True Crime
Wicked Horror Halloween Special: Exploring the Myth Behind Poisoned Halloween Candy
It’s a warning you’ve heard at least a dozen times in your lifetime. Whether it be from parents, teachers, televised PSA’s and even the occasional horror flick; the ‘no taking candy from strangers’ ru...
Why is Fort Hood Such a Hotbed for Criminal Activity?
“How could she go missing on a military base?” the sister of a slain Fort Hood soldier cries in an interview. Fort Hood, located in Killeen, Texas, is one of the largest military installations and a m...
Five More Standout Episodes of Casefile True Crime Podcast
Previously, I introduced you to my five favorite episodes of one of the best true crime podcasts around, The Casefile True Crime Podcast. The series is still going strong, as is the popularity of true...
Essential Quarantine Listening: Let’s Go to Court!
If you mashed Legally Blonde with hit true crime podcast My Favorite Murder, you would probably get Let’s Go to Court. Hosted by two of the greatest legal minds of our time, okay, not really. On...
The Real Life Mystery That Inspired The Lighthouse
Visionary filmmaker Robert Eggers rose to notoriety back in 2015 with the Sundance debut of his film, The Witch. Four years later, Eggers dazzled us again with The Lighthouse, a hypnotic and hallucina...
Was Freddy Krueger’s Body Just Identified?
On the first day of the new year, it was reported that the bones of Joseph Henry Loveless, bootlegger and murderer, had finally been identified. In 1979 his torso was found in in a burlap sack in a ca...
Armchair Detectives Get to Work in Trailer for Don’t F**k with Cats: Hunting an Internet Killer
In the seedy underbelly of the Internet, there’s an unwritten rule, rule zero: Don’t F**k With Cats. In December of 2010, this rule was torn to shreds following the publishing of a video c...
Is Murder by Numbers Based on a True Story?
Following it’s initial release in 2002, The Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw dubbed the psychological thriller Murder by Numbers a movie consisting of “…a garbled, unbelievable plot; ...
Donald “Pee Wee” Gaskins – The Meanest Man in America
Born on March 13th 1933 in Florence County, South Carolina, Donald Henry Gaskins Jr has been given a number of nicknames including the “Meanest Man in America”, “The Redneck Charles Manson”, “Junior P...
