Assault Episodes

True Crime Tuesday presents: Skyring Water: Cold War Spies & Family Ties with Researcher/Author Beau L'Amour! Louis and Beau L’Amour present a collaboration across time, an epic novel of Cold War suspense, as a pair of unlikely heroes, a woman without a name, and the undefeated agents of the Third Reich find themselves locked in a deadly race to control the greatest secret of the 20th century. 1961. The world is on the brink of nuclear war. Walls are dividing East and West. Empires are cru...

True Crime Tuesday presents: Murder By Design with Screenwriter/Producer/New York Times Best Selling Author, Lee Goldberg! Edison Bixby is wealthy, handsome, and, due to a traumatic brain injury, impulsively rude. He’s also a brilliant insurance investigator who solves baffling crimes by figuring out how the design of the man-made world around us makes them possible. Enter Wally Nash: a struggling actor hired to keep Bixby from offending everyone he meets. Their first case together looks l...

True Crime Tuesday presents: Fiend: Supernatural Secrets in Business, Family, and Tragedy with Ex-CIA Agent/Author, Alma Katsu! Imagine if the Sackler family had a demon at their beck and call. The Berisha family runs one of the largest import-export companies in the world, and they’ve always been lucky. Their rivals suffer strokes. Inconvenient buildings catch on fire. Earthquakes swallow up manufacturing plants, destroying harmful evidence. Things always seem to work out for the Berishas. Th...

True Crime Tuesday presents: Please Don't Lie! w/ Christina Baker Kline and Anne Burt! Two years ago, Hayley Stone lost everything. First, her parents died in a devastating fire. Then, her sister overdosed, leaving Hayley alone and hounded by a media circus that turned her family’s tragedy into tabloid fodder. When her new husband suggests a fresh start in the Adirondacks, the promise of anonymity in an isolated mountain town feels like salvation. But the mountains hold darker secrets than she...

True Crime Tuesday presents: I Become Her: A Thriller with Author, Joe Hart! Only ten days into their marriage, Imogen and Lev Carmichael are on a honeymoon cruise in the Mediterranean when Imogen suspects her husband of being unfaithful. Amid the recriminations, denials, and rage, Lev falls overboard into the water. It’s a miracle he’s found alive. And with no memory of what pushed him―and Imogen―over the edge. Back home among family and friends, Imogen and Lev are finally starting to readjus...

True Crime Tuesday presents: Bless Your Heart: Murder In Buckhead with Screenwriter/Author, Leigh Dunlap! Anderson Tupper, a member of one of Atlanta’s richest families, has been found murdered in the dugout of the Little League field where he was a volunteer coach, and it’s up to Detective Shay Claypool, a single mother from the other side of town, to find his killer. With the exclusive area of Buckhead threatening to secede from the city of Atlanta and take its tax revenue with it, Shay is un...

True Crime Tuesday presents: Smile For The Cameras: Murder On A Movie Set w/Miranda Smith! Twenty years ago, Ella Winters was the it girl. She made a name for herself in Hollywood and throughout America as the sole survivor in the cult-classic slasher Grad Night. But the real horror is what happened when the cameras weren’t rolling—something terrible that Ella and her co-stars agreed never to speak of again. Shortly after the movie’s premiere, Ella disappeared from the acting scene under the pr...

True Crime Tuesday Presents The Dumond Affair: How Lies And Politics Freed A Killer with Researcher/Author, D.R. Bartlette! Ashley Stevens, at 17 years old, thought justice would be done when she named Wayne Dumond as the guy who had abducted and sexually assaulted her in 1984. She was unaware that her horror was only getting started. Dumond was a vicious serial predator with a troubling past of assault and homicide, not just another criminal. However, a complex network of deceit, manipulation,...

True Crime Tuesday presents: Vacations Can Be Murder: The True Crime/Paranormal Travel Guide to New England with Author, Dawn M. Barclay! For the true crime lover—finally, a travel guide from an award-winning travel journalist and suspense author that gives you the down and dirty on exactly where the major crimes occurred, and where the bodies are buried. For aficionados of paranormal, prison, and tombstone travel, there’s a goldmine of tourism suggestions for you here as well. Along with summ...

True Crime Tuesday presents: You Are Fatally Invited with Author, Ande Pliego No crime writing retreat is complete without a murder... A legendary author’s murder mystery writing retreat on his private island turns lethal when one of the writers is murdered in this twisty debut novel. When renowned anonymous author J. R. Alastor hires former aspiring writer Mila del Angél to host a writing retreat at his private manor off the coast of Maine, she jumps at the chance—particularly since she has a...

True Crime Tuesday presents: Murder On Skid Row with Author, Charlene Wexler! The homeless and migrants are not new to Chicago. In the 1960s, there was Chicago’s Skid Row, centered at Madison and Halsted Streets. Now an area filled with recently built upscale housing and trendy businesses near Greektown, decades ago it was a downtrodden community occupied by lost souls, mainly veterans from the war nobody wanted to recognize—Vietnam. Mel, a young dentist who believes he can do good for the peop...

True Crime Tuesday presents: A Hate Crime in Brooklyn with Defense Attorney/Author, David G. Secular! When Sofia Hushemi, a sheltered Albanian immigrant, carelessly collides with Sylvester Stanley on her way home from Prospect Park, both escape injury. Upon discovering the loss of her precious ring, gifted to her by Victor, the feared kingpin of the Albanian-American Mafia, she frantically presumes Sylvester, a Black man, was not a jogger, but a culprit. Hours later, Sylvester is attacked in br...