Voices of True Crime
Episodes
Kathryn Casey - Infamous I-45/Texas Killing Fields
15 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Critically acclaimed author Kathryn Casey delivers a riveting account of the brutal murders of young women in the I-45/Texas Killing Fields. The book ...
Nate Hendley - Beatle Bandit
15 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In 1964, bank robber Matt Smith’s getaway was interrupted by Jack Blanc, an army veteran brandishing a revolver. A wild shootout left Blanc dead and...
Robert Crane Jr. - Sex, Celebrity, and My Father's Unsolved Murder
14 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On June 29, 1978, Bob Crane, known to Hogan's Heroes fans as Colonel Hogan, was discovered brutally murdered in his Scottsdale, Arizona, apa...
Kirk Nurmi - Trapped by Ms. Arias pt. 2
13 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
After 2 months of trying to get off the case, in April of 2011, I, her lead counsel and your author, was ordered to keep it. This was at that moment t...
Laura Nirider - Project Innocence & Brendan Dassey
13 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Brendan Dassey was featured on Making a Murderer. Nirider featured in the final episode of the first season of the documentary, which propel...
Tom Messerau - Bill Cosby Rape Case Defense Lawyer
13 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Thomas Arthur Mesereau Jr. is an American attorney best known for successfully defending Michael Jackson in his 2005 child molestation trial, as well ...
Marcia Clark - OJ Simpson Trial
13 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Marcia Rachel Clark is an American prosecutor, author, television correspondent and television producer. She is known for being the lead prosecutor in...
Kelvin Pierce - Sins of My Father: Growing Up with America’s Most Dangerous White Supremacist
13 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Kelvin Pierce was raised to be a hard core racist. His father, Dr. William Luther Pierce III, was founder and leader of the National Alliance, one of ...
Chris Russo Blackwood - My Brother's Keeper
13 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The moment he found out his brother was missing and presumed dead, Ted Kergan launched a relentless effort to bring two suspected killers—a teenage ...
Mitzi Szereto - The Best New True Crime Stories: Serial Killers: Serial Killers
13 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 pr...
Stephen Wade - Murder in Mind
13 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
There has always been fascination with crime, deviance and punishment; from the days of the highwayman to the Luddites and in the foul deeds of Peter ...
Peter Bleksley - Manhunt
13 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Former Scotland Yard detective and undercover cop, Peter Bleksley who is appearing at CrimeCon UK has written several books and plays, appeared as the...
Dennis Tomlinson & Jeffrey Dean Doty - A Convenient Man
13 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In 1957 little seven-year-old Maria Ridulph was kidnapped from the small town of Sycamore, Illinois, while playing with her eight-year-old friend, Kat...
Kevin Turton - Britain's Unsolved Murders
13 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This book examines some of the most horrifying, mystifying, and fascinating murder cases in British history. Expertly researched by true crime author ...
Peter Vronsky - American Serial killers
13 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
With books like Serial Killers, Female Serial Killers and Sons of Cain, Peter Vronsky has established himself as the foremost expert on...
Mitchel P. Roth - Fire in the Big House
13 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On April 21, 1930—Easter Monday—some rags caught fire under the Ohio Penitentiary’s dry and aging wooden roof, shortly after inmates had returne...
Jesus Ruiz-Henao & Ron Chepesiuk - The Real Mr. Big
13 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Born in 1960, Jesus Ruiz Henao wanted to be rich like the drug dealers he saw as he grew up in the cocaine-producing region of Colombia’s Valle of t...
Scott Fields - The Mansfield Killings
13 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTUREIt was the worse two-week killing spree in Ohio’s history.On the night of July 21, 1948, Robert Daniels and John We...
Mary Kay McBrayer - America's First Female Serial Killer: Jane Toppan
13 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
America’s First Female Serial Killer novelizes the true story of first-generation Irish-American nurse Jane Toppan, born as Honora Kelley. Although ...
Christian Barth - Garden State Parkway Murders
13 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Christian Barth is a writer, attorney, and photographer originally from New Jersey. The Midwest Book Review lauded his first book, The Origins of Infa...
Steve Kosareff - Satin Pumps: The Moonlit Murder
13 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Did the handsome, wealthy doctor and his beautiful young paramour plan to kill his glamorous socialite wife? Or did the gun accidentally discharge as ...
Vic Feazell - The Confessions Killer
13 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Vic Feazell is an American lawyer, who was a District Attorney in Waco, McLennan County from 1983 until his resignation in 1988. During his time in of...
