{"podcast":{"title":"True Murder: The Most Shocking Killers in True Crime History","slug":"true-murder-the-most-shocking-killers-in-true-crime-history-1038805","podcast_index_feed_id":1038805,"rss_url":"https://rss.introcast.io/393525078/www.spreaker.com/show/3269715/episodes/feed","website_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-murder-the-most-shocking-killers--6603242","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/a78ea515a438de1c9452281e6330ac64.jpg","author":"Dan Zupansky","episode_count":907,"summary":"TRUE MURDER—The Most Shocking Killers in True Crime History. Every week host Dan Zupansky will interview the true crime authors that have written about the most shocking killers of all time. From true crime history, comes the preeminent true crime authorities in America and the world today. From infamous serial killers, mass murderers, cult leaders and mafia hitmen to family murderers, nazis and homicidal maniacs—True Murder is a veritable true crime archive featuring historic murder cases written about by American legendary prosecutors, judges, journalists, detectives, forensic pathologists and bestselling authors. Featuring books about infamous serial killers such as Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy, BTK, Jeffrey Dahmer, Golden State Killer, Aileen Wournos, Charles Manson, Zodiac and Son Of Sam—the episode list includes 100's more with over 850 episodes. Famous true criime authors interviewed include Marcia Clark, John Douglas, Katherine Ramsland, Joseph Scott Morgan, Harold Schecter, and hundreds more. Unsolved cold cases, wrongful convictions, death row confessions, serial killer couples, psychopathic killers, DNA breakthroughs and convictions, infamous executions, cult killings—eve…","last_synced_at":"2026-07-13T12:17:03.701826+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/true-murder-the-most-shocking-killers-in-true-crime-history-1038805"},"episode":{"title":"WHERE MURDER LIES—Burl Barer and Frank C. Girardot Jr.","slug":"where-murder-lies-burl-barer-and-frank-c-girardot-jr","published_at":"2026-01-19T08:00:10+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/true-murder-the-most-shocking-killers-in-true-crime-history-1038805/where-murder-lies-burl-barer-and-frank-c-girardot-jr","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/true-murder-the-most-shocking-killers-in-true-crime-history-1038805","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/truemurder","audio_url":"https://prefix.up.audio/s/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/69501683/where_murder_lies_burl_barer_and_frank_c_girardot_jr.mp3","summary":"The murder of a retired Los Angeles schoolteacher in 2004 never made the evening news, yet within hours arrests were made, charges filed, and a speedy conviction sent to prison Jimmy Kitlas, an incredibly shy, special needs teenager with no criminal history whatsoever. 20 years after the murder , a woman named Kelley Leigh asked Burl Barer and Frank C. Girardot to investigate. She believed that the case’s rapid resolution concealed a deeper, more troubling narrative—one marked by deception, manipulation, dishonesty, and a profound disregard for truth and justice. She was right. Of the last three people to see the victim alive, only one had both the motive and the opportunity to strangle him to death, and it wasn’t Jimmy Kitlas. W hat begins with a dead body on the bed leads to a bizarre scheme to steal a fortune in gold, a plot to smuggle MDMA, and an incredible joint effort by the American Mafia and the Russian Mob to defraud the United States Government out of billions of dollars. WHERE MURDER LIES: Death and Deception in West Hollywood—Burl Barer and Frank C. Giradot Jr.","meta_description":"The murder of a retired Los Angeles schoolteacher in 2004 never made the evening news, yet within hours arrests were made, charges filed, and a speedy con…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3344,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/true-murder-the-most-shocking-killers-in-true-crime-history-1038805/episodes/where-murder-lies-burl-barer-and-frank-c-girardot-jr/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/true-murder-the-most-shocking-killers-in-true-crime-history-1038805/where-murder-lies-burl-barer-and-frank-c-girardot-jr.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}