susan Berman's childhood was idyllic. She was Las Vegas Mob royalty, the daughter of a Mob boss who ran the Flamingo and furnished his only child with anything money could buy. But halfway through her childhood, dream exploded. Susan's father died without warning during a routine surgery. Next, Susie Berman's mother died by her own hand the next year when she overdosing on drugs. Susie was whisked away from the only home she'd ever known, parentless and living with an uncle and his f

Dec 5, 2013 • 1:04:22

MURDER IN MISSISSIPPI-John Safran

MURDER IN MISSISSIPPI-John Safran

When filming his TV series Race Relations, John Safran spent an uneasy couple of days with one of Mississippi's most notorious white supremacists. A year later, he heard that the man had been murdered – and what was more, the killer was black.At first the murder seemed a twist on the old Deep South race crimes. But then more news rolled in. Maybe it was a dispute over money, or most intriguingly, over sex. Could the infamous racist actually have been secretly gay, with a thing for black men? Did

Nov 28, 2013 • 1:02:11

AMERICAN SNIPER-Jim DeFelice

AMERICAN SNIPER-Jim DeFelice

American Sniper is the astonishing autobiography of SEAL Chief Chris Kyle, who is the record-holder for most kills for a sniper in U.S. military history. Kyle has more than 150 officially confirmed kills (the previous American record was 109), though his remarkable career total has not been made official by the Pentagon.In this New York Times bestselling memoir, Kyle shares the true story of his extraordinary decade-long career, including his multiple combat tours in Iraq (Operation Iraqi Freed

Nov 21, 2013 • 1:05:16

THE NAZI AND THE PSYCHIATRIST-Jack El-Hai

THE NAZI AND THE PSYCHIATRIST-Jack El-Hai

In 1945, after his capture at the end of the Second World War, Hermann Göring arrived at an American-run detention center in war-torn Luxembourg, accompanied by sixteen suitcases and a red hatbox. The suitcases contained all manner of paraphernalia: medals, gems, two cigar cutters, silk underwear, a hot water bottle, and the equivalent of $1 million in cash. Hidden in a coffee can, a set of brass vials housed glass capsules containing a clear liquid and a white precipitate: potassium cyanide. Jo

Nov 14, 2013 • 1:13:34

FINAL EXAMS-Cyril H. Wecht and Dawna Kaufmann

FINAL EXAMS-Cyril H. Wecht and Dawna Kaufmann

Final Exams features four fascinating true crime cases from the files of Cyril H. Wecht, M.D., J.D., one of America’s most respected forensic pathologists. Coauthored by crime writer Dawna Kaufmann, Final Exams explores both the technical and the human side of murder. From the heartbreaking case of abducted child, Jessica Lunsford, held captive within shouting distance of her loved ones, to the peculiar story of a murder for hire with a most unlikely victim, Final Exams takes the reader behind t

Nov 12, 2013 • 1:04:50

THE KENDRICK JOHNSON MURDER-Fred Rosen and Beau Webster

THE KENDRICK JOHNSON MURDER-Fred Rosen and Beau Webster

On January 10, 2013, Kendrick Johnson's parents reported their 17 year-old son missing. The next day at Kendrick's school, Lowndes High School in Valdosta, Georgia, in the gym students saw what they thought was a pair of socks sticking out of a gym mat, but when they approached they told investigators they realized it was a body. According to Lowndes County Sheriff Chris Prine, Kendrick Johnson died while reaching into an upright gym mat in the old gym on Jan. 10 trying to retrieve a sneaker tha

Nov 6, 2013 • 1:01:06

PRISONER OF DREAMS-Rick Talley

PRISONER OF DREAMS-Rick Talley

An African American soldier returns home to New York City from the Vietnam War in the late 1960s. It is a time of turbulence and change and racism is very much alive in America. Times are tough for a young black man in America, especially one who has fought for his country in an unpopular war. Rick Talley takes what he believes the only economic road open to him: drug dealing. Prisoner of Dreams presents a large cast of characters, from small time street hustlers and pimps to Hollywood and Las V

Oct 31, 2013 • 1:09:41

ONE TO THE WOLVES-Lois Duncan

ONE TO THE WOLVES-Lois Duncan

In 1992, Lois Duncan, acclaimed author of fictional suspense novels, wrote a horror story she could never have imagined writing—a true account of the murder of her own daughter, Kaitlyn Arquette. Kait, 18, was shot to death as she drove home from a friend’s house on a Sunday evening in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Police closed the unsolved case as a “random shooting,” refusing to accept information that indicated otherwise, although it had all the earmarks of a professional hit.That first book, WHO

Oct 30, 2013 • 1:09:43

SURVIVED BY ONE-Robert E Hanlon

SURVIVED BY ONE-Robert E Hanlon

On November 8, 1985, 18-year-old Tom Odle brutally murdered his parents and three siblings in the small southern Illinois town of Mount Vernon, sending shockwaves throughout the nation. It remains one of the most horrific family mass murders in U.S. history. Odle was sentenced to death and, after seventeen years on death row, expected a lethal injection to end his life.  However, Illinois governor George Ryan’s moratorium on the death penalty in 2000, and later commutation of all death sentences

Oct 24, 2013 • 1:27:28

PRO BONO-Jeff McArthur

PRO BONO-Jeff McArthur

In 1958, 19-year-old Charlie Starkweather went on a murder spree that paralyzed Nebraska, shocked the nation, and left 11 people dead. With him when he was captured was his 14-year-old ex-girlfriend Caril Fugate. The question soon arose, was Caril a kidnapped victim, or a heartless accomplice? Appointed to her case, Attorney John McArthur initially accepted the assignment out of a sense of constitutional duty. But as he delved deeper, he found that the truth was far more complicated than anyone

Oct 17, 2013 • 1:15:32

MURDER IN THE YOGA STORE-Peter Ross Range

MURDER IN THE YOGA STORE-Peter Ross Range

MURDER IN THE YOGA STORE is the true story of the brutal killing of a beautiful young woman at a chic Lululemon yoga-wear shop. The grisly murder was committed on a pleasant Friday night in upscale Bethesda, Maryland, a leafy suburb of Washington, D.C. In this riveting narrative by veteran journalist Peter Ross Range, the author for the first time brings together the tale of what really happened in the yoga store murder. He portrays the personalities of both victim and murderer, along with the s

Oct 3, 2013 • 1:04:39

TRUE CRIME-Lee Gutkind

TRUE CRIME-Lee Gutkind

Award-winning journalists investigate the attempted assassination of Gabrielle Giffords and the unsolved lynching of Claude Neal; an identity thief finds herself confronted by one of her victims; a triple homicide rattles a high school swim team; a young adventurer supports her travels by smuggling Peruvian pre-Columbian artifacts; a woman struggles to live free of the ex-boyfriend who kidnapped and tortured her; and more. In this collection of 13 diverse and compelling narratives, writers--amon

Sep 26, 2013 • 1:00:09

LOST GIRLS-Robert Kolker

LOST GIRLS-Robert Kolker

One late spring evening in 2010, Shannan Gilbert, after running through the oceanfront community of Oak Beach screaming for her life, went missing. No one who had heard of her disappearance thought much about what had happened to the twenty-four-year-old: she was a Craigslist prostitute who had been fleeing a scene—of what, no one could be sure. The Suffolk County Police, too, seemed to have paid little attention—until seven months later, when an unexpected discovery in a bramble alongside a nea

Sep 12, 2013 • 1:08:27

DIARY OF A MOTOR CITY HITMAN-Christian Cipollini

DIARY OF A MOTOR CITY HITMAN-Christian Cipollini

In february 1975 a case began to unfold like nothing the quaint Detroit suburban area of Orchard Lake had ever seen. In the hours following a near head-on collision between a mysterious sedan and an on-duty patrolman, the frightening truth behind the speeding car's driver would be discovered.The vehicle was littered with weapons, drugs, and cash, yet these items weren't even the beginning. The most menacing item law enforcement could imagine was made of paper.  Found in Chester Wheeler Campbell'

Sep 5, 2013 • 1:00:15

EVIL SEASON-Michael Benson

EVIL SEASON-Michael Benson

Joyce Wishart was living out her life's dream, running her own art gallery in sunny Sarasota, Florida. But that dream ended in nightmare when a deranged drifter named Elton Brutus Murphy walked through the door with a knife in his hand and a voice in his head commanding him to rape and kill. In the space of half an hour, Joyce was dead - brutally mutilated - and the tony arts enclave plunged into terror as a frenzied manhunt ensued. Told in the convicted murderer's own words, a chilling tale of

Aug 29, 2013 • 1:00:54

DRIVEN TO KILL-Gary C. King

DRIVEN TO KILL-Gary C. King

The true crime story of sex killer Westley Allan Dodd--his victims were too small to fight...and too young to die! Includes eyewitness execution report.By all appearances, twenty-nine-year-old Westley Allan Dodd was the perfect all-American boy—model high school student, camp counselor and U.S. Navy enlistee. But behind his mask of normalcy lurked a predatory sex fiend with a seventeen-year history of appalling acts of molestation and violence. Children were his victims and the parks of the Paci

Aug 22, 2013 • 1:11:24

BLACK CAESAR-Ron Chepsiuk and Lewis Rice

BLACK CAESAR-Ron Chepsiuk and Lewis Rice

This is the remarkable story of Frank Matthews, a charismatic drug kingpin from the late 1960s and 1970s, who organized a huge criminal enterprise before jumping bail in 1973 with $15-20 million and a beautiful woman. Nicknamed Black Caesar, Matthews has never been seen again in what has become one of organized crime’s most intriguing mysteries. Lewis Rice spent twenty six years as a Special Agent with DEA: 1974- 2001. During that time he conducted hundreds of major international narcotic invest

Aug 8, 2013 • 1:02:55

KILLER DADS-Mary Papenfuss

KILLER DADS-Mary Papenfuss

No crime is as horrific, as mesmerizingly perplexing, as a child's murder at the hands of a parent. In most cases, the perpetrator is the father. A veteran journalist explores five examples of "family annihilators" in this troubling snapshot of American crime twisted by the dark trajectory of machismo in economically stressful times. Her research includes some fifty in-depth interviews of victims' friends and family, an examination of police files, and detailed profiles of the research

Aug 1, 2013 • 1:11:56

VINNY GORGEOUS-Tony DeStefano

VINNY GORGEOUS-Tony DeStefano

A vain man of good looks, small means, and no family links to the mob, Vincent “Vinny Gorgeous” Basciano steadily worked his way up to acting boss of the Bonanno crime family, becoming its leader when official boss Joseph Massino went to the clink in 2003. But at a time when the Mob was crawling with secret operatives and informants caving to government pressure to flip, Basciano obeyed the code of La Cosa Nostra. “I got faith in one guy,” he told a group of mobsters during a secretly taped meet

Jul 18, 2013 • 1:02:25

THE ANATOMY OF EVIL-Dr. Michael H. Stone

THE ANATOMY OF EVIL-Dr. Michael H. Stone

The crimes of Charles Manson, Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, John Wayne Gacy and other high-profile killers are so breathtakingly awful that most people would label them "evil." Renowned psychiatrist Michael H. Stone—host of Discovery Channel’s former series Most Evil—uses this as his starting point to explore the concept and reality of evil from a new perspective. Basing his analysis on the detailed biographies of more than 600 violent criminals, Stone has created a 22-level hierarchy of

Jul 11, 2013 • 1:25:27

GANGSTERS OF BOSTON-George Hassett

GANGSTERS OF BOSTON-George Hassett

This book is the first comprehensive account of three centuries of thug life in the city where America began. In chilling new detail, veteran Boston journalist George Hassett reveals the legendary crime stories of Boston - from Prohibition to the Mafia, the Irish Gang War to Whitey Bulger. The forgotten chapters of Boston gang history are also covered - from the role of street gangs in the American Revolution to Chinatowns infamous Tong Wars to the murder of number king Daddy Black - it is all h

