Jim Harold's Crime Scene
Jim Harold interviews authors and experts on true crime. Past guests have included Pulitzer Prize winners, best selling authors and popular true crime podcasters.
Episodes
April 23, 2025 • 44 mins
On this week's episode of Crime Scene, Jim interviews John Koerner author of The Four Guns: The Stolen History of the Assassinated Presidents. The book talks about how American history would have changed if the presidents had survived their assassinations and shows how much four weapons deprived us of a better future.
You can purchase the book on Amazon: https://amzn.to/42rfp2V
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April 10, 2025 • 36 mins
On this episode of Crime Scene, Jim speaks with author Janet Wallach about the true story of socialite Marguerite Harrison, who spied for U.S. military intelligence in Russia and Germany in the period between the world wars. Janet's book, Flirting with Danger: The Mysterious Life of Marguerite Harrison, Socialite Spy, is a New York Times Editor's Choice book that details how this 37-year-old widowed, socialite, reporter turned spy ...
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April 2, 2025 • 40 mins
Join Jim this week on Crime Scene as he speaks with author Sylvia Shults and podcaster Ron Hood about their podcast-Grave Deeds and Dead Plots -based on crime stories that led to hauntings all taken from Sylvia's book: Grave Deeds and Dead Plots Volume 2.
Also, be sure to check out Sylvia's podcast Lights Out and Ron's podcast Ron's Amazing Stories.
You can purchase the book on Amazon: https://amzn.to/42c7ogP
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March 27, 2025 • 34 mins
On this episode of Jim Harold's Crime Scene, Jim speaks with best selling author and award winning social historian, Hallie Rubenhold about her brand new book, Story of a Murder: The Wives, the Mistress, and Dr. Crippen, Hallie delivers a powerful analysis of a notorious 20th-century murder, shedding light on the often-overlooked voices of the women involved. Through meticulous research and a storyteller's intuition, Hallie Rubenho...
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March 7, 2025 • 45 mins
On this week's Crime Scene, Jim talks with Brian and Cameron Santana about their book A Murder on Campus: The Professor, The Cop, and North Carolina's Most Notorious Cold Case. Written by two brothers, one a cop and the other an English professor, their book offers a unique and fascinating perspective on a the unsolved case that has haunted Buncombe County for generations--the brutal 1973 murder on the University of North Carolina-...
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February 19, 2025 • 47 mins
In this episode of Jim Harold’s Crime Scene, Jim sits down with Jonathan Schwartz, a former business manager who embezzled over $7 million from high-profile clients, including Alanis Morissette. After being sentenced to six years in prison, Jonathan has turned his life around, overcoming addiction and gambling. Now, he is the Program Director at Altus Rehab in California, helping others recover and rebuild. Tune in for an incredibl...
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February 12, 2025 • 39 mins
On this week's Crime Scene, Jim talks to esteemed author and lawyer, John Oller, about his latest book Gangster Hunters: How Hoover's G-men Vanquished America's Deadliest Public Enemies. With thorough research of primary sources, John Oller immerses readers in the intense and pivotal raids of the 1930s, delivering a fast-paced narrative that highlights the extreme measures both sides took to secure victory.
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February 5, 2025 • 37 mins
In this episode of Jim Harold's Crime Scene, Jim sits down with author Lori Hellis to discuss her book Children of Darkness and Light: Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell: A Story of Murderous Faith. During her legal career, Lori worked both as a prosecutor and a public defender representing adults and juveniles in criminal matters; she served twenty years in the Air National Guard and has been a passionate advocate for children, victims ...
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January 29, 2025 • 37 mins
"The Triad region ranks high in national murder statistics, but crime stories are always more interesting than numbers." This week Jim talks with author Cathy Pickens about her latest book, True Crime Stories of the Triad. Cathy is a renaissance woman: author, lawyer, college professor (professor emerita in the McColl School of Business), crime fiction writer, and the list goes on and on! They have a fascinating discussion about ...
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January 24, 2025 • 35 mins
Join Jim on this week's Crime Scene as he speaks with author Sara Jordan-Heintz about The Incredible Life & Mysterious Death of Dorothy Kilgallen. Dorothy was known as a panelist on the game show “What’s My Line?” and was popular for her “Voice of Broadway” column with the Hearst papers. She was an investigative journalist, and covered some of the biggest stories and court cases of the mid-20th century, even securing a Pulitzer Pri...
