True Crime Tuesday sees the writing on the walls, Murder in Plain English: From Manifestos to Memes--Looking at Murder through the Words of Killers with guest Michael Arntfield.
Today we examine murder through the written word--the writings of killers themselves penetrating the minds of murderers, revealing their motives as well as the wider social meanings of this age-old crime and our continuing fascination with it. PLUS Dumb Crimes/Stupid Criminals Check out his amazing site here: http://www.murderdata.org/ Get his book here: https://www.amazon.com/Murder-Plain-...
2hr 11m Aug 21, 2018
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Today on True Crime Tuesday Serial Violence: Analysis of Modus Operandi and Signature Characteristics of Killers with special guest Bill Birnes.
William (Bill) Birnes is a New York Times best-selling author, a magazine publisher, and a New York literary publishing agent who has written and edited over twenty-five books and encyclopedias in the fields of human behavior, true crime, current affairs, history, & psychology. PLUS The return of Dumb Crimes & Stupid Criminals!
2hr 4m Aug 14, 2018
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True Crime Tuesday features My Brother's Keeper: A Thirty Year Quest To Bring Two Killers To Justice
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 grifter 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. Author Chris Russo Blackwood joins us to tell this ...
1hr 16m Aug 08, 2018
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True Crime Tuesday has The Juice, Road Dog, & Murder on Bundy Drive with career journalist John Eckberg.
Is there REALLY another possibility in the O.J. Simpson story? We didn't think so either.....BUT we were wrong, SO WRONG! Glen Rogers Needed to Kill. O.J. Simpson Needed a Killer. Glen Rogers was a jewelry thief and serial killer. O.J. Simpson was a former NFL running back, actor and aging celebrity. When Simpson sought revenge on his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson, he turned to Rogers to stea...
1hr 58m Jul 31, 2018
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True Crime Tuesday goes deep into The Cold Cases of Stearns County with Robert M. Dudley PLUS new Dumb Crimes/Stupid Criminals!
Stearns County in central Minnesota is well known for it's friendly people, as well as a wide variety of outdoor activities. It is also home to some of the most horrific and unimaginable crimes in the history of the state of Minnesota. Get the book here: www.Amazon.com/shop/darknessradio
1hr 57m Jul 24, 2018
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It's an ALL NEW True Crime Tuesday! Betrayal In Blue: The Shocking Memoir Of The Scandal That Rocked The NYPD with Burl Barer
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. Burl Barer shares this shocking story PLUS Dumb Crimes/Stupid Criminals! Get his book here: www.Amazon.com/shop/darknessradio
1hr 46m Jul 17, 2018
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Today, True Crime Tuesday listens in on Conversations with a Serial Killer with guest Anne K. Howard
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. The investigation that led law enforcement to their suspect, William Devin Howell. A practicing attorney, author Anne K. Howard first contacted Howell while he was serving a fifteen-year sentence for the murder of one of his s...
2hr 2m Jul 10, 2018
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Today True Crime Tuesdays opens The Crate: A Story Of War, A Murder, And Justice with guest Deborah Levison.
After surviving the horrors of the Holocaust – in ghettos, on death marches, and in concentration camps – a young couple seeks refuge in Canada. They settle into a new life, certain that the terrors of their past are behind them. They build themselves a cozy little cottage on a lake in Muskoka, a cottage that becomes emblematic of their victory over the Nazis. The charming retreat is a safe hav...
1hr 46m Jul 03, 2018
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True Crime Tuesday orders up a Twisted Tale of The Pizza Bomber & the Strange Death of Brian Wells with retired FBI Special Agent Jerry Clark
In the suburbs of Erie, Pennsylvania, a pizza delivery man named Brian Wells was accosted by several men who locked a time bomb around his neck. They then ordered him to rob a bank. After delivering the money, he would receive clues to help him disarm the bomb. It was one of the most ingenious bank robbery schemes in history, known as Collarbomb by the FBI. It did not go according to plan. Joi...
2hr 9m Jun 26, 2018
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Today on True Crime Tuesday, Dave & Tim stumble into North Mississippi Murder & Mayhem with guest Kristina Stancil
North Mississippi's idyllic rolling hills and deep forests hide a history steeped in blood. America's first serial killers, the Harpe brothers, brutally murdered as many as fifty people at the end of the 1700s before finally meeting their end on the Natchez Trace. During Reconstruction, politician William Clark Falkner, great-grandfather of the author William Faulkner, was shot in the streets o...
