TRUE CRIME UNCENSORED with BURL BARER

FROM ORPHAN TO MILLIONAIRE - STEVE PROHASKA IS OUR GUEST SATURDAY 2pm pt/5pm et

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At only 5 years old, as bullets rained down upon his childhood home, Big Steve Prohaska was forced to make a choice. Stay, and die at the hands of the Cali Cartel, or run, leave his fallen family behind, and survive. Steve chose survival. So marked the beginning of a journey that would take him from the dilapidated halls of a Colombian orphanage to the whitebred suburbs of Connecticut and, eventually, to the realization of the American dream.

Told with remarkable honesty, From Orphan to Millionaire is the compelling autobiographical account of the many ups, downs, twists and turns that made Big Steve Prohaska into the successful businessman, entrepreneur, father and entertainment mogul he is today.

Join Steve as he recounts the struggles he faced as a Colombian immigrant assimilating into American life. Experience first-hand his thrilling, dangerous lifestyle as he tells the story of his transition from strip club manager to nightclub owner, and the federal investigation that nearly cost him everything. And become inspired as he explains his changes in mindset over the years - from survivor, to hustler, to boss, to monster - that allowed him to traverse that difficult and unique path: From Orphan to Millionaire.

CHIP WILLIAMSON, EXONERATED OF MURDER, HAS NEW YOUTUBE PODCAST

Wade "Chip" Williamson didn't think there was any danger is having his wife's former boyfriend over to the house.  

WRONG.

The ex boyfriend  roughs up the wife and threatens to kill the husband.  When the boyfriend  tries to kill the husband, Chip shoots him in selfdefense. He is surprised when he is charged with first degree murder. 

It took five years for Chip to be cleared, and how he has a new YouTube podcast: CRIME & ENTERTAINMENT,

Chip joins us this Saturday 6/29/2024 at 2pm pacific 

ORANGE COUNTY: THE DARK SIDE -- CHRISTOPHER CURTIS IS OUR GUEST SATURDAY!

The land of milk and honey, streets paved with gold, and a place your dreams can come true are the illusions of Orange County. But, when you cross to the other side, The Dark Side, life is quite different. On the dark side, allowances given are lines of cocaine. Drive-by shootings are a daily occurrence, and parents are not the protectors but the ones who send you out to score for them.

This was Christopher Curtis’ life. Taking the reader to some of his earliest memories and on through his third strike prison sentence, this book is gritty and realistic.

All the systems in place to help the kids who fall through the cracks failed Christopher. As he matures, the addiction, crimes, and lifestyle accelerate and degrade. The book contains the despair that, at times, Christopher did not even realize was part of his day. The ups and downs of drugs. The using and selling, the getting away with and being punished for his crimes. The community that revolves around an addict is all exposed in plain language, the original written by Christopher on a typewriter.

What do you do when the deck is not only stacked against you but reinforced with concrete? Survival is the only goal. And survive is what Christopher did. He is here to tell the tale with the hope that someone also on the Dark Side of their street catches a glimpse of themselves and can see the way to a better life.

 

LIVE FROM RUSSIA -- MIAN MOHSIN ZIA

 Mian is the man Howard Lapides called "The king of marketing"

His most recent thriller, cried out for a sequel, and as MISSING ended in Russia, and as he has a fan base there, it only makes sense that Mian would go to Russia to immerse himself in Russian culture and learn the language.

Amazingly, he is  in the same city and attending the same University as Burl's daughter did decades previously.

O.J SIMPSON WAS PRESUMED INNOCENT AND FOUND NOT GUILTY OF DOUBLE MURDER

O.J. Simpson -- black sports star celebrity accused of killing his estranged white wife and a nice Jewish boy returning the glasses she forgot at a restaurant. Add one racist detective obsessed with Mrs Simpson who stalks her like a jealous school boy and parks outside her house at night to see who comes and goes, and despite the bloody violence of the murders, there is no blood on OJ,nor in the plumbing or his home or on his clothes, in fact, the only blood are drops proven planted by someone from the  LAPD.  We all watched the trial on TV except for those select few such as FRANK C GIRARDOT JR. who covered the trial live from the courtroom as it happened.

Yes, Frank joins us Saturday April 13th 2pm pt to share his insights with Burl, Mark and YOU.

JEFF MUDGETT: BLOODSTAINS. SERIAL KILLER IN HIS DNA?

