Rachel Dickinson: The Notorious Reno Gang

Most of us have heard about Jesse James and Butch Cassidy—those are two of the most famous outlaws in the American West. But a band of brothers called the Reno gang ruled an area of Indiana in the 1860s. They were robbers, safecrackers and counterfeiters. And while they committed crimes, they were …

Chet Hardin: The Vampire’s Cult

A 24-year-old woman went on a Tinder date in Nebraska and never came back home. Days later, her dismembered body was found and investigators homed in on a couple who had a long history of crime. The discoveries that the police made about them are disturbing. Author Chet Hardin tells me about his bo…

Lindsey Fitzharris: Sleuth-Hound

Arthur Conan Doyle created one of literature's great characters, Sherlock Holmes. Holmes was analytical, methodical, and brilliant. Doyle modeled Holmes not after a real detective but after a surgeon he admired: Joseph Bell. In her new book, Sleuth-Hound: The Case of the Real Sherlock Holmes, New Y…

Catherine Fogarty: The Girl with No Name

This is a fascinating case. In 1969, police found the body of a young woman, tossed over the edge of Mulholland Drive in LA. She went unidentified for decades and her murderer was on the loose. Author Catherine Fogarty launched her own investigation and uncovered some secrets and some people that m…

Rene Denfeld: The Talking Bone

Rene Denfeld is not only a novelist; she’s also an investigator who works on wrongful conviction cases. In her thriller, The Talking Bone, Denfeld uses her background and some of her cases to tell the story of a female investigator looking into the case of a man on death row in Georgia. And boy, di…

Jack El-Hai: The Case of the Autographed Corpse

In the 1930s, a Indigenous man was targeted by prosecutors in the murder of his wife. He claimed he was innocent. And a high-profile author who created an iconic detective series believed him. Jack El-Hai tells me the story at the center of his book: The Case of the Autographed Corpse.  Join my Pa…

Ashan Singh: What Happened to the McStays?

In 2010, Joseph and Summer McStay were living in California with their two young sons when they vanished from their California home. They were missing for three years before their skeletal remains were found in an unmarked grave in the Mojave Desert. But who killed them? My guest is ABC News corres…

James T. Bartlett: True Crime Burbank

James T. Bartlett has been with us before. He wrote a book called The Alaskan Blonde, about a woman who was accused of murdering her husband in 1953. Now James and I are traveling from Alaska down to Burbank, California with his new book, True Crime Burbank. He covers some of the city’s most infamo…

Maria DiLorenzo: Confessions of the Green River Killer

When crime journalist Maria DiLorenzo began writing to Gary Ridgway, she had no idea where it would go. He began calling her—hundreds of times. Their conversations were supposed to lead to big revelations and to clues about women who might have been victims of the Green River Killer. But Ridgway pl…

Steve Meyers + Shawn Johnson: How to Rob a Bank

In the 1990s, a bank robber known as “Hollywood” robbed at least 19 banks in the northwest. He was pursued for years until one final robbery ended in violence. My guests are an interesting duo: one is the FBI agent who chased him and his crew. The other was Hollywood’s accomplice. Shawn Johnson and…