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

Good evening, this is your host, Dan Zupansky, for the program True Murder, the most shocking

killers in true crime history, and the authors that have written about them.

A 12-year-old boy cowers in his closet while a lunatic killer slaughters his family.

A nursing student unwittingly opens her home to the serial killer on her front porch.

An 11-year-old girl drifts alone at sea on a flimsy cork raft for almost four days

after a mass murderer kills her vacationing family aboard a chartered yacht.

A brave firefighter suddenly finds himself in the crosshairs of a racist sniper, almost

nine stories above the ground.

And astonishingly, they all survived.

From Howard O'Neill's 1949 shooting rampage through a quiet New Jersey neighborhood,

to Louisiana serial killer Derek Todd, Lee's reign of terror in 2002, the corpses piled

up and few lived to tell their tale of horror.

Award-winning journalist Ron Fransell explores the wounded hearts and minds of the ordinary

people these monsters couldn't kill.

His mesmerizing accounts crackle with gritty details to put the reader in the midst

of the carnage and offer a front row seat on the complex painful process of surviving the

rest of their haunted lives.

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