Saturday 2pm PT/4pm CT/5pm ET CHRIS CIPOLLINI IS BACK WITH MURDER, INC. When the Big Four of crime - Charles "Lucky" Luciano, Meyer Lansky, Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel and Frank Costello - essentially reshaped the structure of the New York underworld in 1931 – a new era of mobster was born. Details Saturday on True Crime Uncensored on Outlaw Radio, 2pm PT/4pm CT/5pm ET. Listen in at http://truecrimeuncensored.com to Burl Barer, the author of MAN … [Read more...]
BOGEYMAN Serial Killer Focus Of ID Show
True Crime Author Steve Jackson And Heroic Texas Lawman Gary Sweet Interviewed For Discovery Channel Show To Air February 26 The episode of “Most Evil” about serial killer David Penton will air at 9 p.m. EST on Thursday, February 25. @discoveryID #mostevil. The show is called "Predators." As many of you know, Penton, was the subject of a nearly twenty-five year cold case investigation into the murders of three young girls pursued by … [Read more...]
True Crime Author Reflects On Cold Case
Woman's Powerful Courtroom Statement About Sister's Murder Shows Slow Justice Still Important To Families As I listened this afternoon to a weeping woman explain as best she could the impact the unsolved murder of her sister thirty-five years ago had on her and her family, I reflected once again on the fact that justice is not always about punishment. It is also about people such as that woman, and her family, having their day in court and … [Read more...]
BOGEYMAN’S Jackson covers another heartbreaking Cold Case
The idiom "got away with murder" has come to mean something other than its literal definition. Figuratively, it's used to describe someone who was allowed to do something that others would be criticized or punished for--such as "he gets away with murder just because he's so cute." But to a true crime writer, especially one who often delves into Cold Cases, the original definition takes back it's original meaning with all of its brutality, sorrow, … [Read more...]
Kevin Sullivan and Burl Barer discuss VAMPIRE
WildBlue Press author Kevin Sullivan appeared on the legendary Burl Barer's True Crime Uncensored show to discuss his books, including his latest true crime, VAMPIRE: The Richard Chase Murders. … [Read more...]
BOGEYMAN-Channeling In Cold Blood
Veteran true crime author Steve Jackson channels the well-established In Cold Blood tradition of absenting himself from the plot, like a journalist, while constructing a narrative, driven by action and dialog, influenced by novel-writing technique. Jackson’s gradually unfolding story feels familiar to anybody accustomed to reading police procedurals and crime thrillers. The horrifying aspects of Jackson’s narrative, of the very killer every … [Read more...]
BOGEYMAN-Steve Jackson-LATalkRadio
Steve discusses BOGEYMAN and his other books, as well as writing in general, with LATalkRadio hosts John Johnson and Dr. Estella Sneider. … [Read more...]
BOGEYMAN-Steve on True Crime Discussions
New York Times bestselling author Steve Jackson looks forward to joining the members of the True Crime Discussions group on Facebook to talk about BOGEYMAN. Mark your calendars for December 12 @ 7pm est. Read the book and come join us! … [Read more...]
MAN OVERBOARD-Praised by newspaper as “darkly funny”
"Barer pulls no punches in his telling of the story," writes Frank Girodot, the senior editor of the San Gabriel Valley News Group, "which begins humorously enough: “Phil Champagne died Aug. 31, 1982, in a tragic boating accident off Lopez Island, Washington. He was 52. Champagne was survived by his wife of 28 years, four grown children, an octogenarian mother and two despondent brothers. Phil didn’t know he was dead until he read it in the … [Read more...]
Burl Barer Hosts True Crime Uncensored
Date: Saturdays, 2 p.m. (Pacific Time) Author and Outlaw Radio host Burl Barer interviews crime writers, experts, journalists and even criminals on True Crime Uncensored. Click here for upcoming shows. … [Read more...]