Jeff Mudgett was first on our show in 2011 -- now he's back.  Did he have serial killer DNA? Did finding out America's first horrible serial killer was his great-great-grandfather somehow "curse" him?  Let's find out! 

Bloodstains is the startling tale of one man’s search for the truth after inheriting the personal diaries belonging to his great-great-grandfather who, he discovers, was America’s first and most notorious serial killer Herman Webster Mudgett.

Better known by his alias H.H. Holmes, Mudgett was the mass murderer who struck terror in the nation by being the proprietor of the infamous Murder Castle and stalking the streets of Chicago during the 1893 World’s Fair.

During his incarceration awaiting execution, well over a century ago, Holmes admitted killing 27 innocent victims, but the evidence the author locates indicates hundreds more likely. From his investigation, Jeff Mudgett, the direct descendant, learns that Holmes’ reign of terror was worldwide and not limited to Chicago as has been so widely believed. Based upon never-before-revealed historical facts, Jeff pieces together a dynamic and extraordinary puzzle, including the strong possibility that Holmes was also Jack the Ripper.

Far more than a documentary, Bloodstains is precariously balanced on the very edge between non-fiction and the paranormal, as the author’s research of his evil ancestor quickly takes on a personal aspect. Jeff soon fears that his efforts may have awakened the legendary "Holmes Curse" of the 1890s - the one investigated and written about by most of the nation’s major publications, including The New York Times.

In fact, the deeper he digs into Holmes’ devilish past, the stronger the monster’s hold on him seems to become, testing the limits of his own sanity as well as humanity. Racked by a mysterious and never before experienced epilepsy, Jeff suffers crippling grand mal seizures whenever he disobeys the haunting voices in his head. Finally, with nowhere else to turn, Jeff is forced to make the decisions of his genetic lifetime in a life-or-death struggle in order to win the greatest prize of all: his survival.

HART FISHER RETURNS AFTER 14 YEARS--THE SCARIEST MAN IN AMERICA!

CELEBRATE FREEDOM OF SPEECH and FREEDOM OF THE PRESS with our good pal and so-called "Scariest Man in America" Hart D. Fisher. 

Okay, he knows how to market himself. In real life, Hart is about as scary as a box of Pop Tarts, and every bit a gentleman.  Boris Karloff (Frankenstein's Monster) proved you can be scary professionally and safe as milk personally.  Hart D. Fisher is a master of both. 

He is the creative force behind AMERICAN HORRORS and infamous for YOUNG JEFFREY DAHMER,and much more!  He will discuss both Saturday on  True Crime Uncensored on OutlawRadioLive.com 2pm Pacific time.

 

Edgar Award Winner Alane Ferguson is our special guest. 3/2/2024

e  listen live Saturday 2 pm pt/5pm et on outlawradiolive.com

Ferguson won the Edgar Award for "Show me the Evidence," and has written numerous best-selling young adult mysteries.

The murder of a close friend, Savannah Anderson, had a major impact on Ms Ferguson's life and career.  

Robert Lloyd Sellers' guilty plea-entered 10 years to the day after Savannah
Leigh Anderson's naked, bruised and sexually molested body was discovered in her
Woodbridge apartment-was only the latest twist in the bizarre murder case.
Defense attorney Jack Earley said Sellers decided to plead guilty to first-degree
murder after prosecutors agreed to seek a sentence of 25 years to life, but with the
possibility of parole. At trial, prosecutors had sought the death penalty and Sellers
received a life sentence without the possibility of parole.
Earley said Sellers wanted to avoid "the risk involved in a new trial. This is an
emotional case, and there is no telling what a jury could do. . . . The certainty of having the case over was peaceful to Mr. Sellers."
Sellers was a 22-year-old Marine and part-time security guard at Anderson's
apartment complex. He subsequently admitted to police that he was obsessed with
the woman and had broken into her apartment to confront her shortly after midnight
on May 14, 1979. When Anderson rejected Sellers' advances, he went into a rage,
beating her with his night stick and then strangling her with his belt. He returned to
the apartment several hours later, dragged the woman's body to the bathtub,
washed it and put it into bed, where he sexually molested the body.
For 5 years the case was an unsolved murder. Then in 1984 Irvine police officers
Larry Montgomery and Scott Cade decided to recheck the bloody palm print left in
the victim's bathroom and discovered it matched Sellers'. When the FBI verified the
finding, Sellers was brought in for questioning and confessed to the crime.
The prosecution had argued that Anderson was raped twice-during her struggle
with her killer and again after she was dead.
In August, 1988, the state's 4th District Court of Appeal found that there was
evidence only that she was raped after her death. Ruling that rape can occur only
while a victim is alive, the court overturned the life-without-parole sentence because
the murder conviction lacked a legally required "special circumstance," such as rape.
The court ordered a new trial, saying that while the bludgeoning and strangulation of
Anderson was "a most heinous crime," jurors had been improperly instructed on the
law regarding rape and that this had improperly influenced the verdict on the murder
charge.
Sellers has been incarcerated at Folsom State Prison since his conviction.
Deputy Dist. Atty. Richard M. King said that considering all the factors involved in the
case-particularly the expense of a second trial-"it was in the interest of justice to
accept the defendant's offer to plead guilty."

