Send us a textFollowing an anonymous tip in 1997, police entered a mansion in Rancho Santa Fe, an exclusive suburb of San Diego, California, and discover 39 victims of a mass suicide. Members of the cult known as “Heaven’s Gate” including their leader Marshall Herff Applewhite, left video diaries explaining their reasons for the mass suicide: Applewhite had convinced them in order to reach heaven, they must abandon their human forms and board an alien spacecraft that would trail behind the co...

Send us a textDavid Koresh was an American Cult leader who was the head of the religious movement, Branch of Davidians. Koresh believed that he was the “final prophet” sent to bring the word of God to his followers by whatever means necessary, even if it meant pitting his followers against the US government in what would be the biggest gunfire on American soil since the Civil War. David Koresh’s central role in the 51-day siege occurring in Waco, Texas left four ATF agents dead as well as 82 ...

Send us a textJim Jones was an American cult leader who proclaimed to be the messiah of the Peoples Temple, a San Fransico based evangelist group. He promised his followers a utopia living in the Jungles of South America by way of an agricultural commune in Guyana known as Jonestown. Jones ultimately led his followers into a mass suicide on November 18, 1978, which left more than 900 dead and came to be known as the Jonestown Massacre. So, why did Jim Jones lead his flock to their untimely de...

Send us a textEdward Gein also known as “The Butcher of Plainfield” or “The Plainfield Goul”, was an American murderer, suspected serial killer and body snatcher. He admitted to the murders of two women, Mary Hogan in 1954 and Bernice Worden in 1957, but was believed to be connected to several unsolved cases. Following Bernice Worden’s disappearance, police investigated Gein’s home and made a gruesome discovery. Inside his home police found he was keeping human organs inside of jars and had f...

Send us a textIn 2007 actors Rider Strong and Sean Astin starred in Borerland, a film that centered around three friends who headed down to Mexico to celebrate their college graduation. Once in Mexico the group of friends stumble upon a cult that practices human sacrifices. The thriller is loosely based on American born cult leader and serial killer Adolfo Constanzo, who moved to Mexico City as an adult and began recruiting his lovers as his disciples to help him commit human...

Send us a textIn 1996 the teen slasher film Scream hit the big screen and would later become a mega franchise. But did you know that the highly popular movie was inspired by actual events? Screenwriter Kevin Williamson was inspired to write the movie script about a knife-wielding killer after he had watched a documentary about the Gainesville Murders, in which Danny Rolling a.k.a. the Gainesville Ripper, murdered five University of Florida students over the course of four days. The victims ha...

Send us a textHollywood has been terrifying audiences for decades with horror and thriller films ranging from Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds to the 2013 paranormal movie The Conjuring. But what’s even more frightening than these Hollywood movies is that a variety of real-life crimes and events were the actual inspiration for many filmmakers and screenwriters of this genre. One such film was Bryan Bertino’s 2008 film The Strangers, which starred Scott Speedman and Liv Tyler, that recounted a sto...

Send us a textIn 1999, Englishman David Harker, known in the media as the “cannibal killer”, was convicted of brutally murdering, dismembering and eating Julie Paterson in his flat located in Darlington County, Durham, England about 70 miles north of Leeds. Julie, who was murdered in April of 1998, had just met David a few weeks prior. So, why would David kill a woman he just met?References:Why Darlington cannibal killer remains behind bars eight years after possible release revealed - Teessi...

Send us a textIn June of 2024, Mississippi jailer Ronnie Hunt was arrested and charged with helping inmate Joshua Zimmerman escape. Zimmerman, who fled to Chicago after his escape, was being held on attempted murder and robbery charges. So, what would cause a jailer to help a dangerous criminal escape and was there more than just one player in helping to facilitate it?References:Joshua Zimmerman: Mississippi inmate escaped, apparently found work at a Chicago restaurant and then barricaded him...

Send us a text17- year-old Florida teen, Collin Griffith, was arrested on Sunday September 8, 2024, for fatally stabbing his mother, 39-year-old Catherine Griffith to death. 19 months prior to killing his mother, Collin was accused of killing his father in Oklahoma, however, the charges were dropped. So, why did Collin Griffith stab his mother to death, and should he have been prosecuted from his father’s death?References:Mom's haunting selfies before being murdered by son - a year after he k...

Send us a textAustralian woman Katherin Knight was convicted of stabbing to death her partner John Charles Thomas Price in February of 2000. Not only did she murder Price, but he also skinned him, and then cooked his head with other parts of his body in a stew with the intention of feeding him to his own children. So, what was the catalyst to cause Katherine to cook her lover in a homemade stew and was she mentally unwell or just a sinister mind?References:The Twisted Story of Katherine Knigh...

