True Crime Uncensored with Burl Barer and Mark Boyer

Host of YouTube's "Chattin' with Staxx" returns! He was a non-stop trouble machine as a young teen who was on a collision course with being a big zero until...well, let him tell the story!

B.R. Bates joins us to discuss two different but deadly serial killers from Detroit: THE CRACK CITY STRANGLER AND THE BAB Y DOLL KILLER! B.R. Bates is a longtime author and journalist whose fascination with true crime brings us two fantastic new books about two serial killers you perhaps were not aware of. THE CRACK CITY STRANGLER: The Homicides Of Serial Killer Benjamin Atkins  offers a chilling,...

We cover everything from Daniel's life changing 10-year prison sentence, decline in NYC crime, airline safety after WW2, to whether or not Burl's brother is the root cause of world war 3 in this episode of true crime uncensored. Daniel is calling from some building in NYC that messes with his phone signal, so be forgiving of audio distortion

SPECIAl GUEST WINNIE SCHRADER, HOST OF MYSTERIES, MAYHEM, AND MERLOT PODCAST SUNDAY NIGHTS 10pm EASTERN 7pm PACIFICStep into the murky underworld where justice is a game of shadows. Each episode of our true crime podcast takes you deep into the labyrinth of unsolved mysteries, chilling confessions, and sinister plots.  Mysteries, Mayhem & Merlot unravels tales of crime and deception, painting...

Sixteen years ago, Caitlin Rother debuted her book "BODY PARTS" on our show -- now she returns with a new, updated edition of this true crime classic! Always an excellent guest and a brilliant investigative journalist, Rother brings her insight, wit and wisdom to our little corner in the true crime broadcast universe. Always a pleasure and yes, she is also crafting a new series of fictio...

It is always a thrill to have Frank on the show, and once again we get great true crime insights from both Frank and Burl. who give us preview of their new true crime book coming out this year.**** Best-selling author Frank C. Girardot has been called the "Demon dog of true crime" by none other than Black Dahlia author James Ellroy. Praise for his writing has come from authors as varied...

Cathy Scott is a 23-year journalism veteran and true-crime author who has written 12 nonfiction books. Best known for penning the biographies of rappers Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls and onetime drug kingpin Freeway Rick Ross, her latest books are: The Crime Book, a guide to criminology that explores the most infamous cases of all time; Murder of a Mafia Daughter, about the journalist and mob dau...

POP KORN was an important figure in the Pagan Motorcycle gang, and he comes to us courtesy of our pal Bill Staxx of "Chattin' with Staxx" on youtube. Also check out INKERVIEWS podcast on YouTube. Vastly entertaining!

Carla Conti, author of Chained Birds, joins Burl and guest co-host Eric Shelby in an in-depth discussion of America's corrupt prisons where rehabilitation is not the goal, but return business is! A must hear program!

Former drug dealer and smuggler Leonard Lee Buschel returns for a fun hour with Burl and Mark! Leonard publishes the incredibly successful Addiction/Recovery e-Bulletin and created the Reel Recovery Film Festivals. HIGH is his vastly entertaining bio and recovery memoir.

"CHAINED BIRDS is a book that will generate emotions from frustration to sadness and even awe at the events that transpired. Carla Conti has penned a book destined to be a future true crime classic." — Manhattan Book Review (5-Star) After three years in Europe , former journalist Carla Conti* just wanted to settle her family into the suburbs of Philadelphia. But her high school friend Scott Powell...

Daniel Genis, author of SENTENCE: Ten Years and a Thousand Books in Prison , returns to bemoan the recent arrest of Seth Feranti , famed documentary filmmaker and frequent guest on True Crime Uncensored. In 2003 Daniel Genis, the son of a famous Soviet émigré writer, broadcaster, and culture critic, was fresh out of NYU when he faced a serious heroin addiction that led him into debt and ultimately...

World famous Chasey Lain joins her old pal Burl Barer, plus Mark Boyer for a fun hour recounting her past success and her future plans.

