True Crime Uncensored with Burl Barer and Mark Boyer

Gem heist mastermind Punch details the truth about three famous heists -- The Pierre Hotel Heist was NOT the biggest. The Regency heist was much bigger and nobody was killed, cheated or deceived. Plus bonus episode The Harry Winston Heist.

"Ron Franscell's 'Deaf Row' tells a darkly engrossing story with masterful, easy-flowing prose and a clever infusion of humor. The tension builds incrementally to a chilling five-star climax in which Franscell puts his well-honed skill as a true crime author to good use. It gave me goosebumps big time." —ANNE HILLERMAN, bestselling author of the Leaphorn, Chee, Manuelito myst...

On Christmas Night 1996, six-year-old JonBenet Ramsey was murdered in her family’s home in Boulder, Colorado. A ransom note was found in the home, but it was hours before her father, John, found her body in the basement. She had been strangled with a garrote and her skull was fractured. The media sensationalized the tragic death of the “child beauty queen” and public speculation and rumors ran ram...

Toxic Rage: A Tale Of Murder In Tucson - Amazon.com Three years after Stidham moved to Tucson, his life ended in an empty, darkened parking lot. But who would murder such a nice man in such a violent manner?

Wade "Chip" Williamson did think there was any danger is having his wife's former boyfriend over  to the house.  WRONG. The ex boyfriend  roughs up the wife and threatens to kill the husband.  When the boy friend  tries to kill the husband, Chip shoots him in self defense. He is surprised when he is charged with first degree murder. 

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...