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The third season of Netflix’s hit true crime and paranormal series “Unsolved Mysteries” has just officially premiered on the streaming giant to the delight of fans. Featuring nine episodes, the season will explore terrible crimes, strange mysteries, and the paranormal. This time Netflix won’t be releasing all the episodes at once, instead, the episodes will be released over three weeks. Season Three Episode Guide: 1. Mystery at Mile Marker 45 – Tue Oct 18, 2022 When talented 18-year-old volleyball star Tiffany Valiante was hit by a train on a remote, unlit stretch of tracks in Mays Landing, New Jersey, authorities quickly ruled her case a suicide. However, Tiffany’s family and a team of pro bono experts believe she was murdered and her body, left on the tracks, to destroy the evidence. 2. Something in the Sky -Tue Oct 18, 2022 On the night of March 8, 1994, hundreds of people called 911 to report strange lights hovering over Lake Michigan.
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In the Summer of 1979, bodies of young boys and men started showing up that were sexually assaulted, mutilated and dumped along California’s freeways. ID explores the horrific murder in The Freeway Killer: Lost Murder Tapes in which never before heard interviews with the killer will be revealed. Most of the victims were hitchhikers. Some are young gay men, arriving in Los Angeles to join the budding activist movements of the time. Without today’s DNA technology, investigators raced tirelessly to find a suspect as the bodies piled up. Alongside them was LA street reporter Dave Lopez, whose involvement in the case leads him to face the dilemma of a lifetime. Four decades later, the lost confession tapes allow psychologists to analyze the mind of this sick serial killer, William Bonin, who had been paroled twice after being convicted as a sex offender prior to the murders. The Freeway Killer: Lost Murder Tapes premieres on Sunday, October 23 at 9/8C on
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While its title may be The Good Nurse, Netflix’s upcoming thriller is about someone who is anything but good. Set to premiere this October, the film is based on a real-life serial killer, Charles Cullen, and is an adaptation of Charles Graeber’s 2013 book The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness, and Murder. The film is from BAFTA-nominated director Tobias Lindholm (Mindhunter, The Hunt) and Oscar-nominated writer Krysty Wilson-Cairns (1917) and stars Jessica Chastain (It Chapter Two) and Fantastic Beast’s Eddie Redmayne. In The Good Nurse, based on a true story, an infamous caregiver is implicated in the deaths of hundreds of hospital patients. Jessica Chastain’s character, a fellow nurse, risks her life to stop him from killing again. The true story: In reality, Charles Cullen has been implicated in around 300 -yes, you read that right, 300 – deaths and earned himself the title of “Angel of Death.” Born in 1960, after leaving the Navy, the real
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Unless you have been living under a rock, you’ve heard the story of the infamous Russian Sleep Experiments. Red Water Entertainment has now announced the North American VOD debut of John Farrelly‘s film about the horrifying tests, which is said to explore the real-life horrors of what humanity is capable of when pushed to its limits. The Sleep Experiment is the first feature from writer-director John Farrelly, who was named Ireland’s “Young Filmmaker of the Year” in 2018 for his short Choice. The Irish psychological horror-thriller stars Rob James Capel, Will Murphy, Tom Kerrisk, Barry John Kinsella, and Will Murphy. In the film, Two detectives begin an investigation into the ethics involved in the top-secret research facility, Porton Down. One experiment, in particular, stands out to them as the most horrific, The Sleep Experiment, a scientific experiment that took place during the Cold War. The experiment consisted of five prisoners, deemed Enemies of the State, being locked in a sealed
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In 2018, an article by Reeves Wiedeman appeared in Cut Magazine, just two months later the rights were acquired by Netflix. The subject? The true story of the Broaddus family that moved into a new home in 2014, only to receive mysterious and unnerving letters from someone who called themselves “The Watcher.” The writer detailed how they had been watching the house for decades and knew intimate details about the Broaddus family and their routines. The police could not help and the family finally gave up and moved out in July 2019. Later this week you can watch the tense story unfold in the Netflix Original thriller series “The Watcher,” from Ryan Murphy (“AHS”). Naomi Watts (King Kong) and Bobby Cannavale (Ant-Man) lead the cast which also includes Jennifer Coolidge, Noma Dumezweni, Yuko Torihara, Mia Farrow, Luke David Blumm, Margo Martindale, and Kathryn Boswell. “After the Brannock family moves into what was supposed to be their suburban dream home, it
