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February 2022 Missing Person of the Month: Joan Carolyn Risch
According to NAMUS, an average of 600,000 individuals go missing in the United States every year. As it is impossible to determine exactly how many people are reported missing every year, this means t...
Documentary in the Works About Unsolved L.A. Murder- with Possible Jeffrey Dahmer Link
Filmmaker, and self-described amateur sleuth, Rachel Mason is attempting to breathe new life into a California cold case with her latest project, Pretty Boy Blue. While working on Circus of Books̵...
UPDATED: “Scorecard Killer” Victim Identified After 42 Years
In August and September of 2021, Wicked Horror brought readers the story of Randy Kraft–better known by his moniker the “Scorecard Killer”–undoubtedly the most sadistic killer in Cal...
The True Story Of The Real-Life Devil’s Rejects
Rob Zombie’s critically-acclaimed masterpiece The Devil’s Rejects is the far superior sequel to the equally gut-wrenching and terrifying House of 1000 Corpses. The pair of gore flicks follows th...
Fact-Checking The Acid King
June 19th, 1984, the words “Northport” and “Satan” became synonymous, fused together for decades by the stabbing and mutilation of a 17-year-old in an alleged Satanic sacrifice. It was almost a month ...
Victims Spotlight: The Last Man to Die on 9/11
This year marks 20 years since four coordinated terrorist attacks sent America into a spiral of panic, grief, and anger. 9/11 caused the deaths of almost 3000 people- 2,753 people died in New York, 18...
Victims Spotlight: The Suspected Victims of The Scorecard Killer
The commonly accepted story is that serial killer Randy Kraft’s crimes spanned from September of 1971 to May 1983. His almost 13-year crime spree may have resulted in the deaths of 67 young men ...
Victims Spotlight: The Suspected Victims of Robert Durst
Real estate baron Robert Durst is once again making headlines as is found guilty of murder in California. And, as L.A. prosecutor John Lewin likes to put it, this is not Durst’s “first rod...
Victims Spotlight: The Victims of The Scorecard Killer
America’s vast network of freeways and highways acts as a sort of circulatory system, one of our prime markers of maturity as a country in the 20th century. Hitchhiking became a common practice ...