Jul 4, 2013 • 59:54

SLEEP MY DARLINGS-Diane Fanning

SLEEP MY DARLINGS-Diane Fanning

On January 28, 2011, the Tampa Police Department received a phone call from a woman who was worried about her daughter, Julie Schenecker. A devoted Army wife and mother of two, Julie had sent her mother an email that could be described as “suicidal.” When authorities arrived at the Schenecker home, they encountered a horrific scene… Sixteen-year-old Calyx and thirteen-year-old Beau Schenecker were found dead—both of them shot, then covered with blankets. Upon questioning, Julie admitted that she

Jul 2, 2013 • 1:05:26

UNTIL SOMEONE GETS HURT-Tyson Wrensch

UNTIL SOMEONE GETS HURT-Tyson Wrensch

The case that captivated the Coachella Valley and San Francisco Bay area for years! Author Sherrie Lueder and her Literary Team, Dawn Taarud-Martinez and Kim Hansen, along with Tyson Wrensch, a former friend, now victim of the con men unravel the threads of a decade long crime spree filled with twists, turns and shocking revelations. Filled with a cast of characters drawn from San Francisco's Castro District, the "Dark Prince" and "the Boiz" take you from one con to the next

Jun 20, 2013 • 1:03:29

THE MURDER OF KENDRICK JOHNSON? -Fred Rosen and Beau Webster

THE MURDER OF KENDRICK JOHNSON? -Fred Rosen and Beau Webster

Beau Webster is a Tallahassee, Florida based private investigator who is a former officer with the Fort Lauderdale Police Department. Like Travis McGee, the famous fictional private investigator created by John D. McDonald, Webster prowls the southern tier of the U.S., working for those in need of justice. Like Kendrick Johnson, A Valdosta, GA teenager, Johnson, an African American, was found dead in the gym of the high school he attended rolled up in a gym mat. Investigating, the Georgia Bureau

Jun 14, 2013 • 1:04:06

UNREPENTANT-Peter Edwards

UNREPENTANT-Peter Edwards

In this explicit first-hand account, a biker who spent 46 years as a member of the Hells Angels and Satan's Choice invites bestselling author Peter Edwards into the story of life lived as we've only imagined it. A kid raised by his father's fists on the wrong side of a blue-collar town, Lorne Campbell grew up watching the local bikers ride past, making him wonder what that kind of freedom and power would feel like. He soon found out. At the age of seventeen, he became the youngest-ever member of

Jun 13, 2013 • 1:06:16

THE MEDIA'S PROSECUTION OF CASEY ANTHONY-Keith Long

THE MEDIA'S PROSECUTION OF CASEY ANTHONY-Keith Long

The 2011 Casey Anthony trial became the most sensational news story of the year. Time magazine called it the social media trial of the century. The 22-year-old single mom was charged with three felonies including first degree murder, aggravated child abuse and manslaughter. When pictures surfaced on the internet showing her at a nightclub shortly after her two-year-old daughter, Caylee, went missing, the media and public went ballistic. Thirty-one days passed after Caylee disappeared before poli

May 30, 2013 • 1:20:13

THE DYNAMICS OF MURDER-R. Barri Flowers

THE DYNAMICS OF MURDER-R. Barri Flowers

This multifaceted probe of murder offenses, offenders, victims, and characteristics of homicide in American society breaks new ground by examining issues generally ignored or neglected among researchers. Topics include murders occurring in the workplace and in schools, those perpetrated by gangs and terrorists, those incited by bias, and intimate and intrafamilial murders. The book discusses sexual killers, serial and mass murderers, and suicide. It also examines psychological and sociological t

May 23, 2013 • 1:16:06

Vanished Beauty (Fatal Sunset)-Mark Yoshimoto Nemkoff

Vanished Beauty (Fatal Sunset)-Mark Yoshimoto Nemkoff

Dead just one week into her Australian honeymoon, Tina Watson's body lay a hundred feet below the ocean's surface at the foot of the Great Barrier Reef. Across the globe, three days into a secret Aruban getaway with an older gentleman she met online, Robyn Gardner vanished from the same Aruban town as Natalee Holloway just five years earlier.Why did Robyn Gardner's travel companion purchase a $1.5 million insurance policy and make himself the beneficiary? Did Tina Watson's husband really insist

May 16, 2013 • 1:06:06

NOTES ON A KILLING-Kevin Flynn

NOTES ON A KILLING-Kevin Flynn

Weaver and fiber artist Edith “Pen” Meyer knew her friend Sandy Merritt’s relationship with a married man was wrong. She had even urged Sandy to take out a restraining order against Kenneth Carpenter. Which was why her call to Sandy on February 23, 2005, seemed to come from out of the blue. During it, she told Sandy to drop the restraining order and get back together with Ken. Pen was never seen again. One man stood to gain from Pen’s disappearance: Ken Carpenter. But evidence was bleak: no bloo

May 9, 2013 • 1:01:42

NAME DROPPER-Frank C. Girardot

NAME DROPPER-Frank C. Girardot

John Sohus, a twenty-something resident of San Marino, California, was allegedly murdered in 1985 by con man Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, who has become infamous under his most-known alias, Clark Rockefeller. Rockefeller, the prime suspect in Sohus murder, may have been the last person to see him alive. Nine years after his death, Sohus bones were dug up in the backyard of the home he once shared with his wife Linda, whose whereabouts remain unknown. Rockefeller s 2008 arrest for abducting his

Apr 25, 2013 • 1:04:53

TAMPA BAY ORGANIZED CRIME-Paul Guzzo

TAMPA BAY ORGANIZED CRIME-Paul Guzzo

In Tampa in 1948, known gangster Jimmy Velasco was gunned down by a hit man. In the ensuing weeks, when neither the Tampa Police Department nor Hillsborough made an arrest, Jimmy’s brothers took the investigation to the governor, who ordered a grand jury investigation. In February 1949, the findings were revealed. Among the discoveries was a “pay off” list written by Velasco prior to his death detailing the public officials he paid off to remain immune to law enforcement. The public was captivat

Apr 18, 2013 • 1:01:30

KIDNAPPED BY THE CARTEL-Karen Scioscia

KIDNAPPED BY THE CARTEL-Karen Scioscia

A beautiful, young American woman was kidnapped and confined against her will in the putrid depths of Tijuana, Mexico. Drugged and tortured, she lived in constant fear for her life. Kidnapped by the Cartel opens the doors into the secret covens of Mexican Organized Crime, a terrifying place where many are lost forever. The slimy backstreets of Tijuana are graphically revealed as the disgusting, gruesome, and violent places they are known to be.The U.S. State Department has warned against non-ess

Apr 11, 2013 • 1:06:29

SEARCHING FOR SANDRA-Stacy Dittrich

SEARCHING FOR SANDRA-Stacy Dittrich

Where was Sandra? Across the country, parents watched with growing panic as the surveillance video was replayed on the evening news: a young girl in black leggings and a Hello Kitty t-shirt, skipping alone through the mobile home park where she lived. Her bouncing steps carried her quickly across the screen and beyond the camera's view-just two weeks after she celebrated her eighth birthday, Sandra Cantu disappeared. Within days, panic gave way to horror when investigators reported that Sandra's

Apr 4, 2013 • 1:10:48

KATHERINE RAMSLAND-The Human Predator

KATHERINE RAMSLAND-The Human Predator

From ancient Rome through the Dark Ages to the burgeoning West to the open highways of urban America, from the unconscionable exploits of French religious zealot Gilles de Rais to such all-American monsters as Jeffrey Dahmer and Aileen Wournos, Katherine Ramsland makes an eye-opening case for the existence of serial killers throughout time, and offers a complete chronological record of the serial-killer phenomenon-as well as the parallel development of psychology, forensic science, and FBI profi

Mar 21, 2013 • 1:19:22

LAW AND DISORDER-John Douglas and Mark Olshaker

LAW AND DISORDER-John Douglas and Mark Olshaker

For twenty-five years, John E. Douglas worked for the FBI, where he headed the elite Investigative Support Unit. The real-life model for FBI Agent Jack Crawford in "The Silence of the Lambs", he's had a brilliant and terrifying career, getting inside the minds of notorious murderers and serial killers including Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy, and David Berkowitz (Son of Sam). Written with long-time collaborator Mark Olshaker, "Law & Disorder" is Douglas' most provocative and

Mar 14, 2013 • 1:01:40

INVESTIGATING LUST MURDER-Janet McClellan

INVESTIGATING LUST MURDER-Janet McClellan

The behavior and activities exhibited by offenders that distinguish lust murderers from among other types of serial murderers are presented through a multiple case studies analysis of the offenders' psychosocial histories and offense patterns. The lust murderers examined include Theodore Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, and Dennis Rader. The study advocates that a primary function of the development of typologies is to provide aid and assistance in the investigation of violent crime, specifically violent

Mar 13, 2013 • 1:13:23

I, MONSTER-Tom Philbin

I, MONSTER-Tom Philbin

What goes through the dark minds of such notorious killers as Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, David Berkowitz ("Son of Sam"), John Wayne Gacy, Dennis Rader (the "BTK Killer"), and others? In this chilling book, you'll read exactly what they were thinking in their own words as they committed horrible crimes. Using court transcripts and police interviews, veteran true-crime and crime-fiction writer Tom Philbin has compiled the testimony of twenty infamous serial killers-nineteen men

Feb 28, 2013 • 1:07:56

DARK MINDS-INVESTIGATION DISCOVERY-M. William Phelps

DARK MINDS-INVESTIGATION DISCOVERY-M. William Phelps

Returning for another chilling season, Investigation Discovery’s DARK MINDS transports the most dangerous of all criminals right into your own home. In the series, returning on February 27, non-fiction crime author M. William Phelps ( his latest is The Kiss of the She-Devil) and criminal profiler John Kelly revisit unsolved homicides believed to be the work of serial killers. The twist? They have an insider that intimately understands the disturbed mind of a murderer – because he is one, current

Feb 23, 2013 • 44:53

FOR MEMBERS ONLY-Jerry Vairo

FOR MEMBERS ONLY-Jerry Vairo

Seldom, if ever, has a writer been given access to a former major drug dealer in the Mafia underworld and three generations of legitimate family members that followed. After nearly two years of interviews and subsequent research, it has been discovered that a close relative of the family was one of the most powerful figures in the Mafia from the 1940s Thru the mid 1980s, yet his identity until now has never been revealed to the public. He was the successor to Charles "Lucky" Luciano an

Feb 7, 2013 • 1:04:10

BRONX COLD CASE HOMICIDE-Joseph L. Giacalone

BRONX COLD CASE HOMICIDE-Joseph L. Giacalone

In May 2012 suspected serial killer Angel Guridy-Cabral was extradited from the Dominican Republic for the 1993 murder of his girlfriend Altagracia Valdez, 24, after new DNA technology linked him to the crime. Valdez was found on the living room floor of her apartment, her baby son unharmed nearby. She was stabbed in the neck and shoulder and appeared to have been sexually assaulted. Guridy-Cabral fought his extradition from the Dominican Republic for nearly two years. Police also suspect him in

Jan 31, 2013 • 1:04:00

SLOW DEATH-Sheila Johnson

SLOW DEATH-Sheila Johnson

"Never Trust a Chained Captive." That was one of the rules David Parker Ray posted on the isolated property where he and his girlfriend Cynthia Hendy lived near New Mexico's Elephant Butte Lake. They called their windowless trailer, "The Toybox." And over the years, they lured countless young women into its chamber of unspeakable pain and horror - and filmed every moment. A Satanist, Ray was the centre of a web of sadism, sex slavery, and murder. Authorities suspect he murder

