True Life
6 True Crime Podcasts to Listen to After Season One of Serial
Feeling a sort of void in your life now that you’ve finished season one of Serial? Nobody blames you. But, you’ll need something to satisfy that true crime hunger you have, right? Fe...
Is Scream Based on a True Story?
It’s August 24th, 1990. Sonja Larson and Christina Powell were friends, roommates and freshman to be at the University of Florida in Gainesville. They had their whole lives ahead ...
Todd Kohlhepp: A Chilling Profile of one of America’s Newest Serial Killers
Todd Kohlhepp is one of America’s newest serial killers. He was caught in November 2016 after being undiscovered for thirteen years in the American South. The following is an in-depth look of th...
Sexual Cannibalism And The Curious Case Of Armin Meiwes
Sexual cannibalism refers to a person having sexual ideations of the consumption of human flesh, with criminologists and psychologists associating sexual cannibalism with socio- and/or psychopaths. Th...
In A Scene Ripped Right Out Of A Movie, Police Captured The Las Vegas Hammer Murderer
On January 3rd of this year, at 12:30am, the body of 46-year-old homeless man Daniel Aldape was found on a street corner in a deserted area of Las Vegas. He had reportedly been trying to shield himsel...
Documentary ‘Casting JonBenet’ Brilliantly Captures The Impact Of A Sensationalized Murder
Casting JonBenet, a 2017 documentary recently released on Netflix, follows the casting of local Colorado actors for the roles of the Ramsey family, as well as other major players involved with the tit...
More True Crime Documentaries Should Be Like Tower
Tower is a 2016 documentary about the 1966 Charles Whitman shootings on the University of Texas campus in Austin. Whitman, a former U.S. Marine, killed both his mother, Margaret E. Whitman, and his wi...
The Scariest, Most Overlooked Aspects of Real-Life Serial Killers
Real life, unfortunately, will always be more terrifying than the movies. There are plenty of people in history, even recent history, who have done all manner of unspeakable things. Some get away with...
Scream, Murder, and Moral Panics
To mark the twentieth anniversary of Wes Craven’s game-changing slasher, Scream, Wicked Horror presents a week of specially-themed content celebrating the movie’s enduring appeal. In thi...