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Back in 2019, viewers went through a gambit of emotions, mostly disgust and confusion, after watching the documentary Abducted in Plain Sight which explored the real-life story of Jan Broberg. Now, Broberg’s story has inspired the new limited Peacock series, “A Friend of the Family,” from showrunner, writer, and executive producer Nick Antosca (Brand New Cherry Flavor, The Act, Channel Zero) The series will walk us through the shocking relationship between the Broberg family and the man who kidnapped Jan not once, but twice. . “It’s easy to judge the Broberg family’s story from the outside. Sometimes when people first hear it, they get defensive: ‘How could these parents have let this happen? I’m not like them,’ Nick Antosca said in a statement. “That’s understandable. It’s a surreal story. When I first heard it, I empathized with the family’s vulnerability, and I felt like I understood their story from the outside. But it stayed with me, and I wanted to
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Imagine, you are a woman, standing at a bar, looking for a john to make a little cash. In walks an older man who makes a beeline for you. He looks friendly enough. After a chat you leave to go for a ride, not knowing it’s the last time you will ever be seen alive again. Samuel Little may look like just another grumpy old man, but he is far from it. In reality, he is one of the world’s most prolific serial killers. Little, who has been behind bars since 2012, confessed last year to killing over 90 women between 1970 and 2005, earning the title of “America’s deadliest serial killer.” So far the FBI has been able to confirm 60 of his victims which puts his body count far above Dahmer, Bundy, and most of the world’s most famous killers. The 79-year-old is serving multiple life sentences in California and has confessed that he strangled most of his
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Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you have either heard of or have already binge-watched Netflix’s new 10-episode true crime series “Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story” starring Evan Peters as the infamous serial killer also known as the “Milwaukee Cannibal.” Even Peters, most well known for his roles in the “American Horror Story” franchise, plays his best role to date, giving an eerie performance that is so realistic that it’s scary. A better actor could not have been cast. It was a perfect fit. The series does not feature a lot of puff to make it more disturbing, like many docuseries or documentaries. It’s disturbing all on its own. In fact, it leaves some of the more brutal details unseen, because let’s face it, the crimes of Dahmer were beyond cruel. When it comes to accuracy, the series is dead on. Only one notable scene (that we know of) was changed, the scene where he drinks the blood out
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There are few things more despicable than a person who hurts children. When I hear about someone abusing a child it leaves me fuming and hoping that they get a heavy dose of karma. When it comes to bad men who hurt children, there is no one on earth worse than Pedro Alonso, a kidnapper, rapist, serial killer, necrophiliac (he has sex with dead bodies), and rumored cannibal. Born on October 8, 1948, Columbian native Pedro Alonso, known as “The Monster of the Andes,” is the worst serial killer to ever walk the earth with an estimated body count of 300 victims, all children. Lopez had a rough start in life (not an excuse). His father was killed before he was born. He was the 7th of 13 children. Lopez admitted that his mother was abusive and had to turn to prostitution to take care of the family, often bringing home customers and sometimes having sex in front of Pedro
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“American Horror Story” veteran Evan Peters stars as the infamous serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer in Netflix’s new series “Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story” which reunites Peters with “AHS” creator Ryan Murphy. The trailer has arrived that gives us a glimpse into the depravity of the crimes of murder, necrophobic, and cannibal, Dahmer who murdered at least 17 young men and boys between 1978 and 1991. With many of his victims, he would sedate them and drill a hole in their heads and would then pour in chemicals in the hole in an attempt to create the perfect zombie lover that would never leave him. I didn’t work. The series, “chronicles the story of one of America’s most notorious serial killers (Peters), largely told from the point of view of Dahmer’s victims, and dives deeply into the police incompetence and apathy that allowed the Wisconsin native to go on a multiyear killing spree.” “Between 1978 and 1991, Jeffrey Dahmer gruesomely took
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The third season of Netflix’s hit true crime and paranormal series “Unsolved Mysteries” has just officially premiered on the streaming giant to the delight of fans. Featuring nine episodes, the season will explore terrible crimes, strange mysteries, and the paranormal. This time Netflix won’t be releasing all the episodes at once, instead, the episodes will be released over three weeks. Season Three Episode Guide: 1. Mystery at Mile Marker 45 – Tue Oct 18, 2022 When talented 18-year-old volleyball star Tiffany Valiante was hit by a train on a remote, unlit stretch of tracks in Mays Landing, New Jersey, authorities quickly ruled her case a suicide. However, Tiffany’s family and a team of pro bono experts believe she was murdered and her body, left on the tracks, to destroy the evidence. 2. Something in the Sky -Tue Oct 18, 2022 On the night of March 8, 1994, hundreds of people called 911 to report strange lights hovering over Lake Michigan.