 

Alane Ferguson (born 1957) is an American author. She won the Edgar Award for Best Young Adult Mystery novel in 1990 for Show Me the Evidence.^[1]

Ferguson was born in Cumberland, Maryland, in 1957. Her mother is children's author Gloria Skurzynski. Ferguson collaborated with her mother on a series of novels titled Mysteries in Our National Parks for the National Geographic Society.^[2]

Ferguson is the author of many novels and mysteries, including the Edgar Award-winning Show Me The Evidence. She does intensive research for her books by attending autopsies and interviewing forensic pathologists.

Works[edit]

• The Dying Breath, September 2009
• Circle Of Blood, Viking, 2007 hardcover, 2007
• Angel of Death, Viking, 2006 hardcover, 2006
• The Christopher Killer, Viking, 2006 hardcover, 2006
• Buried Alive, National Geographic, 2003 paperback, 2003
• Escape from Fear, National Geographic, 2002 paperback, 2002
• Out of the Deep, National Geographic, 2002 paperback, 2002
• Running Scared, National Geographic, 2002 paperback. 2002
• Over the Edge, National Geographic, 2001 paperback, 2001
• Valley of Death, National Geographic, 2001 paperback, 2001
• Ghost Horses, National Geographic, 2000 paperback, 2001
• The Hunted, National Geographic, 2000 paperback, 2001
• Deadly Waters, National Geographic, 1999 paperback, 2001
• Cliff-Hanger, National Geographic, 1999 paperback, 2001
• Rage of Fire, National Geographic, 1998 paperback, 2001
• Wolf Stalker, National Geographic, 1997 paperback, 2001
• The Mystery of the Fire in the Sky, Troll Associates|Troll Books, 1997
• The Mystery of the Vanishing Creatures, Troll Books, 1996
• The Mystery of the Spooky Shadow, Troll Books, 1996
• Secrets, Simon & Schuster, 1997
• Night Terrors, an anthology, 1996
• See You in September, Avon Books, 1995
• A Tumbleweed Christmas, Bradbury Press, 1995
• Poison, Bradbury Press, 1994
• Stardust, Bradbury Press, 1993
• Overkill, Bradbury Press, 1992
• The Practical Joke War, Bradbury Press, 1991
• Cricket and the Crackerbox Kid, Bradbury Press, 1990
• Show Me the Evidence, Bradbury Press, 1989
• That New Pet, Lothrop Lee & Shephard, 1987

Edgar Award Winner Alane Ferguson is our special guest. 3/2/2024

e  listen live Saturday 2 pm pt/5pm et on outlawradiolive.com

Ferguson won the Edgar Award for "Show me the Evidence," and has written numerous best-selling young adult mysteries.

The murder of a close friend, Savannah Anderson, had a major impact on Ms Ferguson's life and career.  

