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I’m not gonna lie. When I first watched the trailer for Murderville I thought it looked way too silly for me. However, Will Arnett was in it. My husband is a huge fan so I told him about it. The weekend before Wayne and I had binged another new NetflixContinue Reading

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How could I not talk about the case of the Westfield Watcher during the “Cases of Creepy Haunted Houses” episode? (See season 2, Haunting American True Crimes, on the podcast.) Very few hauntings of the spectral variety are as creepy as that story. Which this one isn’t. It’s more likeContinue Reading

Steve Shippy outside Danny Rolling's former childhood home in Louisiana.

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

Steve Shippy and Cindy Kaza in woods in Florida at Danny Rolling's campsite

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

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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

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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

Murders at Starved Rock poster

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

Detroit Free Press newspaper article about Kevin Williamson and what inspired ScreamScream

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

Scream True Story Shock Docs poster

“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

Phrogging a family

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

Screenshot of Netflix's Catching Killers opening logo

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