True Crime Uncensored with Burl Barer and Mark Boyer

Los Angeles is where America’s dreams and nightmares got all tangled up. In this otherworldly place of seemingly everlasting life, death could have an otherworldly quality, too. In a city where anything was possible, even the ghastly could happen. Where else does a list of a city’s top five most recognized citizens include a mass murderer? Stand in the footsteps of Manson, the Hillside Strangler,...

About Daniel Genis Daniel Genis is the son of Russian immigrants who came to the USA in 1977; he was born the following year. His father is Alexander Genis, a well-known Russian public intellectual and author. Daniel attended Stuyvesant high school and NYU, graduating in 1999. He began a career in publishing at the same time as selling blow and getting hooked on dope. He also read the entire corpu...

"The pulse-pounding story of the first time in history that the FBI Behavioral Unit created a profile to catch a serial killer. On June 25, 1973, a seven-year-old girl went missing from the Montana campground where her family was vacationing. Somebody had slit open the back of her tent and snatched her from under their noses. None of them saw or heard anything. Susie Jaeger had vanished into thin...

Before he began writing books and film, McDougal was a staff writer covering movies and media for the Los Angeles Times,  TV Guide and the New York Times. A UCLA graduate, McDougal earned a B.A. and an M.A. in English and journalism at UCLA. IN 1981, he was awarded a John S. Knight Fellowship at Stanford University and spent a year teaching and studying in Palo Alto, Japan and Canada. Over a...

JUDITH A. YATES; Drawing on media reports, interviews and court records, this book recounts the stories of women bank robbers in the United States, from the time of the Revolutionary War to the present. Ranging from sensational to poignant! JEANETTE HENSBY: In 2018 I was told that, in the mid-nineteenth century, there had been a murder committed in the house that we live in. In the same year, I le...

A Swedish con man comes to America with a daring plan to con the US Government out of 500 million dollars!

 Who could that be other than our pal Punch?

Persian Wars: Vol 1 Home and Away

KEVIN IS THRE MAN WHO KNOWS MORE ABOUT TED BUNDY AND HIS SICK PSYCHO: "SEX WITH THE DEAD" BEHAVIOR THAN ANY OHTER TRUE CRIME WRITER....AND HE LEARNS MORE ALL THE TIME. 

How not to get ripped off.    This episode was published in error with the description of Kerrie Droban's episode. We apologize for the confusion

KERRIE DROBAN is a criminal defense attorney in Phoenix, Arizona, a graduate of the Johns Hopkins University Writing Seminars and the University of Arizona where she received her Masters and Masters of Fine Arts degrees in Poetry. Her true crime books, Running with the Devil: The True Story of the ATF’s Infiltration of the Hells Angels, (Lyons Press, 2007) won the USA News National Book Award for...

KERRIE DROBAN is a criminal defense attorney in Phoenix, Arizona, a graduate of the Johns Hopkins University Writing Seminars and the University of Arizona where she received her Masters and Masters of Fine Arts degrees in Poetry. Her true crime books, Running with the Devil: The True Story of the ATF’s Infiltration of the Hells Angels, (Lyons Press, 2007) won the USA News National Book Award for...

Kenneth Eurell is a former New York City Police Department police officer and associate of the Adam Diaz drug organization La Compania was arrested for running a drug ring out of Suffolk County, Long Island. The charges were upgraded to RICO in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Eurell cooperated with federal authorities in the arrests of his former partner Mic...

David Lohr is an American journalist. Lohr has written about and interviewed many of the world's most notorious criminals. Lohr gained national prominence in 2003 when Wichita, Kansas serial killer Dennis Rader, wrote letters to news outlets. One of his letters included a list of book chapters titled "The BTK Story" that were similar to a list of book chapters about BTK's crimes written by Lohr. T...

GARY WROTE THE FIRST TRUE CRIME BOOK I EVER READ...AND HE GAVE ME GOOD ADVICE

On 9/11, Saudi Arabian terrorists attacked America, so we retaliated by invading Iraq, a country that had nothing to do with the attack..   At the end of the show, Ralph Odierna asks Burl to explain why he doesn't like calling the terrorists "Islamic Terrorists." (Answer: because Islam forbids all acts of terrorism)   

Renee Fehr knew that Gregory Houser killed her sister Sheryl. There was not a single doubt in her mind. Yet for 27 years Houser walked free. But Renee wouldn’t rest until he was convicted for murder. THE WHEELS OF JUSTICE  is equal parts the story of a monstrous killer, a harrowing look at domestic violence, and an inspirational story of a family that wouldn’t quit until justice prevailed.

Burl and Mark detail the Labor Day Murder and coercion used to elicit a false confession

Dr Bill Kimberlin is the guy who waves goodbye when murderers go to hell..  His famous book WATCH ME DIE has a new, updated edition from Wild Blue Press coming in late September 2021 but you can order it now.

The Real Mr. Big: How a Colombian Refugee Became the United Kingdom’s Most Notorious Cocaine Kingpin By Ron Chepesiuk , Jesus Ruiz Henao 4.10  ·   Rating details  ·  10 ratings  ·  5 reviews Born in 1960, Jesus Ruiz Henao grew up poor, but wanted to be rich like the drug dealers he saw growing up in the cocaine-producing region of Colombia’s Valle of the Cauca. T...

It has been many years since Gregg Olsen joined us on True Crime Uncensored, and we are thrilled that he's taken time from his busy schedule of being one of the world's best true crime authors, novelists, and media commentators to join us

The call came on the morning of July 13, 2011, from the historic Spreckels Mansion, a lavish beachfront property in Coronado, California, owned by pharmaceutical tycoon and multimillionaire Jonah Shacknai. When authorities arrived, they found the naked body of Jonah’s girlfriend, Rebecca Zahau, gagged, her ankles tied and her wrists bound behind her. Jonah’s brother, Adam, claimed to have found Re...

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Betrayal in Blue came out at the end of 2016. Written by Burl Barer, Frank Girardot and Ken Eurell, it is the full story of the crooked cops of the 75 -- the 75th Precinct in the NYPD.   The first interview is Ken, Burl and Frank with Howard Lapides. Next Ken reunites with former fellow crooked cop "Chickie" to remember the bad old days of their tragic criminality. The final interview pr...

Katherine Ramsland began her career as a writer with Prism of the Night: A Biography of Anne Rice. She had a bestseller with The Vampire Companion. Since then, she has published 60 books and over 1,000 articles, reviews and short stories. From ghosts to vampires to serial killers, she has taken on a variety of dark subjects. She holds graduate degrees in forensic psychology, clinical psychology, c...