TRUE CRIME-Lee Gutkind

True Murder: The Most Shocking Killers

Dan Zupansky

True Crime, News Commentary, Documentary, News, Society & Culture

4 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2013

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Award-winning journalists investigate the attempted assassination of Gabrielle Giffords and the unsolved lynching of Claude Neal; an identity thief finds herself confronted by one of her victims; a triple homicide rattles a high school swim team; a young adventurer supports her travels by smuggling Peruvian pre-Columbian artifacts; a woman struggles to live free of the ex-boyfriend who kidnapped and tortured her; and more.
In this collection of 13 diverse and compelling narratives, writers--among them criminals, law enforcement officers, and victims--elevate their personal stories of crime into high-powered literature. The book also includes an interview with Erik Larson, author of The Devil in the White City. TRUE CRIME: Real Stories of Abduction, Addiction, Obsessiom, Murder, Graverobbing and More-Lee Gutkind

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0:00.0	You are now listening to True Murder, the most shocking killers in true crime history,
0:16.7	and the authors that have written about them.
0:19.2	Gacy, Bundy, Dahmer, The Night Stalker, BTK, every week another fascinating author talking
0:27.4	about the most shocking and infamous killers in true crime history.
0:31.6	True Murder, with your host, journalist and author, Dan Zufansky.
0:47.0	Good evening, this is your host, Dan Zufansky, for the program True Murder, the most shocking
0:51.7	killers in true crime history, and the authors that have written about them.
0:56.5	In this collection of thirteen diverse and compelling narratives, writers among them
1:01.6	criminals, law enforcement officers and victims, elevate their personal stories of crime into
1:07.6	high-powered literature.
1:09.7	The book also includes an interview with Eric Larson, author of The Devil in the White
1:13.5	City.
1:15.2	The book that we're featuring this evening is called True Crime, Real Stories of Abduction,
1:20.4	Obsession, Murder, Grave Robin, and more, with editor Lee Gutkind.
1:28.6	Welcome to the program, and thank you for agreeing to this interview.
1:31.9	Lee Gutkind.
1:32.9	Hi, how are you?
1:35.7	Fine, thank you.
1:38.3	Congratulations on a very, very different and very, very fascinating and interesting book.
1:45.0	Congratulations on this fine book, True Crime.
1:48.0	Thank you.
1:49.0	You're welcome.
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