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JOHN FERAK RETURNS TO TAKE US TO "TERROR TOWN" ON TRUE CRIME UNCENSORED

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During the early morning hours of July 17, 1983, fatigue became a factor for the young couple from central Illinois who spent their day under the hot sun at Marriott’s Great America amusement park north of Chicago. On their drive home, the tired teenagers pulled to the shoulder of Interstate 55 to get a restful sleep.

As the teens slept inside their car under the moon and the stars, a dangerous force of evil lurked in the shadows, parking directly behind them.

The summer of 1983 was like no other for Joliet, Ill., a hard-working, rough-and-tough blue-collar industrial city an hour’s drive southwest of Chicago. This was one of the hottest summers on record for Joliet, and an elusive serial-killing madman kept piling up the body count as he showed no signs of being caught.

One overnight killing spree claimed five victims, including members of the Will County Sheriff’s Office. The following month brought more bloodshed: a quadruple murder inside a small Joliet shop best known for its pottery classes.

The plague of senseless violence sparked the controversial New York City-based Guardian Angels to mobilize foot patrols in Joliet, generating more unwanted news media attention for the community. Even the National Enquirer produced its own sensational piece, labeling Joliet “Terror Town, U.S.A.”

Residents shuddered with horror. Determined detectives worked in overdrive, trying to find an overlooked clue or two. Finally, when an arrest seemed to come out of nowhere, area citizens breathed a sigh of relief.

Authorities linked the so-called stone-cold killing machine to a chilling count of 14 homicides, plus three women who miraculously survived their agonizing encounters.

But with multiple murder trials on the horizon, it remained anyone’s guess whether Milton Johnson, whose family nicknamed him “Big’un,” short for “Big One,” was guilty of mass murder and if so, would he die by means of lethal injection at the Illinois Department of Corrections?

GREGG OLSEN -- YES! GREGG OLSEN THIS SATURDAY !

It has been many years since Gregg Olsen joined us on True Crime Uncensored, and we are thrilled that he's taken time from his busy schedule of being one of the world's best true crime authors, novelists, and media commentators to join us this Saturday 2pm Pacific Time/5pm Eastern Time.

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Gregg's latest is THE HIVE

Glamorous messiah or charlatan? A mask of beauty hides deadly secrets in #1 New York Times and Amazon Charts bestselling author Gregg Olsen’s mesmerizing novel of suspense.

In the Pacific Northwest, detective Lindsay Jackman is investigating the murder of a young journalist found at the bottom of a ravine. Lindsay soon learns that the victim was writing an exposé. Her subject: a charismatic wellness guru who’s pulled millions into her euphoric orbit…

To hear Marnie Spellman tell it, when she was a child, a swarm of bees lifted her off the ground and toward the sunlight, illuming her spiritual connection with nature—an uncanny event on which Marnie built a cosmetics empire and became a legend, a healer, and the queen of holistic health and eternal beauty. In her inner circle is an intimate band of devotees called the Hive. They share Marnie’s secrets of success—including one cloaked in darkness for twenty years.

Determined to uncover the possibly deadly mysteries of the group, Lindsay focuses her investigation on Marnie and the former members of the Hive, who are just as determined to keep Lindsay from their secrets as they are to maintain their status.

Jeff McArthur is back with a new book! He's versatile and vastly entertaining!

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Jeff McArthur is an amazingly versatile and prolific author who is an absolute delight to have on our show. 

His latest book, Dirty Old War is in the classification of True State Crime -- crime committed by the government of a state or nation.

The Pentagon Papers revealed the mass deception of the American people regarding America's role, behavior, and intentions regarding the country of Vietnam and the war that is regarded as a true crime.

Jeff Says: I have a tendency to overwhelm myself with projects.  The problem is that I have too many things that I want to create before I die.  In fact, I have currently more ideas in me than I likely have life left.  So I try to get as many of them out as possible.  I’m like a sinking ship with passengers who I’m trying to put onto lifeboats before I sink into the waters of mortality.

CAITLIN ROTHER RETURNS -- ANOTHER BEST SELLING TRUE CRIME BOOK!

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DEATH ON OCEAN BOULEVARD: Inside the Coronado Mansion Case (trade paperback, Kensington/Citadel Press)

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"You’ll be convinced first one way then the other as you race through the pages of this disturbing mystery. DEATH ON OCEAN BOULEVARD is so meticulous, so organized... Caitlin Rother is the journalist we all want to be when we grow up."

--True crime author Camille Kimball

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Many locals call the death case of Rebecca Zahau "the Coronado mansion murder," despite the sheriff's department's findings that Rebecca committed suicide at the Spreckels Mansion. A jury in civil court agreed, finding Adam Shacknai, her boyfriend's brother, responsible for her "wrongful death." The Zahau family believes Rebecca was murdered, but Shacknai contends he is wrongly accused. As he fights to clear his name, the Zahau family continues to push for the Medical Examiner's Office to change the cause and manner of death to homicide by manual strangulation, and for the criminal case to be re-opened and re-investigated as a murder. Caitlin, whose husband committed suicide by hanging, gives readers an objective, but uniquely personal look at the evidence and theories in this case.

 

HER FATHER WAS MURDERED. HER FATHER WAS A COP. A 40 YEAR SEARCH FOR TRUTH

           Lori Cooper live on True Crime Uncensored 2 pm pt/5pm et

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CORRUPTION, DECEPTION AND THE INFAMOUS BLUE WALL STOOD IN HER WAY....BUT THAT DID NOT STOP HER SEARCH FOR TRUTH.

HOW TO BE A TRUE CRIME INVESTIGATOR! AWARD WINNER FRANK C GIRARDOT JR.

