Voices of True Crime
Episodes
William J. Mann - Black Dahlia
06 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The brutal murder of Elizabeth Short—better known as the Black Dahlia—in 1947 has been in the public consciousness for nearly eighty years, yet no...
John Hinckley Jr. & Jason Norman - Who I Really Am
11 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
As shots rang out on March 30, 1981 outside the Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C., President Ronald Reagan and three others lie seriously wounded....
Thien Ho - The People vs. the Golden State Killer
11 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In The People vs. the Golden State Killer, Thien Ho, the current District Attorney of Sacramento, recounts his harrowing and exhilarating experie...
Eli Frankel - Sisters in Death
28 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Who killed the Black Dahlia? In this eye-opening shocker, an award-winning producer, true-crime researcher, and Hollywood insider finally solves the g...
Rachel Corbett - The Monsters We Make: Murder, Obsession, and the Rise of Criminal Profiling
15 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Criminal profiling—the delicate art of collecting and deciphering the psychological “fingerprints” of the monsters among us—holds an almost my...
Eli Frankel - Helter Skelter : An American Myth
14 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Before the Menendez brothers, O.J. and Ted Bundy, Charles Manson's name loomed large in modern stories of murder and crime. Over 50 years have passed ...
Patrick Wohl - Something Big
12 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Customers know Brown's Chicken for its crispy buttermilk fried chicken and flaky biscuits. The Illinois-based franchise has a reputation for delicious...
B.T. Wedemeyer - OJ's Moon
09 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A few years ago, Brian Wedemeyer, an elementary school principal in rural Arizona, is watching a documentary about the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson...
Johnny Trevisani - The Serial Killer Travel Guide Across America
23 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Serial Killer Travel Guide Across America isn’t your typical road trip companion. This darkly fascinating guide is quirky and unconventiona...
Ross Halperin - Bear Witness
27 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The vast majority of Hondurans would have never dared to set foot in Nueva Suyapa, a mountainside barrio that was under the thumb of a gang whose brav...
Caitlin Rother - Body Parts
07 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When Wayne Adam Ford walked into the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office in November 1998 with a woman's body part in his jacket pocket, the 36-year-ol...
Kevin Lenihan - Storm of Suspicion
07 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
STORM OF SUSPICION: The Karen Read Murder Trialsis an electrifying, real-time courtroom thriller and the gripping personal account of author Kevi...
Jerry Langton - How It's Done
07 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dave is like nobody you’ve ever met. Or maybe you have, but didn’t know it. Thrown out of his home at 14, he used his wits, charm and determinatio...
Jerry Jamison - Vanishing Act
07 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Over a span of 39 years, 25 aliases, 28 arrests in 20 cities, and nearly a dozen imprisonments, Robert Spears lived a con artist's life of unparallele...
Caitlin Rother - Down to the Bone
07 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A twisting, deeply engrossing investigation into the many lingering questions surrounding the sudden disappearance of the McStays, a family of four wh...
Rod Sadler - Depraved Obsession
07 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What drove the inconspicuous sociopath to become a ruthless killer?During his nearly fifteen-year reign of terror, Ronald Lloyd Bailey’s depraved ob...
Michael Cannell - Blood and the Badge
15 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For the first time in forty years, former New York Times editor Michael Cannell unearths the full story behind two ruthless New York cops wh...
Mitchel P. Roth - Murder By Mail
13 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This bookunfolds the gripping history of weaponized mail, offering the first ever comprehensive exploration of this sinister phenomenon. Spanning two ...
John Borowski - Gacy
23 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
5.15 - Alan R Warren & Joe Goldberg Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Brian O'Neill - Twelfth Juror
20 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The true account of the twisted affair between murder suspect Peter Gill and Canada's most famous juror Gillian Guess Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/p...
Ryan C. Coleman - Billy the Kid: The War for Lincoln County
12 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Age 14: OrphanAge 15: InmateAge 16: OutlawAge 17: KillerIn 1870s New Mexico, the territory is at a crossroads. The indigenous population is being driv...
Vic Ferrari - NYPD Laughing in the Line of Duty
22 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Life as a New York City police officer is nothing like what you see on television. Of course, it can be fast-paced and action-packed. But un...
Matt Murphy - The Book of Murder
08 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Examining murder from an insider’s perspective, Matt Murphy—a former senior deputy district attorney and current ABC News Legal Analyst—discusse...
Joe Kenda - First do no Harm
15 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Former homicide detective and star of Investigation Discovery, Joe Kenda follows his authentic and fascinating debut novel with First Do No Harm,...
