True Murder: The Most Shocking Killers in True Crime History16 Maalis

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 that almost didn't happen.
This is a different kind of true crime book. It isn't a mystery, because the killer was arrested right away. It's not a police story, although Convergence is there at every step of their investigation. It's not a defense lawyer's story. This is a story from the other side of the courtroom.
Convergence is the story of Gio Messina and Delphine Moore's murders and the trial that followed, but this time told from the perspective of the prosecution. You are there to witness how a case is built, how it's brought to court, and how it unfolds when the trial starts. You see what happens when power and money try to keep the trial from starting at all. You follow the prosecution from the courtrooms of Chicago to rural Tennessee looking for new evidence to replace the evidence that vanished.
You're introduced to the choreography of the courtroom: listening in on the careful strategizing, understanding the thought behind what a jury hears, and getting a close view of what's involved in how it's presented. Most importantly, you're introduced to Mike Goggin and Gregg Owen, the two prosecutors who fought to have the case heard. Goggin and Owen had set a record for convictions that still stands. They refused to let the Messina and Moore murders break it.
Convergence is a historical snapshot of a time when Chicago was changing, and a timeless picture of how justice is sought and found. CONVERGENCE—Gregg Owen

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KILLING THE LIEUTENANT—Lt. Raul J. Diaz and Sean Oliver

The infamy of Miami's cocaine wars of the 1970's and 80's is forever etched into the darkest chapters of U.S. history, and Lt. Raul Diaz was on the frontlines for all of it. The decorated and controve...

11 Touko 1h 2min

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 guilty of murdering his wife and younger son at Moselle, their hom...

4 Touko 58min

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 detectives? In one of the most extraordinary true crime stor...

27 Huhti 1h 15min

THE TRIAL OF ARTHUR J. SHAWCROSS—Michael Benson

In 1990, Monroe County’s daytime television viewing habits were disrupted by a TV first: the live broadcast of The People v. Arthur J. Shawcross. Never before had home viewers anywhere been given acce...

20 Huhti 1h

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...

13 Huhti 47min

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 and his even wealthier grandfather’s shooting death in bed.Wh...

6 Huhti 1h 1min

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 he believed had set the car bomb that had left him dying in a ...

30 Maalis 1h 2min

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 grit and instincts prove that a woman’s place is in the homi...

23 Maalis 1h 3min