1hr 46m Jun 19, 2018
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Today True Crime Tuesday looks at a Target of Opportunity: The U.S. Navy Seals and the Murder of Jennifer Evans with guest JD Leete.
This is a unique episode as we continue looking at miscarriage of justice crimes. Dave & Tim went in one way to the case and are left unsure how they feel by the end of the story. TODAY...You Be The Judge. Was justice served or is an innocent man serving a sentence for a crime he didn't commit? Target Of Opportunity is available NOW on ITunes, Amazon Prime and other digital distribution outlets
2hr 10m Jun 13, 2018
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Today, True Crime Tuesday goes Through an Unlocked Door when In Walks Murder with guest Kevin M. 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. Kevin  Sullivan's new book covers 13 high-profile cases in which evil paid an untimely visit and found the entrance open--when everything...
2hr 2m Jun 05, 2018
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True Crime Tuesdays uncovers information on a Cold Case with NY Times best selling author Rebecca Morris as she revisits, A Murder In My Hometown.
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...
1hr 45m May 29, 2018
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True Crime Tuesday interrogates a Convenient Suspect with guest Tammy Mal.
On Thursday, December 15, 1994, Joann Katrinak and her three-month-old son, Alex, went missing from their Catasauqua, Pennsylvania, home. Four months later, when their bodies were found in a lonely patch of woods, the police would launch a three-year investigation leading to the arrest of Patricia Lynne Rorrer—a young mother who had NEVER met either victim. Tammy Mal is the only journalist to ...
1hr 48m May 22, 2018
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True Crime Tuesday meets Mad Madame LaLaurie with guest Vikki Cosner
On April 10, 1834 Firefighters smashed through a padlocked attic door in the burning home of Creole society  couple Delphine and Louis Lalaurie. The horrible discovery spawned a legend that has endured for over 150 years. But what really happened in the Lalaurie home? Who was “Mad Madame Lalaurie,” and what motivated her to commit such ghastly atrocities, if in fact  she really did? Listen fo...
1hr 42m May 15, 2018
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True Crime Tuesday opens the books on The Devil's Daughter: Satanic Panic and the murder of the Lillelid Family with guest Douglas Cavenaugh
In April of 1997 a darkness rolled into Green County, TN and ended the lives of The Lillelid Family. 6 kids ages 14-20 were involved in the brutal slaying of a family, much has been said with claims of Occult Murders, OUIJA Boards, Dancing among the Dead and 6 were found guilty and sentenced to Life without the possibility of parole. Did Justice prevail, or fail? Today we examine the FACTS and...
1hr 50m May 08, 2018
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Today on True Crime Tuesday, we have a hot date with Hell's Princess: The Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men with guest, famed True Crime author 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. Harold Schechter’s gripping, suspenseful narrative has all the elements of a classic mystery—and all the gruesome twists of a nightmare. PLUS a follow up to the Golden State Killer episode...
1hr 50m May 01, 2018
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BEYOND the DARKNESS witness to homicide, In Plain Sight with guest Kathryn Casey
On a cold January morning, a 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, a couple slept. Bunnies, eggs, a flower centerpiece gracing the table. Death rang their doorbell and filled the air.  The crimes covered front pages around the world, many saying ...
1hr 47m Apr 24, 2018
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"It's Me, Edward Wayne Edwards: 66 Years of Murder"
Now featured in the Paramount Network series "It Was Him: The Many Murders of Ed Edwards" Meet Edward Wayne Edwards, the most evil  serial killer you've never heard of. In this chilling case-by-case analysis and story of the killer's life, former detective John A. Cameron argues that Edwards was not only responsible for the five torture-murders he confessed to and was eventually convicted  for,...
1hr 27m Apr 19, 2018
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True Crime Tuesday is joined by Kenneth L. Mains to discuss his life & book, Unsolved No More: A Cold Case Detective's Fight For Justice
As a law enforcement officer for more than fifteen years, Detective Kenneth L. Mains has investigated thousands of crimes, including working  undercover with the FBI, solving cold case homicides, investigating the Mafia, and leading one of the greatest cold case organizations ever assembled. This is his story and that of the victims for whom he speaks.