Jan 24, 2013 • 1:01:34

TRUE MURDER-THIRD YEAR ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL

TRUE MURDER-THIRD YEAR ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL

IT IS THE THIRD ANNIVERSARY OF TRUE MURDER AND THANKS TO THE INCREDIBLE FANS-2.5 MILLION PROGRAMS HAVE BEEN DOWNLOADED SINCE JANUARY 2010-THANK YOU VERY MUCH TRUE MURDER FANS!NEWS, UPDATES AND UPCOMING AUTHOR INTERVIEWS AND...                                                                                           REVEALED: THE HORRIFYING TRUTH REGARDING THE SERIAL KILLER MIND AND THE FAILING JUSTICE SYSTEM THAT CANNOT POSSIBLY STOP THEMEXPOSED: HE HAS DEFENDED MORE KILLERS THAN ANYONE IN THE E

Jan 10, 2013 • 59:38

SUDDEN TERROR-Larry Crompton

SUDDEN TERROR-Larry Crompton

The East Area Rapist would break into middle-class homes in respectable neighborhoods in the dark of night, tie up his victims and tell them over and over they were going to die. Only he didn’t kill anyone-not at first.  The East Area Rapist got his start in the summer of 1976 in Sacramento County and raped 30 women between June 1976 and July 1978. He moved on to Contra Costa County in October 1978, then continued south to Santa Barbara and Orange counties (where he was known as the Night Stalke

Dec 13, 2012 • 1:00:42

BODY COUNT RE-RELEASE-Burl Barer

BODY COUNT RE-RELEASE-Burl Barer

Not since the Green River Killer had the Pacific Northwest been terrorized by so savage a serial killer. By day, Robert Lee Yates, Jr., 48 was a respected father of five, a skilled helicopter pilot who served in Desert Storm and the National Guard, and a man no one suspected of a deadly hidden life. By night he prowled the streets where prostitutes gathered, gaining their trust before betraying them with a bullet to the head. On August 26, 1997, the half-naked body of 16-year-old street prostitu

Dec 6, 2012 • 1:25:11

FACING THE U.S. PRISON PROBLEM 2.3 MILLION STRONG-Shawn Grif

FACING THE U.S. PRISON PROBLEM 2.3 MILLION STRONG-Shawn Grif

Shawn Griffith spent over 23 years in various Florida prisons for an armed robbery he committed in 1992 at the age of 21. He has just recently been conditionally released from prison. He documents in elaborate and exacting detail what is wrong with the corrections system in the U. S and provides a host of solutions about how to improve it and save the taxpayers millions of dollars, while making our streets safer at the same time. "Facing the U.S. Prison Problem 2.3 Million Strong" is w

Nov 29, 2012 • 1:34:59

SERIAL KILLERS UP CLOSE AND VERY PERSONAL-Victoria Redstall

SERIAL KILLERS UP CLOSE AND VERY PERSONAL-Victoria Redstall

Victoria Redstall is a glamorous model, actress, filmmaker, and investigative journalist who has spent years visiting high-security prisons and interviewing sadistic killers like Gary Ray Bowles and Keith Hunter Jesperson, "The Happy Face Killer." These hardened killers have opened up to her in a way that they would never do to psychiatrists, prosecutors, or other authority figures, and have revealed terrifying chapters of their lives that might otherwise have stayed hidden forever. In

Nov 15, 2012 • 1:20:34

THE GIRL THAT HAD NO ENEMIES AND THE MAN WHO HATED WOMEN-De

THE GIRL THAT HAD NO ENEMIES AND THE MAN WHO HATED WOMEN-De

Anthony J. LaRette Jr., had been on a ten-year-long path of violence, murder, and rape.Everyone knew Mickey, with her stellar grades and driving ambition, would eventually follow her older brother’s path and become the only other family member to graduate from university. Though separated by twelve years, Mickey and Dennis had always felt a common bond. On July 25, 1980, at 11:10 a.m., LaRette parked his car in a corner grocery store lot in the small town of St. Charles, Missouri, and followed M

Nov 8, 2012 • 1:11:21

SERIAL KILLER GARY HILTON UPDATE-Fred Rosen

SERIAL KILLER GARY HILTON UPDATE-Fred Rosen

Gary Michael Hilton once sold his movie idea to Hollywood. The straight-to-video Deadly Run was about a man who captures women only to set them free on his very private and secluded Georgia land so that he can hunt and kill them.In 2007 (at least, that's the earliest investigators have been able to prove), he brought Hollywood to life when he began using state parks as his own personal hunting grounds.Convicted of murder and sentenced to death-it would seem the case was not closed. Rosen was com

Nov 2, 2012 • 1:09:45

Dear Dawn-Aileen Wuornos in Her Own Words-Daphne Gottlieb

Dear Dawn-Aileen Wuornos in Her Own Words-Daphne Gottlieb

Aileen Wuornos, a hitchhiking prostitute, shot, killed, and robbed seven men in remote Florida locations. Arrested in 1991, Wuornos insisted she had acted in self-defense, but the jury condemned her to death and she was executed in 2002.An abused runaway who turned to prostitution to survive, Wuornos has become iconic of vengeful women who lash out at the nearest target. She has also become a touchstone for women’s, prostitutes' and prisoners’ rights advocates. Her story became the basis for the

Oct 25, 2012 • 59:49

PSYCHO U.S.A. -Harold Schechter

PSYCHO U.S.A. -Harold Schechter

In the horrifying annals of American crime, infamous names of brutal killers such as Bundy, Dahmer, Gacy, and Berkowitz are writ large in the imaginations of a public both horrified and hypnotized by their monstrous, murderous acts. But for every celebrity psychopath who’s gotten ink for spilling blood, there’s a bevy of all-but-forgotten homicidal fiends studding the bloody margins of U.S. history. Spurred by profit, passion, paranoia, or perverse pleasure, these killers—the Witch of Staten Is

Oct 18, 2012 • 1:10:23

NOBODY'S WOMEN-Steve Miller

NOBODY'S WOMEN-Steve Miller

In late October 2009, Cleveland Police detectives arrived at the home of Anthony Sowell, an ex-Marine and registered sex offender—to arrest him on week-old rape charges. But this was no ordinary house, nor would it be a routine arrest. For even though Sowell was not at home, officers knew immediately something was horribly wrong. After initially finding two rotting corpses inside the home, their investigation would lead them to discover the bodies of eleven women. This is the shocking account

Sep 28, 2012 • 1:12:36

COLD NORTH KILLERS-Lee Mellor

COLD NORTH KILLERS-Lee Mellor

There are more than 60 serial murderers in Canadian history. For too long awareness of serial murder in Canada has been confined to West Coast child killer Clifford Olson and the "Schoolgirl Murderers" Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka, along with one of the most prolific serial kllers in history Robert Pickton. Unlike America, Canada has been viewed as a nation untouched by the shadow of serial murder.  Then came Colonel Russell Williams and his bizarre homicides and serial home invas

Sep 20, 2012 • 1:32:31

WALKING THE CIRCLE-PRISON CHRONICLES-J. Tony Serra

WALKING THE CIRCLE-PRISON CHRONICLES-J. Tony Serra

J. Tony Serra is the epitome of counter-cultural hero. He has spent his life defending society's marginalized citizens in the courtroom. His role in the Chol Soo Lee case was depicted in the film True Believer and he has gained national prominence for his closing argument techniques. He is a life-long tax resister who has spent time in federal prison in protest of what he percieves to be an unjust political and legal system. Tony Serra has been a criminal defense attorney for over 45 years. He

Sep 13, 2012 • 1:23:02

MURDER IN THE MOUNTAINS-Michael Crisp

MURDER IN THE MOUNTAINS-Michael Crisp

Murder in the Mountains: The Muriel Baldridge Story revisits the slaying of Muriel Baldridge, the 17-year old high school cheerleader who was found beaten to death on the morning of June 28, 1949 in Prestonsburg, Kentucky. After a decades-long investigation that featured an amazing array of twists and turns, including a sensational trial and a controversial verdict, the case remains unsolved. To this day Muriel's murder is considered "the most bizarre and confusing case in the annuals of Ea

Aug 30, 2012 • 1:03:39

HER DEADLY WEB-Diane Fanning

HER DEADLY WEB-Diane Fanning

Raynella Dossett Leath said she came home one morning in 2003 and found her husband’s body in bed—covered in blood, a Colt .38 by his side. But authorities were suspicious of Raynella’s story. Why would her husband of ten years suddenly commit suicide? And if he had taken his own life, why did it appear that three shots were fired?   David Leath was not the first of Raynella’s husbands to turn up dead. After digging into Raynella’s past, police unearthed bizarre, gruesome details surrounding t

Aug 23, 2012 • 57:38

DEADLY LITTLE SECRETS-Kathryn Casey

DEADLY LITTLE SECRETS-Kathryn Casey

To his parishioners, minister Matt Baker seemed a pious and good man. To his wife, Kari, he was a devoted husband and caring father. Always sunny and vivacious, Kari never questioned their frequent relocations from one small Texas Baptist church to another. Even when tragedy struck, Kari remained strong—until one day, inexplicably, she took her own life.To friends and family, Kari's suicide made no sense—and they struggled with questions they couldn't answer. Why couldn't Matt hold a job with a

Aug 9, 2012 • 56:37

LOST GIRLS-Caitlin Rother

LOST GIRLS-Caitlin Rother

Chelsea King was a popular high school senior, an outstanding achiever determined to make a difference. Amber Dubois loved books and poured her heart into the animals she cared for. Treasured by their families and friends, both girls disappeared in San Diego County, just eight miles and one year apart. The community's desperate search led authorities to John Albert Gardner III, a brutal predator hiding in plain sight. Now Pulitzer-nominated author Caitlin Rother delivers an incisive, heartbreaki

Aug 2, 2012 • 1:05:53

MASTERS OF TRUE CRIME-Edited By R. Barri Flowers

MASTERS OF TRUE CRIME-Edited By R. Barri Flowers

In February 1975, 9 year-old Marcia Trimble left her house in Nashville to deliver Girl Scout cookies in the neighborhood. She never returned. After a massive but fruitless search, her body was discovered on Easter Sunday. Outrage and horror gripped the community of Nashville, but the murder investigation was frustrated at every turn. The case went cold for three decades until it was finally solved. In January 1997, Herbert Blitzstein was found murdered in the living room of his Las Vegas town

Jul 26, 2012 • 1:13:35

VAMPIRE-THE RICHARD CHASE MURDERS-Kevin M. Sullivan

VAMPIRE-THE RICHARD CHASE MURDERS-Kevin M. Sullivan

By the time Richard Trenton Chase graduated high school, everyone knew he was strange. But no one had any idea how bizarre he'd become, or what dark impulses were flowing through his troubled brain. The transformation from the outwardly strange young man to the diabolical killer he ultimately became, was gradual and would not become known until it was too late. First it was the killing of small animals and birds, and the drinking of their blood. However, when these sacrifices failed to satiate h

Jul 20, 2012 • 1:16:32

DATE WITH THE DEVIL-Don Lasseter

DATE WITH THE DEVIL-Don Lasseter

David Mahler, a 43-year-old east coast lawyer, came to Hollywood for the celebrity lifestyle, the movie industry, and the women. At his seven-level home in the Hollywood Hills, Mahler rubbed elbows with the seedy elements of the entertainment world: wannabe rock stars, drug kingpins, and adult film stars—one of whom introduced him to Kristin Baldwin, a pretty, upbeat blonde. One night, during a violent argument in his bedroom, a vicious, drug-crazed Mahler grabbed a gun. A shot rang out—and Kris

Jun 28, 2012 • 1:00:15

OVERKILL-Lyn Riddle

OVERKILL-Lyn Riddle

Laurie Show was as compassionate as she was hard-working. The outgoing high-school junior worked part-time to pay for the home she and her divorced mother shared. Yet she always had time to tutor friends struggling in school. And she befriended a dejected classmate after his traumatic breakup with his pregnant long-time girlfriend Michelle Lambert.But soon things spiraled into jealous obsession, stalking, and a brutal attack that left Laurie murdered in her own bedroom. And once Michelle started

