True Crime
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 ...
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...
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 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...
