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...

Come now, you didn't think two bitches as opinionated as Christopher and Eric wouldn't do a Best Of episode, did you? Well, you might be surprised to hear they're keeping the list positive. Christopher and Eric offer up their best TV shows for 2023 and surprisingly almost none of them are the true crime documentaries they podcast about on a regular basis. Perhaps that's a sign, or perhaps yet another example of how in order to gain their attention your show must have a hero both handsome and...

What do you want for Christmas this year? Unless it was "for Christopher and Eric to shut up and stop making podcasts", your hosts served up your responses to our Facebook query. While they don't have an in with Santa — not since they accused him of extortion in a previous episode, what with that whole "naughty or nice" racket — they loved hearing about your hoped for gifts, large and small. Spiritual and shiny. Handsome and hot. Henry Cavill and otherwise.

Christopher and Eric continue their celebration of the return of THE CROWN with a True Crime TV Club serving of the tragic, real life basis for one of the famed Netflix series' most haunting episodes. In season 1, episode 8 of ROYAL INQUEST entitled "The Mountbatten Murder", the most decorated and experienced royal in British history becomes the victim of a chilling terrorist attack, and the ticking-clock investigation that follows has all the suspense and drama of a crime thriller. A deft...

Christopher and Eric celebrate the return of one of their favorite TV shows of all time, Netflix's THE CROWN, with this House of Windsor themed installment of True Crime TV Club. Who would you most want defending you in a fight? Queen Elizabeth II or Princess Anne? It might be tough to decide after watching this double feature. In season 1, episode 3 of ROYAL INQUEST entitled "Hunted Royal/The Queen's Visitor" two of the most famous women in the history of the British royal family face...

What would a buffet of Heartland Horrors be without a trip to the Deep South? The South Carolina Low County that is, where miles of backroads lead to swampy mysteries, mysteries from which some of us don't return. In season 5, episode 2 of MURDER COMES TO TOWN entitled "No Witnesses", Christopher and Eric meet a bright and promising young woman who vanished without a trace while giving a friend a late night ride home. The resulting trip rocked the small town of Moncks Corner to its core, put...

This episode of Heartland Horrors Month surprises Christopher and Eric with a 1990's serial killing spree that found gay men being targeted in one of the Midwest's most progressive cities, a story that somehow managed to escape the notice of your queer-savvy hosts until now. In season 2, episode 6 of HOMETOWN HOMICIDE entitled "Unsafe Anywhere", we head to Minneapolis/St. Paul where a vicious, self-loathing killer stalks the gay men who've sought sanctuary in its more accepting neighborhoods....

Heartland Horrors Month continues as Christopher and Eric give the coast-hugging, city dwellers among us several good reasons not to leave their urban idylls. And season 5, episode 1 of HOMICIDE FOR THE HOLIDAYS — never a show for the faint of heart — just might take the cake for most gruesome episode in TDPS history. In "The Last Thanksgiving", your hosts are confronted by a crime that is shocking in both its grotesqueness and its competent incompetence, leaving them with stunned questions...

Leave it to Christopher and Eric to come up with reasons *not* to go home for the holidays. That's apparently the objective of Heartland Horrors Month here at TDPS, starting with this twisted tale of double lives and chatty wives. In season 1, episode 6 of MURDER IN THE HEARTLAND entitled, "A Deceitful Heart", we head to a Detroit suburb where everyone's desperate to tell you what a quaint and wholesome town they live in while simultaneously recounting a disturbing tale of addiction, murder...

In the second episode in a two parter serving up the landmark HBO documentary series LAST CALL: WHEN A SERIAL KILLER STALKED QUEER NEW YORK, Christopher and Eric are left breathless. The reveals come fast and furious throughout as the conclusion comes into focus in this moving exploration of a serial killer who used homophobia to thrive. Forensic science advances. A killer is unmasked. Heroes and advocates step forward to bring long overdue justice to an investigation marked by bigotry and...

Some murders happen twice in a row. First comes the killing, then comes the erasure of the victim by the very institutions equipped to find the perpetrator.  Christopher and Eric mark the tragic anniversary of the brutal slaying of Billy Newton, whose decades old murder was solved thanks in part to the attention brought to it by this podcast, by serving up the first two episodes of a landmark HBO documentary LAST CALL: WHEN A SERIAL KILLER STALKED QUEER NEW YORK. As the dismembered bodies of...

Sometimes a host of gory details only serves to distract from the real story. Eric believes that may well be the case with this episode of HOMICIDE FOR THE HOLIDAYS, season 4, episode 1, entitled "Halloween Horror". When the Liskey family is massacred in their sleep the night before Halloween, their isolated Ohio farmhouse becomes a scene of horrifying mystery. Blood splatter evidence abounds, but what led to this shocking outburst of savage violence against this seemingly happy Oak Harbor...

We’re renaming October as we celebrate the legacy of our beloved Premiere Party Person, Anne Rice, born this month of darkness, mystery and transition. Travel along with Christopher and Eric has they share their memories of the woman who changed fiction forever. As your hosts reminiscence about book signings and fan club gatherings of yore, we'll even hear from Anne herself, with a special archival interview recorded in her New Orleans hotel suite the morning after a glittering costume ball...

