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True crime with blunt questions and rough edges.
True Crime Uncensored pairs case-heavy interviews with rough-edged conversation, moving from homicide scenes and wrongful convictions to book talk and cultural detours. The tone is casual, skeptical, and often dryly funny, but the cases stay ugly and specific.
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True Crime Uncensored is a loose, fast-moving true-crime interview show with a long memory and a low tolerance for tidy explanations. Its episodes center on people who can speak from inside or near the case: detectives, journalists, authors, and people describing their own collisions with violence and the courts. The conversations are not polished into a single-file narrative. They interrupt, backtrack, joke, clarify, and then return to the awful fact on the table. That rhythm gives the show its appeal. It can sound casual while dealing with grim material. Recent episodes move through Chicago homicide work with Michelle Wood, a wrongful-conviction account from Jimmy Kittles, Frank Stanfield's graveyard murder story, the Tylenol murders, a West Hollywood murder case, a serial-killer travel guide, and the rise and disappearance of Frank Matthews. The range is broad, but the pressure points repeat. Family control turns violent. Courts make strange calls. Police assumptions shape investigations. Writers and investigators bring case files, transcripts, and old memories into the room. The show is especially interested in stories where the official version feels too quick, too convenient, or too blind to what is obvious in hindsight. It also refuses to stay solemn for every second. A discussion of murder can suddenly detour into Star Trek bathrooms, Paul McCartney ticket prices, or a dry crack about a movie. Those tangents do not erase the violence; they make the show feel like people talking through darkness without pretending to be above it. The best fit is a listener who likes true crime with interviews, messy texture, and blunt reactions. It is not clinical. It is not sleek. It is a case-room conversation with jokes in the margins and skepticism at the center.
Made for: For true-crime listeners who prefer interviews, case detail, and skeptical conversation over polished narration. It especially suits people interested in wrongful convictions, homicide investigations, crime writing, and the odd gaps between evidence and official conclusions.
What sets it apart: The show keeps the interruptions, side roads, and dry commentary in the mix, so the cases feel argued through rather than simply presented. Its guest list leans toward people with direct case knowledge or books built from documents, memory, and investigation.
"The best True Crime radio program on the air." - Erin Moriarty CBS 48Hrs The Internet's FIRST true crime broadcast and syndicated podcast hosted by NYT Best Selling author Burl Barer is now in our second decade of live broadcasts Saturday 2 pm PT on OutlawRadioLive.com , then available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and all major podcast outlets! Over 300 in depth conversations with the world’s most famous true crime journalists, authors private eyes, and agents of law enforcement
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Direct interviews connect case chronology, legal friction, and first-person experience without sanding away the hosts' blunt humor.
Burl Barer and Mark Boyer run True Crime Uncensored as a loose, direct interview room, giving authors, investigators, and people recounting their own cases space to build an account in detail.
Burl Barer and Mark Boyer take you from a fugitive's vanished millions to a department-store joke.
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Freight trains, McCartney tickets, and a rough-edged farewell anchor the conversation.
This episode moves in a loose, memory-led arc, with Burl Bearer and Mark C.G. Boyer drifting from rogues and vagabonds to a freight-hopping father who reached the World's Fair with a jar of peanut butter, then into Beatles recollections and the price of Paul McCartney tickets.
Michelle Wood's crime scene shoes bring homicide work down to floors, long hours, and what cannot come home.
Model Detective is at its best when Sergeant Michelle Wood keeps the work grounded in the practical details of homicide investigation. A 25-year veteran of the Chicago Police Department, with nearly two decades in the detective division, Wood gives the episode its clearest…
A conversational true-crime episode that keeps the human wreckage in view.
Jimmy Kittles's story moves from childhood abuse and foster care to a murder arrest, then into the legal knots around denials and jury instructions.
A family murder story that widens from a screaming 911 call to violence in a cemetery.
Frank Stanfield's Murder in the Graveyard follows a family killing that keeps widening into something uglier. A screaming 911 call, a stepmom killed on March 13, 2019, and a household that feels more than dysfunctional, maybe even cult-like, all give the episode its grim pull.
A quickly solved murder case opens into a wider criminal enterprise and a careful look at who shaped the story.
Where Murder Lies opens on Kelly Lee's concern that a murder case may have been resolved too quickly, with court documents and trial transcripts pointing to details that did not sit right.
A blunt Orange County story that moves from family collapse to shooting, pursuit, and recovery.
Christopher Curtis tells a hard-lived Orange story, beginning with a childhood that still had some stability at 12, when his parents were together and the family was doing well before his father lost the house and everything started to fall apart.
A missing gangster story built on a reported $15 to $20 million haul, a Durham bank sighting, and a steady return to the facts.
Frank Matthews' disappearance gives this True Crime Uncensored segment its strongest pull, and the case is rich with the sort of practical detail that makes the mystery feel immediate: a reported $15 to $20 million haul, a bank on Main Street in Durham, and an IRS agent who…
Retired detectives and victims' families walk through Australian murder cases with host Meshel Laurie.
A dark calendar of consequential cases.
Appalachian case files, told from the record.
Southern cases, sharp context, steady storytelling.
Historical mysteries built from the smallest clues.
South Carolina true crime, locally told.
Burl Bearer and Anea Barer chat live from Seattle's Pioneer Square about local history, including a statue honoring prostitutes and a Jimi Hendrix statue.
An interview with Paul Smith, Ph.D.
Chris Curtis, author of 'Orange County: The Dark Side,' joins True Crime Uncensored to share his life story.
True Crime Uncensored hosts Burl Barer and Mark Boyer interview Ron Chepczyk about Frank Matthews, a black drug kingpin who built a massive heroin empire in the 1970s.
Burl Barer and Frank Cesarado Jr.
Michelle Wood, a 25-year veteran of the Chicago Police Department and author of Model Detective, describes how she worked nearly two decades in the detective division while also appearing as a legal expert on ABC's 2020.
True Crime Uncensored with Burl Barer and Mark Boyer centers on Jimmy Kittles, who says he was pulled from a childhood of abuse, foster homes, and homelessness into a West Hollywood murder case.
Frank Stanfield, author of Murder in the Graveyard, describes a March 13, 2019 911 call in which Ian Insomo cries that he “accidentally killed someone” and names his stepmother.
True Crime Uncensored with Burl Barer and Mark Boyer interviews Joseph Sibeli about his book on the 1982 Tylenol poisonings and his father's September 29, 2023 deathbed confession.
Frank C. Toronto, Jr. describes a "dim sum menu" of deals that could free Mark's uncle from federal custody.
An interview with Johnny Trevisani about his satirical true crime travel guide that balances humor with respect for victims.
The episode discusses Frank Matthews, a major gangster who evaded capture partly due to racial assumptions, and his mysterious disappearance with millions.
An interview with an author about her book on state crime and fighting the Klan.