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SETH FERRANTI - A MAN OF CONVICTIONS, VISIONS, AND AN APPRECIATION OF PSYCHEDELICS

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 Seth Ferranti returns to True Crime Uncensored Saturday 25 years for selling LSD                                                                                                                                                           

Seth Ferranti is an American journalist and writer.  

In 1993, after two years on the United States Marshals Service's 15 Most Wanted Fugitives list, he was arrested for drug trafficking; At the start of his run, in 1991, he had organized his mock suicide by leaving his car, his clothes, an empty bottle of Vodka, and a letter on the banks of the Potomac River.

Sentenced to 304 months in prison for trafficking LSD, Seth Ferranti began his career as a journalist in prison and wrote for VICE and The Daily Beast, among others. In 2005, he opened a blog, Gorilla Convict , dealing with prison life and gangs.

He was released in 2014 after 21 years of prison. Obviously, a bright and promising young man, Ferranti evolved into an excellent journalist, documentary filmmaker, author, and advocate for the evidence based therapeutic use of psychedelics,

 

RON FRANSCEL RETURNS! Always a treat to have Ron join us on the show to discuss SHADOWMAN!

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On June 25, 1973, a seven-year-old girl went missing from the Montana where her family was vacationing. Somebody had slit open the back of her tent and snatched her from under her family’s noses. None of them saw or heard anything. Susie Jaeger had vanished into thin air, plucked by a shadow. That single chilling disappearance mobilized Montana’s largest-ever manhunt and energized FBI agents, all searching for … a shadow. When the investigation later turned cold, agents were frustrated and ready to hear any idea that might help them close their grim case.

 

AUTHOR RON FRANSCELL RETURNS THIS SATURDAY!

 

 

SHADOWMAN tells the entangled tales of a harrowing crime and the introduction of sophisticated criminal profiling at the FBI. 

DENNIS MCDOUGAL - INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALIST'S BRILLIANT CAREER

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Before he began writing books and film, McD ougal was a staff writer covering movies and media for the Los Angeles Times,  TV Guide and the New York Times. A UCLA graduate, McDougal earned a B.A. and an M.A. in English and journalism at UCLA. IN 1981, he was awarded a John S. Knight Fellowship at Stanford University and spent a year teaching and studying in Palo Alto, Japan and Canada. Over a career spanning nearly half a century, his journalism has won over fifty honors, including the National Headliners and George Peabody Award. 

A contributing writer with TV Guide, McDougal has also written for Los Angeles Magazine, Premiere, and the Los Angeles Times Sunday Magazine.

McDougal has lectured in journalism and creative writing at UCLA, Stanford, and the California State Universities at Fullerton and Long Beach. McDougal and his wife, Sharon, live near Memphis, Tennessee.

DANIEL GENIS RETURNS WITH HIS RAVE REVIEWED TRUE CRIME DEBUT: SENTENCE!

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   Our favorite ex-Heroin addict, bon vivant, and brilliant author, Daniel Genis, returns with his long-awaited literary debut.

In 2003, fresh out of NYU, Daniel Genis was working in publishing as his writer father had always expected. But he was also hiding a serious heroin addiction that led him into debt and burglary. After he was arrested for robbing people at knifepoint in 2003, Daniel Genis was nicknamed the "apologetic bandit" in the press, given his habit of apologizing to his victims as he took their cash.

He was sentenced to 12 years (10 with good behavior), surviving the decade by reading 1,046 books, weightlifting, having philosophical discussions with various inmates, encountering violence on a daily basis, working at a series of prison jobs, and in general observing an existence for which nothing in his life had prepared him.   

Sentence is one of the most striking prison memoirs - and memoirs in general - in recent years - written with intelligence, wit, empathy, and remarkable style.                             

    (Daniel Genis & Burl Barer)

Genis is the son of a famous Soviet émigré writer, broadcaster, and culture critic in Russia. He grew up in a home whose visitors included Mikhail Baryshnikov; Russian nuclear physicist Andrei Sakharov; authors Kurt Vonnegut, Umberto Eco, and Norman Mailer; and Czech film director Miloš Forman. The education and culture so prized by his family were his lifelines during his decade in prison, and he describes in unsparing and vivid detail the realities of daily life in the New York penal system, from Rikers Island through a series of upstate institutions. 

Daniel Genis' debut has the potential to be both a critical and popular success, for few books have portrayed prison so vividly or with such insight.