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Award-winning investigative journalist and best-selling true-crime writer Frank C  Girardot Jr shares the shocking truth on how you REALLY investigate a true crime story.

 

 

 

HOW TO BE A TRUE CRIME INVESTIGATOR! AWARD WINNER FRANK C GIRARDOT JR.

WRITING TRUE CRIME: PART III   LISTEN LIVE SATURDAY 2PM PT BY CLICKING THIS LINK 

Award-winning investigative journalist and best-selling true-crime writer Frank C  Girardot Jr shares the shocking truth on how you REALLY investigate a true crime story.

 

 

 

DON'T FALL FOR THESE SCAMS ! RiPOFFS IN YOUR MAILBOX.

Boy. did these scammers send their scam to the wrong guy!  True crime author Burl Barer, host of True Crime Uncensored, opened his mailbox and immediately recognized a first-class scam in an express mail envelope!     

"My first response was to call the Post Office Investigators, a true law enforcement branch of the Federal Government, and report this criminal use of the United States Mail," said Barer. "Mu second response was to alert fact-checker Mark Boyer that we were going to expose this scam, among others to our worldwide audience."

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Mark Boyer that we were going to expose this scam, among others on our world wide true crime radio podcast!"                  

HOW TO CATCH A KILLER-- KATHERINE RAMSLAND IS OIUR SPECIAL GUEST

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There are two parts to every crime story: how they did it and why they got caught.This book is about the second part, and how it changes the way we catch serial killers.
 
No two stories about the capture of a serial killer are the same. Sometimes, the killers make crucial mistakes; other times, investigators get lucky. And the process of profiling, hunting, and apprehending these predators has changed radically over time, particularly in the field of criminal forensics, which has exploded in the last ten to 15 years. Laser ablation, video spectral analysis, cyber-sleuthing, and even DNA-based genetic genealogy are now crucial tools in solving murders, including the recent capture of the so-called Golden State Killer. This book in the new Profiles in Crime series tells the history of forensics through the “capture stories” of some of the most notorious serial killers, going back almost a century.

The killers include:

• Rodney Alcala, a serial rapist and murderer sometimes called “Dating Game killer” for his appearance on that TV show. No one knows the exact number of his victims.
• Takahiro Shiraishi, the suicide killer from Zama, Japan, who dismembered nine victims and stored their bodies in his refrigerator.
• Aileen Wuornos, one of the rare female serial killers. She shot seven men in Florida and was turned in by an accomplice.
• Jeffrey Dahmer, the “Milwaukee Cannibal,” and Bobby Joe Long, both identified by survivors
• Ted Bundy and David Berkowitz (“Son of Sam”), who both made mistakes
• Katherine Ramsland, PhD, is a professor of forensic psychology and criminal justice at DeSales University. She has published more than 1,000 articles and 60 books, most focusing on serial killers, and speaks internationally on the subject. She was a regular contributor to Court TV’s Crime Library and is a regular guest on The Today Show, 20/20, NPR, and E! True Hollywood.

RON CHEPESIUK RETURNS WITH THRILLING NEW TRUE CRIME BOOK! The Real Mr. Big

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Burl Barer and fact-checker Mark Boyer are thrilled to have Ron back on the show.

Born in 1960, Ruiz Henao grew up poor but wanted to be rich like the drug dealers he saw growing up in the cocaine-producing region of Colombia’s Valle of the Cauca. To realize his ambition, Ruiz Henao moved to London, United Kingdom, in 1985. There he and his wife settled in the quiet suburb of Hendon, where he held down mundane but respectable cleaning and bus driving jobs. At least to outward appearances ...

Summer of 2003, Ruiz Henao decided to get out of the drug business. But he finally made the one mistake that would get him caught. It cost him a 17-year prison sentence, with more tacked on when he tried to make one last deal from behind prison walls.

THE REAL MR. BIG, co-written by Ruiz Henao with bestselling author Ron Chepesiuk, is the story of how an ambitious Colombian immigrant set up a sophisticated drug trafficking enterprise that earned him law enforcement's description as "the Pablo Escobar of British drug trafficking"

"Ron Chepesiuk is one of our greatest living true crime writers -- his books embrace diverse cultures of criminality in a world rapidly shrinking into a multicultural neighborhood where crime is often a matter of opinion, policy, and financial opportunity." -- Burl Barer

A search for the truth behind the DEA’s life imprisonment of LSD's most famous martyr.

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Operation White Rabbit traces the rise and fall—and rise and fall again—of the psychedelic community through the life of the man known as the “Acid King:” William Leonard Pickard. Pickard was a legitimate genius, a follower of Timothy Leary, a con artist, a womanizer, and a believer that LSD would save lives. He was a foreign diplomat, a Harvard fellow, and the biggest producer of LSD on the planet—if you believe the DEA.
 

Pickard’s personal story is set against a fascinating chronicle of the social history of psychedelic drugs from the 1950s on. From LSD distribution at UC Berkeley to traveling the world for the State Department, Pickard’s story is one of remarkable genius—that is, until a DEA sting named “Operation White Rabbit” captured him at an abandoned missile silo in Kansas. Pickard, the DEA said, was responsible for 90 percent of the world’s production of lysergic acid.
 
The DEA announced to the public that they found 91 pounds of LSD. In reality, the haul was seven ounces. They found none of the millions of dollars Pickard supposedly amassed, either. But nonetheless, he is now serving two consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole. Pickard has become acid’s best-known martyr in the process, continuing his advocacy and artistic pursuits from jail.

Pickard has successfully sued the US government because his requests for information on his case returned two blank DEA documents. But the appeals of his sentence have continually failed. The author visits him regularly in jail in an effort to find the truth.