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True Crime Uncensored: LIVE IN THE LOUNGE — Jeri Estes, author of Stilettos and Steel.

Listen Live Saturday 2pm PT/5pm ET on Outlaw Radio by clicking this link. Based on a true story, this novel follows Jesse, a beautiful and spirited teen from a pleasant California suburb who runs away when she realizes that she will never fit in. She lands in San Francisco’s Tenderloin and slips into prostitution to survive. Jesse partners with glamorous Bunny and romances sultry Carmen. Through courage and force of will, she builds a multi-level hooker operation that is soon under attack from male pimps jealous of the women’s success. An escalation of violence forces Jesse to hire a tough ex-con to head her security team of female enforcers. Backed into a corner after a bloody betrayal, she delivers revenge as only a woman can. Against a squad of sadistic Fillmore pimps determined to destroy her, Jesse fights for her women and her empire. Jeri Estes ran away from a “normal” and nice home in the California San Fernando Valley to the seedy and dangerous Tenderloin area of San Francisco and became a female pimp.  She …

True Crime Uncensored: Host Burl Barer is Guest Burl Barer!

True Crime Uncensored! Saturdays at 2pm PT, 5pm ET  Listen LIVE  on Outlaw Radio: CLICK HERE “I WAS going to be the guest on my own show Saturday, but then recalled that I had booked a fabulous guest — the Jewish  mobster inside the Mafia mob wars in Boston, and co-author of ROGUE MOBSTER!”……Burl Barer quote!   When the infamous gangster Whitey Bulger went on the lam in 1995, the streets of Boston became a war zone between the Mafia and the renegades, with the Winter Hill Gang looking on. Co-written by Mark Silverman with Scott Deitche, Rogue Mobster: The Untold Story of Mark Silverman and the New England Mafia chronicles the inside story of the Boston mob wars of the 1990’s when over two dozen gangsters were killed in a vicious war for control of the Boston underworld. Rogue Mobster is told in the words of Mark Silverman, an outsider from Medford who got inside the mob and became an integral part of the ensuing war. His account is the first-ever inside glimpse into what went on …

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True Crime Uncensored with Burl Barer and Howard Lapides: The Serial Killer Whisperer

The Serial Killer Whisperer: How One Man’s Tragedy Helped Unlock the Deadliest Secrets of the World’s Most Terrifying Killers  LIVE on True Crime Uncensored 2pm PT/4pm CT/5pm ET/10pm UK   listen by clicking THIS LINK Tony Ciaglia — the real Serial Killer Whisperer  Fifteen-year-old Tony Ciaglia had everything a teenager wants—good grades, good athletic skills, and good friends—until he suffered a horrific head injury at summer camp. Pronounced clinically dead three times by helicopter paramedics before he reached a hospital, Ciaglia lapsed into a coma. When he emerged his right side was paralyzed and he had to relearn how to walk, talk, and even how to eat. His brain damage also required him to take countless pills to control his emotions. Abandoned and shunned by his friends, he began writing to serial killers on a whim and discovered that the same traumatic brain injury that made him an outcast to his peers now enabled him to connect emotionally with notorious murderers. Soon many of America’s most dangerous psychopaths were revealing to him heinous details about their crimes—even …

GARY PHILLIPS Saturday, November 26th,True Crimes Uncensored

Listen live Saturday 2pmPT/4pm CT/5pm ET  via Outlaw Radio by clicking this link, or via Outlaw Radio on iTunes, or the Outlaw Radio app for iphones, Droids, and other smart phones.   Gary Phillips He grew up in South Central when the area was known for its segregated Black community, hard working families with good union jobs moving into the middle class, and an LAPD that terrorized residents more often than it protected them. Gary Phillips’ 25 years of community activism in Los Angeles on issues ranging from affordable housing to gang intervention to neighborhood empowerment served him well when he began writing crime novels. He has worked as a union organizer, political campaign coordinator, radio talk show host and teacher. He has written op-ed pieces for the L.A. Times Magazine, San Francisco Examiner, Washington Post, Baltimore Sun, Miami Herald and other newspapers. His novels include: The Perpetrators (2002), Bangers (2003) and the seven books in the Ivan Monk and Martha Chainey series. Gary has also contribued to and edited many short stories collections such as: The …