True Crime Uncensored with Burl Barer and Mark Boyer

When Vinnie was fourteen, his father, an alcoholic pedophile who raped his own son, forced him to pursue a boxing career. Jimmy Curto told his son that the only way he could ever be proud of him is if he won a boxing championship. He said if Vinnie failed in that, his only other alternative would be to commit suicide. To make his point, Jimmy produced a handgun and made Vinnie hold it in his hands...

Thom Bierdz loved his schizophrenic brother. Despite Troy's erratically cruel behavior, his years of creative threats were not taken seriously. Then the unthinkable happened. Now Thom must delve into hospital records, police reports and his own painful memories in a search for understanding. In this honest, soul-searching account, nothing is omitted as one of TV's most beloved soap stars follows a...

Grab your curling iron and get ready to rumble! Susan Murphy Milano, the human action figure with more hair than Vixen and more balls than a billiard tournament returns to expose the shocking truth about murders in Oklahoma

A candid account documenting his fall from a well-known Hollywood fixer mixing with A list celebrities to serving 62 months in Federal prison, and ultimately making a determined comeback.

Jeff Mudgett was living a normal life as a practicing attorney when at age 40 he was thrust into the most harrowing chapter of his life. Learning the facts about his ancestry plunged Mudgett into a full investigation about the forefather from which he unexpectedly learned he was descended, the infamous serial killer, H. H . Holmes . J  eff Mudgett takes his readers to the bowels of the Murder...

What more can be said? Plenty as Burl Barer and Dennis Griffin talk escort agencies and the strange Las Vegas case where phone calls to a mob escort service were being illegally diverted to a competing agency -- well the Feds had to help the mob get their business back while a hitman with a power drill was getting too close to finding the hacker before the Feds.

Way back in 2009, we devoted a full hour to Kevin M. Sullivan and his debut book about Ted Bundy, THE BUNDY MURDERS.   Now, a decade later, Kevin has finished book number five, a Ted Bundy encyclopedia. Kevin returns for another amazing, amusing, shocking and sensational episode of True Crime Uncensored.

Brad Namdar   thinks big with a view of America that is  heartwarming. patriotic and hinges precariously  on wildly inaccurate nationalistic exceptionalism .  Hey, that's not uncommon. Americans are world famous for ignoring that there are other countries at least twenty years ahead of us in all manner of problem solving and social/ economic progress but Brad is such a nice guy...

Two interviews with Al Capone’s niece, Deirdre Capone. Originally aired a year apart, we’ve put them together for your listening pleasure

After 24 years with the LAPD, homicide detective Steve Hodel set out to prove that his father was not the Black Dahlia killer -- instead, Hodel proved that his father was the killer, and had killed many more.

Published author (most recently, “ Brooklyn’s Most Wanted – The Top 100 Criminals, Crooks & Creeps from the County of the Kings “), Craig has been a successful writer, editor, designer, photographer, community reporter, new media journalist and consultant for the last 25 years. Craig has overseen content development for all different types of media, from web portals to newsletters to social me...

Super-Duper Double Feature ! ! Pulitzer Prize winner Katherine Ellison in a vastly entertaining episode where Frank and Mark ask excellent questions and Burl fluctuates between being insightful and a social irritant. -- And then-- Vito Colucci, Jr., owner of Colucci Investigations LLC, is a former member of the Stamford, CT Police Department where he worked as a Narcotic’s Detective and Undercover...

When Vanity Fair wanted a diamond heist expert they found our pal Punch, the world's second greatest diamond thief -- his dad is #1

WE ARE THRILLED TO HAVE DAN ZUPANSKY BACK ON THE SHOW AND FRANK GRILLS HIM LIKE A SWORDFISH

Yes, it is official -- Frank is Burl's new co-host following the sudden death of Howard Lapides

Two classic shows!  Felon O’Reilly, stand-up comic & public speaker, exposes the behavior and thinking that led up to his career in crime and his struggle with addiction to drugs and alcohol.   "A prison counselor once told me if I stopped putting drugs and booze into my system, I would find out what it is I really love to do in life. And that is exactly what happened. The probl...

Burl and his famous brother Stan go on a road trip to Eastern Washington to the scene of many true crimes. In vantage, Stan explains trade with China, the in the second show, Burl sits outside PIZZA & ICE CREAM at Loon Lake, Washington and talks about the Spokane Srerial Killer and more. 

t was a shattering death bed confession by a heartbroken mother. But would it solve the oldest cold case murder case in American jurisprudence? In January 1994, Eileen Tessier told Jack McCullough's half-sister Janet Tessier that he, her son, kidnapped 7-year-old Maria Ridulph from their neighborhood in Sycamore, Illinois and killed her in December 1957. It was a case that tore the child’s family...

It is always educational and entertaining when Punch joins us.  Howard Lapides was crazy about Punch and derived great joy from these entertaining true crime stories,

Burl Barer says: Most of my true crime books  contain insights and commentary by Travis Webb who gets full credit for bringing the murders covered in my book HEAD SHOT to my attention.  In a recent Q&A for Wild Blue Press's re-release of HEADLOCK, my private eye novel, I was asked: is Travis Webb the same Travis Webb who is a famous rave producer and pop culture icon in the Northwest...

Howard Lapides begins the show by stating that I (Burl Barer) am wandering the streets of the San Fernando Valley.   No, I was in the hospital trying to stay alive.   I obviously made it. Kevin is the world's expert on Ted Bundy..and this is his latest research.  If you are into Ted Bundy, this one if for you

Cathy Scott is one of America's Masters of True Crime and a frequent guest on our show.  We welcome Cathy back for another fascinating hour of true crime uncensored!

  "Susan Fensten's new book,  You Have a Very Soft Voice, Susan , is  a pulse-pounding work that proves once again that truth is stranger than fiction." --Kevin M. Sullivan, author of The Bundy Murders  and  Vampire: The Richard Chase Murders " You Have a Very Soft Voice, Susan  is quite possibly the most twisted and surreal case of stalking I have ever encountered. W...

 Denis Kelly's life is part Hunter S. Thompson, part Timothy Leary, and part Eckhart Tolle. From his beginnings in an abusive and alcoholic home in Wisconsin to becoming a major force in the counterculture movement, and then from a life on the run and in prison to a life in a monastery and in service, it is as entertaining as it is inspirational. A Heart Blown Open chronicles the life and tea...

 For the young widow of Tacoma, Washington businessman Robert Henry, September 11th is both the date of his cold-blooded murder, and the date that his murderer went to prison. This is the story of the five year investigation that solved the homicide,   Read the minibook by Burl Barer