You are now listening to True Murder, the most shocking killers in True Crime History,

and the authors that have written about them.

Gacy, Bundy, Dahmer, The Night Stalker, BTK, every week, another fascinating author,

talking about the most shocking and infamous killers in True Crime History.

True Murder, with your host, journalist and author, Dan Zufantke.

Good evening.

A civil war veteran who perpetrated one of the most ghastly mass slaughters in the annals

of US crime, a 19th century female serial killer whose victims included three husbands

and six of her own children.

A gilded age blue beard who did away with as many as 50 wives throughout the country.

A decorated wool war one hero who orchestrated a murder that stunned Jazz Age America.

While other infamous homicides from the same eras, the Lizzie Borden slangs, for example,

or the thrill killing committed by Leopold and Loeb, have entered into our cultural mythology,

these four equally sensational crimes have largely faded from public memory.

A quartet of gripping historical True Crime narratives, butchers work, restores these once

notorious cases to vivid, dramatic life.

The book that we're featuring this evening is Butchers Work, True Crime Tales of American

Murder and Madness.

With my special guest, retired professor and author, Harold Schechter.

Welcome back to the program and thank you very much for this interview, Harold Schechter.

Well, thank you for inviting me.

Always happy to be here.

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