Say the name Matthew Shepard to any queer person who lived through the 1990’s, or any person with an ounce of humanity, and they’re likely to get tears in their eyes. That’s the case with Christopher and Eric. As they serve up THE MATTHEW SHEPARD STORY: AN AMERICAN HATE CRIME on Discovery ID, their own memories of that painful time come bubbling to the surface, reinforcing their personal devotion to the concept of Pride Month, visibility and equality. It’s a searing comprehensive documentary...

Sometimes LGBT equality means the freedom to make the same crappy choices straight people do. Your hosts travel to the beautiful Ohio River Valley to meet an out and proud hairdresser turned coal mine foreman with questionable taste in men and home decor. In episode 8 of season 32 of venerable true crime classic DATELINE, entitled “Dangerous Secret”, the unflappable Dennis Murphy narrates this twisty, soapy tale of bedroom antics turned deadly.  Meanwhile, Christopher and Eric play a speedy...

Pride Month continues as Christopher and Eric head to Texas for a True Crime TV Club installment that deepens their previous episode’s discussion of crime and hate in the Lone Star State. It turns out Paul Quintanilla was just one of many queer people who lost their lives to cable TV’s supercharging of bigoted televangelists in the 1990’s. In season 2, episode 3 of VANITY FAIR CONFIDENTIAL, entitled “The Killing Trail”, we follow a hateful and bloody path from the windswept beaches outside...

Christopher and Eric kick off Pride Month with a much anticipated return visit from their very own citizen detective, Clark Williams, the man who solved the Billy Newton murder. This time Clark sits down at our table to share the work he’s been doing on an eerily similar case brought to him by one of our beloved Party People. In June of 1994, 28-year-old Paul Quintanilla was discovered in an empty field within sight of the Dallas Cowboys training facility in Irving, Texas, hours after leaving...

Rain drops on roses and 2024 is almost half over. We will have no whiskers on kittens, but Christopher and Eric do have plenty of opinions about the pop culture highlights from the first part of the year – not a big surprise. More importantly, will their current crop of favorites still be in their top spots by the time 2025 rolls around? Even more importantly, will Christopher and Eric even remember they promised you they’d answer this question come December? Doubtful, but stay tuned. In the...

In the final chapter of Couples From Hell Month, Christopher and Eric take a trip to Paduka, Kentucky by way of Tampa, Florida thanks to a devious, underhanded and murderous, lonely hearts con artist who cruelly plots his way into a good woman’s heart with the help of his long lost “illegitimate stepson”. While they’re all about diversity and inclusion, your out and proud hosts see little to celebrate about the fact that Charles Chumbler and Michael Kariakis are one of the few same sex...

Couples From Hell Month continues with Christopher and Eric’s outraged final serving of the last two episodes of KEN & BARBIE KILLERS: THE LOST MURDER TAPES on Max. Canada’s most hideous murder case turns into Canada’s trial of the century. (Don’t just take our word for it, check out the comments from our Canadian Party People!) The resulting media melee  raises questions about the nation’s legal system in the process — questions that raise Christopher and Eric’s blood pressure as well....

It’s May. Here at TDPS, wedding bells are ringing and true crime victims are screaming.  To pay their own special homage to this season of renewals and nuptials, your bitter old hosts Christopher and Eric kick off our exploration of Couples From Hell Month with Part 1 of a True Crime TV Club installment serving up KEN & BARBIE KILLERS: THE LOST MURDER TAPES on Max. Our tale of marriage and mayhem begins in the Toronto area in the early 90’s, where a sexual predator is stalking one of its...

In which Christopher and Eric try to put Spring Broke back together again. Your hosts discuss the lighter side of the raucous, drunken, licentious holiday that occupies the worst nightmares of most parents. And it’s all thanks to you our beloved Party People. We asked you to share your warmest Spring Break memories on The Dinner Party Show’s Facebook page, and the result was a nostalgic discussion of coming of age, coming out and how we define family and home.

The only thing a true crime aficionado loves more than justice is when beloved Dateline host Keith Morrison calls BS on a lying criminal. To their face! You’ll get plenty of the later and some of the former in this Spring Broke installment of Christopher and Eric’s True Crime TV Club. Keith even asks the FBI some hard questions. In 2009, the disappearance of teenager Brittanee Drexel from a crowded Myrtle Beach sidewalk made headlines around the world. In episode 12 of season 31 of DATELINE,...

A fateful walk to the beach. A make-up case left behind. A serial killer who died before he could answer for his crimes. Following this trail of sandy clues, Spring Broke heads to the heart of Spring Break country — Daytona Beach, Florida — and travels back in time to 1984. Here Christopher and Eric unearth a decades old story of a vanished young woman, a mysteriously troubled mother and a tragically incompetent medical examiner as True Crime TV Club serves up DISAPPEARED, Season 4, Episode...

Welcome to Spring Broke, where adolescents make reckless decisions and your hosts are reminded why they don’t have kids. Because they’d be too afraid to let them out of the house! It’s not the first time Christopher and Eric have visited a small Texas town in search of a missing young man. Echoes of the Tom Brown story can be heard in this breathless installment of True Crime TV Club. Here your hosts serve up a two part episode of the Paramount + series NEVER SEEN AGAIN, Parts 1 and 2...

