True Life
May 2022 Missing Person of the Month: Haydn Gomez
There are few details are available in the case of Haydn Gomez. But all investigating agencies have come to the same conclusion: Haydn was abducted. Haydn was only 2 years old when he was last seen on...
Victims Spotlight: The Suspected Victims of Alaska’s “Butcher Baker”
Robert Hansen was a compulsive liar. Even when confronted with evidence found in his home–including the damning aviator’s map with 37 “X” marks on it that matched sites where bodies ...
April 2022 Missing Person of the Month: Kevin Lamont McClam
April’s missing person of the month will take us to Goose Creek, South Carolina. It was after midnight on March 30th, 1997, when Tracy McClam saw her son 14-year-old son, Kevin, for the last tim...
Victims Spotlight: Remembering the Victims of Alaska’s “Butcher Baker”
Often, the public is told of cases falling through the cracks of the criminal justice system. However, the particularly devastating case of Robert Christian Hansen was a travesty of justice that did n...
Victims Spotlight: Little Miss Lake Panasoffkee
February 19th, 1971. Two teenage hitchhikers from Illinois were walking along Interstate 75-North (which connects Florida with the rest of the Southeast) as they were exiting Tampa. As they reached th...
March 2022 Missing Person of the Month: John Clyde Perrin
There are few details readily available in the case of John Clyde Perrin. Born in Bristol, Tennessee, John was the second son of Robert Pain Perrin and Mary Alice Schullenberger and a recent graduate ...
Was Child’s Play Based on a True Story? Exploring the Rumored Connection Between Chucky and The Robert Doll
As if some of the stories in our genre are not horrible enough, there is one phrase that seems to elevate their mystique – “based on a true story.” One can find easily find stories f...
Dennis DePue: True Story of the Real-Life Killer That Inspired Jeepers Creepers
Jeepers Creepers, the hit, 2001 horror movie, had audiences captivated with the simple story of a brother sister duo on a road trip who happen to cross paths with a bloodthirsty maniac known as The Cr...
The Facts in the Case of John List: The True Story Behind The Stepfather Film
It’s a Sunday evening on the 21st of May. Families across the United States relax and recline in front of their televisions sets awaiting the new episode of America’s Most Wanted. The television flick...
