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Due to a family emergency our guest cancelled last minute but a BRAND NEW Full interview will be released tomorrow as we step In the Crosshairs: Famous Assainations from Cesar to Lennon with Stephen Spignesi

JT Townsend exposes the never-before-seen case file for the unsolved, triple homicide of the Bricca family, Cincinnati’s most notorious murder mystery. Cracking open a case that’s been cold for 50 years is daunting. Evidence is lost, buried, or forgotten. The truth is elusive, shrouded, or shameful. The Bricca case defies our expectation that killers are captured, victims are avenged, and justice aligns with the truth.Get the book here--> https://jttownsend.com/product/summers-almost-gone/

Before the term was coined in 1981, there were no "serial killers." There were only "monsters"--killers society first understood as werewolves, vampires, ghouls and witches or, later, Hitchcockian psychos.Peter Vronsky's new book, Sons of Cain: A History of Serial Killers from the Stone Age to the Present focuses strictly on sexual serial killers: thrill killers who engage in murder, rape, torture, cannibalism and necrophilia. All that PLUS a Dumb Crimes/Stupid Criminals. Don't forget to liste...

Rodney Alcala started out as a normal child until a nervous breakdown while serving in the armed forces changed his mental stability and sent him down a very dark life path of rape, torture and serial killing. Alcala was convicted for the deaths of five victims, but Alan Warren joins us to tell us about the discovery of a warehouse that contains evidence of potentially hundreds of victims, and the time Alcala was brazen enough to appear on the Dating Game... and won! Visit his site: https://www....

The eldest daughter of the Times Square “King of Porn,” Romola Hodas recounts her chaotic childhood amid the turmoil of publically growing up as the daughter of the man who almost single-handedly built New York City’s pornography and adult entertainment empire from the 1960s to the 1980s before his spectacular and public fall from grace. Romola also details how she dealt with numerous tragedy after tragedy related to her father's criminal business dealings and how she managed to remain positive...

Anna Hill has taken special interest in the bloody crimes and all but forgotten victims of the Juan Corona murders. Juan Vallejo Corona is a Mexican serial killer who was convicted of the murders of 25 migrant farm workers found buried in shallow graves.Anna Hill is a true crime enthusiast who researches and blogs about historical crimes. Along with her partner, Amber Bankead, they created The Deviation Diaries, a travel blog about the strange, the taboo and the macabre. Visit her site: www.Fac...

When human remains were found hidden in a hollow tree during WW2, one of the UK's greatest murder mysteries was born. This documentary explores Nazi Espionage, Witchcraft and the Supernatural in an attempt to finally piece together this sinister jigsaw puzzle.PLUS ALL NEW DUMB CRIMES/STUPID CRIMINALS Follow our guest here: http://jayne-harris.com/ To order her DVD go here: https://www.hdparanormal.com/bella OR WATCH IT ON AMAZON PRIME! This is the story in Dumb Crimes/Stupid Criminals that Dav...

While researching serial killers, Fallon uncovered a pattern in their brain scans that helped explain their cold and violent behavior. Astonishingly, his own scan matched that pattern. And a few months later he learned that he was descended from a long line of murderers. Fallon set out to reconcile the truth about his own brain with everything he knew as a scientist about the mind, behavior, and personality.Get the book here: https://www.amazon.com/Psychopath-Inside-Neuroscientists-Personal-Jou...

Today we examine murder through the written word--the writings of killers themselves penetrating the minds of murderers, revealing their motives as well as the wider social meanings of this age-old crime and our continuing fascination with it. PLUS Dumb Crimes/Stupid Criminals Check out his amazing site here: http://www.murderdata.org/ Get his book here: https://www.amazon.com/Murder-Plain-English-Manifestos-Memes-Looking/

William (Bill) Birnes is a New York Times best-selling author, a magazine publisher, and a New York literary publishing agent who has written and edited over twenty-five books and encyclopedias in the fields of human behavior, true crime, current affairs, history, & psychology.PLUS The return of Dumb Crimes & Stupid Criminals!

The moment he found out his brother was missing and presumed dead, Ted Kergan launched a relentless effort to bring two suspected killers—a teenaged-prostitute and her much older grifter boyfriend—to justice and find Gary Kergan’s body. Little did he know his quest would consume a fortune and take thirty years to reach its dramatic conclusion. Author Chris Russo Blackwood joins us to tell this chilling yet inspirational tale of ted Kergan's love and tenacity for getting justice for his brother! ...

