I Am A Killer

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.’ You can find out more about CrimeCon UK [https://www.crimecon.co.uk/] by searching online or social media, and watch more from the event on Crime+Investigation's YouTube channel [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIxSUMBm5g4&list=PLrRX6BkfvVB6o1ewK2rQm9OD-hWFtAS_1&index=6]. This special bonus episode of the I Am A Killer podcast was produced and hosted by Sam Pearson. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

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 remains on Death Row more than 20 years after his conviction and has now spent more than half of his life on Death Row. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

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 men and requested the death penalty. Despite having requested the death penalty, just three weeks after arriving on death row, Shafer sought the help of an attorney to appeal his sentencing. Eventually in 2004 he succeeded in his appeal after it was ruled that he wasn’t mentally able to comprehend the consequences of representing himself in 1993. He is currently serving a life sentence. David Steinmeyer received a 12-and-a-half-year sentence for his part in the crime. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

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 with one count of manslaughter and one count of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. However, when Denise Hayslip died in hospital six days later Thompson's charges were upgraded to double murder - a capital charge for which he faced the prospect of a death sentence. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

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, which they duly did. In October 2015, four years after his sentencing, Doty became the first Florida death row inmate to request the electric chair. Today, he remains on death row but only following a resentencing, which occurred during the filming of this documentary. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.