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Everyone has heard of and likely seen David Lynch and Mark Frost‘s classic series “Twin Peaks,” which revolves around the mysterious murder of homecoming queen Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee). But, what many people don’t know is that the series and the character’s murder are inspired by a true story, the mysterious death of Hazel Drew, which has interested Frost since he heard about the case from his grandmother when he was just a kid. A new documentary and companion book that delves into the unsolved death of Hazel Drew is on their way, Indie Wire reports. The documentary is from director Benjamin Alfonsi and the book, titled Blonde, Beautiful, and Dead: The Murder Mystery That Inspired Twin Peaks, was penned by David Bushman and Mark Given with a foreword by Frost. The two will delve into the case in hopes of unraveling the mystery of the young woman whose body was found washed up on the shore of Sand Lake,
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Listen up true crime fans, there’s a new docuseries that’s just premiered on HBO Max that you need to check out. Titled “Pray, Obey, Kill,” the limited series delves into the devastating consequences that come with the abuse of power by individuals and institutions. In “Pray, Obey, Kill,” acclaimed journalists, Martin Johnson and Anton Berg, alongside director Henrik Georgsson, seek to shed new light on what really happened on the freezing cold night in January 2004 when gunshots rang out across the sleepy Swedish village of Knutby. A young woman was murdered, and her neighbor suffered multiple gunshot wounds, but why? After a quick confession, the world’s attention turned towards the tight-knit Pentecostal congregation with twisted beliefs and secrets. The ensuing court case became an international sensation. Johnson and Berg investigate new angles of the case, accessing material that has never been revealed before and conducting exclusive interviews with former congregation members who are telling the truth about the sect
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Epix has just released the trailer for the upcoming four-part true crime docuseries “Fall River” which explores a story of sex, satanic cults, and murder. “In 1979 – almost 90 years after infamous, accused murderer Lizzie Borden’s notorious acquittal – Fall River, Massachusetts would become home to another terrifying series of crimes. When three young women were killed in a streak of brutal murders, police alleged a satanic cult was practicing human sacrifice. The cult leader, a man named Carl Drew, was captured and sent to prison for life without parole. Twenty years after the trial, the lead investigator Paul Carey became so haunted by inconsistencies in the stories that he re-investigated his own case after he retired. Evidence surfaced that brought the entire story into question. Now through exclusive interviews, including intimate conversations with Drew, new witnesses, and illuminating evidence, this documentary series will tell the true story of a town caught in the grips of the paranoia and
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Like always, Ryan Murphy is turning to his “American Horror Story” alum to cast his new Netflix series, “Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story,” TVline reports. According to the site, Murphy has cast long-time “AHS” star, Evan Peters, as the infamous serial killer in the limited series. “Monster tells the tale of one of America’s most infamous killers, who was convicted of murdering 17 men and boys from 1978 to 1991, with his methods including mutilation, necrophilia, and cannibalism. The series will focus on the perspective of Dahmer’s victims and will also look at the police incompetence and apathy that allowed the Wisconsin native to go on a multiyear killing spree, with Dahmer (aka the “Milwaukee Cannibal”) repeatedly being nearly apprehended but then let go by a justice system that saw him as harmless. Later he was arrested and sentenced but was killed in prison by a fellow inmate before justice could be served. Emmy winner Richard Jenkins (Six Feet Under,
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The Dark Zone Network presents another epic live three-day streaming event – a paranormal investigation of America’s most haunted police precinct, LAPD Station #11. Visitors at the Los Angeles Police Museum often report strange activity including mannequins moving, disembodied voices speaking, and even invisible hands reaching out to touch someone! It’s enough to make the hair on the back of the neck of the toughest cop stand up. Built in 1925, the haunted halls of LA’s old Northeast Division Police Station #11, have hosted many of the most heinous criminals and housed the horrific evidence used to prosecute their crimes—murder cases like the Manson Family Murders, the Hillside Strangler, the Black Dahlia, the Onion Field Murders, The Night Stalker, The North Hollywood Shoot-Out. In fact, a psychic medium recently revealed that one of the deceased bank robbers from that shoot-out often stands behind an employee and touches her hair. And then there are those other puzzling cases that have left
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Ronald Defeo Jr., the man who murdered his parents and four siblings, in the house at 112 Ocean Avenue, and inspiring the novel and movie The Amityville Horror is dead at the age of 69. Defeo died in the Sullivan Correctional Facility while serving six life sentences. On Wednesday, November 13, 1974, 23-year-old DeFeo entered a local bar and in a panic revealed that his entire family had been slain. It did not take long for him to be arrested and charged. When police entered the house they found a shocking scene, each family member lay dead in their beds, each from a gunshot wound received while they slept. The children, aging from 9 to 18, were the most heartbreaking sight. During his trial, DeFeo claimed insanity and that voices made him do it. While he admitted to being on LSD and other drugs at the time of the murders, the court deemed him sane and fit to stand trial.