Is there REALLY another possibility in the O.J. Simpson story? We didn't think so either.....BUT we were wrong, SO WRONG!Glen Rogers Needed to Kill. O.J. Simpson Needed a Killer. Glen Rogers was a jewelry thief and serial killer. O.J. Simpson was a former NFL running back, actor and aging celebrity. When Simpson sought revenge on his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson, he turned to Rogers to steal her diamonds to leave her destitute and humiliated. Rogers had his own plans: he would steal the jewels...

Stearns County in central Minnesota is well known for it's friendly people, as well as a wide variety of outdoor activities. It is also home to some of the most horrific and unimaginable crimes in the history of the state of Minnesota.Get the book here: www.Amazon.com/shop/darknessradio

NYPD officers Mike Dowd and Kenny Eurell knew there were two ways to get rich quick in Brooklyn's Lower East Side. You either became drug dealers, or you robbed drug dealers. They decided to do both. Burl Barer shares this shocking story PLUS Dumb Crimes/Stupid Criminals!Get his book here: www.Amazon.com/shop/darknessradio

A monster was on a killing spree. In just nine months, seven people went missing; all of their bodies eventually discovered in a wooded lot behind a suburban strip mall. The investigation that led law enforcement to their suspect, William Devin Howell.A practicing attorney, author Anne K. Howard first contacted Howell while he was serving a fifteen-year sentence for the murder of one of his seven victims. He was about to be charged for the remaining six murders. A unique and disturbing friendshi...

After surviving the horrors of the Holocaust – in ghettos, on death marches, and in concentration camps – a young couple seeks refuge in Canada. They settle into a new life, certain that the terrors of their past are behind them. They build themselves a cozy little cottage on a lake in Muskoka, a cottage that becomes emblematic of their victory over the Nazis. The charming retreat is a safe haven, a refuge from haunted memories. That is, until a single act of unspeakable violence defiles their s...

In the suburbs of Erie, Pennsylvania, a pizza delivery man named Brian Wells was accosted by several men who locked a time bomb around his neck. They then ordered him to rob a bank. After delivering the money, he would receive clues to help him disarm the bomb. It was one of the most ingenious bank robbery schemes in history, known as Collarbomb by the FBI. It did not go according to plan.Join us for THE most bizarre case we have ever covered with so many moving parts that it seems torn from a H...

North Mississippi's idyllic rolling hills and deep forests hide a history steeped in blood. America's first serial killers, the Harpe brothers, brutally murdered as many as fifty people at the end of the 1700s before finally meeting their end on the Natchez Trace. During Reconstruction, politician William Clark Falkner, great-grandfather of the author William Faulkner, was shot in the streets of Ripley by a former business partner after being elected to the state legislature. In the 1960s, Samue...

This is a unique episode as we continue looking at miscarriage of justice crimes. Dave & Tim went in one way to the case and are left unsure how they feel by the end of the story. TODAY...You Be The Judge. Was justice served or is an innocent man serving a sentence for a crime he didn't commit?Target Of Opportunity is available NOW on ITunes, Amazon Prime and other digital distribution outlets

"We never lock our doors." This is an often-heard remark expressing a commonplace American attitude or belief that, despite whatever danger might prevail in public spaces, life inside our own homes remains (or at least should remain) safe, carefree, normal. Kevin Sullivan's new book covers 13 high-profile cases in which evil paid an untimely visit and found the entrance open--when everything was normal, until it wasn't. Plus Dave & Tim report on some unusual crimes from the past week. Get his...

On a fall evening in Corvallis, Oregon in 1967, 17-year-old Dick Kitchel, a senior at the high school, disappeared after attending a party. Ten days later, his body was spotted by two children as it floated down the Willamette River. He had been beaten and strangled. The investigation into his murder played out during one of the most dramatic years in America. Life in Corvallis, a college town, had offered a protective, idyllic life to many. But in 1967-68, Viet Nam, a presidential campaign, the...

On Thursday, December 15, 1994, Joann Katrinak and her three-month-old son, Alex, went missing from their Catasauqua, Pennsylvania, home. Four months later, when their bodies were found in a lonely patch of woods, the police would launch a three-year investigation leading to the arrest of Patricia Lynne Rorrer—a young mother who had NEVER met either victim.Tammy Mal is the only journalist to whom Patricia Rorrer has granted interviews. She has written countless articles for local newspapers and ...

On April 10, 1834 Firefighters smashed through a padlocked attic door in the burning home of Creole society couple Delphine and Louis Lalaurie. The horrible discovery spawned a legend that has endured for over 150 years. But what really happened in the Lalaurie home? Who was “Mad Madame Lalaurie,” and what motivated her to commit such ghastly atrocities, if in fact she really did? Listen for more answers PLUS Dumb Crimes/Stupid Criminals! Get her book here: www.Amazon.com/shop/darknessradio