Paul Goldman, author of DUPLICITY.
joins us this coming Saturday. Here is the story: this nice Jewish boy marries a nice Jewish girl who is a really a con woman
involved with an international prostitution ring -- and the ring on her finger
was, she imagined, her ticket to his personal real estate holdings and more than
considerable wealth.
Surprise! She picked the wrong nice Jewish boy! He busted her. This isn't so much a "true crime" as a "True schlemiel/true schlemazle"" story.
Paul isn't the first nice guy to get targeted by a crooked no-good femme fatale but this time the witch didn't even wind up with the wardrobe! Witness the transformation of one gullible schmuck from wimp to warrior. Listen live 2pm pacific time, 4pm Central, 5pm Eastern, and 10pm UK time.
November 14th, famed CBS News producer and true crime author Paul LaRosa joins Burl Barer and Don Woldman for a solid hour that will have you staring at your radio in drop jawed incredulity! Paul's new book, Seven Days of Rage is all about the notorious Craig's List killer. He also works with true crime hottie Erin Moriarty on 48hrs. Erin is a big fan of True Crimes, and we didn't even have to offer her a free toaster to come on the show. He has written other true crime books as well, and we promise you one hell of a show.
Listen by clicking this link Saturday 2pm Pacific Time, 4pm Central, 5pm Eastern, 10pm UK. Or listen via Itunes. Go to RADIO, then NEWS/TALK, then OUTLAW RADIO.
Harry N. MacLean live on True Crime!
Just Released
"The Past Is Never Dead"
The Trial of James Ford Seale and Mississippi’s Struggle for Redemption
From Basic Civitas, a Member of the Perseus Books Group, for more information go to www.perseusbooksgroup.com
From Edgar Award Winner
Harry N. MacLean
In 1964, at the beginning of a hot Mississippi summer, Klansman James Ford Seale was involved in the kidnapping and murder of two young black men. He and fellow Klansmen chained the youths to iron weights and dumped them alive into the Mississippi River. Not until January 2007 was Seale finally brought to justice, in what might be called the ultimate cold case.
In The Past Is Never Dead bestselling author Harry MacLean follows the twists and turns of a trial that took forty-three years to come to pass. Through the unfolding drama we see past the stereotypes about Mississippi, finding a culture far different from, and in many ways better than, its endemic racism and bloody history would suggest.
At the heart of The Past Is Never Dead is a gripping legal battle over Seale’s fate, putting to the test Mississippi’s struggle for redemption, and questioning whether it is indeed ever possible to overcome the past.
"Even decades after the Civil Rights Movement wrought real change throughout the United States, Mississippi remains ground zero for what can be called the ongoing drama of racial inequality. This is the ground Harry Maclean walks in this fierce, moving, and tremendously engaging book."
– Henry Louis Gates Jr., Director, W.E.B. DuBois Institute for African & African American Research, Harvard University25th Anniversary Edition
Includes a complete update from the author with new information
on the killing and the investigation.
"In Broad Daylight"
Edgar Award Winner
Harry N. MacLean
For twenty years, Ken Rex McElroy terrorized the citizens of northwest Missouri without conscience or remorse. On July 10, 1981, McElroy was shot to death on the main street of the small town of Skidmore, as he sat in his pick-up. Forty-five people watched, yet no one was ever indicted for the murder.
Harry MacLean won an Edgar Award for In Broad Daylight, first published in 1989. The book tells the story of McElroy’s reign of terror, the murder itself, and the town’s conspiracy of silence as to the identity of the killers. The book was reissued in 2007 with an epilogue containing new information on the killing and the investigation.
“Gripping…excellent and disturbing…a fine and richly rewarding book.”
– The Washington Post Book World
This compelling compendium of stranger than fiction cases from the files of Fred Wolfson, PI, take
Whether Wolfson is tracking down missing money for Caesars Palace, outfoxing an international swindler, or breaking up a black market of stolen children, all the action is one-hundred percent true. The real bonus is that Wolfson doesn’t simply recount his adventures, but he shares the methods, both legal and otherwise, that made him the most in-demand and respected private detective of our time.
