In the newest Shock Docs, Scream: The True Story, Steve Shippy and Cindy Kaza embark on a quest to try and determine what drove Gainesville Ripper Danny Rolling to kill. After investigating the serial killer’s campsite and checking out a few of his Florida kill locations, Shippy and Kaza travelContinue Reading
How bad —or good— is Scream: The True Story? Is it the worst Shock Docs yet, or one of the best? That answer will differ depending on the viewer. In this review, I’ll share a few reasons why I thought it wasn’t one of the best, but also why it’sContinue Reading
Scream: The True Story premieres on discovery+ the same day that the new Scream movie releases in theaters: Friday, January 14, 2022. Like they did for Ed Gein: The Real Psycho, Steve Shippy and Cindy Kaza team up to explore a case of another horror movie-inspiring serial killer who mayContinue Reading
I recently received an email from CrimeCon about the Citizen Sleuth Academy. It’s an upcoming crimeHQ workshop that’s taking place on Wednesday, January 12. It sounded really cool. Here was the description: During The Citizen Sleuth Academy workshop event, you will learn and practice Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) from oneContinue Reading
As far as true crime documentaries go, Murders at Starved Rock, is compelling. At face value, it has all of the ingredients you could want, including a community-shattering, innocence-destroying gruesome triple murder. One that it seems was solved. The killer was apprehended, charged, and convicted, but did the right manContinue Reading
When Scream hit theaters in 1996, it was touted as everything from a “spoof” on slasher films to a brilliant resurrection of the genre, which was very worn out by that time. When people credited Wes Craven with initiating the project, he always insisted Kevin Williamson’s writing was the realContinue Reading
“Do you like scary movies?” Such an innocent question quickly became one of the most popular horror movie catchphrases in history. In fact, Scream is arguably one of the most successful horror movie franchises of all time. However, the real fright lies in its terrifyingly true roots –the horrific story ofContinue Reading
Have you ever heard of “phrogging” before? I learned about it when I recently watched I See You, a horror movie that involved phrogging, which is pronounced “frogging.” If I’d seen the movie before making the “Cases of Creepy Haunted Houses” episode for the Haunting American True Crimes season onContinue Reading
Are you a Dateline NBC fan too? Confession time: I love them all, but I shiver with excitement when I tune in and discover it’s a Keith Morrison episode. I think he’s why I fell in love with Dateline to begin with. Or fell harder I should say. Anyway, whenContinue Reading
There are a couple of reasons Netflix’s newest true crime docuseries, Catching Killers, is so binge-able. For one thing, it’s short, only four episodes. Well, technically three because one of the cases is a two-part episode. However, the number one reason Catching Killers is so absorbing is because of theContinue Reading
In 2020, a lot of paracons and horror fests found themselves pivoting and becoming virtual streaming events. But that went for cons of all kinds, including true crime ones. I’m not sure why CrimeCon has decided to do another At Home one this year, but it’s great for true crimeContinue Reading
New Orleans abounds with vampire stories. There’s even one about a pair of men known as the Carter Brothers, who some say were arrested in the 1930s for being serial killers, confessed to being vampires, and were executed. Allegedly their ghosts still haunt the French Quarter to this day. This isContinue Reading
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