Robert Lloyd Sellers' guilty plea-entered 10 years to the day after Savannah
Leigh Anderson's naked, bruised and sexually molested body was discovered in her
Woodbridge apartment-was only the latest twist in the bizarre murder case.
Defense attorney Jack Earley said Sellers decided to plead guilty to first-degree
murder after prosecutors agreed to seek a sentence of 25 years to life, but with the
possibility of parole. At trial, prosecutors had sought the death penalty and Sellers
received a life sentence without the possibility of parole.
Earley said Sellers wanted to avoid "the risk involved in a new trial. This is an
emotional case, and there is no telling what a jury could do. . . . The certainty of having the case over was peaceful to Mr. Sellers."
Sellers was a 22-year-old Marine and part-time security guard at Anderson's
apartment complex. He subsequently admitted to police that he was obsessed with
the woman and had broken into her apartment to confront her shortly after midnight
on May 14, 1979. When Anderson rejected Sellers' advances, he went into a rage,
beating her with his night stick and then strangling her with his belt. He returned to
the apartment several hours later, dragged the woman's body to the bathtub,
washed it and put it into bed, where he sexually molested the body.
For 5 years the case was an unsolved murder. Then in 1984 Irvine police officers
Larry Montgomery and Scott Cade decided to recheck the bloody palm print left in
the victim's bathroom and discovered it matched Sellers'. When the FBI verified the
finding, Sellers was brought in for questioning and confessed to the crime.
The prosecution had argued that Anderson was raped twice-during her struggle
with her killer and again after she was dead.
In August, 1988, the state's 4th District Court of Appeal found that there was
evidence only that she was raped after her death. Ruling that rape can occur only
while a victim is alive, the court overturned the life-without-parole sentence because
the murder conviction lacked a legally required "special circumstance," such as rape.
The court ordered a new trial, saying that while the bludgeoning and strangulation of
Anderson was "a most heinous crime," jurors had been improperly instructed on the
law regarding rape and that this had improperly influenced the verdict on the murder
charge.
Sellers has been incarcerated at Folsom State Prison since his conviction.
Deputy Dist. Atty. Richard M. King said that considering all the factors involved in the
case-particularly the expense of a second trial-"it was in the interest of justice to
accept the defendant's offer to plead guilty."

 

Alane Ferguson (born 1957) is an American author. She won the Edgar Award for Best Young Adult Mystery novel in 1990 for Show Me the Evidence.^[1]

Ferguson was born in Cumberland, Maryland, in 1957. Her mother is children's author Gloria Skurzynski. Ferguson collaborated with her mother on a series of novels titled Mysteries in Our National Parks for the National Geographic Society.^[2]

Ferguson is the author of many novels and mysteries, including the Edgar Award-winning Show Me The Evidence. She does intensive research for her books by attending autopsies and interviewing forensic pathologists.

Works[edit]

• The Dying Breath, September 2009
• Circle Of Blood, Viking, 2007 hardcover, 2007
• Angel of Death, Viking, 2006 hardcover, 2006
• The Christopher Killer, Viking, 2006 hardcover, 2006
• Buried Alive, National Geographic, 2003 paperback, 2003
• Escape from Fear, National Geographic, 2002 paperback, 2002
• Out of the Deep, National Geographic, 2002 paperback, 2002
• Running Scared, National Geographic, 2002 paperback. 2002
• Over the Edge, National Geographic, 2001 paperback, 2001
• Valley of Death, National Geographic, 2001 paperback, 2001
• Ghost Horses, National Geographic, 2000 paperback, 2001
• The Hunted, National Geographic, 2000 paperback, 2001
• Deadly Waters, National Geographic, 1999 paperback, 2001
• Cliff-Hanger, National Geographic, 1999 paperback, 2001
• Rage of Fire, National Geographic, 1998 paperback, 2001
• Wolf Stalker, National Geographic, 1997 paperback, 2001
• The Mystery of the Fire in the Sky, Troll Associates|Troll Books, 1997
• The Mystery of the Vanishing Creatures, Troll Books, 1996
• The Mystery of the Spooky Shadow, Troll Books, 1996
• Secrets, Simon & Schuster, 1997
• Night Terrors, an anthology, 1996
• See You in September, Avon Books, 1995
• A Tumbleweed Christmas, Bradbury Press, 1995
• Poison, Bradbury Press, 1994
• Stardust, Bradbury Press, 1993
• Overkill, Bradbury Press, 1992
• The Practical Joke War, Bradbury Press, 1991
• Cricket and the Crackerbox Kid, Bradbury Press, 1990
• Show Me the Evidence, Bradbury Press, 1989
• That New Pet, Lothrop Lee & Shephard, 1987

Edgar Award Winner Alane Ferguson is our special guest. 3/2/2024

e  listen live Saturday 2 pm pt/5pm et on outlawradiolive.com

Ferguson won the Edgar Award for "Show me the Evidence," and has written numerous best-selling young adult mysteries.

The murder of a close friend, Savannah Anderson, had a major impact on Ms Ferguson's life and career.  