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January 15, 2025 • 35 mins
Jim speaks with Wall Street Journal author Valerie Bauerlein about her research and book, The Devil at His Elbow: Alex Murdaugh and the Fall of a Southern Dynasty. Valerie tells us the true story of Alex Murdaugh’s violent downfall-- the journey through Alex’s life, the night of the murders, and the investigation that culminated in a trial that held tens of millions spellbound.
You can purchase the book at Amazon HERE.
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January 8, 2025 • 35 mins
Today on Jim Harold's Crime Scene, Jim interviews author B.R. Bates about her book The 'Baby Doll' Serial Killer: The John Eric Armstrong Homicides. John Eric Armstrong was considered sweet and unassuming, after all, he was nicknamed "Opie". B.R. discusses the gripping story of this chameleon of a serial killer through his crimes in Detroit, MI.
You can purchase her book on Amazon HERE.
Thanks B.R.!
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December 18, 2024 • 38 mins
Author, storyteller, adoption advocate, and rock-wife (married to Weezer's Scott Shriner) Jillian Lauren joins us this week on Jim Harold's Crime Scene to talk about her book Behold the Monster: Confronting America's Most Prolific Serial Killer. She discusses her unusual relationship with the psychopath, Samuel Little, while giving us insight about what led her to exchange dozens of letters and participate in hundreds of hours of i...
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December 11, 2024 • 52 mins
We speak with Matt Murphy, a former senior deputy district attorney and current ABC News Legal Analyst, about his new book, The Book of Murder: A Prosecutor's Journey Through Love and Death. Matt discusses cases from his career and how he found peace seeking justice for victims and their families.
You can purchase his book on Amazon HERE.
Thank you Matt for a fascinating interview!
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December 4, 2024 • 43 mins
On this week's Crime Scene, we have a fascinating discussion with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Rick Jervis about his book, The Devil Behind the Badge: The Horrifying Twelve Days of the Border Patrol Serial Killer. It delves into the true-crime story of a U.S. Border Patrol agent turned serial killer, the four sex workers whom he mercilessly killed, and the upended border town of Laredo where his heinous crimes occurred--all in...
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November 27, 2024 • 40 mins
Today we speak with J. Reuben Appelman, the author of the acclaimed true-crime memoir, The Kill Jar, as he tells the inside story of the “University of Idaho Murders,” where in November of 2022, four University of Idaho students were viciously stabbed to death in an off-campus house in Moscow, Idaho.
You can purchase his new book While Idaho Slept: The Hunt for Answers in the Murders of Four College Students at Amazon HERE.
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November 20, 2024 • 37 mins
Join us this week on Crime Scene as we discuss one of the most mysterious and bizarre unsolved cases of this century. Writer, filmmaker, and investigative journalist, Jake Anderson, talks with us about his new book The Vanishing at Smokestack Hollow: A Missing Family, a Desperate Plan, an Unsolved Mystery. What happened to the Jamison Family? Jake Anderson pieces together the family's last days and weeks in this thrilling mystery.
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November 13, 2024 • 28 mins
Today we talk with Carla Conti about her new book CHAINED BIRDS: A True Crime Memoir detailing her 10-year journey to advocate for federal inmate Kevin Sanders and help him re-enter society after prison while maintaining her safety after prison while maintaining her safety after two prison gangs try to kill Kevin and she is warned she could be next.
You can find her new book at Amazon HERE.
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November 6, 2024 • 39 mins
Today we speak with Clay Bryant about his new book "Solving the Murder of Vieng Phovixay : Evil Dwells in West Georgia". “Cold Case” Clay Bryant unravels the 20-year old cold-case murder of Viang Phovixay in search of justice.
Mr. Bryant is a former Georgia State Patrol Officer and his cases have been chronicled on 48 Hours Investigates, Bill Curtis’s Cold Case Files and Discovery ID Murder Book and featured in the Atlanta Journal...
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October 30, 2024 • 31 mins
We talk to Erin Chandler about her book Bluegrass Sons, A True Memoir. The story is about Bradley Bryant, a United States Marine who lived a double life. The FBI labeled him "a one-man crime wave" responsible for the largest gunrunning, drug-smuggling network in the United States and Erin is Bryant's niece, who masterfully tells this true crime story.
Get her book at Amazon HERE.
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