Brian Whitney - The True Story of an Incel Mass Murderer
13 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This is the story of Elliot Rodger, and how he turned from a nice, quiet polite young man to the first self-identified incel (involuntarily celib...
Kate Winkler Dawson - American Sherlock: Murder, Forensics, and the Birth of American CSI
13 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Berkeley, California, 1933. In a lab filled with curiosities--beakers, microscopes, Bunsen burners, and hundreds upon hundreds of books--sat an invest...
Joshua Zeman - Director Netflix's 'Sons of Sam: A Descent into Darkness
13 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Son of Sam case grew into a lifelong obsession for journalist Maury Terry, who became convinced that the murders were linked to a satanic cult. Au...
Dennis McDougal - Blood Cold: Fame, Sex, and Murder in Hollywood
13 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In May 2001 Bonny Lee Bakley was shot to death in a car parked on a dark Hollywood side street. Eleven months later Robert Blake—her husband, the fa...
Gary Taylor - Luggage By Kroger: A True Crime Memoir
13 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Luggage By Kroger has been recognized as one of 2009's top true crime thrillers with honors from five different national book competitions. The scorec...
Glenn Stout - Tiger Girl And The Candy Kid: America's Original Gangster Couple
13 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Before Bonnie and Clyde there were Tiger Girl and the Candy Kid. In the wake of world war, a pandemic, and an economic depression, Margaret and Richar...
Michael W. Streed - SketchCop: Drawing A Line Against Crime
13 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When the phone of police artist and interview specialist Sergeant (Ret.) Michael W. Streed—The SketchCop—rings, it’s because police need his hel...
Mo Lea - Facing the Yorkshire Ripper: The Art of Survival
13 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Mo Lea was a young art student in Leeds when her life was changed forever by a deadly assault. On October 25th, 1980, serial killer Peter Sutcliffe at...
Rebecca Morris - A Murder in My Hometown
13 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
WITH THREE BONUS CHAPTERS FROM THE BESTSELLER "Ted and Ann: The Mystery of a Missing Child and Her Neighbor Ted Bundy." On a fall evening in Corvallis...
Kenny Rodgers - Special Crimes: Memoirs of a D.A. Investigator
13 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Special Crimes is the capstone of a lifetime career in law enforcement for Houston native Kenny Rodgers, and details not only the inner workings of th...
Dylan Howard - Diana: Case Solved
13 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It is a moment that remains frozen in history. When the Mercedes carrying Diana, Princess of Wales, spun fatally out of control in the Pont de l’Alm...
George Jared - West Memphis 3
13 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This might be the most unjust prosecution in U.S. legal history. If you think what happened to Steven Avery in the true crime film Making a Murderer w...
Carl Denaro - The Son of Sam and Me
13 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 h...
J.T. Hunter - Tortured with Love:
13 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Katherine Ellison - Mothers & Murderers: A True Story of Love, Lies, Obsession
13 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This remarkable memoir by a Pulitzer Prize- and Polk Award-winning journalist takes readers on a wild, tragicomic ride from the criminal courtrooms of...
Maureen Boyle - The Ghost: The Murder of Police Chief Greg Adams
13 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
HOW COULD SUCH A DARK SECRETHAVE BEEN KEPT FOR SO MANY YEARS?Police Chief Greg Adams was out on patrol. Christmas was coming to Saxonburg, Pennsylvani...
Alice Kay Hill - Under A Full Moon
13 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In April of 1932, eight-year-old Dorothy Hunter was abducted while walking home from school. Her mutilated body was later found hidden in a haystack. ...
Kathy Stearman - It's Not About the Gun: Lessons from a Female FBI Agent
13 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When former FBI Agent Kathy Stearman read in the New York Times that sixteen women were suing the FBI for discrimination at the training aca...
Mark Stevens - Broadmoor Revealed
13 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A fascinating introduction to the history of Broadmoor: Kate Summerscale, author of The Suspicions of Mr Whicher.On 27 May 1863, three coaches pulled ...
Dennis N. Griffin - Survivors: The forgotten victims of murder & suspicious deaths
13 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The survivors of victims of murder and suspicious death are often victimized twice—first by the loss of their loved one and subsequently by the syst...
David A. Harris - A City Divided
13 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A City Divided tells the story of the case involving 18-year-old Jordan Miles and three Pittsburgh police officers. David Harris, a resident of P...
