True Crime Episodes

True Crime Tuesday presents Dumb Crimes/Stupid Criminals 0714 w/Jessica Freeburg! This week, our loss is your gain! Our guest had an emergency! So we give you one of the funniest episodes of Dumb Crimes/Stupid Criminals of this year yet! A 75-year-old Florida man is accused of pepper-spraying a family after they wouldn't pet his dog... An Ohio man, with 54 license suspensions, gets pulled over...AGAIN! It's Nude Shop Til You Drop Season in two different states! And, an Indiana man plays his o...

True Crime Tuesday presents Ripped From The Headlines / Dumb Crimes-Stupid Criminals 0707 w/Jessica Freeburg! This week, an Ohio home is evacuated, and 16 children are taken into protective custody in one of the worst cases in that state's history! A Texas woman shot, stabbed, and dismembered her boyfriend, then tried to mix his remains in with concrete to hide them! Investigators believe the Empire State Daredevils didn't act alone... And, A Michigan couple is charged with murder and torture...

True Crime Tuesday presents: Killing The Lieutenant with retired Lieutenant/Sargeant/Private Investigator/ Author Raul J. Diaz and Podcaster/Author, Sean Oliver! The infamy of Miami's cocaine wars of the 1970's and 80's is forever etched in the darkest chapters in US History, and Lt. Raul Diaz was on the front lines for it all! The decorated and controversial lawman had his finger on the pulse of the Magic City when law enforcement lost its grip on crime when a new breed of criminal flooded S...

True Crime Tuesday presents: Atropos: Serial Killer On the Loose In The Southeast with 40-year law enforcement expert/Author, Royce Wilson! Detective Riley Scott just wants a routine murder. He gets anything but. One mutilated body in Tampa turns into a city-wide killing spree with no motive, no witnesses, and no end in sight. The deeper Scott digs, the more the case coils around his own life—until his girlfriend vanishes and fellow officers start dying. Suspended from duty and running ...

True Crime Tuesday presents: Staged: Conspiracies, Cold Cases & Cold, Hard Cash with Journalist/Author Caitlin Rother! In this thrilling sequel to Hooked, the secret leaders of a deadly cabal prove to be a veritable match for the determined reporter and the insightful surfing detective who double down to expose them. Investigative reporter Katrina Chopin is back home in San Diego on a mission (or two). The first is personal: reheating the cold case of her parents’ murder and investigating he...

True Crime Tuesday presents Ripped From The Headlines / Dumb Crimes-Stupid Criminals 0609 w/Jessica Freeburg! This week, Actor James Handy is killed by his girlfriend's son... The remains of a missing scientist from Los Alamos National Laboratory are found a year after she goes missing! A NY Woman gets 18 years for throwing a stick of dynamite at her boyfriend while he slept... And, an ex-CIA officer, accused of stashing 300 gold bars worth 40 million dollars, is ordered to remain in jail pen...

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: Curse of the Blumenthals with Professor of Journalism/Researcher/Author, Phyllis Karas! The Blumenthals are one of millions of Eastern European Jewish families who immigrated to the United States at the end of the nineteenth century. Settling in Providence, Rhode Island, they grow and prosper. During Prohibition, the Blumenthals became bootleggers—starting their fraught history with alcohol and crime. Once Prohibition is repealed, Barney Blumenthal opens a liquor ...

True Crime Tuesday presents: The Library After Dark: Death Dealt at the Daedalus with Author, Ande Pliego Not all fairytales were meant for children. Aria Stokes is finally feeling settled—she lives in a tiny New York apartment, works as a bookseller at a local shop, and has even taken a leap of faith in love by indulging her attraction to bookstore regular Jasper. And he seems to already know her so well. As a Valentine’s Day surprise, Jasper gets the two of them tickets to an exclusive, ...

True Crime Tuesday presents: Model Detective: Inside The Mind Of A Female Homicide Boss with Police Sergeant, Michele Wood! Sergeant Michele Wood, a 25-year veteran of the Chicago Police Department, has spent nearly two decades in the Detective Division. With hundreds of arrests and an extraordinary record of solving murders, she has led homicide teams while also appearing as a legal expert on ABC’s 20/20 and other national true crime series. In her book, MODEL DETECTIVE, Wood takes reader...

True Crime Tuesday presents Clay and Bones: My Life As A Forensic FBI Artist with Forensic Artist/Author, Lisa Bailey! Just two months after the September 11 terrorist attacks, Lisa Bailey began her career as an FBI forensic artist. She threw herself into the work and over the next eighteen years handled hundreds of cases: unidentified remains pulled from shallow graves, sexual assaults, acts of terrorism, and kidnappings. She became a recognized authority in facial approximation from the ...

True Crime Tuesday presents Dumb Crimes/Stupid Criminals 0407 w/Jessica Freeburg! This week, A Good Samaritan in Florida pays the ultimate price for jumping into help someone on the side of the road! Grisly 4chan photos are uploaded of a murder by a killer of a Washington State Woman. A naked man gets into a street fight in front of a Kanye West concert, and a Kentucky man gets popped for what may be the first ever GUI! See the video of the naked man who got into the street fight in front ...