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In the Summer of 1979, bodies of young boys and men started showing up that were sexually assaulted, mutilated and dumped along California’s freeways. ID explores the horrific murder in The Freeway Killer: Lost Murder Tapes in which never before heard interviews with the killer will be revealed. Most of the victims were hitchhikers. Some are young gay men, arriving in Los Angeles to join the budding activist movements of the time. Without today’s DNA technology, investigators raced tirelessly to find a suspect as the bodies piled up. Alongside them was LA street reporter Dave Lopez, whose involvement in the case leads him to face the dilemma of a lifetime. Four decades later, the lost confession tapes allow psychologists to analyze the mind of this sick serial killer, William Bonin, who had been paroled twice after being convicted as a sex offender prior to the murders. The Freeway Killer: Lost Murder Tapes premieres on Sunday, October 23 at 9/8C on
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While its title may be The Good Nurse, Netflix’s upcoming thriller is about someone who is anything but good. Set to premiere this October, the film is based on a real-life serial killer, Charles Cullen, and is an adaptation of Charles Graeber’s 2013 book The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness, and Murder. The film is from BAFTA-nominated director Tobias Lindholm (Mindhunter, The Hunt) and Oscar-nominated writer Krysty Wilson-Cairns (1917) and stars Jessica Chastain (It Chapter Two) and Fantastic Beast’s Eddie Redmayne. In The Good Nurse, based on a true story, an infamous caregiver is implicated in the deaths of hundreds of hospital patients. Jessica Chastain’s character, a fellow nurse, risks her life to stop him from killing again. The true story: In reality, Charles Cullen has been implicated in around 300 -yes, you read that right, 300 – deaths and earned himself the title of “Angel of Death.” Born in 1960, after leaving the Navy, the real
Continue reading →
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Unless you have been living under a rock, you’ve heard the story of the infamous Russian Sleep Experiments. Red Water Entertainment has now announced the North American VOD debut of John Farrelly‘s film about the horrifying tests, which is said to explore the real-life horrors of what humanity is capable of when pushed to its limits. The Sleep Experiment is the first feature from writer-director John Farrelly, who was named Ireland’s “Young Filmmaker of the Year” in 2018 for his short Choice. The Irish psychological horror-thriller stars Rob James Capel, Will Murphy, Tom Kerrisk, Barry John Kinsella, and Will Murphy. In the film, Two detectives begin an investigation into the ethics involved in the top-secret research facility, Porton Down. One experiment, in particular, stands out to them as the most horrific, The Sleep Experiment, a scientific experiment that took place during the Cold War. The experiment consisted of five prisoners, deemed Enemies of the State, being locked in a sealed
Continue reading →
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In 2018, an article by Reeves Wiedeman appeared in Cut Magazine, just two months later the rights were acquired by Netflix. The subject? The true story of the Broaddus family that moved into a new home in 2014, only to receive mysterious and unnerving letters from someone who called themselves “The Watcher.” The writer detailed how they had been watching the house for decades and knew intimate details about the Broaddus family and their routines. The police could not help and the family finally gave up and moved out in July 2019. Later this week you can watch the tense story unfold in the Netflix Original thriller series “The Watcher,” from Ryan Murphy (“AHS”). Naomi Watts (King Kong) and Bobby Cannavale (Ant-Man) lead the cast which also includes Jennifer Coolidge, Noma Dumezweni, Yuko Torihara, Mia Farrow, Luke David Blumm, Margo Martindale, and Kathryn Boswell. “After the Brannock family moves into what was supposed to be their suburban dream home, it
Continue reading →