Mark Russell - Checkmate: The Wallace Murder Mystery
13 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On 19th January 1931 a telephone message was left for Mr William Wallace at the Liverpool Central Chess Club, of which he was a member. It involved an...
Dean Jobb - The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream
13 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
“When a doctor does go wrong, he is the first of criminals,” Sherlock Holmes observed during one of his most puzzling murder investigations. Incre...
Phyllis Chesler PhD - Requiem for a Female Serial Killer
13 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 w...
Diane Fanning - Baby Be Mine
13 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
THE MIRACLE OF LIFEWhen Lisa Montgomery presented her husband Kevin with their new-born baby girl, he was ecstatic. Naming the child Abigail, the coup...
Nate Hendley - The Boy on the Bicycle: A Forgotten Case of Wrongful Conviction in Toronto
13 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ron Moffatt was 14 years old in 1956 when he was accused of murdering a child on the grounds of the Canadian National Exhibition (CNE) in Toronto. Dur...
Phil & Sandy Hamman - Duct Tape Killer: Robert Leroy Anderson
13 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 m...
Stephen & Joyce Singular - BTK
13 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
To all appearances, Dennis Rader was a model citizen in the small town of Park City, Kansas, where he had lived with his family almost his entire life...
Matt Birkbeck - A Deadly Secret: The Bizarre and Chilling Story of Robert Durst
13 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When medical student Kathie Durst vanished in 1982, she was married to Robert Durst, son of a New York real estate magnate. Kathie's friends had reaso...
Rod Sadler - Killing Women
13 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This true crime biography reveals the disturbing story of a serial killer who terrorized central Michigan—and now has a chance to go free. As a...
Leslie Rule - Tangled Web
13 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It was a bleak November in 2012 when Cari Farver, thirty-seven, vanished from Omaha, Nebraska. Texts sent indicated that the hardworking mother had qu...
Mike Rothmiller - True Crime Chronicles
13 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Former detective and bestselling author Mike Rothmiller has brought together classic works of journalism that will take the reader on a fascinating jo...
Caitlin Rother - Death on Ocean Boulevard
13 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The call came on the morning of July 13, 2011, from the historic Spreckels Mansion, a lavish beachfront property in Coronado, California, owned by pha...
Jeffrey L. Rinek - In the Name of the Children
13 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In the Name of the Children gives an unflinching look at what it's like to fight a never-ending battle against an enemy far more insidious than t...
Chad Reimer - The Trials of Albert Stroebel
13 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On a dreary morning in April, 1893, John Marshall, a Portuguese immigrant and successful farmer on Sumas Prairie in British Columbia, was found lying ...
Gary Sosniecki - Potato Masher Murder: Death at the Hands of a Jealous Husband
13 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Albin Ludwig was furious. He had caught his wife, Cecilia, with other men before; now, after secretly following Cecilia one evening in 1906, Albin was...
Norm Pardo - Who Killed Nicole?
13 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It’s the greatest crime story ever to play out on national television—the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson, the 35-year-old wife of famed pro footb...
Amy Over - Columbine Survivor Podcast
13 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Amy Over is the host of Confronting: Columbine and was a senior at Columbine High School in 1999. On April 20, 1999, Amy was eating lunch in the cafet...
Bill Shaffer - The Scandalous Hamiltons: Trial at the Dawn of Tabloid Journalism
11 Nov 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...
Alvin A. J. Esau - Gorilla Man Killer Case
11 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The hitchhiker seemed harmless. He was dressed in a blue suit and a colorful sweater, accessorized with a grey cap and tan shoes. He carried nothing. ...
Neal Wooten - With the Devil's Help: A True Story of Poverty, Mental Illness, and Murder
11 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Neal Wooten grew up in a tiny community atop Sand Mountain, Alabama, where everyone was white and everyone was poor. Prohibition was still embraced. I...
Andy Caldwell - Room 1203
11 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Rod knocked on the door, and within a few moments, the door swung open and there was O.J. Simpson. This was and is a moment that is hard to reconcile ...
Ronald Bowers - L.A. District Attorney- Serial Killers of Los Angeles
11 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Why so many Serial Killers all at the same time in one city? Between 1977 and 1987 the metropolis of Los Angeles had at least eight separate Serial Ki...
Mitchel P. Roth - Man with a Killer Smile: The Life and Crimes of a Serial Mass Murdere
11 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
George Jared - Silent Silhouette ... Who killed Deborah Sue?
11 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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...