Jun 21, 2012 • 1:06:32

THE BANDIDO MASSACRE-Peter Edwards

THE BANDIDO MASSACRE-Peter Edwards

On the morning of April 8, 2006, residents of the hamlet of Shedden, Ontario, woke up to the news that the bloodied bodies of eight bikers from the Bandidos gang had been found dead on a local farm. The massacre made headlines around the world, and the shocking news brought a grim light to an otherwise quiet corner of the province. Six Bandidos would eventually be convicted of the first-degree murder of their biker brothers. Like other outlaw bikers, Bandidos portray themselves as motorcycle e

Jun 14, 2012 • 1:24:17

WHEN SATAN WORE A CROSS-Fred Rosen

WHEN SATAN WORE A CROSS-Fred Rosen

In 1980 in Toledo, Ohio—on one of the holiest days of the church calendar—the body of a nun was discovered in the sacristy of a hospital chapel. Seventy-one-year-old Sister Margaret Ann had been strangled and stabbed, her corpse arranged in a shameful and stomach-churning pose. But the police's most likely suspect was inexplicably released and the investigation was quietly buried. Despite damning evidence, Father Gerald Robinson went free. Twenty-three years later the priest's name resurface

May 31, 2012 • 1:33:18

ROGUE MOBSTER-Mark Silverman and Scott Deitche

ROGUE MOBSTER-Mark Silverman and Scott Deitche

When the infamous gangster Whitey Bulger went on the lam in 1995, the streets of Boston became a war zone between the Mafia and the renegades, with the Winter Hill Gang looking on. Rogue Mobster: The Untold Story of Mark Silverman and the New England Mafia chronicles the inside story of the Boston mob wars of the 1990’s when over two dozen gangsters were killed in a vicious war for control of the Boston underworld. Rogue Mobster is told in the words of Mark Silverman, an outsider from Medford wh

May 24, 2012 • 1:01:44

LUST FOR JUSTICE-Paulette Frankl and J. Tony Serra

LUST FOR JUSTICE-Paulette Frankl and J. Tony Serra

The greatest counter-culture lawyer of his time. His trials have garnered him acclaim as one of the greatest criminal defense lawyers of the century. He's the white tornado in court, a semantic samurai, a shaman, a bard, a hero to some, a trickster to others, and always a force to be reckoned with, respected by all. This is a no-holds barred examination of the man, his renegade lifestyle, his resolute beliefs, and the legal system he serves and transforms. Filled with murder, drugs, and death-pe

May 17, 2012 • 1:35:34

THE CHARMER-Richard Muti and Charles Buckley

THE CHARMER-Richard Muti and Charles Buckley

When prison inmate Robert Reldan's aunt died and left him an $8.9 million trust fund, Arthur and Barbara Reeve, parents of murder victim Susan Reeve, acted to deprive Reldan of the funds that could gain him freedom on parole. The Reeves ultimately got an unheard of $10 million judgment against their daughter's killer, effectively stripping the man known as America's richest inmate. Soon after Susan's murder, the Reeves set up a scholarship fund in her name and the killer's money is currently use

May 10, 2012 • 1:11:42

THE FRANK MATTHEWS STORY-Ron Chepsiuk and Al Profit

THE FRANK MATTHEWS STORY-Ron Chepsiuk and Al Profit

In the early 1970's, Frank Matthews became America's biggest drug kingpin. His organization, headquartered in Brooklyn, stretched across more than 20 states, and he became the only Black gangster to establish direct ties to the French Connection heroin pipeline. After being indicted in 1973, he disappeared with 15-20 million dollars in drug profits, equivalent to roughly 100 million in today's cash. Despite one of the largest manhunt's in US history, Frank Matthews hasn't been seen since. There

May 3, 2012 • 1:04:09

HEAD SHOT-Burl Barer

HEAD SHOT-Burl Barer

In the mid-to-late 1980's, a quiet neighborhood near Tacoma, Washington was terrorized by the violence of three men: Paul St. Pierre, an alcoholic psychopath; his younger brother, Chris, who had committed unspeakable acts to be one of the boys; and Paul's childhood friend, druggie Andrew Webb. The three beat up one man before cutting his throat on a deserted beach. They decapitated another victim, whom Paul St. Pierre had killed, and buried his head in a bucket of concrete. Soon, the twisted tri

Apr 19, 2012 • 1:13:19

SCAPEGOAT-THE CHINO HILLS MURDERS-J. Patrick O'Conner

SCAPEGOAT-THE CHINO HILLS MURDERS-J. Patrick O'Conner

In June 1983, Doug and Peggy Ryen, their ten-year-old daughter and a 11-year-old house guest were brutally murdered in Chino Hills, California. Two days before, Kevin Cooper had escaped from a nearby prison and hid in a vacant house 125 yards below the murdered family's hilltop house. After the San Bernardino Sheriff's Department established that he had ben there, it focused on him as the lone assailant despite numerous eyewitness reports that implicated three white men as the perpetrators. Kevi

Apr 12, 2012 • 1:14:59

A KNIFE IN THE HEART-Michael Benson

A KNIFE IN THE HEART-Michael Benson

Sarah Ludemann was new to love. The Pinellas, Florida, 17-year old was a late bloomer. When she fell for a boy she was blind to the world of sex, drugs and drama swirling around her. Soon, Sarah had a bitter enemy in 18-year-old waitress Rachel Wade. Both girls were head-over-heels with a cocky two-timer named Joshua Camacho. On a warm spring night, their passions erupted into violence. A knife flashed under the streetlights. When the fight was over one girl was dead and the other charged with m

Apr 5, 2012 • 1:03:21

THE MILLIONAIRE'S WIFE-Cathy Scott

THE MILLIONAIRE'S WIFE-Cathy Scott

The beloved son of Holocaust survivors, forty-nine-year-old George Kogan grew up in Puerto Rico before making his way to New York City, where he enjoyed great success as an antiques and art dealer. Until one morning in 1990, when George was approached on the street by an unidentified gunman—and was killed in cold blood. Before the shooting, George had been on the way to his girlfriends’s apartment. Mary-Louise Hawkins was twenty-eight years old and had once worked as George’s publicist. But ev

Mar 22, 2012 • 1:20:06

BLOOD HIGHWAY-Sheila Johnson

BLOOD HIGHWAY-Sheila Johnson

On January 23, 2000, already battered by an ice storm, the rural Alabama resort town of Mentone was about to be struck by an even more terrfying freak catastrophe. Hurtling down the highway in a Lincoln Town Car was Hayward Bissell, a 400-pound madman on a murder rampage. Ramming the pickup truck of Don and Rhea Pirch, Bissell lured Don Pirch on to the road, running him down with his car. Bissell next targeted the home of James and Sue Pumphrey. After stabbing James Pumphrey in the stomach Bisse

Mar 15, 2012 • 1:11:58

POISONED LOVE-Caitlin Rother

POISONED LOVE-Caitlin Rother

On November 6, 2000, paramedics answered a call to find Kristin Rossum, 24, sobbing. Her husband, Greg de Villers, wasn't breathing and she claimed he had overdosed on drugs after learning she was leaving him. But family and friends who knew of Greg's distaste for drugs weren't buying Kristin's story - particularly the idea that he would take his own life. The daughter of a well-to-do California family, Rossum was a brainy blonde beauty whose talent for toxicology had won her a post at the San D

Mar 8, 2012 • 1:15:20

TOURIST TRAP-Fred Shrum lll

TOURIST TRAP-Fred Shrum lll

On June 4, 1989, the bodies of Jo, Michelle, and Christe Rogers were found floating in the serene waters of Tampa Bay, Florida. They were stripped below the waist, bound, and tied to concrete blocks. They were going on vacation! It was a trip that may seem normal to some. But to the Rogers family, it was the trip  of a lifetime. They were going to Florida to make some memories. But Florida would literally become a tourist  trap for Jo, Michelle, and Christe. They would not make it home aliv

Mar 1, 2012 • 57:49

SERIAL KILLER COUPLES-R. Barri Flowers

SERIAL KILLER COUPLES-R. Barri Flowers

SERIAL KILLER COUPLES: Bonded by Sexual Depravity, Abduction, and Murder chronicles the true crimes of sexually motivated serial killers who are intimates. In this latest true crime book from award winning, bestselling criminologist R. Barri Flowers, nine gripping tales examine killer couples from America, England, and Canada whose murderous reign of terror knows no end till they are brought to justice.Chapter 1: Raymond Fernandez and Martha Beck, Chapter 2: Ian Brady and Myra Hindley, Chapter 3

Feb 16, 2012 • 1:10:02

LOVE LIES-Amanda Lamb

LOVE LIES-Amanda Lamb

Nancy Cooper is missing… Her husband said she went for a jog and never came home. Hundreds search for the vivacious mother of two young girls in the upscale North Carolina neighborhood.Days later, Nancy’s body is discovered facedown in a ditch a few miles from her home. It appears she’d been snatched off a jogging trail and strangled. Yet, focus immediately falls on Nancy’s smart, athletic and handsome husband, Brad, because the couple had been embroiled in a violently contentious divorce. Brad

Feb 8, 2012 • 1:02:02

H H HOLMES IS JACK THE RIPPER-Jeff Mudgett

H H HOLMES IS JACK THE RIPPER-Jeff Mudgett

Jeff Mudgett is the great, great grandson of America's most shocking serial killer-H. H. Holmes. Jeff Mudgett was previously on True Murder talking about his book Bloodstains and his discovery of memoirs of H.H. Holmes which led to incredible new and shocking information about America's infamous serial killer and his murderous secrets. Jeff vowed on that program that he would also soon have the definitive evdience that would prove that H.H. Holmes was a actually Jack The Ripper. THE PROOF THAT H

Feb 1, 2012 • 1:04:45

TRUE CRIMES ON AMERICAN HORRORS-Burl Barer and Hart D. Fishe

TRUE CRIMES ON AMERICAN HORRORS-Burl Barer and Hart D. Fishe

Veteran radio broadcaster and Edgar award-winning author Burl Barer and famed attorney Don Woldman created True Crimes Uncensored on Outlaw Radio in 2008. Don left the program in 2011 but has reunited with Barer for a 2012 syndicated television series True Crimes produced by Hart D. Fisher for the American Horrors channel. Hart is a successful horror author, a critically acclaimed poet, a horror filmmaker (Flowers on the Razorwire) and was a regular contributor to author Corey Mitchell’s In Cold

Jan 25, 2012 • 1:14:52

THE DARKEST NIGHT-Ron Franscell

THE DARKEST NIGHT-Ron Franscell

Casper, Wyoming:1973. 11 year-old Amy Burridge rides with her 18 year-old sister, Becky, to the grocery store. When they finish their shopping, Becky’s car gets a flat tire. Two men politely offer them a hand. But they were anything but Good Samaritans. The girls would suffer unspeakable crimes at the hands of these men before being thrown from a bridge into the North Platte River. One miraculously survived. The other did not. Author and journalist Ron Franscell who lived in Casper at the time

Jan 18, 2012 • 1:04:34

ON THE FARM-ROBERT WILLIAM PICKTON-Stevie Cameron

ON THE FARM-ROBERT WILLIAM PICKTON-Stevie Cameron

Female prostitutes from the East Side of Vancouver were disappearing and yet police had made no arrests. One police oficer stated that a serial killer was on the loose and yet officially the police didn't think so. People came forward with incredible tales of a slow-witted pig farmer named 'Willy Pickton'. Police ignored the stories as they came from women deemed non-credible. There were protests by the families of missing women and stories in newspapers everywhere. But by the time police finall

Jan 12, 2012 • 1:03:53

IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT-Brian McDonald

IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT-Brian McDonald

Now that Joshua Komisarjevsky has been sentenced to death we revisit my interview with author Brian McDonald as we discuss In The Middle Of The Night. The affluent suburb of Cheshire, Connecticut, seemed like the perfect place for Dr. William Petit and his wife, Jennifer Hawke-Petit, to raise their two lovely daughters… Until July 23, 2007, when, according to police, two ex-cons invaded the Petit home hoping to embark on a routine robbery—one that would ultimately prove deadly. What unfolded