The famous names drop like quarters in a Vegas slot machine – The Rolling Stones, Roseanne Barr, Groucho Marx , Zsa Zsa Gabor, Michael Jackson, Rodney King, and the list goes on.
Wolfson’s fascinating reminiscences detail exactly how to tell when someone is lying, cheating or stealing from you. You’ll learn the tragic consequence of failing to conduct a simple background check, and how to find out the truth about anyone.
A compelling read from the first paragraph!
SCROLL DOWN TO THE PLAYER ON THE LEFT HAND SIDE!!! Listen now to our show with Corey Mitchell!
On December 6th, 1991, fresh-faced teens Jennifer Harbison and Eliza Thomas began to close up the Austin, Texas yogurt shop where they worked. They were joined by Jennifer’s younger sister, Sarah, and her friend Amy Ayers. Less than an hour later all four girls were dead—apparent victims of a fire. But closer examination revealed that they had been bound and gagged, sexually assaulted, and shot execution-style. It was the most horrific crime the peaceful college town had seen since the infamous University of Texas Tower shootings in 1966.
With no physical evidence or eyewitnesses and more than a hundred bizarre confessions to weed through, the Austin police faced one of their toughest cases ever. The family and friends who chanted “We will not forget,” would have to wait nearly eight years before Robert Springsteen IV, Michael Scott, Maurice Pierce, and Forrest Welborn—teenagers themselves at the time of the murders—were taken into custody. Intense questioning revealed how their plan to rob the yogurt shop exploded into a drug- and sex-fueled spree of rage and brutality. But their story wasn’t over yet.
In February 2003, several months after the final verdict had been read, a final shocking twist would rock the city of Austin once more...
On the morning of May 25, 1979, six-year-old Etan Patz kissed his mother goodbye on the sidewalk outside his parents’ downtown Manhattan loft and set off for his school bus stop, walking the two short blocks on his own for the very first time. But he never made it to school that day, and he never came home.
Etan Patz, the most famous missing child since the Lindbergh baby, became quite literally the poster child for a new movement, in a case that would change our cultural landscape forever. Thirty years later May 25th will be recognized as National Missing Children's Day, as it is every year, in Etan's honor.
But despite the overwhelming publicity his case received, the public knows only a fraction of what happened, because it is so much more than a heart-wrenching mystery.
It is also the story of the men, women, and children who were touched by his life, after he vanished.
It's the story of the agonies and triumphs of the Patz family.
It's the story of the careening twists and turns of federal prosecutor Stuart GraBois's relentless pursuit of his prime suspect. Jose Antonio Ramos is in prison not for Etan Patz, but BECAUSE of him. GraBois put him there for another crime against a child, and won't rest until Ramos faces charges for crimes against Etan. The serial child molester is up for parole in June 2009, and even if he doesn't get it, Ramos will walk free in 2014. Unless GraBois, Stan Patz, and others working with them, stop him.
From GraBois's creative "outside the box" tactics, to the veteran cop who made his first pedophile bust on a dark Times Square rooftop, to the FBI rookie who cut her teeth chasing the case through the dark recesses of a child molester's mind…this is the story of the heroic investigators who, to this day, thirty years later, continue to seek justice for Etan.
Drawing on hundreds of interviews and nearly twenty years of research - including access to the Patz family's personal files – in the first book ever on the subject, Lisa R. Cohen finally reveals the entire dramatic tale, and lays out the case against Jose Ramos for the public to judge for themselves.
Lisa Cohen joins Burl Barer and Don Woldman LIVE Saturday September 12th!
This is the show we did with her on TRUE CRIMES -- we join the show about 5 minutes in. Don't worry, all you miss is the intro and Burl being a smart-ass (So what else is new?)
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Burl Barer spent the day in the Gateway, Texas Women's Prison with Rhonda Glover, found guilty of murder in the shooting death of her boy friend, Jimmy Joste. She is more gorgeous in person than she is in either her beauty photographs or her booking photo! Listen this coming Saturday 2pm pacific for Burl's complete report on life behind bars -- and not the kind of bar where our producer Matt Alan minds his own business and then finally has to stand up, or walk home.
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