WOMEN BANK ROBBERS -- JUDITH A YATES IS OUR SPECIAL GUEST SATURDAY !

Drawing on media reports, interviews and court records, this book recounts the stories of women bank robbers in the United States, from the time of the Revolutionary War to the present. Ranging from sensational to poignant to comical, the heists of frontier outlaws, gun molls, insurrectionists, housewives, grandmas and young mothers "literally robbing for Pampers" are narrated as part of the social history of women in America.

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LEONARD LEE BUSCHEL'S "HIGH"-- BRILLIANT CRIME/RECOVERY MEMOIR

The Brilliance of Leonard Buschel 

HIGH

If National Lampoon published a hysterically funny and mildly offensive parody of recovery memoirs, it couldn’t be as funny and mildly offensive as this autobiography of Leonard Lee Buschel, co-founder of Writers in Treatment, producers of the internationally acclaimed Reel Recovery Film Festivals, the Experience Strength and Hope Awards, and publishers of the Addiction/Recovery e-Bulletin.

     BRIGHT KID CHOOSES DARK CAREER

Despite being born with two life-threatening conditions, three if you count being Jewish, teenage Leonard Buschel chose a potentially problematic career: drug dealer.

For twenty-three years, life was a Sativa saturated, a star-studded, live-action adventure featuring highbrow humor, send-up satire and Indica infused X-rated escapades free from any legal indictments.  The only thing arrested was Leonard’s maturation from adolescence.

                       23 YEARS LATER

When Leonard checked into Betty Ford’s famed treatment center, he wasn’t seriously seeking recovery; he was hiding out to avoid a drug bust.  36 hours later, Leonard experienced an unexpected epiphany, drinking and drugging were relegated to the dust bin of his personal history, the real fun began, and the great adventure commenced.

                                                                   

                                         27 YEARS AFTER THAT

The world, with all its beauty and banality, cruelty, and comfort, continues sunrise to sunset, one day at a time. Today, Leonard Lee Buschel is more Leonard Lee Buschel than ever before:  mildly eccentric, slightly neurotic, occasionally erotic, and always charmingly, contagiously enthusiastic.

High is far more than a vastly entertaining recovery memoir. It is an open emotional summons, a sincere invitation to a life lived awake and alert, a life vibrating at a higher frequency of increased creativity and joy, and if you so desire, social inclusion, fun, fellowship, and plenty of free coffee.

 

KEVIN M SULLIVAN RETURNS! "HOW TED BUNDY TOOK OVER MY LIFE"

"Despite the multitude of books about Bundy, The Bundy Murders offers fresh material and ideas about Bundy's predatory movements. Well researched and highly recommended, for Bundy scholars and true crime fans alike."--Katherine Ramsland, author of The Human Predator and The Devil's Dozen

Theodore Bundy was one of the more infamous, and flamboyant, American serial killers on record, and his story is a complex mix of psychopathology, criminal investigation, and the U.S. legal system. This in-depth examination of Bundy's life and his killing spree that totaled dozens of victims is drawn from legal transcripts, correspondence and interviews with detectives and prosecutors. Using these sources, new information on several murders is unveiled. The biography follows Bundy from his broken family background to his execution in the electric chair.UY

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CATHY SCOTT RETURNS WITH NEW PROJECTS-- LISTEN LIVE SATURDAY

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Cathy Scott is a tour de force in true crime as a Los Angeles Times bestselling author and an award-winning investigative journalist. She attracted international acclaim for her classic true-crime biographies, THE KILLING OF TUPAC SHAKUR and THE MURDER OF BIGGIE SMALLS. Ann Rule has described Scott as "a star writer in the crowded field of true crime."

Cathy Scott's seventh book, THE MILLIONAIRE'S WIFE, was released March 27, 2012. by St. Martin's Press about the 1990 contract murder of George Kogan on an Upper East Side Manhattan street in broad daylight. Fast-forward nearly 20 years, and Barbara Kogan, George's estranged wife, admitted to hiring a hit man to have her husband gunned down.

Her eighth book - the re-release and update of MURDER OF A MAFIA DAUGHTER - was published in March 2014 about the unsolved murder of writer Susan Berman at the hands of accused killer Robert Durst. The book includes exclusive information from investigators and new information about the prime suspect. It was named Best True Crime Book (2nd place) by ForeWord Reviews.