Robert Conlin - Lewiston Shooting
01 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Halloween was less than a week away, and the decorative ghouls and witches, grinning pumpkins and scythe-wielding zombies that stalked the shadows of ...
James Polchin - Shadow Men
20 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On the morning of May 16, 1922, a young man's body was found on a desolate road in Westchester County. The victim was penniless ex-sailor Clarence Pet...
Arthur Kane - The Last Story
10 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
THE LAST STORY: The Murder of an Investigative Journalist in Las Vegas is an exclusive deep dive into a chilling true tale of sex, ambition,...
John Ferriso - All in a day's work: An officer's accounts 20 years NYPD
16 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
5.6 - Alan R Warren & David North-Martino Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Matthew Richer - Kurt Cobain Update: Tom Grant
12 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Matthew Richer, coauthor of the book ' Kurt Cobain Murder or Suicide, You Decide' Talked updates and about all of the untruths of his coauthor Tom Gra...
Doug Kari - The Berman Murders
06 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
For true crime readers obsessed with learning the full story, get the book that Publishers Weekly calls a "stirring account," and says, "Dogged report...
McCracken Poston Jr. - Zenith Man
05 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Was this small-town TV repair man “a harmless eccentric or a bizarre killer” (Atlanta Journal Constitution). For the first time, Alvin Ridley’s ...
Brian Stannard - Alcatraz Ghost Story
29 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Incredible True Story of the Most Hunted Man in Pacific Coast History––and the Woman He LovedBefore the 1920s found their roar, a charism...
Michael Benson - Filthy Murders : In the Era of Jack the Ripper
14 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A tremendous history lesson and essential reading for everyone in the Rochester area. You'll recognize the locations and find interest in how those pl...
Jan Brogan - The Combat Zone
19 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The story of a Harvard student’s murder in 1970s Boston amid racial strife and rampant corruption, told with “careful reporting and historical con...
Michelle Dresbold - Sex, Lies, and Handwriting
13 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A handwriting expert reveals the secrets hidden in your penmanship—now featuring a new afterword analyzing the handwriting of President Donald Trump...
M William Phelps - The Dead Soul
16 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When a young college student’s car was abandoned on the side of a busy midwest highway in 1992, police figured it was a runaway case. Nine days late...
Michael L. Hawley - Dr. Francis Tumblety & The Railway Ripper
20 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Undetected by the FBI for three decades until the turn of the twenty-first century, a handful of elusive, transient long-haul trucker serial killers h...
Ron Chepesiuk - Pariso Blanco
07 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Paraíso blanco is a Colombian streaming television series produced by Caracol Televisión for TelevisaUnivision.[The se...
Sara DiVello - Broadway Butterfly
24 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
New York in the Roaring Twenties—a riveting true-crime novel, based on one of the most notorious unsolved murders of the era, where power, politics,...
Rod Sadler - Grim Paradise
24 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 col...
Ron Chepesiuk - BAD HENRY: The Murderous Rampage of ‘The Taco Bell Strangler’
11 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
4.14 - 2023 Alan R Warren & David North-Martino Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
James Renner - Little Crazy Children
03 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Matt Birkbeck - The Life We Chose
22 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
From Matt Birkbeck—investigative journalist and executive producer of Netflix’s #1 movie Girl in the Picture—a revelatory father/surrogate ...
Jillian Lauren - Behold the Monster
18 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"Sam Little is the monster in this story and Jillian Lauren is the slayer. She is the one who stuck her nose into it, saw something was not right, was...
Maureen Boyle - Child Last Seen
14 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
HER CASE HAD BEEN CLOSED—BUT NOT FORGOTTEN.On an unseasonably warm winter evening in Pennsylvania, 15-year-old Patty Desmond sneaked out through the...
Jeff McArthur - Pro Bono : The Fugate Files
10 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 h...
Jeff Guinn - Waco
03 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The definitive account of the disastrous siege at the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, featuring never-before-seen documents, photographs, and...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. - Framed
25 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On Halloween, 1975, fifteen-year-old Martha Moxley’s body was found brutally murdered outside her home in swanky Greenwich, Connecticut. Twenty-seve...
Stuart Gibbon - Catching A Killer
25 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Crime historian Stephen Wade and former detective Stuart Gibbon examine the investigation of Murder from a historical and modern-day perspective, with...
Dr. Gary Brucato & Ann Burgess - Killer by Design
10 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A vivid behind-the-scenes look into the creation of the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit and the evolution of criminal profiling, written by the pioneeri...
LaDonna Humphrey - Strangled (Who Killed Melissa Witt? )
09 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 uneve...
Dr. Michael Baden - American Autopsy
07 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A revealing history of covering up the true causes of deaths of BIPOC in custody—from the forensic pathologist whose work changed the course of...