True Crime Tuesday Presents: Blueprint Of A Killer: Monsters in the Making, from Childhood to Murder with Researcher/Author. Heather Mroczenski! What if the most dangerous part of a serial killer's story happened long before the first victim? BLUEPRINT OF A KILLER: Monsters in the Making, from Childhood to Murder asks the uncomfortable question most true crime books avoid: how did this start? What happened to cause the headlines, body counts, and documentaries? It uniquely does this: for the ...

True Crime Tuesday Presents: A Spell for Saints and Sinners with Author, Emily Carpenter ! In front of an elegantly shabby townhouse on a Savannah side street sits a hand-painted sign: Miss Edie, Psychic. Ingrid White inherited the house and business from her beloved grandmother, a local celebrity in town. But unless Ingrid can find a way to pay for crushing property taxes and mounting repairs, she’s going to lose them both. Ingrid has faith in the homespun witchcraft Edie passed down to h...

True Crime Tuesday Presents: The Tylenol Murders: A Father's Confession To His Son with Forensic Psychologist/ Survivor/ Author, Joseph Cibelli! From the son who would not stay silent, THE TYLENOL MURDERS: A Father's Confession to His Son reveals a confession buried under four decades of fear, complicity, and blue-walled denial. Chicago, 1982. Seven people swallowed Tylenol capsules meant to heal, then they died within minutes. America changed overnight, then the killer vanished into darkness...

True Crime Tuesday presents: Hooked: A Deadly Drug With Deadlier Intentions with Journalist/Author, Caitlin Rother! When investigative reporter Katrina Chopin and surfing homicide detective Ken Goode lock eyes, there’s an immediate attraction. Sparks fly as they bond over cocktails, sharing their common experiences of being orphans and losing loved ones to suicide. But the next time they meet, it’s from opposing sides of a high-profile case. Two biotech execs, whose company is developing a...

True Crime Tuesday presents The Viper: A Fast Paced Thriller of Family Bonds and Deadly Conspiracies w/Researtcher/Writer/TV Host/Author, Brad Meltzer! Andrew Fechmeier is a master at hiding. He'd better be—he’s spent decades concealing a secret that could get him killed. So when he’s diagnosed with a terminal disease, he heads for the local funeral home carrying the blue suit he eventually wants to be buried in. But what no one knows is that Fechmeier secretly tucked something inside, turnin...

True Crime Tuesday presents: Mafia Secrets: Untold Tales From The Hollywood Godfather with Actor/Singer/Movie Producer/Businessman/Author, Gianni Russo! The Kennedys, Marilyn, the Vatican, Vegas, The Godfather, the Mob, and more . . . During a cursed childhood in a Manhattan neighborhood teeming with Italian immigrants, Gianni Russo fended for himself at an early age. It was a quality that didn’t go unnoticed by Frank Costello—father figure, mentor, and legendary crime boss. Thanks to Costell...

True Crime Tuesday presents Ripped From The Headlines / Dumb Crimes-Stupid Criminals 0217 w/Jessica Freeburg! This week, A teen wrestler is charged with murder after his mom is found stabbed n a recycling bin, A Missouri man allegedly lived with his roommate's decomposing corpse for 38 days, an aspiring rapper is charged in connection with a 2021 acid attack on a college student, and a Florida man steals $4k worth of meat and throws it away after finding his girlfriend cooking with another ma...

True Crime Tuesday presents: Crimes Of Passion: Love Gone Wrong & Dumb Crimes-Stupid Criminals 0210 w/Jessica Freeburg! On today's TCT, with the Valentine's Day holiday upon us, Tim and Jess look at why maybe it is best to always love yourself first, and think twice about trusting that partner! On Today's Show we cover such Valentine's Day crimes as: The St. Valentine's Day Massacre, The Gang hit of Jack McGurn, The Subway Sweethearts Murder, The 1985 triple Colorado Springs Murder, The To...

True Crime Tuesday Presents: In Public Record: A Journey To The Truth of a Murder and Trial with Former Police Officer/ Author, Michael Kelly September 1990. In Shaker Heights, Ohio, teenage honors student Lisa Lee Pruett vanishes into the night. A boy calls 911 when she does not arrive for a secret late-night meet-up. Police soon find her nearby, stabbed to death and left exposed. Lisa had just passed an important test and earned her driver's license. She was a Girl Scout, athlete, musician,...

True Crime Tuesday presents Her Cold Justice with Researcher/Author, Robert Dugoni! To save a client accused of murder, defense attorney Keera Duggan must fight a complex web of corruption in a riveting novel of suspense by New York Times bestselling author Robert Dugoni. In a quiet South Seattle neighborhood, a suspected drug smuggler and his girlfriend are murdered in their home. When a young man named Michael Westbrook is accused of the brutal double homicide, his uncle JP Harrison turns ...

True Crime Tuesday Presents: Murder In The Graveyard: A Family Cult Tragedy with Journalist/Researcher/Author, Frank Stanfield! The 911 call was harrowing. "I accidentally killed someone. Please!" the man said, his voice rising. "Who?" "My stepmom. My name is Ian Anselmo. Sue-Ellen Anselmo, she's in the car with me. My dad is going to kill me. I guess I strangled her. I don't remember doing it. I remember the argument." The call disintegrated quickly, with the 20-year-old howling ...