1hr 48m Apr 17, 2018
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True Crime Tuesday investigates the tragic case of Bullied to Death: A Story of Bullying, Social Media, and the Suicide of Sherokee Harriman with Judith A. Yates
Sherokee's short life and tragic death created a national media and social media frenzy much of it centered on sensationalism rather than  the truth. Meanwhile in LaVergne, the community sought answers to questions about who, if anyone, should be held criminally responsible for "bullying." Get her book here: www.Amazon.com/shop/darknessradio Subscribe to the True Crime Ezine here: http://ww...
1hr 41m Apr 10, 2018
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True Crime Tuesday digs into the case of The Golden State Killer: It's Not Over with TrueCrimeGuy.com Mike Morford!
He could still be out there, somewhere. The notorious Golden State Killer, also known as the East  Area Rapist and Original Night Stalker is believed to have murdered 12 people, committed 45 sexual assaults, and robbed 120 residences in the span of 10 years. He was one of the most feared name in the Pacific Northwest from 1976 to 1986 — and police, detectives,  and the FBI have yet to catch th...
1hr 47m Apr 03, 2018
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True Crime Tuesday investigates Love and Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere with guest Poe Ballantine.
One day in 2006, Poe's neighbor, Steven Haataja, a math professor from the local state college disappeared.  Ninety five days later, the professor was found bound to a tree, burned to death in the hills behind the campus where he had taught. No one, law enforcement included, understood the circumstances, so Poe Ballantine set out to try and uncover this unusual mystery. Get the book here: www...
1hr 49m Mar 27, 2018
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True Crime Tuesday is witness to When the News Becomes the News: The Hunt for Jodi Huisentruit with investigative reporter Caroline Lowe.
On her way to work one summer morning, a beautiful young television anchorwoman vanishes without a trace. Precious little evidence remains:  only her car and a few puzzling clues. Peer behind the scenes of this true crime story, and uncover the cold case file of Jodi Huisentruit, the Iowa anchorwoman who mysteriously disappeared before dawn that summer morning in 1995. Get the book here: www....
1hr 10m Mar 20, 2018
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True Crime Tuesday goes in search of The Lost Girls: Chasing the Long Island Serial Killer with guest Robert Kolker.
Award-winning investigative reporter Robert Kolker delivers a haunting and humanizing account of the true-life  search for a serial killer still at large on Long Island, in a compelling tale of unsolved murder and Internet prostitution. Plus Dumb Crimes & Stupid Criminals Special  Edition Get the book here : www.Amazon.com/shop/darknessradio
2hr 25m Mar 13, 2018
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True Crime Tuesday views a Summary Execution: The Seattle Assassinations of Silme Domingo and Gene Viernes with guest 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 a power beyond their imaginations. An incredible true story that unfolds like an international crime thriller peopled with assassins, political activists,  shady FBI in...
1hr 58m Mar 06, 2018
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Murder, Mayhem & Madness in Minnesota on True Crime Tuesday asks you to Don't Talk, Just Listen...To the Weepy Voiced Killer!
Don Allen joins us to reveal the terrifying true story of Paul Michael Stephani, the tortured & reluctant  serial killer that saw red and violently dispatched women he felt that he had been "called" to purge from this Earth. A blood chilling killer that would call the cops after each attack to beg for mercy and for someone to  stop him....before he killed again. Plus all new Dumb Crimes & Stu...
1hr 43m Feb 27, 2018
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Are We Are Brother's Keeper? Toward a Theory of True Crime Narratives with Ian Punnett
Ian shares his thoughts in Toward a Theory of True Crime Narratives vivifies how nonfiction murder stories  are told, what role they play in society, and in the form of true crime why they remain enduringly popular internationally on every platform. PLUS Dumb Crimes & Stupid Criminals! Get his book here--> www.Amazon.com/shop/darknessradio Follow Ian Here: facebook.com/DeaconPunnett twit...
1hr 41m Feb 20, 2018
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True Crime Tuesday kicks open the cold case of Sex, Celebrity & the Unsolved Murder of actor Bob Crane with his son, Robert Crane.
On June 29, 1978, Bob Crane, known to Hogan's Heroes fans as Colonel Hogan, was discovered brutally murdered  in his Scottsdale, Arizona, apartment. His eldest son, Robert Crane, was called to the crime scene. Today, Robert discusses that terrible day and how he has lived with the unsolved murder of his father, the potential suspects and his fathers own salacious appetite for sex, lies & video ...