Jan 6, 2012 • 1:14:25

EQUAL VERDICTS-THE LEX STREET MURDERS-Antonne M Jones

EQUAL VERDICTS-THE LEX STREET MURDERS-Antonne M Jones

On December 28, 2000, the city of Philadelphia experienced the worst mass murder in its three hundred year history. Ten people were viciously gunned down in a dilapidated crack house in the Mill Creek section of West Philly. The community was scared and outraged. City officials demanded a swift resolution. Within days and under an avalanche of pressure, the police obtained a confession and the case was cracked. Four local young men were arrested and charged with seven counts of first degree murd

Dec 21, 2011 • 1:04:02

BLOOD TRAIL-Rick Reed

BLOOD TRAIL-Rick Reed

On October 29, 1997, hooker Andrea "Slick" Hendrix's, beaten, naked body was discovered in a roadside ditch near Stewartsville, Indiana. With no leads for police to follow, the case eventually went cold, but it wouldn't stay that way. In 2003, sadistic sexual predator Joseph W. Brown claimed to have strangled Hendrix with his favourite murder weapon: a shoelace from a woman's size-8 shoe. Ginger Gasaway, 53, met Brown at a Gambler's Anonymous meeting. She didn't know that when she took

Dec 8, 2011 • 1:20:34

BROTHER'S BLOOD-Scott Cawelti

BROTHER'S BLOOD-Scott Cawelti

Jerry Mark was a Peace Corps volunteer, lawyer, 4-H leader, vice-president of his Cedar Falls High School senior class and certainly a most likely-to-succeed young man when he graduated in 1960. In 1976 he was convicted of 4 execution-style murders of his own family. How could he have done such a thing and why? Author Scott Cawelti knew Jerry Mark from high school and when on to interview him in prison, attending the trial and discovering a mind consumed with anger, revenge, jealousy and greed.

Dec 1, 2011 • 1:01:10

BLOODSTAINS-H.H. HOLMES-Jeff Mudgett

BLOODSTAINS-H.H. HOLMES-Jeff Mudgett

Bloodstains is the startling tale of one man’s search for the truth after inheriting the personal diaries belonging to his great-great-grandfather who he discovers was America’s first and most notorious serial killer Herman Webster Mudgett. Better known by his alias H.H. Holmes, Mudgett was the mass murderer who struck terror into the nation by being the proprietor of the infamous Murder Castle and stalking the streets of Chicago during the 1893 World’s Fair. During his incarceration awaiting ex

Nov 18, 2011 • 1:06:12

A KILLER'S TOUCH-Michael Benson

A KILLER'S TOUCH-Michael Benson

Denise Amber Lee was a 21-year-old happily married mother of two little boys. She had her whole life ahead of her...until an intruder broke into her Florida home. Within a few short hours, she was savagely terrorised and murdered. Michael King, a 38-year-old out-of-work plumber, was a ticking time bomb. Incredibly, Denise managed to call 911 twice during her abduction. Eyewitnesses and her distraught husband also called, but a slow, inefficient system tragically failed her. King was sentenced to

Nov 10, 2011 • 1:00:49

CAMOUFLAGED KILLER-David A. Gibb

CAMOUFLAGED KILLER-David A. Gibb

He was a perfect man living a perfect life...which made him a perfect killer.Canadian Air Force Colonel Russell Williams commanded the largest Canadian Forces base in the country. He had personally piloted prime ministers, dignitaries, and members of the British royal family, and was one of the most respected and trusted soldiers in the military.He was also a rapist and a murderer.This is the disturbing true account of how one of Canada's highest- ranking military officers became one of Canada'

Nov 3, 2011 • 1:33:35

JOHN WAYNE GACY-DEFENDING A MONSTER-Judge Sam Amirante and D

JOHN WAYNE GACY-DEFENDING A MONSTER-Judge Sam Amirante and D

"Sam, could you do me a favor?" Thus begins a story that has now become part of America’s true crime hall of fame. It is a gory, grotesque tale befitting a Stephen King novel. It is also a David and Goliath saga—the story of a young lawyer fresh from the Public Defender’s Office whose first client in private practice turns out to be the worst serial killer in our nation’s history.  Sam Amirante had just opened his first law practice when he got a phone call from his friend John Wayne G

Oct 20, 2011 • 1:18:35

SILENT SCREAM-Yvonne Mason

SILENT SCREAM-Yvonne Mason

It was a time of innocence, a time of hippies, flower children and the Age of Aquarius. A time when young people felt free to roam the countryside hitchhiking without fear. A time when law enforcement was trusted by the people they were sworn to protect and serve. That time was shattered by one of law enforcements own. His name was Gerard Schaefer. He was a former Florida Police officer who lied his way into the office of the Martin County Florida Sheriff’s Office. He used his lie to continue to

Oct 13, 2011 • 1:09:22

THE SOURTOE COCKTAIL CLUB-Ron Franscell

THE SOURTOE COCKTAIL CLUB-Ron Franscell

Over the years, Ron Franscell's books have earned high praise from bestselling authors such as Ann Rule and Vincent Bugliosi. He is the bestselling author of The Darkest Night. His writing has often been compared to Truman Capote. Ron grew up in Wyoming. A lifelong journalist, he worked for newspapers in Wyoming, New Mexico and California's Bay Area before hitting the road in one of American journalism's best beats, covering the evolution of the American West as a senior writer for the D

Oct 5, 2011 • 1:09:58

THE FATAL GIFT OF BEAUTY-THE TRIALS OF AMANDA KNOX-Nina Burl

THE FATAL GIFT OF BEAUTY-THE TRIALS OF AMANDA KNOX-Nina Burl

The sexually violent murder of twenty-one-year-old British student Meredith Kercher in Perugia, Italy, on the night of November 1, 2007, became an international sensation when one of Kercher’s housemates, twenty-year-old Seattle native Amanda Knox, as well as her Italian boyfriend and a troubled local man Knox said she “vaguely” knew, was arrested and charged with the murder. Award-winning author and journalist Nina Burleigh investigated the murder, the controversial prosecution, the conviction

Sep 29, 2011 • 1:07:52

THE CRIME BUFF'S GUIDE TO THE OUTLAW ROCKIES-Ron Franscell

THE CRIME BUFF'S GUIDE TO THE OUTLAW ROCKIES-Ron Franscell

The Rocky Mountains hold a celebrated place in the "wildest" West of both myth and reality--yet this is the first-ever travel guide to the many sites associated with Colorado and Wyoming's notorious past, complete with precise GPS coordinates of significant places. Written with the same fast-paced, gripping style of bestselling crime author Ron Franscell's widely praised earlier work, The Crime Buff's Guide to the Outlaw Rockies takes you on a time-traveling tour through the haunts of

Sep 22, 2011 • 1:02:33

NOT CRIMINALLY RESPONSIBLE-TRAVESTY OF JUSTICE

NOT CRIMINALLY RESPONSIBLE-TRAVESTY OF JUSTICE

In February, 2009, Guy Turcotte a cardiologist stabbed his two young children, Anne-Sophie, 3, and Olivier, 5, 46 times while they were lying in their beds. Turcotte admitted to the killings, but in the subsequent murder trial he claimed he could not recall carrying them out. The Guy Turcotte murder trial was one of the most closely followed in recent history in Canada — both horrifying and captivating the public. The jury deliberated for 5 days, deciding on the fate of the cardiologist charge

Sep 15, 2011 • 1:02:32

TRAILS OF DEATH-Fred Rosen

TRAILS OF DEATH-Fred Rosen

Trails of Death is the explosive chronicle of America's only known national parks serial killer, Gary Michael Hilton. Hilton struck in Florida, Georgia and North Carolina before he was finally caught. The author explores the crimes in detail with full cooperation from the victim families and brings readers into what makes a latelife serial killer through interviews with those who know him. Readers will also hear from the lead investigator who finally tracked Hilton. TRAILS OF DEATH-Fred Rosen

Sep 8, 2011 • 1:59:01

GIRL.WANTED-THE CHASE FOR SARAH PENDER-Steve Miller

GIRL.WANTED-THE CHASE FOR SARAH PENDER-Steve Miller

Sarah Pender was an attractive, outgoing, intelligent woman with great potential. But the straight and narrow had no appeal for this depraved young woman dubbed "the female Charles Manson", who knew how to get what she wanted from men-even if it meant murder. GIRL, WANTED-THE CHASE FOR SARAH PENDER-Steve Miller Follow and comment on Facebook-TRUE MURDER: The Most Shocking Killers in True Crime History https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100064697978510Check out TRUE MUR

Aug 25, 2011 • 1:02:56

STRAIGHT FROM THE HOOD-Ron Chepsiuk and Scott Wilson

STRAIGHT FROM THE HOOD-Ron Chepsiuk and Scott Wilson

Many books have written about the black gangster. They have been, for the most part, lengthy tomes focusing on the kingpins of the gangland scene, gangsters with names like Nicky Barnes, Frank Lucas, Lorenzo Fat Cat Nichols and Kenneth Supreme McGiff. Yet there are many stories about the black gangster that have not received much press coverage or have simply been ignored or missed by the media. They indeed reveal a lot about the history of the hood. Straight from Hood is a compilation of some o

Aug 18, 2011 • 1:06:20

THE CASEY ANTHONY MURDER TRIAL ANALYSIS-Diane Fanning

THE CASEY ANTHONY MURDER TRIAL ANALYSIS-Diane Fanning

A week after my interview with Diane Fanning discussing her book Mommy's Little Girl-before the Casey Anthony murder trial had commenced. It is very rare to have a book published before a trial has taken place and it seemed to Diane and myself certain that Casey Anthony would be convicted of murdering Caylee. Now that the verdict is in and Casey acquitted, Diane will join me again to discuss the incredible case and give us her analysis of the entire trial. THE CASEY ANTHONY MURDER TRIAL ANALYSIS

Aug 4, 2011 • 1:08:00

MOMMY'S LITTLE GIRL-THE CAYLEE ANTHONY CASE-DIANE FANNING

MOMMY'S LITTLE GIRL-THE CAYLEE ANTHONY CASE-DIANE FANNING

SPECIAL ENCORE INTERVIEW-THE CASEY ANTHONY CASE-DIANE FANNING. This interview was conducted before the trial. We can listen again and hear what was known at that time now that the verdict is in and Casey is a free woman. When news broke of 3-year-old Caylee Anthony's disappearance from her home in Florida in July 2008, there was a huge outpouring of sympathy across America. The search for Caylee made front-page headlines. There were disturbing questions raised about Caylee's mother Casey and she

Jul 28, 2011 • 1:04:14

MOB KILLER-Anthony M. DeStefano

MOB KILLER-Anthony M. DeStefano

He dissolved the bodies of some of his victims in acid and poured them down the sewer. He hung grisly souvenirs on nails in his junkyard.  La Costra Nostra Charles Carneglia was a stone-cold killer who fell in with the bloodthirsty John Gotti crew. As the infamous crime family rose to power with their murderous trail of sex, jealousy, greed, and revenge, Carneglia rose with them.  Mafia, Madness And Murder This is the horrifying story of a misfit who fit perfectly into the New York mafia. In a

Jul 21, 2011 • 1:07:18

THE SEX SLAVE MURDERS-R. Barri Flowers

THE SEX SLAVE MURDERS-R. Barri Flowers

A marriage made in hell...Barely five feet tall, sweet and innocent looking, Charlene Gallego used all of her charms to beguile pretty teenage girls and young women into the back of a van, where her lethal husband, Gerald, lay waiting. A killer couple bound together by secrets, lies, and sex slave fantasies Married multiple times and still in his early thirties, Gerald Gallego found the perfect companion in Charlene. Over a grisly period of twenty-six months, their bloody and brutal rampage of k