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Back in 2019, viewers went through a gambit of emotions, mostly disgust and confusion, after watching the documentary Abducted in Plain Sight which explored the real-life story of Jan Broberg. Now, Broberg’s story has inspired the new limited Peacock series, “A Friend of the Family,” from showrunner, writer, and executive producer Nick Antosca (Brand New Cherry Flavor, The Act, Channel Zero) The series will walk us through the shocking relationship between the Broberg family and the man who kidnapped Jan not once, but twice. . “It’s easy to judge the Broberg family’s story from the outside. Sometimes when people first hear it, they get defensive: ‘How could these parents have let this happen? I’m not like them,’ Nick Antosca said in a statement. “That’s understandable. It’s a surreal story. When I first heard it, I empathized with the family’s vulnerability, and I felt like I understood their story from the outside. But it stayed with me, and I wanted to
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Imagine, you are a woman, standing at a bar, looking for a john to make a little cash. In walks an older man who makes a beeline for you. He looks friendly enough. After a chat you leave to go for a ride, not knowing it’s the last time you will ever be seen alive again. Samuel Little may look like just another grumpy old man, but he is far from it. In reality, he is one of the world’s most prolific serial killers. Little, who has been behind bars since 2012, confessed last year to killing over 90 women between 1970 and 2005, earning the title of “America’s deadliest serial killer.” So far the FBI has been able to confirm 60 of his victims which puts his body count far above Dahmer, Bundy, and most of the world’s most famous killers. The 79-year-old is serving multiple life sentences in California and has confessed that he strangled most of his
Continue reading →
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Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you have either heard of or have already binge-watched Netflix’s new 10-episode true crime series “Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story” starring Evan Peters as the infamous serial killer also known as the “Milwaukee Cannibal.” Even Peters, most well known for his roles in the “American Horror Story” franchise, plays his best role to date, giving an eerie performance that is so realistic that it’s scary. A better actor could not have been cast. It was a perfect fit. The series does not feature a lot of puff to make it more disturbing, like many docuseries or documentaries. It’s disturbing all on its own. In fact, it leaves some of the more brutal details unseen, because let’s face it, the crimes of Dahmer were beyond cruel. When it comes to accuracy, the series is dead on. Only one notable scene (that we know of) was changed, the scene where he drinks the blood out
Continue reading →
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There are few things more despicable than a person who hurts children. When I hear about someone abusing a child it leaves me fuming and hoping that they get a heavy dose of karma. When it comes to bad men who hurt children, there is no one on earth worse than Pedro Alonso, a kidnapper, rapist, serial killer, necrophiliac (he has sex with dead bodies), and rumored cannibal. Born on October 8, 1948, Columbian native Pedro Alonso, known as “The Monster of the Andes,” is the worst serial killer to ever walk the earth with an estimated body count of 300 victims, all children. Lopez had a rough start in life (not an excuse). His father was killed before he was born. He was the 7th of 13 children. Lopez admitted that his mother was abusive and had to turn to prostitution to take care of the family, often bringing home customers and sometimes having sex in front of Pedro
Continue reading →
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“American Horror Story” veteran Evan Peters stars as the infamous serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer in Netflix’s new series “Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story” which reunites Peters with “AHS” creator Ryan Murphy. The trailer has arrived that gives us a glimpse into the depravity of the crimes of murder, necrophobic, and cannibal, Dahmer who murdered at least 17 young men and boys between 1978 and 1991. With many of his victims, he would sedate them and drill a hole in their heads and would then pour in chemicals in the hole in an attempt to create the perfect zombie lover that would never leave him. I didn’t work. The series, “chronicles the story of one of America’s most notorious serial killers (Peters), largely told from the point of view of Dahmer’s victims, and dives deeply into the police incompetence and apathy that allowed the Wisconsin native to go on a multiyear killing spree.” “Between 1978 and 1991, Jeffrey Dahmer gruesomely took
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