1hr 53m Feb 13, 2018
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True Crime Tuesday faces the wrath of Royal Vengeance: The Assassination of Princess Diana and the Ancient Royal Cult of Human Sacrifice with guest Sarah Whalen
Sarah Whalen begs the questions; Was Princess Diana murdered? Yes, she was. That part is easily seen—even the means are known. She was  gravely injured in a deliberate car wreck that immediately killed two other people, and she was then allowed to slowly bleed to death from internal injuries. But why? And to what end? In today's chilling episode we take a look at the chamber of lies and betr...
2hr 3m Feb 06, 2018
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True Crime Tuesday is BETRAYED by The Daughter from Hell! Alan Warren returns to share this truly twisted tale.
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. Get the book here: www.Amazon.com/shop/darknessradio Follow Alan here: https://www.facebook.com/somethingwierdm...
1hr 47m Jan 30, 2018
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True Crime Tuesday faces The Felony Murder Rule: One Cut with guest Eve Porinchak
On May 22, 1995 at 7 p.m. sixteen-year-old Jimmy Farris and seventeen-year-old Mike McLoren were working out outside Mike’s backyard fort. Four boys hopped the fence, and a fight broke out inside the dark fort made of two-by-four planks and tarps. Within minutes, both Mike and Jimmy had been stabbed. What really happened that day? Was it a case of robbery gone wrong? Gang activity? Or was it ...
2hr 11m Jan 23, 2018
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True Crime Tuesday gets Sidetracked: The Betrayal And Murder Of Anna Kithcart with Richard T. Cahill Jr.
On July 12, 1988, a local transient discovered the remains of 19-year-old Anna Kithcart. She was strangled  and beaten to death, with the letters “KKK” carved into her thighs. As if things can’t get any worse, the transient who found the body confesses to unspeakable acts. To add to the expanding circus, he tells the world he is really an undercover agent for the CIA, FBI, and  Interpol. Only...
1hr 46m Jan 16, 2018
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True Crime Tuesday has gone critical! Incendiary: The Psychiatrist, the Mad Bomber, and the Invention of Criminal Profiling with Michael Cannell
Long before the specter of terrorism haunted the public imagination, a serial bomber stalked the streets  of 1950s New York. The race to catch him would give birth to a new science called criminal profiling. Grand Central, Penn Station, Radio City Music Hall - for almost two decades, no place was safe from the  man who signed his anonymous letters "FP" and left his lethal devices in phone boo...
1hr 33m Jan 09, 2018
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Death in the Air: The True Story of a Serial Killer, the Great London Smog, and the Strangling of a City with guest Kate Winkler Dawson
In winter 1952, London automobiles and thousands of coal-burning hearths belched particulate matter into  the air. But the smog that descended on December fifth of 1952 was different; it was a type that held the city hostage for five long days. Mass transit ground to a halt, criminals roamed the streets, and 12,000 people died. That same month, there was another killer at large in London. D...
1hr 32m Jan 02, 2018
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Footsteps Out Of Darkness with guest Author Joyce Godwin Grubbs
On this day, Annabelle Kindig's 11th birthday, life could not get any better. Her party had exceeded expectations and now she was walking her good friend half way home five blocks while reminiscing. The girls had the giggles despite the cold weather and snow they trudged through. When the motor home pulled alongside them they laughed as they acknowledged to each other they had seen the driver e...
1hr 59m Dec 26, 2017
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Letters from the Boogey Man: The Dark Legacy of the BTK with Arkansas State Representative Rebecca Petty.
Rebecca Petty grew up in Wichita, Kansas and was terrified, along with the rest of the city of Wichita, during the reign of the BTK Killer, Dennis Rader. “He was my Boogeyman,” she says. A tragedy struck her own life in 1999, she became a strong advocate for crime  victims and in a strange turn of fate, she began corresponding with The Boogeyman for insight into what happened to family. What ha...
1hr 49m Dec 19, 2017
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True Crime Tuesdays hunts Witches in West Memphis: The West Memphis Three and another story of false confession with award winning journalist George Jared
Award-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 comprehensive insiders’ view into the West Memphis Three case. No journalist has written more stories about the case than Jared. The author recounts his firsthand court coverage, interviews with witnesses,  research, and other information he ga...
2hr Dec 12, 2017
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True Crime Tuesday is TARGETED! with special guest 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. PLUS DUMB CRIMES & STUPID CRIMINALS ATTN: There is NSFW ...