Tony Reid - 12/26/75: Twelve Twenty-Six Seventy-Five
10 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Susan Wels - An Assassin in Utopia: The True Story of a Nineteenth-Century Sex Cult and a President's Murder
08 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It was heaven on earth—and, some whispered, the devil’s garden.Thousands came by trains and carriages to see this new Eden, carved from ...
Robert J. Hoshowsky - Unsolved: True Canadian Cold Cases
31 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Despite advances in DNA testing, forensics, and the investigative skills used by police, hundreds of crimes remain unsolved across Canada. With every ...
Sarah Doucette - Stronger Than That: A Domestic Violence Survivor
30 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This memoir is an inspirational yet harrowing story of a domestic violence victim's search for the truth about her marriage. Twenty-one-year-old Sarah...
Nick Chiarkas - Nunzio's Way: (Book 2 in the Weepers Series)
30 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"In this city, you can have anything you want if you kill the right four people." ~ Nunzio SabinoIn Weepers (Book 1), Angelo and his gang, w...
Malcolm John Campbell - Call Sign Charley One: An Incredible True Story Of Crime and Revenge
29 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When they attacked him for no reason, they unleashed Hell! Now, the demons are on the run!"Malcolm, an ex-soldier and law-abiding family man, starts a...
Melissa Cronin - Epstein Dead Men Tell no Tales
29 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Jeffrey Epstein was a close confidant of presidents, prime ministers, movie stars and British royalty. He rose from blue-collar Brooklyn to the height...
Bill Shaffer - The Scandalous Hamiltons
26 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It’s a story almost too tawdry to be true—a con woman prostitute who met the descendant of a Founding Father in a brothel, duped him into marriage...
Lee Sansum & Howard Linskey - The Bodyguard
26 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This is the story of the real bodyguard, Lee Sansum, ex-Royal Military Policeman, martial arts champion, and expert in close protection. Part of Moham...
Robert Kerbeck - Ruse Lying the American Dream from Hollywood to Wall Street
26 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
B-list actor, A-list corporate spyIn the world of high finance, multibillion-dollar Wall Street banks greedily guard their secrets. Enter Robert...
Ruth Markel - Unveiling
26 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ruth Markel’s tenacious fight for justice on behalf of the murder of her son, Dan Markel, and the struggle to be legally reunited with her grandchil...
Meg Hafdahl - The Science of Serial Killers
26 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Discover the real-life inspirations behind history’s most infamous serial killers: John Wayne Gacy, Jeffrey Dahmer, Charles Manson, and so many more...
Ron Franscell - Shadow Man: An Elusive Psycho Killer and the Birth of FBI Profiling
26 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"Mindhunter crossed with American Gothic. This chilling story has the ghostly unease of a nightmare."—Michael Cannell, author of Ince...
Edward Humes - The Forever Witness
24 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A relentless detective and an amateur genealogist solve a haunting cold case—and launch a crime-fighting revolution that tests the fragile line betw...
Thom Hatch - The Last Outlaws: The Lives and Legends of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
06 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Old West was coming to an end. Two legendary outlaws refused to go with it.Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid—as leaders of the Wild Bunch,...
Thom Hatch - The Last Days of George Armstrong Custer
06 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this thrilling narrative history of George Armstrong Custer's death at the Little Bighorn, award-winning historian Thom Hatch puts to rest the ques...
Daniel A. Edwards - Billy the Kid
06 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Did Pat Garrett kill Billy the Kid? It was a moonlit night in Ft. Sumner, NM when history tells us that Sheriff Pat Garrett shot down the notorio...
John Boessenecker - Ride the Devil's Herd: Wyatt Earp's Epic Battle Against the West's Biggest Outlaw Gang
06 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Wyatt Earp is regarded as the most famous lawman of the Old West, best known for his role in the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona. Bu...
Paul Drexler - Notorious San Francisco
06 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 cri...
Angela Hattery - Policing Black Bodies: How Black Lives Are Surveilled
06 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
From Trayvon Martin to Freddie Gray, the stories of police violence against Black people are too often in the news. In Policing Black Bodies Angela J....
Robert Walason - Unmade: Honor Loyalty Redemption
06 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
With Foreword by Zac Stuart-Pontier, producer of CrimetownFor Bobby Walason, the turning point in his life began when he was thrown out of his house a...
Tommy Rhattigan - 1963 A slice of Bread and Jam
06 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Amid the derelict terraced houses of Manchester's Hulme, one boy experiences adventures, abuse, crippling poverty and an encounter with The Moors Murd...
