{"podcast":{"title":"The Opperman Report'","slug":"the-opperman-report-1173939","podcast_index_feed_id":1173939,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/1198501/episodes/feed","website_url":"https://www.patreon.com/oppermanreport","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/dc56e5db00ed6e7610a32cff0bd08f93.jpg","author":"The Opperman Report","episode_count":1000,"summary":"Join PI Ed Opperman with expert guests and authors as they discuss true crime stories in the news, conspiracy theories, issues of social injustice and NWO resistance. Follow on Twitter and Instagram @OppermanReport Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-opperman-report--1198501/support .","last_synced_at":"2026-07-26T00:19:19.801811+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-opperman-report-1173939"},"episode":{"title":"First Lady of Murder - Ann Rule's Life, Legacy, and the Serial Killer She Called Friend","slug":"first-lady-of-murder-ann-rule-s-life-legacy-and-the-serial-killer-she-called-friend","published_at":"2026-06-13T02:00:02+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-opperman-report-1173939/first-lady-of-murder-ann-rule-s-life-legacy-and-the-serial-killer-she-called-friend","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-opperman-report-1173939","url":"https://www.patreon.com/c/oppermanreport","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/72504103/af_first_lady_of_murder_ann_rule_s_life_legacy_and_the_serial_killer_she_called_friend.mp3","summary":"Ann Rule became America’s queen of true crime by doing what few writers could: stepping past headlines, police reports, and courtroom drama to ask the deeper question. Why?In First Lady of Murder, acclaimed true crime author Cathy Scott turns that same investigative eye on Rule herself, revealing the complicated, driven, fiercely human woman behind The Stranger Beside Me, Small Sacrifices, and a body of work that changed crime writing forever. Drawing on years of research, interviews, and Scott’s own friendship with Rule, this deeply reported biography traces Ann’s journey from a sheriff’s granddaughter and would-be police officer to one of the most influential crime writers of her time.But this is more than the story of a literary career. It is the story of ambition, loyalty, rivalry, heartbreak, reinvention, and the personal cost of building a public identity around the darkest acts human beings can commit. Rich with new detail and hard-won insight, First Lady of Murder offers the most intimate portrait yet of a woman millions of readers thought they knew. They did not know the whole story. Until now. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-opperman-report--1198501/support .","meta_description":"Ann Rule became America’s queen of true crime by doing what few writers could: stepping past headlines, police reports, and courtroom drama to ask the dee…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3307,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-opperman-report-1173939/episodes/first-lady-of-murder-ann-rule-s-life-legacy-and-the-serial-killer-she-called-friend/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-opperman-report-1173939/first-lady-of-murder-ann-rule-s-life-legacy-and-the-serial-killer-she-called-friend.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}