Christopher and Eric have done their fair share of snickering at famous paranormal hucksters. This time the joke’s on them. After visiting their respective hometowns, this final installment of Mortality Month pokes at the veil between the living and the dead in not-so-sunny Southern California, the place your hosts have called home for decades. In the process, they rustle up some genuinely terrifying entities. In episode 11 of season 2 of PARANORMAL WITNESS entitled “The Good...

Mortality Month continues. After visiting the haunted happenings in Christopher’s birthplace, it’s time to rustle up some spirits in the Medieval German town in which Eric Shaw Quinn took his first breath — and barked out his first highly detailed tea order. Welcome to Heidelberg, Germany. Here your hosts are introduced to a band of high-strung ghost chasers for whom every breeze, shadow, snapping twig or leafless tree is the stuff of a complex and frightening supernatural narrative for which...

Christopher likes to say he’s a man with two hometowns, and the City by The Bay is the first of the two. That’s why Eric suggested they serve up this special about Bay Area hauntings. Or was it Christopher who suggested it? One thing’s clear, after watching episodes 1 and 2 of THE HAUNTED BAY, neither host wants to take blame for bringing it to the table.  Despite the profoundly amateurish filmmaking and incomprehensible interviews, these two episodes of — we’re not sure what to call it,...

It’s Christopher and Eric’s birthday month. And what have these dark lords of the podcastverse unleashed at this time of celebration and reflection? Mortality Month, of course. In part thanks to you. Our beloved Party People asked us to take a break from grisly murders and return to the world of the paranormal (and it’s “occasional” fraudsters and cranks.) To give it a birthday theme, your hosts cut a path through the states they’ve called home, starting with the boot-shaped one at the mouth...

Clark Williams, our fellow citizen detective at TDPS, returns to round out Citizen Detective Month with another stunning interview, this one focused on a murder that struck close to home for your hosts. In August of 1987 the mutilated remains of eighteen-year-old runaway Tracy Nute were found scattered along Interstate 5 between Los Angeles and Fresno. Meanwhile, an appliance rental company in West Hollywood discovered someone had returned a chainsaw that was flecked with bits of blood and...

It wouldn’t be Citizen Detective Month at TDPS if Christopher and Eric didn’t include their very own fellow citizen detective, Clark Williams, the brilliant and determined amateur sleuth who solved the murder of Billy Newton after thirty years. Clark joins the podcast in our Sunset Strip studios to discuss the cold case murders he’s been working on since finding justice for Billy. Who abandoned Alice Ellicot’s corpse in a Midwestern field? Who ended Talfrieda Covington’s life steps from the...

Citizen Detective Month continues with a decades old mystery that will set your teeth on edge and bring your blood to a boil. In this True Crime TV Club installment, Christopher and Eric serve up episode 7 of season 3 of DEADLINE: CRIME WITH TAMRON HALL entitled “Never Stop Looking”, the tale of Ruth Vosseler’s search for her missing children. When her marriage hit the rocks, Ruth assumed she and her husband would reach an amicable, if difficult, parting. Then one day he and their two...

Welcome to Malibu, home to surf, celebrities and a murderous sniper who became a political football in a hotly contested election for Los Angeles County Sheriff. Christopher and Eric kick off Citizen Detective Month with this twisty exploration of a case that captivated LA County and the nation. Is amateur journalist and Malibu resident CeCe Woods a crusader for justice or an overwrought conspiracy theorist who allowed herself to be used by ambitious politicians? Find out in this installment...

"If you've got a criminal record in both Florida and Jersey, you're automatically guilty," is the line that emerges loudest from your hosts in this new installment of True Crime TV Club’s Winter Times Crime finale. Here the victim is only spoken for by one friend, who didn't seem to know her very well, and the footprints leading into the victim's house don't seem to come out again. In episode 1, season 1 of HOME SWEET HOMICIDE entitled "Footprints In The Snow",  the Northeast shows its most...

Can a hunting accident happen behind the wheel of a car? Can a stray bullet travel over a mile? Can a cold blooded killer be quite this transparent and stupid? These are the Winter Time Crime questions Christopher and Eric want answers to as they serve up episode 5, season 6 of ICE COLD KILLERS entitled "Open Season".  On a freeze night in a small Missouri town, the killing of a local outdoorsman leaves the community baffled — until the killer starts advertising their guilt in bright red neon.

Christopher and Eric serve up one of the most infamous, unsolved mysteries of all time, the Dyatlov Pass Incident, as Winter Time Crime continues with a tale of the collision of Cold War secrecy and Russia's brutal wintry landscape — a tale  that produced decades of paranormal conspiracy mongering. Apparently winter wasn't the harshest thing awaiting this group of experienced young Russian hikers when they set out into the Ural Mountains in 1959. While the documentary AN UNKNOWN COMPELLING...

Winter Time Crime begins with this twisted, frigid tale of random shootings, terrifyingly loyal girlfriends and vindictive parents. Was Sean Cerniglia a sweet humorous teen or a criminal enabler? The jury's still out as family, friends and local law enforcement deliver the disturbing details of his untimely end in season 2, episode 5 of DEAD OF WINTER entitled "The Killing Field".  Christopher and Eric have plenty to say about the sluggish initial response from law enforcement and the petty...