True Crime Uncensored with Burl Barer and Mark Boyer

An Outrageous Theory For Murder! On December 9, 2001, Kathleen Peterson was found dead at the bottom of a staircase in her Durham, NC home. Her scalp was laced with deep incisions, and her blood was strewn from outside to inside the house. The sinister truth of that night turned her murder into North Carolina's most enigmatic criminal case, capturing media attention across the globe. Police zeroed...

Burl gave previous guest, author and musician Pat Craig, an assignment: find examples of Amish criminals and bring them back to the show.  Pat did as requested, even finding an Amish serial killer! 

A fun and flavorful recap of what we accomplished or demolished on the show in 2022, and then we replay a classic episode from 2017 starring our favorite biker babe attorney in Arizona, Kerrie Droban, author of THE LAST CHICAGO BOSS.

HIDDEN DEMONS: Evil Visits A Small New England Town A father, his daughter, and a brave young girl thwarted criminals whose escalating hidden demons led them to bolder and more risky acts of violence in Margery Metzger's Debut True Crime. On January 7, 1994 , residents of Berkshire Hills woke up to a typical snowy winter day in the majestic woods of Western Massachusetts. The quaint New England to...

In early 2022, life in the port city of Mariupol, Ukraine was safe and predictable for Adoriana Marik. The 31-year-old tattoo artist loved walking her dog by the seaside and meeting friends at cafes and public gardens. But all that changed on February 24, 2022, when Russian President Vladimir Putin launched his “special military operation.” Adoriana was forced to hide in a filthy network of baseme...

Patrick Craig has an extensive background as a writer. Throughout his school years he edited high school and college newspapers. In 1964 he won a national editorial contest sponsored by the Wall Street Journal for an editorial he wrote on the death of President Kennedy, and, in the same year, acted as Senior Editor for a special issue of the University of Washington Evergreen during a summer inter...

Ron and Burl get into the real life world of writing true crime now vs years past- the old formats and the new experiments in style and structure plus when true crime authors also write fiction.

Ken and Mark share stories of corruption and crime by officers of the law, while Burl asks questions and makes his usual smart -a** remarks.

This famous heist wasn't a heist.  For the first time the truth is revealed.

It is one of the most shocking unsolved missing-child cases in the world. Where is Kyron Horman? Why hasn’t the woman who police suspect is responsible for his 2010 disappearance—Kyron’s stepmother—been charged? That the seven-year-old disappeared from his grade school got the attention of parents around the world. The twists of the case —adultery, sexting, murder-for-hire—keep the story in the me...

Brilliant author David Larson returns to tell us more about The Last Jewish Gangster, ghostwriting, and his own fascinating life.

THE LAST JEWISH GANGSTER -- PART ONE   Celebrating the release of the second book in the series, Larson gives us the story of a man who became a murdering gangster to make his mother proud of him. 

Ethical journalists are in great dismay as sensationalism and  " spin and division" take over social media and agenda driven so-called NEWS outlets.  Award winning journalist and true crime author Frank Girardot Jr. discusses this crises with Burl Barer and Mark Boyer.

EDITORS WORK HARD TO BRING OUT THE BEST IN EVERY TRUE CRIME BOOK. HERE'S HOW THEY DO IT.

Similar to CLIFF's NOTES, INSIGHTS attempts to give students the important points of best-selling books. sadly, Burl Barer, author if Murder in the Family is NOT pleased with this poor attempt to summarize his best seller. He tells the story by comparing it to the "Insights" found in the condensed version.

NICK HAS WRITTEN TWO BOOKS ON SEXUAL BLACKMAIL IN AMERICAN POLITICS 

It was a dreary winter afternoon in Ayer, Massachusetts, a quintessential New England town, the type which is romanticized in Robert Frost’s poems. But on January 30, 1979, a woman’s scream was heard piercing the northeast tempest wind. In an unassuming apartment building on Washington Street, Elaine Tyree, a mother, wife, and US Army soldier, had her life brutally ripped from her. Her husband, Wi...

Nick Bryant exposed the Franklin Scandal -- Republican gay sex ring trafficking young boys.  Then he investigated a Democrat sex trafficking operation featuring underage girls.  The Franklin Scandal was covered up and the kids who testified to their abuse were sent to prison; when Bryant got damning evidence on Epstein's criminal sex business, no one would touch the story.  Why not?...

OUR PAL NICK BRYANT RETURNS TO HELP US UNDERSTAND WHY JEFF EPSTEIN WAS ABLE TO TRAFFIC UNDERAGE PROSTITUTES TO THE POLITICAL ELITE OF THE  USA FOR YEARS AND NEVER GOT BUSTED...AND WHERE ARE THOSE DVD'S OF TRUMP AND CLINTON HAVING SEX WITH YOUNG HOOKERS? AND WHY, WHEN NICK HAD EPSTEIN'S BLACK BOOK OF NAMES AND WHO DID WHAT TO WHOM, NO NEWS ORGANIZATION, AND NO LAW ENFORCEMENT BODY EVEN WANTED...

I’d spent my late teenage years dealing weed and psychedelics while following the Grateful Dead, only to get busted by cops in Northern Virginia for selling LSD and marijuana at East Coast colleges back in 1991. In my youthful, defiant brain, I’d just been selectively disregarding the law, just like everyone else does — albeit on a scale that involved thousands of hits of acid. I’d get LSD sent to...

Due to Sullivan’s extensive writing about Ted Bundy (which has produced six books), he’s become a sort of magnet over the years, drawing out many people who were part of the Bundy story, but have otherwise kept a low profile over the decades; and these first-person contacts continue to this day.  As such, this is the first book in a new series of books, whose aim is to bring new revelations t...

RAW DEAL  Can a fiction writer on line be arrested for what he creates? When Gil Valle's wife saw what he was writing on a dark fantasy web site, she freaked out reading about him abducting, torturing and eating women..including her! She didn't stop to think that she was alive and hadn't been served up after salad and appetizers.  He was subsequently arrested at gunpoint by FBI agents an...

SAVING SANDOVAL covers the events from the moment the trigger is pulled through the trial in a U.S. military compound on the outskirts of Baghdad during the height of U.S. military surge of troops into Iraq. The book brings the reader into the reality of modern warfare in a post September 11th environment where the enemy does not always wear a uniform and if an event makes headlines military leade...

FAMED JOURNALIST AND RADIO HOST DAN ZUPANSKY JOINS BURL BARER AND HOWARD LAPIDES (PLUS FACT CHECKER MARK BOYER) FOR 53 MINUTES OF TRUE CRIME CONVERSATION AT ITS BEST! CANADIANS ARE KILLERS WHO DEVOUR HUMAN FLESH!!! Stop worrying about pUTIN and put your fear above the 49th Parallel. Canadian Cannibals such as Luka Magnotta and Vincent Li may be the tip of a human tri-tip iceberg.   Vincent wa...

One day, Andrea Yates was a loving mother. The next, the nation was shocked by the death of her five innocent children... The 911 call that shocked the country. "I just killed my children." Why were they killed? On June 20, 2001, in a middle-class Houston suburb, Andrea Yates and her husband Russell, a NASA engineer, prepared for the routine week-day ahead. But before the morning was over, tragedy...