"The Pied Piper of Tucson” Charles Howard Schmid
With his caked-on makeup and pathological lies, Charles “Smitty” Schmid cut a distinctive figure among Tucson’s youth. The 22-year-old wanted to draw misfit teens to himself like moths to a flame, bef...
3 Nov 202247min
“Leatherface” from The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
When The Texas Chain Saw Massacre debuted in 1974, audiences had a visceral experience so frightening, many believed what they witnessed was real. Its main villain, Leatherface, slaughtered innocent y...
31 Okt 202242min
“Buffalo Bill” from The Silence of the Lambs
Premiering in 1991, The Silence of the Lambs was anything but your typical horror movie. While it made the name Hannibal Lecter famous, at its core, the film was a psychological thriller that tracked ...
27 Okt 202246min
“Ghostface” from Scream
In 1996, a new horror movie with an innovative twist would reinvigorate the slasher genre. But behind the fictional Ghostface was an inspiration steeped in reality. A man in a makeshift mask who stalk...
24 Okt 202248min
30 Year Retrospective: “The Red Ripper” Andrei Chikatilo Pt. 2
Andrei’s murders don’t go unnoticed. A pattern emerges: young victims, bodies mutilated, left in isolated patches of wilderness. But even with police on high alert, the serial killer eludes capture un...
20 Okt 202240min
30 Year Retrospective: “The Red Ripper” Andrei Chikatilo Pt. 1
In the USSR, an engineer hid a secret he was deeply ashamed of — his inability to have sex with women he dated. His frustration made him withdraw from others, until he developed a proclivity for sexua...
17 Okt 202241min
"The Southland Strangler" John Floyd Thomas Jr.
In the late 1950s, a Los Angeles native started a crime spree that would stretch into the ‘80s. John Floyd Thomas Jr. spent those decades terrorizing his hometown, targeting women aged 50 and older wh...
13 Okt 202237min
The Chicago Tylenol Murders Pt. 3
By 2011, the FBI was ready to reexamine the evidence. A theory emerged: What if the Mad Poisoner was actually the Unabomber? Ted Kaczynski had proven he was a revenge-seeking terrorist, and he had con...
10 Okt 202240min