Back to School month comes to a devastating conclusion with this disturbing exploration of a case that's been the butt of too many jokes and not enough explorations into the twisted manipulations employed by the seemingly gentle predator at its core.  As Christopher and Eric serve up the documentary MARK KAY LETOURNEAU: NOTES ON A SCANDAL, they're whisked back to the 1990's when a school teacher's shocking (and criminal) sexual affair with an underage male student made headlines around the...

It's a quiet night in a small Texas panhandle town when one of its most beloved high school students vanishes, leaving behind a threadbare trail of mystifying clues. Within hours of the discovery of Tom Brown's abandoned SUV, one of the most baffling unsolved true crime stories of a generation is born. What truly happened to this beloved high school senior who'd recently been cut from the football team and turned his attention to the theater in response? As Christopher and Eric serve up...

Back to School Month continues as Christopher and Eric head to a posh New England prep school where secrecy and lies mask a legacy of abuse. But this tragedy extends far beyond the leafy borders of the seemingly idyllic campus of St. George's School, founded in the 19th Century to educate the offspring of the Gilded Age elite. A stunning expose in Vanity Fair magazine unveils the lengths administrators went to in order to protect the predators in their midst and the school's prestigious...

Christopher and Eric kick off Back to School month, a quartet of episodes about the crimes endured by high school and college students as well as their loved ones. When Christian Aguilar begins his freshman year at the University of Florida in Gainesville, he's the first member of his family to attend college. But when he vanishes in the course of a single evening, his proud and devoted family vows they will stop at nothing to find the truth.  As Christopher and Eric serve up DEATH IN THE...

There are bad movies and then there are truly terrible movies. But do any of them ever star Robert Duvall? Find out as Christopher and Eric bring you the second episode in a true crime pairing about the mystery of D.B. Cooper and his still unsolved skyjacking of an American airliner. Your hosts thought THE PURSUIT OF D.B. COOPER might make for a fun and frothy end to their True Crime Movie Time Summer Film Festival. Instead, they struggled to stay in front of their televisions while it...

After so many episodes of bloodshed and mayhem, Christopher and Eric bring their True Crime movie Time Summer Film Festival in for a soft landing. Here your hosts bring you a true crime pairing about one of the most talked about, argued about, debated about, and speculated about unsolved mysteries in American history, the mystery of D.B. Cooper. On Thanksgiving Eve 1971, a man claiming to be D.C. Cooper used a ransom note and a fake bomb to skyjack a passenger plane and rob the airline of a...

Pacific Northwest Nightmares continues. Christopher and Eric offer a frank and strong view about a made-for-TV movie that attempts to draw a connection between two of the region's most notorious serial killers. Despite a sterling performance by Cary Elwes as Ted Bundy, your hosts find little to admire in THE RIVERMAN, but much to dissect about the its real life subjects. Is this the story of an arrogant detective’s naked determination to hijack one investigation under false pretenses so he...

Don your waterproof slicker and pull on those thigh high rain boots. It's time for the storm drenched final leg of Christopher and Eric's True Crime Movie Time Summer Film Festival, Pacific Northwest Nightmares. Gary Ridgway was a predator so prolific and diabolical he became a household name. Better known as the Green River Killer, his decades long reign of terror in Washington State revealed police missteps, political machinations and an urgent need to embrace the humanity of sex workers...

The Southern Sins portion of the True Crime Movie Time Summer Film Festival concludes with DEVIL'S KNOT, a screen adaptation of one the most widely publicized and divisive true crime cases in recent American history, the story of the West Memphis Three. But does this Reese Witherspoon and Colin Firth big screen vehicle tell the story we came to hear? Your hosts Christopher and Eric have no shortage of opinions as fact meets fiction meets the constraint of a two hour studio film.

How have Christopher and Eric gone this long without discussing the Robin Hood Hill murders, the case that essentially gave birth to the modern day true crime genre? In this installment of Christopher & Eric's True Crime TV Club, they serve up THE WEST MEMPHIS THREE: AN ID MURDER MYSTERY, which encapsulates the dark saga of gruesome murder and rank injustice that divided a town and spawned several famous documentaries as well as a dramatic film adaptation. Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin,...

Southern Sins continues with the second in a true crime pairing. This particular installment of True Crime Movie Time presents a searing and disturbing cinematic look at a South Florida murder steeped in sexual repression, abuse and addiction. No stranger to controversy, director Larry Clark made a name for himself chronicling the lives of America's troubled and disaffected youth. So it's no surprise he turned his attention to the dark and twisted tale of Bobby Kent and the Florida teens who...

Christopher and Eric kick off the Southern Sins portion of their True Crime Movie Time Summer Film Festival with this wrenching look at addiction and murder among a group of disaffected teens in the Sunshine State. Meet Bobby Kent, a popular and good looking weight lifter — and a bully so vicious his closest friends decided there was only one way to put an end to his abuse. This installment of True Crime TV Club serves up an old school episode of AMERICAN JUSTICE: Payback For A Bully, episode...