Jul 14, 2011 • 1:23:52

THE SERIAL KILLER

THE SERIAL KILLER

On Thursday, June 30 at 7:00 p.m. CST I will appear on CRIME BEAT on the ARTISTFIRST RADIO NETWORK with hosts Will Hyrb and true crime bestselling author Ron Chepesiuk. The title of the program is THE SERIAL KILLER where we will be discussing my book TROPHY KILL-THE SHALL WE DANCE MURDER and the mind of the serial killer. On the eve of the CRIME BEAT program I hope you will tune in for, for the very first time I will be reading excerpts of Sidney Teerhuis' incredibly shocking letters that specif

Jun 30, 2011 • 1:07:16

WATCH MOMMY DIE-Michael Benson

WATCH MOMMY DIE-Michael Benson

First, he bound and beat his girlfriend, a 43-year-old librarian. Then he went after her teenaged daughter - warning her, 'Scream and I will kill you both' - before knocking her unconscious. When the teenager awoke, he proceeded to rape her. And in a final horrifying act of depravity, he forced the girl to watch as he slit her mother's throat. But the killing didn't stop there...Stephen Stanko was described as 'a perfect gentleman' who 'seemed so pleasant...and so normal.' But behind Stanko's m

Jun 22, 2011 • 1:02:16

DEADLY DECEIT-Don Lasseter

DEADLY DECEIT-Don Lasseter

After years of hard work, Brian and Jeannie Legg has earned a well deserved life of leisure in their picture-perfect Phoenix mansion. Until their troubled son showed up with a need for cash - and a thirst for murder...David Legg was an obsessive control freak and an army deserter. After fathering an illegitimate child, he wooed and wed a trusting young woman - only to destroy his marriage with lies and infidelities. But his deceptions were far from over...In June of 1996, Jeannie and Brian were

Jun 16, 2011 • 1:00:15

FATAL BEAUTY-Burl Barer

FATAL BEAUTY-Burl Barer

Jimmy Joste was a powerhouse in the oil and gas industry, but he was a weakling when it came to his gorgeous, athletic, longtime lover, Rhonda Glover. Addicted to her sexual prowess and madly in love, Joste gave her homes, cars, cash, and a $350,000 engagement ring.  Their fifteen years of passion and excess ended the day Rhonda drove directly from a shooting range to the Austin home they once shared. After pumping ten bullets into him from a Glock 9mm, she stood over Joste’s blood-splattered bo

May 26, 2011 • 1:10:15

UNREASONABLE INFERENCES-Michael Griesbach

UNREASONABLE INFERENCES-Michael Griesbach

Michael Griesbach had been a prosecutor for 22 years and thought he had seen it all. But nothing prepared him for the case of Steven Avery-a true crime story, where the good guys are sometimes the bad guys and the bad guys the good. It is case of violent crime with a mind-numbing twist, but mostly, it's a case about innocence and guilt. On July 29, 1985, Penny Beernsten set out for a late afternoon jog on a beach on the Lake Michigan shoreline, unaware that just minutes later a deranged sex offe

May 19, 2011 • 1:13:25

CAUGHT IN THE ACT-Jeannie McDonough and Paul Lonardo

CAUGHT IN THE ACT-Jeannie McDonough and Paul Lonardo

Adam Leroy Lane was a trucker with a passion for morbid side trips. At random truck stops along the interstates in America's Northeastern states, Lane would leave his truck and, under the cover of darkness, prowl nearby neighborhoods in search of an unlocked door and a vulnerable woman. His first known victim would be Darlene Ewalt, who was murdered on the back deck of her Pennsylvania home as she sat talking on the phone with a friend; and her husband and son sleeping inside. Monica Massaro wou

May 13, 2011 • 1:04:20

THE KING OF THE GODFATHERS-Anthony M. DeStefano

THE KING OF THE GODFATHERS-Anthony M. DeStefano

THE LAST OF THE OLD-WORLD MOB BOSSES AND THE ULTIMATE BETRAYAL-For more than twenty years, Joseph "Big Joey" Massino ran what was called the largest criminal network in the U.S., employing over two hundred and fifty made men and untold numbers of associates. The Bonanno family was responsible for over thirty murders, even killing a dozen of its own members to enforce discipline and settle scores. He would be brought down by Salvatore "Good Looking Sal" Vitale, the underboss w

Apr 28, 2011 • 1:03:52

THE BUNDY MURDERS-Kevin Sullivan

THE BUNDY MURDERS-Kevin Sullivan

Theodore Bundy was one of the more infamous, and flamboyant, American serial killers on record, and his story is a complex mix of psychopathology, criminal investigation, and the U.S. legal system. This in-depth examination of Bundy's life and his killing spree that totaled dozens of victims is drawn from legal transcripts, correspondence and interviews with detectives and prosecutors. Using these sources, new information on several murders is unveiled. The biography follows Bundy from his broke

Apr 23, 2011 • 1:05:34

DELIVERED FROM EVIL-Ron Franscell

DELIVERED FROM EVIL-Ron Franscell

A 12-year-old boy cowers in his closet while a lunatic killer slaughters his family . . . a nursing student unwittingly opens her home to the serial killer on her front porch . . . an 11-year-old girl drifts alone at sea on a flimsy cork raft for almost four days after a mass murderer kills her vacationing family aboard a chartered yacht . . . a brave firefighter suddenly finds himself in the crosshairs of a racist sniper almost nine stories above the ground . . . And, astonishingly, they all

Apr 14, 2011 • 1:03:49

AGAINST HER WILL-Ronald J. Watkins

AGAINST HER WILL-Ronald J. Watkins

Richard and Victoria Tinyes feared the worst when their thirteen-year-old daughter Kelly Ann vanished from their quiet suburban community of Valley Stream, New York on March 3, 1989. But the nightmare to come was worse than they could ever imagine.Only five doors away, in the home of John and Elizabeth Golub, police found Kelly Ann's body stuffed in a plastic garbage bag. She'd been brutally beaten, stabbed, strangled and mutilated. After weeks of intense investigation, police arrested the Golub

Apr 7, 2011 • 1:58:04

THE BURN FARM-Michael Benson

THE BURN FARM-Michael Benson

Sheila LaBarre liked to troll the personal ads and homeless shelters, looking for men whom society had rejected for one reason or another - men she could easily dominate both verbally and sexually. One by one, she invited them to her remote New Hampshire farmhouse, where she engaged them in S&M. But over time, sex gave way to brutal acts of torture as she mercilessly flogged and beat her captives until they confessed to committing unspeakable acts. Once satisfied that they had paid for their

Mar 24, 2011 • 1:03:33

LOVE HER TO DEATH-M. William Phelps

LOVE HER TO DEATH-M. William Phelps

In the midst of Pennsylvania's Amish country, on a peaceful summer night in 2008, the body of 45-year-old Jan Roseboro was found at the bottom of her backyard pool. Her husband Michael, a successful businessman and a member of a prominent family, showed no emotion as he learned of her death. But the next day an autopsy revealed Jan had been savagely beaten and strangled before being tossed in the water to drown. Soon Michael's secret lover, pregnant with his child, stepped into the media spotlig

Mar 17, 2011 • 54:17

NO, DADDY DON'T-Irene Pence

NO, DADDY DON'T-Irene Pence

Mary Jean Pearle and John Battaglia's marriage seemed picture perfect from the outside. With their two young daughters, Faith and Liberty, they made their home in a wealthy Dallas suburb. John was handsome, charming, and successful - but behind his mask of normality lay a vicious, violent abuser who'd brutally beaten his first wife - and who made Mary Jean the new target of his irrational rages. After nine hellish years, she divorced Battaglia. 'I Never Thought He'd Hurt The Children...' On Chri

Mar 10, 2011 • 1:01:56

WAGES OF SIN-Suzy Spencer

WAGES OF SIN-Suzy Spencer

On January 11, 1995, deputies outside Austin, Texas, found a mutilated body laid across a cold campfire—head destroyed, hands cut off, skin singed by fire. In less than three days, they had the kill zone: a small apartment, where shy Christopher Hatton was shot at point blank range in his bed.Stephanie Lynn Martin, despite her devout Southern Baptist upbringing, was reborn as a sultry stripper and calendar girl. William M. Busenburg was a good-looking wannabe living his own lies. They came toget

Mar 3, 2011 • 1:00:30

THE LAST MEAL-Dennis Shere

THE LAST MEAL-Dennis Shere

It took almost 10 years for investigators to arrest two men for the brutal murders of seven workers in a fast-food restaurant in suburban Chicago. The tragic events captured headlines nationwide. When the arrests finally were made, the evidence against one man was virtually irrefutable. His DNA was found on chicken bones recovered from a trash bin at Brown's Chicken and Pasta; investigators contended that he ate pieces of chicken before killing the victims - the so-called "last meal."

Feb 24, 2011 • 1:06:50

CHARLES MANSON NOW-Marlin Marynick

CHARLES MANSON NOW-Marlin Marynick

In November 1970, Charles Manson was sentenced to death for the horrifying and cold-blooded murders of seven people near Los Angeles. His sentence was later reduced to life imprisonment after California abolished its death penalty. At Manson's trial, lead prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi spun the story of a demonic cult leader who hypnotized people to commit murder. He published his theory in Helter Skelter, the bestselling true crime book of all time.When author Marlin Marynick was eight years old,

Feb 15, 2011 • 1:06:14

COLUMBINE- Dave Cullen

COLUMBINE- Dave Cullen

On April 20, 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold left an indelible stamp on the American psyche. Their plan was staggering: to blow up their school, surpass Oklahoma City in horror, and leave "a lasting impression on the world." The bombs failed. But the unprecedented attack unleashed a new era of violence in schools—branding every future shooting "another Columbine."When we think of Columbine, we think of the Trench Coat Mafia; Cassie Bernall, mistaken Columbine martyr; and

Feb 3, 2011 • 1:31:35

THE KILLING OF LITTLE SHEPHERDS-Douglas Starr

THE KILLING OF LITTLE SHEPHERDS-Douglas Starr

A True Crime Story and The Birth of Forensic Science. Starr eloquently juxtaposes the crimes of French serial killer Joseph Vacher and the achievements of famed criminologist Dr. Alexandre Lacassagne during France's belle époque. From 1894 to 1897, Vacher is thought to have raped, killed, and mutilated at least 25 people, though he would confess to only 11 murders. Lacassagne, who headed the department of legal medicine at the university in Lyon, was a pioneer in crime scene analysis, body decom

Jan 27, 2011 • 1:02:53

THE LAST SIX MINUTES-Sandra Martins-Toner

THE LAST SIX MINUTES-Sandra Martins-Toner

The Last Six Minutes is the true account of the random and violent murder of 16 year-old Matthew Martins, and his family's journey through the Canadian Criminal Justice System. On July 2, 2005 Matthew Martins, while waiting near a Sky Train Station for a friend was approached by a woman named Katherine Quinn. Quinn wanted Matthew's crucifix and jumped him trying to get it from him. In the scuffle she was scratched by something and began screaming to her friends and her boyfriend Forslund, that s

Jan 20, 2011 • 1:02:50

THE FRAMING OF MUMIA ABU-JAMAL and CRIME MAGAZINE-J. Patrick O'Conner

THE FRAMING OF MUMIA ABU-JAMAL and CRIME MAGAZINE-J. Patrick O'Conner

In this account of the trial of controversial death row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal, O'Connor, editor and publisher of crimemagazine.com, clearly lays out his case that Abu-Jamal should receive at least a new trial, if not complete exoneration. O'Connor asserts that Abu-Jamal was framed for the 1981 murder of police officer Daniel Faulkner because of a vendetta by Philadelphia mayor Frank Rizzo and the police due to Abu-Jamal's defense, as a journalist, of the cultish countercultural group MOVE. Rely

Jan 13, 2011 • 1:06:30

EVIL NEXT DOOR-Amanda Lamb

EVIL NEXT DOOR-Amanda Lamb

On May 21, 2002, twenty-three-year-old Raleigh, North Carolina resident Stephanie Bennett was found murdered in her apartment. Despite ample DNA evidence at the scene, investigators could find no matches in their criminal databases.Two years into the investigation, Detective Ken Copeland-known as "the garbage man" for leaving no stone unturned in his search for evidence-and his partner, Jackie Taylor, joined the case. After culling through the entire file with fresh eyes and re-intervi

Jan 6, 2011 • 59:42

TRUE MURDER YEAR END ENCORE PROGRAM-HONEYMOON WITH A KILLER-DON LASSETER

TRUE MURDER YEAR END ENCORE PROGRAM-HONEYMOON WITH A KILLER-DON LASSETER

Rebecca Salcedo had an easy smile, a sexy body, and strong appetites-she wanted the world. Bruce Cleland, she decided, would buy it for her. The shy engineer quickly fell victim to her charms, getting her whatever she wanted. A new car. A boat. A house. But he wasn’t Rebecca’s only admirer… Even after Rebecca manipulated Bruce into marrying her, hoping to divorce him and take him for everything he had, she occupied herself with a series of lovers…Male strippers, women…they all spent time in Rebe

Dec 30, 2010 • 1:01:13

TRUE MURDER CHRISTMAS SPECIAL!?!