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WARNING: The following may be disturbing St. Patrick’s Day is around the corner and people no doubt already have or are planning on stocking up on an assortment of Irish beers, stouts, and of course whiskey. No name or brand of Irish liquor stands out more than Jameson Irish Whiskey, but many don’t know that one of the heirs to the brand was involved in a case so horrid that his premature death saved him and the brand from public disgrace. In the 1880s James S. Jameson tagged along with the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition that was sent to Ottoman-controlled southern Sudan to give supplies since the supply line to the region was cut off by revolts. Jameson (whose journal provides all accounts of his time in the expedition) was left, along with others, in command of the Rear Column and it was here it appeared he became bored. According to Jameson himself, and other witnesses, he expressed interest and
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2020 and the infant months of 2021 have been full of somewhat interesting theories when it comes to the Covid-19 pandemic ranging from scholarly discoveries to claims made by keyboard conspiracy theorists. Though a lot of what we see and hear from the strangest corners of the internet fails in comparison to the rumblings coming out of New England in the 19th century. As you may have guessed (from the title) New Englanders believed that there was a Vampire problem plaguing the region. Over time there have been cases popping up all over the New England region of the U.S. where many families have been nearly wiped out by mysterious illnesses leading many within the communities to look towards the supernatural for answers as to how or why bad luck would befall an entire household. The common answer, one of the family members was a Vampire. People came to this conclusion because of how the house members died. In most
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The iconic psychopaths featured in the blockbuster movies Silence of the Lambs, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and Psycho were not just fictitious villains, they were inspired by a real-life personification of evil – Ed Gein, s a convicted murderer and a grave robber who had a malicious obsession with human flesh. The next installment of the hit Shock Docs franchise will delve into the man who made a human body suit in Ed Gein: The Real Psycho, premiering on discover+ on Friday, April 9, 2021. The documentary includes a look at Gein’s horrific crimes, a paranormal investigation, archived media, and disturbing recreations. Sixty years after Gein’s arrest, documentary film producer and paranormal investigator Steve Shippy and world-renowned psychic medium Cindy Kaza travel to Gein’s hometown in Plainfield, Wisconsin, to conduct investigations of the most haunted locations connected to the infamous killer. For the first time in history, cameras are allowed on the Gein property where the gruesome evidence was first
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The award-winning folk horror feature Bella in the Wych Elm, inspired by a true story, has returned in a spanking new remastered definitive cut in this special BLU+DVD set loaded with extras including a reversible sleeve, fold-out poster with brand new artwork commissioned by SLUDGEWORK, liner notes booklet, special silent movie edition with choice of 3 alternate scores and more! Now available for pre-order, the film is an unnerving look at the famous “Who put Bella in the wych elm” mystery which is local to the filmmakers serves as a love letter to Black Country heritage and the power of modern folklore and storytelling. In the real-life mystery, four children discovered the skeletal remains of a woman inside of a wych elm tree in Hagley Wood, Worcestershire, England in 1943. The victim is thought to have been murdered and placed in the tree two years earlier. Not long after the discovery, graffiti began to appear around the town asking the
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Everyone has heard of and likely seen David Lynch and Mark Frost‘s classic series “Twin Peaks,” which revolves around the mysterious murder of homecoming queen Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee). But, what many people don’t know is that the series and the character’s murder are inspired by a true story, the mysterious death of Hazel Drew, which has interested Frost since he heard about the case from his grandmother when he was just a kid. A new documentary and companion book that delves into the unsolved death of Hazel Drew is on their way, Indie Wire reports. The documentary is from director Benjamin Alfonsi and the book, titled Blonde, Beautiful, and Dead: The Murder Mystery That Inspired Twin Peaks, was penned by David Bushman and Mark Given with a foreword by Frost. The two will delve into the case in hopes of unraveling the mystery of the young woman whose body was found washed up on the shore of Sand Lake,
Continue reading →
