I Am A Killer

Written by: Crime+Investigation
  • Summary

  • 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.


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Episodes
  • Making the series: Interview with the producers at CrimeCon UK
    Nov 3 2021

    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 by searching online or social media, and watch more from the event on Crime+Investigation's YouTube channel.


    This special bonus episode of the I Am A Killer podcast was produced and hosted by Sam Pearson.


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    38 mins
  • More Than A Murderer: Joshua Nelson
    Jul 31 2018
    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.

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    9 mins
  • Hunted: Robert Shafer
    Jul 24 2018

    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. 


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    15 mins

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