For more insights from Nick Bryant, check out nickbryantnyc.com A former bodyguard for Combs,  Gene Deal , divulged that he had an affinity for blackmailing the high and mighty. He said: “I don’t think it’s only celebrities gonna be shook. He had politicians in there; he had princes in there. He also had a couple of preachers in there.” Suge Knight , the incarcerated, former CEO Death Row Records,...

Matthew Watts is currently show runner for FATAL FAMILY FUEDS on OXYGEN. He previously was show runner on KILLER SIBLINGS, ACCIDENT,SUICIDE, OR MURDER, Director/Executive Producer of "Dahmer on Dahmer: A Serial Killer Speaks" and many other excellent true crime shows, PLUS Swamp People and Urban Tarzan. While we missed Urban Tarzan, we did get into Swamp People!

Note: don't have sex with your first cousin! David S. Larson wrestled a 300-pound black bear when he was fourteen, full of testosterone and Jesus. That prepared him for a life of storytelling. Larson is an award-winning Fortune 500 marketing executive, has written WEST: Journey Across the Plains; Mr. Meeks (a prequel/sequel to WEST); The Last Jewish Gangster, The Early Years; MAYDAY: A Collection...

Jeff McArthur has written two fascinating books that illumine two little known aspects of Al Capone's life and career.  Uncovering these stories is one thing. Researching the truth of these stories and turning that information into compelling books is something else entirely. Joining us on True Crime Uncensored, Jeff tells us the process and challenges he encountered researching and writing these...

Special thanks to Dan Zupansky, host of TRUE MURDER, for his help in the production of this episode which Burl explains at the end of the broadcast Never again could anyone say, "It will never happen here!" Because it did. October 25, 2023 was  just an ordinary night in Lewiston, a small, working class city of 37,000 in central Maine. Friends and families had gathered to do what they loved to do w...

We've been big fans of Christian Cipollini for years -- his books are excellent, his TV documentaries insightful, and he is a wonderful guest on our show. Enjoy a fun filled hour with Burl, Mark and Christian!

HART D. FISHER PRESENTS THE AMERICAN HORRORS 6TH ANNUAL FILM FESTIVAL IN LAKE GENEVA, WI. OCTOBER 5-7TH! Hart, Burl, and Mark talk about horror, Hart's battle with NEXFLIX, his real life tragic true crime, and more

Nicky Jackson serves as coordinator of the criminal justice program and is a professor of criminal justice. She serves as Executive Director for the  Center for Justice and Post-Exoneration Assistance (CJPA) at Purdue Northwest . I love to cook! I even have my own recipe page on Facebook. Some of Jackson’s teaching areas include domestic violence, sexual assault, victimology, wrongful convictions,...

Mary Collins was  stabbed 113  times, and then her body was stuffed inside a mattress in the apartment of the "friends" who invited her over to "hangout ."    Mary underwent unimaginable torture before she passed. Collins’ grandmother, Mia Alderman, is our guest.

OUR GUEST IS THE BRILLIANT KATHERINE RAMSLAND. Elmer Wayne Henley, Jr. was only fourteen when he first became entangled with serial rapist and murderer Dean Corll in 1971. Fellow Houston, Texas, teenager David Brooks had already been ensnared by the charming older man, bribed with cash to help lure boys to Corll's home. Corll baited Henley with the same deal he'd given Brooks: $200 for eac...

What a Story! At only 5 years old, as bullets rained down upon his childhood home, Big Steve Prohaska was forced to make a choice. Stay, and die at the hands of the Cali Cartel, or run, leave his fallen family behind, and  survive . Steve chose survival. So marked the beginning of a journey that would take him from the dilapidated halls of a Colombian orphanage to the whitebred suburbs of Connecti...

Before NETFLIX produced the shocking documentary, The Making of a Murderer. Burl Barer was all over Prosecutor Michael Griesback about the police framing Steven Avery for murder, and once he was released....did they do it again? Burl believes this is a vile frameup! (get it? Vile? Listen and you will understand) This is a classis episode!