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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, DTK, 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 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.

On November 8, 1985, 18-year-old Tom Oodle brutally murdered his parents and three siblings in the small southern Illinois town of Mount Vernon, sending shockwaves throughout the nation.

It remains one of the most terrific mass murders in US history. Oodle was sentenced to death and after 17 years on death row expected a lethal injection to end his life.

However, Illinois Governor George Ryan's moratorium on the death penalty in 2000, and later commutation of all death sentences in 2003, changed Oodle's sentence to life.

Prior to the commutation, Oodle lived in denial, repressing any feelings about his family and his horrible crime. Following the commutation and the removal of the weight of eventual execution, he was confronted with an unfamiliar reality, a future.

As a result, he realized that he needed to understand why he murdered his family. He reached out to Dr. Robert Hanlon, a neuropsychologist who had examined him in the past.

Dr. Hanlon engaged Oodle in a therapeutic process which became the basis of their collaboration on this book.

Hanlon tells the gripping story of Oodle's life, the life experiences that formed his personality and his tragic homicidal escalation to mass murder.

The book that we're featuring this evening is Survived by One with my special guest, Professor and author Dr. Robert Hanlon. Welcome to the program and thank you for agreeing this interview. Dr. Robert Hanlon.

Yes, thanks for having me. Glad to be here.

Very interesting book. Congratulations. Very unique and let's get right into this. How did you come? I alluded to it in the introduction, but tell us a little bit more about how you came to this project, why you felt compelled to collaborate with this Tom Oodle and why you felt it was important.

Obviously, it's a big endeavor to write a book, so tell us how you got to this situation where you felt compelled to survive by one.

Certainly. I had I first met Tom Oodle when he was on death row in the Illinois prison system. He had been on death row for at that point about 16 years.

And he was coming to the end of the appeals process and he was facing this final execution date.

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