A memoir of a former drug kingpin, FREEWAY RICK ROSS: THE UNTOLD AUTOBIOGRAPHY, which Cathy co-wrote with Ross, was released in June 2014 to a standing-room audience at its Los Angeles launch and was a finalist in ForeWord Reviews' Best True Crime Books of 2014.

Her latest book, UNCONDITIONAL HONOR: WOUNDED WARRIORS AND THEIR DOGS, released in March 2015, is about the amazing relationships between wounded veterans and their service dogs and the organizations the provide the dogs at no cost.

Her latest fact-based true crime proposed book is about two teenage girls murdered six years apart on Torrey Pines Beach State Beach in southern California, murdered under eerily similar circumstances. Fifteen-year-old Barbara Nantais was strangled and her body partially mutilated in 1978, and 14-year-old Claire Hough in 1984. Police and the FBI for two decades said the murders were most probably committed by the same killer. But after DNA turned up matching blood and semen samples for Claire Hough’s murder, police in October 2014 announced they’d solved the Hough murder and pointed to two men as the assailants, former police employee Kevin Brown and a sometimes homeless Nebraska man named Ronald Tatro, both of whom had since died. But an initial suspect in the case who, because of personnel changes at the police department, was never pursued. Meanwhile, the Barbara Nantais case remains open. Scott pursues the evidence and interviews police, neighbors, friends and family and profiles all three suspects.

A second project is the Dawn Viens case. Dawn, 37, disappeared on Oct. 18, 2010, after leaving Thyme Contemporary Cafe, in Lomita, California, that she and her husband ran. David Viens told police that he and his wife had argued. She didn't take her cell phone or stash of cash, and her car was later towed as evidence when she did not return. The husband, after throwing himself off a cliff -- and surviving -- admitted to killing his wife but has not told police where Dawn's body is.

You can find out more about this author by visiting her Web site at cathyscott dot com and her "Crime She Writes" blog for PsychologyToday dot com.

KEVIN SULLIVAN RETURNS! YES *ANOTHER TED BUNDY BOOK!"

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A writer of history and true crime, Kevin M. Sullivan is the author of sixteen books, a former investigative journalist for both print and online media, and is a recognized authority on serial sex killer, Ted Bundy. Indeed, his "break out" book, The Bundy Murders: A Comprehensive History, published by McFarland in 2009, was the catalyst that brought him much attention in the true crime world, leading to appearances on numerous radio programs and contacts from documentarians both here in the United States and the United Kingdom. Portions of his biography of Ted Bundy also appear in the college textbook, Abnormal Psychology: Clinical Perspectives on Psychological Disorders, published by McGraw-Hill in November 2012. And while Sullivan has authored crime books on others killers, both the well-known and the obscure, his interest in Ted Bundy and this voluminous multi-state murder case, has continued and produced five additional works on Bundy, each featuring new and never before published information on the killer and the case; including new interviews from those who knew Bundy, or hunted him, or escaped his clutches as he was attempting to abduct and murder them.

Now the six-volume set is about to become a seven-volume set, without question, the most substantial work ever produced on Theodore Robert Bundy.

 

THE LASTJEWISH GANGSTER-- SPECIAL GUEST DAVE LARSON

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SYNOPSIS

In the biography, The Last Jewish Gangster, follow the life of Michael J. Hardy, a chubby Jewish boy from the Brownsville streets in Brooklyn to the world's most dangerous prison in Mexico. Michael wants nothing more than to prove to his "Queen of NYC crime" mother that he deserves her love and is tougher than the famous gangsters she dates (Bugsy Siegel is Michael's godfather). Coming from a mixed heritage of Southern Baptists and Ashkenazic Ukrainian Jews, without a father, and rejected by his mother at birth, Michael becomes a fearless and lawless gangster over the next five decades.

 

When he finally reaches his goal, his mother is on her death bed, he's been shot 11 times, robbed hundreds of people, spent 16 years in prisons and jails (with more to come), committed multiple kidnappings, and killed 19 times. Now he struggles with forgiveness, within himself, those he harmed, and those who harmed him.

 

What's unique about this mob/gangster/true crime biography is the first-person look inside the psyche of a fearless gangster as he tells his life's story to his lawyer in 1990 and his therapist in 2014. Sometimes humorous, often times you have to look away – but you'll find yourself rooting for Michael J. Hardy, The Last Jewish Gangster.