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Listen up true crime fans, there’s a new docuseries that’s just premiered on HBO Max that you need to check out. Titled “Pray, Obey, Kill,” the limited series delves into the devastating consequences that come with the abuse of power by individuals and institutions. In “Pray, Obey, Kill,” acclaimed journalists, Martin Johnson and Anton Berg, alongside director Henrik Georgsson, seek to shed new light on what really happened on the freezing cold night in January 2004 when gunshots rang out across the sleepy Swedish village of Knutby. A young woman was murdered, and her neighbor suffered multiple gunshot wounds, but why? After a quick confession, the world’s attention turned towards the tight-knit Pentecostal congregation with twisted beliefs and secrets. The ensuing court case became an international sensation. Johnson and Berg investigate new angles of the case, accessing material that has never been revealed before and conducting exclusive interviews with former congregation members who are telling the truth about the sect
Continue reading →
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Epix has just released the trailer for the upcoming four-part true crime docuseries “Fall River” which explores a story of sex, satanic cults, and murder. “In 1979 – almost 90 years after infamous, accused murderer Lizzie Borden’s notorious acquittal – Fall River, Massachusetts would become home to another terrifying series of crimes. When three young women were killed in a streak of brutal murders, police alleged a satanic cult was practicing human sacrifice. The cult leader, a man named Carl Drew, was captured and sent to prison for life without parole. Twenty years after the trial, the lead investigator Paul Carey became so haunted by inconsistencies in the stories that he re-investigated his own case after he retired. Evidence surfaced that brought the entire story into question. Now through exclusive interviews, including intimate conversations with Drew, new witnesses, and illuminating evidence, this documentary series will tell the true story of a town caught in the grips of the paranoia and
Continue reading →
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Like always, Ryan Murphy is turning to his “American Horror Story” alum to cast his new Netflix series, “Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story,” TVline reports. According to the site, Murphy has cast long-time “AHS” star, Evan Peters, as the infamous serial killer in the limited series. “Monster tells the tale of one of America’s most infamous killers, who was convicted of murdering 17 men and boys from 1978 to 1991, with his methods including mutilation, necrophilia, and cannibalism. The series will focus on the perspective of Dahmer’s victims and will also look at the police incompetence and apathy that allowed the Wisconsin native to go on a multiyear killing spree, with Dahmer (aka the “Milwaukee Cannibal”) repeatedly being nearly apprehended but then let go by a justice system that saw him as harmless. Later he was arrested and sentenced but was killed in prison by a fellow inmate before justice could be served. Emmy winner Richard Jenkins (Six Feet Under,
Continue reading →
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The Dark Zone Network presents another epic live three-day streaming event – a paranormal investigation of America’s most haunted police precinct, LAPD Station #11. Visitors at the Los Angeles Police Museum often report strange activity including mannequins moving, disembodied voices speaking, and even invisible hands reaching out to touch someone! It’s enough to make the hair on the back of the neck of the toughest cop stand up. Built in 1925, the haunted halls of LA’s old Northeast Division Police Station #11, have hosted many of the most heinous criminals and housed the horrific evidence used to prosecute their crimes—murder cases like the Manson Family Murders, the Hillside Strangler, the Black Dahlia, the Onion Field Murders, The Night Stalker, The North Hollywood Shoot-Out. In fact, a psychic medium recently revealed that one of the deceased bank robbers from that shoot-out often stands behind an employee and touches her hair. And then there are those other puzzling cases that have left
Continue reading →
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Ronald Defeo Jr., the man who murdered his parents and four siblings, in the house at 112 Ocean Avenue, and inspiring the novel and movie The Amityville Horror is dead at the age of 69. Defeo died in the Sullivan Correctional Facility while serving six life sentences. On Wednesday, November 13, 1974, 23-year-old DeFeo entered a local bar and in a panic revealed that his entire family had been slain. It did not take long for him to be arrested and charged. When police entered the house they found a shocking scene, each family member lay dead in their beds, each from a gunshot wound received while they slept. The children, aging from 9 to 18, were the most heartbreaking sight. During his trial, DeFeo claimed insanity and that voices made him do it. While he admitted to being on LSD and other drugs at the time of the murders, the court deemed him sane and fit to stand trial.