Mark Potok - Oklahoma City Bombing
06 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Oklahoma City BombingIn September 1994, McVeigh put into motion his plan to destroy the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. ...
Carl Koppelman - DNA Doe Project
06 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The DNA Doe Project is an exciting new initiative that uses genetic genealogy to identify John and Jane Does. We have become a go-to organization...
Abigail Pesta - The Girls: An All-American Town, a Predatory Doctor
06 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We think of Larry Nassar as the despicable sexual predator of Olympic gymnasts -- but there is an astonishing, untold story. For decades, in a small-t...
Dennis Flynn -Held Hostage: Negotiating Life and Death for the Las Vegas Police Department
04 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This “riveting true life account” goes inside the life-or-death world of a Las Vegas police crisis negotiator: “a must read" (Gary W. Noesner, C...
Edward Humes - Burned: A Story of Murder and the Crime That Wasn't
04 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 tr...
Ken Kratz - Avery: The Case Against Steven Avery and What Making a Murderer Gets Wrong
04 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Netflix series Making a Murderer was a runaway hit, with over 19 million US viewers in the first 35 days. The series left many with the ...
Marti Rulli - Goodbye Natalie, Goodbye Splendour
04 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Goodbye Natalie, Goodbye Splendour is the long‑awaited, detailed account of events that led to the mysterious death of Hollywood legend Natalie...
HARRY N. MACLEAN - In Broad Daylight
04 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ken Rex McElroy terrorized the residents of several counties in northwestern Missouri for a score of years. He raped young girls and brutalized them a...
Monique Faison Ross - Playing Dead: A Memoir of Terror and Survival
04 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This domestic abuse survivor’s memoir shares an “engaging, powerful, and ultimately shocking story" of a bad marriage that ended in attempted murd...
Joanne Myers - Murder Most Foul
04 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When two dismembered and unidentifiable torsos wash up on a local riverbank, nurse Caroline Reeves, believes the killer is a man from her past with a ...
Ivor Davis - Manson Exposed: A Reporter’s 50-Year Journey into Madness and Murder
04 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
American based Foreign correspondent Ivor Davis, delivers a gripping, “I was there” eye witness, inside story about the most notorious murder spre...
Dr. Gary Brucato - The New Evil
04 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A CHILLING FOLLOW-UP TO THE POPULAR TRUE CRIME BOOK THE ANATOMY OF EVILRevisiting Dr. Michael Stone's groundbreaking 22-level Gradations of Evil Scale...
Katherine Ramsland - Spree Killers
04 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Spree Killers: Practical Classifications for Law Enforcement and Criminology is the only exhaustive, up-to-date analytical book on spree killers,...
Shawn Rech - Making A Murderer
03 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Shawn Rech is a documentary director and producer. He's most known for creating films that document wrongful convictions and over-sentencing. Thr...
Mark Safarik - Spree Killing
03 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Spree Killers: Practical Classifications for Law Enforcement and Criminology is the only exhaustive, up-to-date analytical book on spree killers,...
Geoffrey Wansell - Pure Evil
03 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Pure Evil takes a close look at the country's deadliest criminals, from those who horrified the nation to those less famous but equally brutal; t...
Cloyd Steiger - Seattle's Forgotten Serial Killer: Gary Gene Grant
03 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In 1969, the body of a young woman was discovered in the woods of Renton, Washington, rocking the communities along Puget Sound. Three more brutal mur...
Eve Lazarus - Murder by Milkshake
03 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Robert Rand - Menendez Family Murders
03 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Menendez saga has captivated the American public since 1989. The killing of José and Kitty Menendez on a quiet Sunday evening in Beverl...
Tom O'Neill - Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties
03 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A journalist's twenty-year fascination with the Manson murders leads to shocking new revelations about the FBI's involvement in this riveting reassess...
Mark O'Mara - George Zimmerman
03 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Mark M. O’Mara has been a fixture in the Central Florida legal community since 1982. While he started his career as a prosecutor for the State ...
Diane Fanning - Death on the River
03 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 Gr...
Dylan Howard - Aaron Hernandez
03 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
From teenage gang member to $40 million star of the New England Patriots, from All-American college player to drug addict, murderer, dead by suicide i...
Caitlin Rother - Dead Reckoning
03 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Dawna Kaufman - Phil Hartman Murders
03 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dawna Kaufmann is an accomplished true crime journalist whose work has been heralded by law enforcement and the media. She's covered many hundreds of ...
David M. Beers - Reign of Terror
03 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On September 12, 2001, Michele Harris went missing from a smalltown in upstate New York. She has never been found, and themystery surrounding her disa...