1hr 36m Dec 05, 2017
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The Killing Game: The True Story of Rodney Alcala the Game Show Serial kIller with Alan Warren
In 1968 young girls went missing in California and New York, massive searches started and soon bodies became 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 he is wanted for torture and murder. PLUS: New Dumb Crimes & Stupid Criminals ...
1hr 35m Nov 28, 2017
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The Reporter Who Knew Too Much
Mark Shaw has been directed to try and uncover a murderous plot, Was What's My Line TV star, media icon, and crack investigative reporter and journalist Dorothy Kilgallen murdered for writing a tell-all book about the JFK  assassination? If so, is the main suspect in her death still at large? The spirit of the famed reporter seems to be driving journalist Mark Shaw deep into story steeped in ...
1hr 33m Nov 21, 2017
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The Witch of Delray: Rose Veres & Detroit's Infamous 1930s Murder Mystery with Karen Dybis
As the Great Depression began to take hold, tensions grew, spilling over into the investigation of a mysterious  murder at the boardinghouse of Hungarian immigrant Rose Veres. Amid accusations of witchcraft, Rose and her son Bill were convicted of the brutal killing and suspected in a dozen more. Their cries of innocence went unheeded--until one lawyer, determined to  seek justice, took on the ...
1hr 47m Nov 14, 2017
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Confessions of the Family: An insiders account of surviving The Manson Family
At age 14, Dianne "Snake" Lake - with little more than a note in her pocket from her hippie parents granting  her permission to leave them - became one of "Charlie's girls", a devoted acolyte of cult leader Charles Manson. Over the course of two years, the impressionable teenager endured manipulation, psychological control, and physical abuse as the harsh realities  and looming darkness of Char...
1hr 52m Nov 07, 2017
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Mary Jane's Ghost: The Legacy of a Murder in Small Town America
Summer 1948. In the scenic, remote river town of Oregon, Illinois, a young couple visiting the local lovers’  lane is murdered. The shocking crime garners headlines from Portland, Maine, to Long Beach, California. But after a sweeping manhunt, no one is arrested and the violent deaths of Mary Jane Reed and Stanley Skridla fade into time’s indifference. Fast forward fifty years. Eccentric entr...
1hr 29m Oct 31, 2017
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Tears of the Silenced with very special guest Misty Griffin
Misty Griffin and her sister were held in captivity by her mother and step-father until she was eighteen  years old, when she tried to escape she was abandoned at an Amish community. Misty became one of the very few to ever join the Amish from the outside world. She thought she was escaping a nightmarish existence but found herself in another type of hell. Misty shares one of the most compel...
2hr 13m Oct 24, 2017
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The Serial Killer Outside Your Door
What makes a serial killer tick? Why do they kill? Why do some perform their murders different from  others? What are some of the early warning indicators that someone may be a serial killer? Steven David Lampley is a 21 year veteran police officer and (SVU) detective with cases on networks as Investigation Discovery®, TruTV®, The Discovery Channel® and in  print media as the NY Times®, LA Time...
1hr 43m Oct 17, 2017
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The Autumn of Terror with Randy Williams
Randy Williams along with a team of three of the world's top forensic scientists and criminologists, Dr. Michael M. Baden, Dr. Cyril H.  Wecht and Dr. Henry C. Lee, have believe they have convincingly solved the infamous Jack the Ripper murders of 1888 London - arguably the world's most talked-about unsolved murder mystery. What happens when you place not 1, not 2 but 3 of the leading forensi...
2hr 2m Oct 10, 2017
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House of Secrets
Lowell Cauffiel's unsparing true crime thriller reveals a house of horrors Eddie Lee Sexton thought no one would ever see. For years, Eddie Lee Sexton ruled his family with perverse domination. He enforced every cruelty imaginable, from vicious beatings to other unimaginable horrors. Yet the sadistic father nearly escaped death row on a legal  technicality. Lowell Cauffiel walks us through an ...
1hr 56m Oct 03, 2017
1hr 56m
Rippers, Demons & the Butchers of Britain
True Crime Historian Neil Storey is back! Tonight we turn our focus to some of the most brutal, unusual and disturbing crimes from  Scary 'ol England. Neil digs deep to unearth dark aspects of The Rippers of England, Crime Solving & Revenge Filled Ghosts, Demon Barbers, Butchers and More! PLUS Dave & Tim report on more mind numbingly stupid criminals. https://www.facebook.com/neil.storey.50
1hr 39m Sep 26, 2017
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