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True Murder: The Most Shocking Killers

Dan Zupansky

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

True Murder: The Most Shocking Killers Podcast Guide

Listen to True Murder: The Most Shocking Killers, a Society & Culture podcast by Dan Zupansky. Stream 903 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.

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CRIMES OF OMISSION—Rob Rosen

Truth is supposed to be a journalist’s north star. But during the 2010s, the fourth estate lost its way, abandoning reporting for straight-u...

67:38Jun 15, 2026

FIVE EVIL WOMEN—Joanna Bourke

Why do certain women become icons of evil? This book offers the first comparative, non-sensationalist account of five of the most reviled wo...

66:59Jun 8, 2026

THE COMMISSIONER—Rodney K. Harrison

One Man. One Mission. Justice. In the Hunt for the Gilgo Beach Serial Killer. Rodney K. Harrison’s life could have gone the way of the drug...

67:26May 25, 2026

STOLEN LIVES—Rod Kackley

They hunted together. They killed together. And for years, no one stopped them. For years, Gerald and Charlene Gallego traveled the highways...

56:30May 18, 2026

THE FAMILY MAN—James Lasdun

An immersive account of a seemingly loving father's transformation into a "family annihilator." In March 2023, Alex Murdaugh was found guilt...

58:25May 4, 2026

BROKEN PLEA—Christopher Whitcomb

Was there more than one killer? Had the crime scene been cleaned and sanitized before the police arrived? Was furniture staged to throw off...

75:53Apr 27, 2026

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 t...

47:04Apr 13, 2026

DEAD IN THE WATER—David J. Farrell, Jr.

The gripping inside story of Nathan Carman’s crimes from the maritime lawyer who solved his multimillionaire mother’s disappearance at sea a...

61:41Apr 6, 2026

MURDER IN THE FOURTH ESTATE—Jeremy Duda

“They finally got me… Emprise…the Mafia…John Adamson. Find him. ” Investigative reporter Don Bolles used his final words to name the people...

62:29Mar 30, 2026

MODEL DETECTIVE—Michele Wood

MODEL DETECTIVE takes readers where true crime has never gone before—inside the heart, mind, and soul of a Chicago homicide detective whose...

63:03Mar 23, 2026

CONVERGENCE—Gregg Owen

This story seems impossible. But every word is true. Convergence is the account of a vicious double homicide in 1970s Chicago and a trial th...

80:09Mar 16, 2026

THE BLOOD COUNTESS—Shelley Puhak

From the author of the national bestseller The Dark Queens, an incandescent work of true crime and feminist history about Elizabeth Bathory,...

48:05Mar 9, 2026

THE TYLENOL MURDERS—Joseph Cibelli

Chicago, 1982. Seven people swallowed Tylenol capsules meant to heal, then they died within minutes. America changed overnight, then the kil...

72:52Mar 2, 2026

1926—MURDER IN AMERICA—David Kulczyk

Homicide historian David Kulczyk releases 1926—Murder in America—New and Expanded Edition for the 100th anniversary of the deadliest year in...

58:24Feb 23, 2026

KILLER IN THE HOUSE—Kathryn Canavan

A meticulously researched page-turner about one of the Philadelphia suburbs’ most shocking 20th-century crimes. A gunman broke into Jack and...

70:27Feb 16, 2026

FEAR AND FURY—Heather Ann Thompson

On December 22, 1984, in a graffiti-covered New York City subway car, passengers looked on in horror as a white loner named Bernhard Goetz s...

39:14Feb 9, 2026

IN PUBLIC RECORD—Michael Kelly

September 1990. In Shaker Heights, Ohio, teenage honors student Lisa Lee Pruett vanishes into the night. A boy calls 911 when she does not a...

72:57Feb 2, 2026