TRUE MURDER CHRISTMAS SPECIAL!?!

It's Christmas time and the perfect opportunity to recap the first year almost of True Murder and great interviews with great authors discussing their fine books. I'll be speaking about a few things of interest, the latest update on the Sidney Teerhuis appeal and the very best books and interviews I've had the pleasure to do. A big thank you for all the listeners-over 75,000 in the last 3 months alone. I'll open the lines for anyone to call in and comment-and help you usher in the holidays with

Dec 23, 2010 • 1:00:30

IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT -Brian McDonald

IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT -Brian McDonald

The affluent suburb of Cheshire, Connecticut, seemed like the perfect place for Dr. William Petit and his wife Jennifer-Hawke-Petit to raise their two lovely daughters...Until July 23, 2007, when according to police, two ex-cons invaded the Petit home hoping to embark on a routine robbery-one that would ultimately prove deadly.What unfolded at 300 Sorghum Mill Drive was a tragic and horrifying sequence of events that shocked a community and made headlines across the nation. Before the morning wa

Dec 9, 2010 • 1:14:16

THE PROFILER-MY LIFE HUNTING SERIAL KILLERS AND PSYCHOPATHS-Pat Brown

THE PROFILER-MY LIFE HUNTING SERIAL KILLERS AND PSYCHOPATHS-Pat Brown

In 1990, a young woman was strangled on a jogging path near the home of Pat Brown and her family. Brown suspected the young man who was renting a room in her house and quickly uncovered strong evidence that pointed to him-but the police dismissed her as merely a housewife with an overactive imagination. It would be six years before her former boarder would be brought in for questioning but the night Brown took action to solve the murder was the beginning of her life's work. Pat Brown is now of t

Dec 4, 2010 • 1:18:07

BONE CRUSHER-Linda Rosencrance

BONE CRUSHER-Linda Rosencrance

When the urge took hold, serial killer Larry Bright brought women back to his home. After raping and murdering his victims, he brutally disposed of their bodies. Sometimes he built a white-hot fire and burned them in his backyard. Other times he dumped them along nearby roads and fields. For years, Bright had trolled the roads and back streets of Illinois for the most helpless, desperate women he could find. Then one woman escaped, and suddenly police were looking for bodies everywhere-trying to

Nov 25, 2010 • 59:56

FREE JUAN RIVERA-Rob Warden

FREE JUAN RIVERA-Rob Warden

On Aug. 17, 1992, 11 year-old Holly Staker was baby-sitting a 5-year-old boy and his 2 1/2-year-old sister. After eating pizza, the boy went out to play. At 8 p.m., when a neighbor noticed he was still outside, the boy said he was locked out. The neighbor took the boy to his mother at her job at a nearby tavern. The mother, Dawn Engelbrecht contacted Holly's mother, and the two of them went to the apartment, where they found the 2 1/2-year-old girl unharmed but Holly was dead in a bedroom. She h

Nov 18, 2010 • 1:01:38

SHATTERED-Kathryn Casey

SHATTERED-Kathryn Casey

In Creekstone, Texas, a small, quiet suburb of Houston, football was king...and David Temple was a prince. A former high school and college gridiron star-turned-coach, he had a fairy-tale marriage to bright, vivacious Belinda Lucas, a teacher at the local high school who was so warm and popular her colleagues called her "The Sunshine Girl."The fairy tale ended savagely on January 11, 1999, when Belinda's lifeless body was discovered in a closet. Her skull had been shattered by a shotgu

Nov 11, 2010 • 1:00:11

MURDER IN THE HIGH HIMALAYA-Jonathan Green

MURDER IN THE HIGH HIMALAYA-Jonathan Green

Cho Oyu Mountain lies 19 miles east of Mount Everest on the border between Tibet and Nepal. To the elite mountaineering community, it's known as the sixth highest mountain in the world. To Tibetans, Cho Oyu represents a gateway to freedom through a secret glacial path: the Nangpa La. On September 30, 2006, gunfire echoed through the thin air near Advance Base Camp on Cho Oyu and climbers preparing to summit watched in horror as Chinese border guards fired at a group of Tibetans fleeing to India,

Nov 4, 2010 • 1:04:48

BLOOD AMBUSH-Sheila Johnson

BLOOD AMBUSH-Sheila Johnson

For Darlene Roberts, a quiet drive home from work turned out to be the end of the road when a stranded motorist flagged her down. As soon as she stopped, Darlene was forcibly dragged from her car and viciously thrown to the ground, bound with cords and tightly gagged. A second attacker stepped into the scene, a woman in a hood and a mask.In the ensiung struggle, the woman's mask slipped off, revealing the face of Darlene's husband's ex-wife, Barbara Ann Roberts. Darlene broke away, running for h

Oct 28, 2010 • 1:02:04

ON THE FARM-ROBERT WILLIAM PICKTON-Stevie Cameron

ON THE FARM-ROBERT WILLIAM PICKTON-Stevie Cameron

Covering the case of one of the most prolific serial killers for 8 years gave Stevie Cameron unmatched access to the entire shocking story as it unfolded. In ON THE FARM, you will read of Pickton's early years and wonder if anything he experienced could ever explain what he later committed. You will learn of the suspicions from some of Pickton's long time friends. You will hear from two women who narrowly escaped being Pickton's victims. Pickton was originally charged with 26 murders in the bigg

Oct 22, 2010 • 1:03:49

MURDER OF A MAFIA DAUGHTER-Cathy Scott

MURDER OF A MAFIA DAUGHTER-Cathy Scott

Susan Berman was reared in the lap of Las Vegas luxury as the daughter of Davie Berman, a notorious casino mogul and mafia leader. It wasn't until college, well after her father's death that she learned what he really was and really did. She ultimately dedicated her life to learning about Vegas and it's underworld bosses, publishing 2 books on the subject Easy Street and Lady Las Vegas. Her story takes a turn for the bizarre in 1982 when Kathie Durst, the wife of college friend and heir to a New

Oct 15, 2010 • 1:02:08

LUGGAGE-BY KROGER-Gary Taylor

LUGGAGE-BY KROGER-Gary Taylor

Grab a seat on the wild side of an obsessive relationship, from its erotic beginning to its violent end and the trials required to clean up the mess. Gary Taylor, a former Houston Post reporter recounts his personal, true-life fatal attraction involvement in the trail of violence that dogged texas attorney Catherine McHaffey Shelton for nearly three decades, prompting coverage by newspapers, magazines, 48 Hours, American Justice and even Oprah. The result is a tooth-grinding, genre-bending tale

Oct 7, 2010 • 1:07:53

MOMMY'S LITTLE GIRL-Diane Fanning

MOMMY'S LITTLE GIRL-Diane Fanning

The Caylee Anthony Case: When news broke of 3-year-old Caylee Anthony's disappearance from her home in Florida in July 2008, there was a huge outpouring of sympathy across America. The search for Caylee made front-page headlines. There were disturbing questions raised about Caylee's mother Casey and she became the prime suspect. In October, based on new evidence, her erractic behavior and lies and the signs of human decomposition found in the trunk of her car-a grand jury indicted the young sing

Sep 30, 2010 • 1:03:24

SERGEANT SMACK-Ron Chepesiuk

SERGEANT SMACK-Ron Chepesiuk

True crime author Ron Chepesiuk uncovers one of the biggest hoaxes in the history of the international drug trade in Sergeant Smack: The Legendary Lives and Times of Ike Atkinson, Kingpin, and his Band of Brothers. Sergeant Smack details the true legend of Ike Atkinson, one of the biggest Black drug traffickers in U.S. history. Atkinson pioneered some of the most innovative methods used in international drug smuggling. They ranged from duffle and AWOL bags, to the U.S. Army Postal System to the

Sep 23, 2010 • 1:00:54

UNDER THE BRIDGE-Rebecca Godfrey

UNDER THE BRIDGE-Rebecca Godfrey

On a moonlit night in November 1997, 14-year-old Reena Virk went to a party with some of her friends near the idyllic waters of Victoria, British Columbia. She never returned home. A week later, her body was found by police divers, and eight teenagers, seven of them girls, were arrested. Two teens, Warren Glowatski and Kelly Ellard, were charged and eventually convicted for their role in a vicious and unexpected crime. In Under the Bridge, author Rebecca Godfrey unravels the haunting, compelling

Sep 18, 2010 • 1:03:58

TRUE CRIME BOOK REVIEWS-Kim Cantrell

TRUE CRIME BOOK REVIEWS-Kim Cantrell

Kim Cantrell has been reading true crime for 20+ years, becoming hooked after checking out a true crime story from her high school library. Her interest in the judicial system led to a career as a legal secretary then on to private investigations until 2002. She decided to expose herself as a fan of this very closeted genre when she began reviewing on Amazon in 2006; quickly rising to a top reviewer rank. Seeing the growing intensity of the genre and the loyality of its readers coupled with the

Sep 9, 2010 • 1:01:20

SAVAGE SON-Corey Mitchell

SAVAGE SON-Corey Mitchell

It was a night of celebration for the Whitaker family. Their son Bart was graduating from college. But when Bart's brother Kevin opened the door to their house, a masked intruder shot him point blank. His mother took the next bullet, followed by Mr. Whitaker and Bart. Blood was everywhere, but somehow Bart and his father survived. To the cops the story didn't add up, and their investigation discovered a stunning web of lies. Bart was living a double life. He hadn't been enrolled in college since

Jul 1, 2010 • 1:01:49

Episode 24-THE MOST SHOCKING KILLER IN TRUE CRIME HISTORY-APPEALS

Episode 24-THE MOST SHOCKING KILLER IN TRUE CRIME HISTORY-APPEALS

May 21st and the appeal for the Jack-the-Ripper-meets Hannibal Lector killer Sidney Teerhuis. Why is he the most shocking killer of all time and what does Susan Sarandon's stolen gold necklace have to do with the motive to this and other similar murders? Tune in while Dan Zupansky discusses the case and his highly acclaimed true crime shocker-TROPHY KILL-THE SHALL WE DANCE MURDER Follow and comment on Facebook-TRUE MURDER: The Most Shocking Killers in True Crime History https://www.f

Jun 24, 2010 • 59:26

HONEYMOON WITH A KILLER-Don Lasseter

HONEYMOON WITH A KILLER-Don Lasseter

Rebecca Salcedo had an easy smile, a sexy body, and strong appetites-she wanted the world. Bruce Cleland, she decided, would buy it for her. The shy engineer quickly fell victim to her charms, getting her whatever she wanted. A new car. A boat. A house. But he wasn’t Rebecca’s only admirer… Even after Rebecca manipulated Bruce into marrying her, hoping to divorce him and take him for everything he had, she occupied herself with a series of lovers…Male strippers, women…they all spent time in Rebe

