Truer Crime

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Latest episodes

• Jeanie Childs Part 1

  November 3, 2025 · 38 min

  In the Summer of 1993, a leak in a south Minneapolis high-rise led a caretaker to a horrifying discovery: 35-year-old Jeanie Childs, murdered inside her apartment. On the floor beside her, a haunting clue: a trail of bloody bare…

• From Court TV to TikTok — The Menendez Effect

  October 27, 2025 · 56 min

  I’m going off the record with my co-producer, Olivia, to break down our Menendez Brothers series, from how the story evolved during production to what it reveals about our culture’s fascination with crime and punishment. We talk about the…

• The Menendez Brothers Part 3

  October 20, 2025 · 45 min

  Broadcast into millions of homes, the Menendez trial became something bigger than a murder case. It was television. Tabloid fodder. Even comedy material. But when trauma turns into spectacle, what gets lost? In Part Three, we trace how the…

• The Menendez Brothers Part 2

  October 13, 2025 · 41 min

  At just 18 and 21, Erik and Lyle Menendez stood trial for killing their parents. To many, it seemed unfathomable: how could two privileged kids from Beverly Hills do something like this? When they finally spoke, the picture that emerged…

• The Menendez Brothers Part 1

  October 6, 2025 · 41 min

  In the summer of 1989, wealthy media executive José Menendez and his wife, Kitty, were found dead inside their Beverly Hills home. The brutality of the crime was shocking enough, until the truth came out. Their killers weren’t intruders…

• Facing Death: A Conversation with Keith LaMar

  September 29, 2025 · 59 min

  Keith LaMar has spent more than 30 years on death row for crimes he says he did not commit. With his execution date set for January 13, 2027, and his final legal options dwindling, Keith speaks candidly about betrayal by his own attorneys…

• Keith LaMar + The Lucasville Prison Riot Part 4

  September 22, 2025 · 59 min

  In many true crime stories, the ending comes with the verdict: guilty, condemned, case closed. But for Keith LaMar, that moment marked the beginning of another story. For three decades, he has fought to keep living inside a system…

• Keith LaMar + The Lucasville Prison Riot Part 3

  September 15, 2025 · 46 min

  Keith LaMar once admitted to murder. But when prosecutors accused him of ordering deaths in the Lucasville prison riot, he drew a line: this time, he said, he was innocent. In this episode, we return to the crime that put Keith behind…