Katy Vine: The Problem with Erik
For this week’s episode, we travel to my hometown of Austin, Texas. An iconic local business is embroiled in a murder for hire case that attracts national attention. Why did Erik Maund hire someone to...
6 Jan 202543min
Becky Cooper: We Keep the Dead Close
Author Becky Cooper was a student at Harvard University when she heard a curious rumor about a murdered student in the late 1960s. Cooper was told that the killer was likely a professor…but her invest...
30 Des 202459min
Radley Balko + Tucker Carrington: The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist
After two three-year-old girls were raped and murdered in rural Mississippi, two innocent men were convicted and were in prison for decades. Meanwhile the real killer remained free. Today I’m talking ...
23 Des 20241h 9min
Dr. Katherine Ramsland + Tracy Ullman: The Serial Killer’s Apprentice
Acclaimed forensic psychologist Katherine Ramsland was one of my first guests on this show. She detailed her time with serial killer Dennis Rader. She’s back, along with co-author Tracy Ullman, to tel...
16 Des 20241h 5min
Ethan Brown: Murder in the Bayou
Who killed eight women in a small Louisiana town between 2005 and 2009? And were their murders the work of a serial killer or people connected to a corrupt sheriff’s department? This is a true-life so...
9 Des 202450min
Ellen McGarrahan: Two Truths and a Lie
In 1990, a young journalist witnessed a botched execution and it changed her life. Author Ellen McGarrahan found herself haunted by the question of whether she had witnessed the execution of an innoce...
2 Des 202450min
Dean Jobb: A Gentlemen and a Thief
We’ve had this author on before when he talked about his book on serial poisoner Dr. Thomas Neill Cream. Today, Dean Jobb tells us about a different kind of criminal, a man known as the “prince of thi...
25 Nov 202450min
Ellen J. Green: Murder in the Neighborhood
I talk a lot about how history repeats itself. This story, unfortunately, feels like it can happen today even though it’s actually 75 years old. Author Ellen Green wrote a book called: Murder in the N...
18 Nov 202449min