Jun 17, 2010 • 1:00:25

Episode 22-THE BUNDY MURDERS-Kevin Sullivan

Episode 22-THE BUNDY MURDERS-Kevin Sullivan

Ted Bundy was one of the most infamous, flamboyant American serial killers on record, and his story is a complex mix of psychopathology, criminal investigation, and the U.S. legal system. This in-depth coverage of Bundy's life and his killing spree that totaled dozens of victims is drawn from legal transcripts, correspondence and interviews with detectives and prosecutors. Using these sources, new information on several murders is unveiled. The biography follows Bundy from his broken family back

Jun 8, 2010 • 1:00:32

LETHAL CHARMER-Patricia Springer

LETHAL CHARMER-Patricia Springer

Fort Worth businessman Stephen Barbee was handsome, popular and married to a wonderful woman. There was just one problem: His ex-girlfriend, Lisa Underwood, was pregnant-and asking for money...As guests gathered for Lisa's baby shower with presents and good wishes, only two things were missing: Lisa and her seven-year-old son, Jayden. As time passed, friends and family became concerned. But even their worst fears couldn't compare to the gruesome truth...Lisa was at home when Barbee showed up. Vo

Jun 3, 2010 • 1:00:32

RUNAWAY DEVIL-Robert Remington

RUNAWAY DEVIL-Robert Remington

In April 2006, a twelve-year-old girl named JR committed a brutal crime that terrified parents everywhere: after weeks of plotting, she and her twenty-three-year-old boyfriend stabbed to death her mom, dad, and little brother in the family's home in Medicine Hat, Alberta, making her the youngest multiple killer in Canadian history.JR was a quiet honour-roll student living in the small Prairie town of Medicine Hat, Alberta. But her middle-class existence concealed an ominous alter ego: Runaway De

May 27, 2010 • 1:00:58

SLOW DEATH-Jim Fielder

SLOW DEATH-Jim Fielder

Beside New Mexico's Elephant Butte Lake stood a windowless trailer which owner David Parker Ray, 59, and his girlfriend Cynthia Hendy, 39, called The Toybox. A $100,000 homemade torture chamber, it was equipped with whips, chains, pulleys, straps, clamps, leg spreader bars, and surgical blades and saws. A camcorder stood next to the leather-padded torture table-set up to make 'snuff' videos-while a ceiling-mounted video monitor allowed female victims to see every excruciating detail of the agoni

May 20, 2010 • 1:01:38

BODY HUNTER-Patricia Springer

BODY HUNTER-Patricia Springer

To the people of Olney, Texas, 39 year-old Faryion Wardrip was an upright citizen-a happily married man, a valued employee, and a respected Sunday school teacher. In January, 1999, investigators reviewing the files of 3 unsolved murders dating back 15 years came across information linking Wardrip to the female victims-Terry Sims who was bound, raped and stabbed to death. Toni Gibbs slashed and sexually assaulted and left in a bus shelter and Ellen Blau who disappeared after a workshift and her d

May 6, 2010 • 1:00:10

Episode 16-RIPPER-Linda Rosencrance

Episode 16-RIPPER-Linda Rosencrance

Rhode Island detectives knew they had a serial killer in their midst. But the victims were women who lived and worked in a sexual underground-and whose bodies were never found. Then, prostitutes began to talk about a man who played rough. Police arrested Jeffrey Mailhot, a seemingly law-abiding ordinary citizen and an incredible duel of wits began. A brilliant police interrogation led to a chilling confession. This story is an insider's account of a modern-day Jack-the Ripper, which includes the

Apr 29, 2010 • 59:47

-Episode #15-BLOOD LUST-Sheila Johnson

-Episode #15-BLOOD LUST-Sheila Johnson

From the time he was a teenager, Jeremy Bryan Jones had let his violent passions run wild: attacking, raping, and mutilating. Then, in Mobile County, Alabama, Jones' rampage was stopped. But no one knew how many bodies were in his past. Convicted and sentenced to die for the brutal murder of Lisa Nichols, an Alabama mother of two children, Jones shocked authorities with the story of his life - and his claims of snuffing out over a dozen victims in thirteen years. But was he telling the truth, or

Apr 22, 2010 • 1:00:52

Episode #14- TROPHY KILL: THE SHALL WE DANCE MURDER-Dan Zupansky

Episode #14- TROPHY KILL: THE SHALL WE DANCE MURDER-Dan Zupansky

On the eve of the release of Trophy Kill: The Shall We Dance Murder-The Trial and Revelations of a Psychopathic Killer, True Murder host Dan Zupansky opens the phone lines for questions about the book. Discussed in the hour includes the explanation behind the incredible role that Susan Sarandon's stolen gold necklace had in the shocking motive for one of the most horrifying murders of all time. Follow and comment on Facebook-TRUE MURDER: The Most Shocking Killers in True Crime History &nbs

Apr 15, 2010 • 1:00:07

BODY PARTS- Caitlin Rother

BODY PARTS- Caitlin Rother

36-year-old Wayne Adam Ford walked into the Humboldt County Sheriff's Office in Northern California with a woman's severed breast in his pocket. He ended up convicted of the grisly torture and murder of 4 women, confessing to police because he couldn't stop himself.Based on previously sealed testimony and interviews with the key players in the case, BODY PARTS is a frighteningly intimate look into a twisted man overcome by the horror of what he had become-powerless to resist the ever-increasing

Apr 8, 2010 • 1:03:15

# 12-Body Count-Author Burl Barer

# 12-Body Count-Author Burl Barer

On August 26, 1997, the half-naked body of prostitute Heather Hernandez, 20 was found in an empty lot in Spokane Washington. The same day, the decomposed corpse of prostitute Jennifer Joseph, 16, was discovered in an alfalfa field. Both women had been shot in the head.The day after Christmas, four more women were found with plastic bags tied over their heads, the gruesome signature of a killer who had sexually violated each one of them, after they had died.Police had only one good lead, a driver

Apr 1, 2010 • 1:00:13

THROUGH THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW-Rod Gehl

THROUGH THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW-Rod Gehl

For half a year, the man who came to be known as the Abbotsford killer terrorized the valley community.On Friday, Oct. 13, 1995, two teenage girls - Tanya Smith, 16, and Misty Cockerill, 15 - were attacked by Terry Driver in the heart of the city. Smith's body was found near the Vedder Canal. Driver had clubbed Cockerill seven times in the head with a baseball bat, but she managed to get to the nearby hospital to tell her story.The case was a bizarre cat and mouse game; the murderer taunted the

Mar 25, 2010 • 1:00:15

# 10-Lethal Intent-Aileen Wournos by Sue Russell

# 10-Lethal Intent-Aileen Wournos by Sue Russell

On November 30th, 1989,in Florida a man was shot 4 times by a naked, hard-faced blonde prostitute. He suffered a slow, agonizing death while the woman stripped him of his valuables and drove his Cadillac back to the motel where her lesbian lover was waiting. In 1990 her killing spree kicked into high gear, with three men slain in 3 weeks. Six of the seven male victims whose bodies were found, some were nude, all had been shot dead and robbed.In January 1991, pawnshop records led to the arrest of

Mar 19, 2010 • 1:00:27

Episode #9 - Steve Singular-UNHOLY MESSENGER-B.T.K.

Episode #9 - Steve Singular-UNHOLY MESSENGER-B.T.K.

UNHOLY MESSENGER: THE LIFE AND CRIMES OF THE BTK SERIAL KILLER To all appearances, Dennis Rader was a model citizen, and a seemingly ordinary father and husband. But Rader's average life belied the existence of his dark, sadistic other self: he was the BTK serial killer.For 31 years, BTK as he called himself, which stood for bind, torture, kill terrorized Wichita Kansas, not only with his brutal, sexually motivated murders, but also through his taunting communications with the media and law enfo

Mar 11, 2010 • 1:00:18

Episode #8 - Philip Carlo- NIGHT STALKER

Episode #8 - Philip Carlo- NIGHT STALKER

The NIGHT STALKER-THE LIFE AND CRIMES OF RICHARD RAMIREZ by PHILIP CARLO This True Crime classic is based on Carlo's meticulous research and extensive interviews with Ramirez, the Night Stalker which revealed the killer and his horrifying crimes to be even more shocking than anyone could have imagined. From watching his cousin commit murder at age 11, to his 19 death sentences to the juror that fell in love with him and the numerous female groupies he attracted, the story of Ramirez is a bizarre

Mar 4, 2010 • 58:50

CANNIBAL KILLERS-Moira Martingale

CANNIBAL KILLERS-Moira Martingale

These are no ordinary killers. They are monsters who murder, mutilate and carry out the most gruesome, unimaginable act of all....eating the flesh of their victims. CANNIBAL KILLERS - Includes the world's most evil psychopaths JEFFREY DAHMER. ED GEIN AND ANDREI CHIKATILO. A chilling look at history's most repugnant criminals. CANNIBAL KILLERS is a horrifying story too shocking to believe-except that it's true! CANNIBAL KILLERS-Moira Martingale Follow and comment on Facebook-TRUE MURDER: The Most

Feb 24, 2010 • 1:00:18

TROPHY KILL-Dan Zupansky

TROPHY KILL-Dan Zupansky

July 1st, 2003 and the Miramax movie Shall We Dance starring Jennifer Lopez, Richard Gere and Susan Sarandon was being filmed in Winnipeg. Police were called when Susan Sarandon reported her gold necklace and other jewelry stolen from the movie set. On July 2nd, Sydney Teerhuis calmly walked into a police station to report waking from a drunken blackout to find a man he had met the day before-dead in the bathtub. Police escorted Teerhuis to his rented hotel room and in the bathtub they

Feb 11, 2010 • 1:00:17

True Murder-Episode 4-Nick Pron-Lethal Marriage-Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka

True Murder-Episode 4-Nick Pron-Lethal Marriage-Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka

Paul Bernardo was a handsome and charming young man with a violent sexual nature. Then he met a pretty woman named Karla Homolka and together they abducted, raped, terrorized and murdered several victims. Homolka had even drugged her virgin sister and offered her to fiance Bernardo as a Christmas present. She died as a result. There were videotapes made of their ghastly crimes but still Homolka negotiated a deal that she only serve 12 years for the murders. The incredible terrifying tale-Journal

Feb 4, 2010 • 1:00:08

THE ROUGH GUIDE TO TRUE CRIME-Cathy Scott

THE ROUGH GUIDE TO TRUE CRIME-Cathy Scott

The Rough Guide to True Crime: Organized Crime, Serial Killers, Expert Psychological Profiles. Cathy's book features Jeffrey Dahmer, mob hitman Richard 'The Iceman' Kuklinski, John Glover 'The Granny Killer' and British Doctor of death Harold Shipman. What differentiates these serial killers from all the others? can these killers be profiled? The Rough Guide to True Crime-everything you wanted to know about true crime and much, much more. THE ROUGH GUIDE TO TRUE CRIME-Cathy Scott Follow and comm

Jan 28, 2010 • 55:53

DIE FOR ME-Don Lasseter

DIE FOR ME-Don Lasseter

Die For Me: The Terrifying True Story Of The Charles Ng/Leonard Lake Torture Murders by Don Lasseter. Inspired by a fictional book called the Collector, Leonard Lake and Charles Ng abducted, tortured and murdered women in a secret home made dungeon, all the while videotaping their ghastly deeds. They took the lives of at least 16 victims and are among the most notorious serial killer teams in true crime history. DIE FOR ME: The Terrifying True Story of the Charles Ng and Leonard Lake Torture Mur

Jan 21, 2010 • 59:26

BABY BE MINE-Diane Fanning

BABY BE MINE-Diane Fanning

36 year-old Lisa Montgomery was a mother of 2 but still wanted to have more children. The last time pregnant she miscarried and now she was pregnant again-and desperate to have another child.On December 16th, 2004 in Skidmore, Missouri Montgomery strangled 8-month pregnant Bobbie Jo Stinnett and cut from the womb her unborn baby.Lisa Montgomery fled to Melvern, Kansas and managed to pass off the abducted newborn as her own to her unsuspecting husband and family members.Thanks to Amber Alert and

Jan 14, 2010 • 59:34

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