Robert Lloyd Sellers' guilty plea-entered 10 years to the day after Savannah
Leigh Anderson's naked, bruised and sexually molested body was discovered in her
Woodbridge apartment-was only the latest twist in the bizarre murder case.
Defense attorney Jack Earley said Sellers decided to plead guilty to first-degree
murder after prosecutors agreed to seek a sentence of 25 years to life, but with the
possibility of parole. At trial, prosecutors had sought the death penalty and Sellers
received a life sentence without the possibility of parole.
Earley said Sellers wanted to avoid "the risk involved in a new trial. This is an
emotional case, and there is no telling what a jury could do. . . . The certainty of having the case over was peaceful to Mr. Sellers."
Sellers was a 22-year-old Marine and part-time security guard at Anderson's
apartment complex. He subsequently admitted to police that he was obsessed with
the woman and had broken into her apartment to confront her shortly after midnight
on May 14, 1979. When Anderson rejected Sellers' advances, he went into a rage,
beating her with his night stick and then strangling her with his belt. He returned to
the apartment several hours later, dragged the woman's body to the bathtub,
washed it and put it into bed, where he sexually molested the body.
For 5 years the case was an unsolved murder. Then in 1984 Irvine police officers
Larry Montgomery and Scott Cade decided to recheck the bloody palm print left in
the victim's bathroom and discovered it matched Sellers'. When the FBI verified the
finding, Sellers was brought in for questioning and confessed to the crime.
The prosecution had argued that Anderson was raped twice-during her struggle
with her killer and again after she was dead.
In August, 1988, the state's 4th District Court of Appeal found that there was
evidence only that she was raped after her death. Ruling that rape can occur only
while a victim is alive, the court overturned the life-without-parole sentence because
the murder conviction lacked a legally required "special circumstance," such as rape.
The court ordered a new trial, saying that while the bludgeoning and strangulation of
Anderson was "a most heinous crime," jurors had been improperly instructed on the
law regarding rape and that this had improperly influenced the verdict on the murder
charge.
Sellers has been incarcerated at Folsom State Prison since his conviction.
Deputy Dist. Atty. Richard M. King said that considering all the factors involved in the
case-particularly the expense of a second trial-"it was in the interest of justice to
accept the defendant's offer to plead guilty."

 

Alane Ferguson (born 1957) is an American author. She won the Edgar Award for Best Young Adult Mystery novel in 1990 for Show Me the Evidence.^[1]

Ferguson was born in Cumberland, Maryland, in 1957. Her mother is children's author Gloria Skurzynski. Ferguson collaborated with her mother on a series of novels titled Mysteries in Our National Parks for the National Geographic Society.^[2]

Ferguson is the author of many novels and mysteries, including the Edgar Award-winning Show Me The Evidence. She does intensive research for her books by attending autopsies and interviewing forensic pathologists.

Works[edit]

• The Dying Breath, September 2009
• Circle Of Blood, Viking, 2007 hardcover, 2007
• Angel of Death, Viking, 2006 hardcover, 2006
• The Christopher Killer, Viking, 2006 hardcover, 2006
• Buried Alive, National Geographic, 2003 paperback, 2003
• Escape from Fear, National Geographic, 2002 paperback, 2002
• Out of the Deep, National Geographic, 2002 paperback, 2002
• Running Scared, National Geographic, 2002 paperback. 2002
• Over the Edge, National Geographic, 2001 paperback, 2001
• Valley of Death, National Geographic, 2001 paperback, 2001
• Ghost Horses, National Geographic, 2000 paperback, 2001
• The Hunted, National Geographic, 2000 paperback, 2001
• Deadly Waters, National Geographic, 1999 paperback, 2001
• Cliff-Hanger, National Geographic, 1999 paperback, 2001
• Rage of Fire, National Geographic, 1998 paperback, 2001
• Wolf Stalker, National Geographic, 1997 paperback, 2001
• The Mystery of the Fire in the Sky, Troll Associates|Troll Books, 1997
• The Mystery of the Vanishing Creatures, Troll Books, 1996
• The Mystery of the Spooky Shadow, Troll Books, 1996
• Secrets, Simon & Schuster, 1997
• Night Terrors, an anthology, 1996
• See You in September, Avon Books, 1995
• A Tumbleweed Christmas, Bradbury Press, 1995
• Poison, Bradbury Press, 1994
• Stardust, Bradbury Press, 1993
• Overkill, Bradbury Press, 1992
• The Practical Joke War, Bradbury Press, 1991
• Cricket and the Crackerbox Kid, Bradbury Press, 1990
• Show Me the Evidence, Bradbury Press, 1989
• That New Pet, Lothrop Lee & Shephard, 1987