I Am A Killer

I Am A Killer

In association with Netflix, Crime+Investigation's series I Am a Killer gives a fascinating and in-depth insight into the stories of prisoners on death row in America, awaiting their fate. In this podcast we hear from producers Tom Adams and Danny Tipping on what it was like to make this powerful true crime documentary series. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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November 3, 2021 38 mins

Transistor Films’ Danny Tipping, Ned Parker and Zoe Hines joined podcast producer Sam Pearson for a special live interview at the first CrimeCon UK in September 2021. Here they discuss how they tell compelling yet balanced true crime stories alongside how they created the series hailed by critics as true crime at its most ’brutal, captivating and unsettling.’


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Ep 10. In 1995, 18-year-old Joshua Nelson and 16-year-old co-defendant Keith Brennan were charged with the murder of their friend Tommy Owens in Cape Coral, Florida. Nelson told investigators that they had decided to kill Tommy so that that they could steal his car and escape from their troubled home lives. Although Joshua Nelson was sentenced to death in November 1996, Keith Brennan avoided a death sentence due to his age. Nelson ...

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July 24, 2018 14 mins

Ep 9. In 1990, 19-year-old Robert Shafer and 16-year-old David Steinmeyer handed themselves into police in St Charles, Missouri and confessed to the killings of two men; Dennis Young and Jerry Parker. Shafer and Steinmeyer claimed at first that they had hitched a ride with the victims who they claimed attacked them and that they killed in self-defence. However, two years later, in July 1992, Robert Shafer confessed to killing both

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July 17, 2018 18 mins

Ep 8. In 1998, Charles Thompson handed himself into police in Houston, Texas, for the shooting of his former girlfriend, Denise Hayslip, and her new partner Darren Cain. Both had allegedly been shot during a fight at Hayslip's home. Cain was shot dead at the scene while Denise Hayslip, who according to Thompson had been accidentally hit in the jaw with a bullet, was taken to hospital for treatment. Thompson was initially charged w...

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Ep 7. In March 1997 Wayne Doty shot his colleague, Harvey Horne II, five times in the face over what Doty claimed was a dispute about drugs. Doty was given life in prison but 14 years later killed again. While in prison Doty tricked fellow inmate Xavier Rodriguez into being tied up before strangling him unconscious and then stabbing him 23 times. At his trial Doty represented himself encouraging the jury to sentence him to death, w...

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July 3, 2018 12 mins

Ep 6. On November 7th 2000, Deandra Buchanan was arrested for killing Angela Brown, the mother of Buchanan’s two infant daughters, his step-father and his aunt. Buchanan claimed he had smoked a joint which had been laced with an unknown drug and that he had subsequently become convinced that everybody at the party were attempting to kill him. 


He was sentenced to death on April 22, 2002, then resentenced to life in prison w...

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June 26, 2018 11 mins
Ep 5. In 1986, while undertaking the burglary of a house, David Lewis was surprised by the return of the homeowner, 74-year-old Myrtle Ruby, fired a gun and shot her dead. US Federal law prohibits States from executing the mentally disabled, which is defined as somebody with an IQ score of below 70. David Lewis’ IQ score has been officially recorded at ‘between 71 and 85’ meaning he is classified as “borderline” mentally impaired. ...

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Ep 4. In 1991 three men, were murdered as they slept by 17- year- old Miguel Martinez and 16-year -old Miguel Venegas. In April 1992 Martinez was tried for capital murder and became the youngest person to be sent to Texas' death row. Despite his role in the murders, Venegas' was 16 at the time, which meant he would not face the death penalty. Instead he accepted a plea deal and a 41-year prison sentence. 


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June 12, 2018 17 mins

Ep 3. In May 1995, 17-year-old Justin Dickens attempted to rob the Mockingbird Pawn and Jewellery Store in Amarillo, Texas. Whilst attempting the robbery Dickens shot and killed Francis ‘Allen’ Carter. Dickens has always claimed that the gun fired accidentally when Carter, a school teacher and Vietnam veteran, had attempted to wrestle the gun from him. However, at trial, Prosecutor James Farren painted a very different picture.


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June 5, 2018 15 mins

Ep 2. James Robertson wants to die on death row. A lifetime long criminal who first went to jail for robbery and attempted assault when he was 16, he has spent his time in prison committing a string of violent crimes that by 2008 culminated in a rap sheet totalling more than 100 years of prison time owed to the state. 


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Ep 1. Convicted murderer Kenneth Foster recounts the shocking events that led to him being placed on death row in Texas.


Watch ten-part true crime documentary series #IAmAKiller Tuesdays at 9pm


The I Am A Killer podcast is an A+E Networks Uk production for Crime + Investigation, and is hosted by Tom Adams and Danny Tipping, produced by Steph Nardilli and Sam Pearson, and edited by Susanna Lawrence


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Producers Tom Adams and Danny Tipping introduce the podcast series that reveals what went into producing Crime + Investigation's brand new true crime documentary series I Am A Killer.


Watch the ten-part true crime documentary series #IAmAKiller Tuesdays at 9pm.


The I Am A Killer podcast is an A+E Networks UK production for Crime + Investigation, and is hosted by Tom Adams and Danny Tipping, produced by Steph Nardilli and Sam ...

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