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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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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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.

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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 without parole on September 30, 2003. Buchanan is currently serving a life sentence, although he is actively trying to appeal his case with the hope of being given a reduced sentence.

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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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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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