Continue reading →
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WARNING: The following may be disturbing St. Patrick’s Day is around the corner and people no doubt already have or are planning on stocking up on an assortment of Irish beers, stouts, and of course whiskey. No name or brand of Irish liquor stands out more than Jameson Irish Whiskey, but many don’t know that one of the heirs to the brand was involved in a case so horrid that his premature death saved him and the brand from public disgrace. In the 1880s James S. Jameson tagged along with the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition that was sent to Ottoman-controlled southern Sudan to give supplies since the supply line to the region was cut off by revolts. Jameson (whose journal provides all accounts of his time in the expedition) was left, along with others, in command of the Rear Column and it was here it appeared he became bored. According to Jameson himself, and other witnesses, he expressed interest and
Continue reading →
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2020 and the infant months of 2021 have been full of somewhat interesting theories when it comes to the Covid-19 pandemic ranging from scholarly discoveries to claims made by keyboard conspiracy theorists. Though a lot of what we see and hear from the strangest corners of the internet fails in comparison to the rumblings coming out of New England in the 19th century. As you may have guessed (from the title) New Englanders believed that there was a Vampire problem plaguing the region. Over time there have been cases popping up all over the New England region of the U.S. where many families have been nearly wiped out by mysterious illnesses leading many within the communities to look towards the supernatural for answers as to how or why bad luck would befall an entire household. The common answer, one of the family members was a Vampire. People came to this conclusion because of how the house members died. In most
Continue reading →
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The iconic psychopaths featured in the blockbuster movies Silence of the Lambs, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and Psycho were not just fictitious villains, they were inspired by a real-life personification of evil – Ed Gein, s a convicted murderer and a grave robber who had a malicious obsession with human flesh. The next installment of the hit Shock Docs franchise will delve into the man who made a human body suit in Ed Gein: The Real Psycho, premiering on discover+ on Friday, April 9, 2021. The documentary includes a look at Gein’s horrific crimes, a paranormal investigation, archived media, and disturbing recreations. Sixty years after Gein’s arrest, documentary film producer and paranormal investigator Steve Shippy and world-renowned psychic medium Cindy Kaza travel to Gein’s hometown in Plainfield, Wisconsin, to conduct investigations of the most haunted locations connected to the infamous killer. For the first time in history, cameras are allowed on the Gein property where the gruesome evidence was first
Continue reading →
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The award-winning folk horror feature Bella in the Wych Elm, inspired by a true story, has returned in a spanking new remastered definitive cut in this special BLU+DVD set loaded with extras including a reversible sleeve, fold-out poster with brand new artwork commissioned by SLUDGEWORK, liner notes booklet, special silent movie edition with choice of 3 alternate scores and more! Now available for pre-order, the film is an unnerving look at the famous “Who put Bella in the wych elm” mystery which is local to the filmmakers serves as a love letter to Black Country heritage and the power of modern folklore and storytelling. In the real-life mystery, four children discovered the skeletal remains of a woman inside of a wych elm tree in Hagley Wood, Worcestershire, England in 1943. The victim is thought to have been murdered and placed in the tree two years earlier. Not long after the discovery, graffiti began to appear around the town asking the
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