Send us a textOne of Japan’s most disturbing and sinister killers was a man named Tsutomu Miyazaki, who earned the nickname "Human Dracula" because he was born with deformed fingers and hands, like that that of the fictional character. Between 1988 and 1989 Miyazaki terrorized the city of Tokyo by committing horrific crimes against four young girls which included kidnapping, assault, murder, mutilation, necrophile and cannibalism becoming known as "The Little Girl Murders." Miyazaki als...

Send us a textAt just twenty-five-years-old, Taylor Schabusiness murdered her lover, twenty-four-year-old Shad Thyrion, inside his mother’s Green Bay, Wisconsin home in February of 2022. According to investigators, Taylor cut off Shad’s head, sexually assaulted him, then dismembered the rest of his body, leaving his head in a bucket for his mother to find. So, what could have caused Taylor to commit such a sinister act of killing along with the sexual assault and mutilation of a corpse?Refere...

Send us a textOver the course of three days in August of 2009, Angela Simpson, one of the most notorious killers in Arizona history, tortured, strangled, and dismembered Terry Neely, a disabled man, because she suspected that he might be a police informant. Angela’s remorseless confession was so bone-chilling that it helped inspire the fictional psychopathic hitwoman Villanelle in the thriller series Killing Eve. So, what led Angela to believe that Terry was a snitch for law enforcement that ...

Send us a textIn 1993, California siblings Curtis and Shanna Culver along with friend Brian Hawkins, stabbed and killed 19-year-old Frank McAlister. Frank’s murder case would go cold for over 25 years, until one of his guilt-stricken killers confessed on a local news program. So, why was Frank McAlister killed and why did his case go cold for so long?References:Siblings Plead Guilty To 1993 Murder After Accomplice Confesses On TV (allthatsinteresting.com)Curtis, Shanna Culver Sentenced For Fr...

Send us a textDuring the 90’s, daytime tv was infiltrated by talk shows that were filled with the drama of paternity tests, couples cheating and secret crushes. One such talk show would lead to one of their guests committing murder. In 1995, Michigan native Jonathan Schmitz killed an acquaintance of his Scott Amedure, just three days after Scott admitted to having a crush on Jonathan while on the popular daytime talk show “The Jenny Jones Show”. So, why did Jonathan feel the need to kill Scot...

Send us a textA Connecticut woman, 76-year-old Linda Kosuda-Bigazzi, who was accused of killing her husband, Dr. Pierluigi Bigazzi and hiding his body for months while collecting his paychecks, pleaded guilty to manslaughter last month. Just hours before she was to receive a 13-year prison sentence, Linda Kosuda-Bigazzi was found dead in the same home she had killed her husband in. The Connecticut State Police said her death has been "categorized as an untimely death investigation" based on "...

Send us a Text Message.70-year-old Steven Craig Johnson, a convicted pedophile who escaped an Oregon prison three decades ago was finally captured this month in Macon, Georgia. Johnson who had been living in his Marco apartment since 2011, was described by Oregon authorities as a “pedophile” who “presented a high probability of victimizing teen boys”. So, how did Steven Craig Johnson manage to elude the police for thirty years?References:'Pedophile' Finally Caught After Escaping Prison 30 Yea...

Send us a Text Message.Former mortuary worker of Little Rock, Arkansas, Candace Chapman Scott, has pleaded guilty to selling and transporting stolen body parts from medical school cadavers across state lines, as well as conspiring to commit mail fraud occurring in 2021. According to authorities, while Candace was working at the mortuary in October of 2021, she sold almost eleven thousand dollars of stolen body parts to a Pennsylvania man. She is just one of several being charged recently in w...

Send us a Text Message.After almost a decade, California woman, Trista Ann Spicer will head to trail for the grisly murder of her boyfriend Eric Israel Mercado. Eric vanished without a trace in 2014 and it would not be until eight years later that his body would finally be discovered. In 2022, Trista’s new roommate alerted police to the possibility of Trista committing a murder and hiding the body on her property. Eric’s body would be found on her property in what the police called a "makeshi...

Send us a Text Message.In 2019, Wade Wilson was arrested and charged with the murders of two women in Cape Coral, Florida, Kristine Melton and Diane Ruiz that occurred just a few hours apart. According to Assistant State Attorney Andreas Gardiner, “This case was about killing for the sake of the killing". So, did Wade Wilson kill two women in cold blood just for the sake of killing?References:FL v. Wade Wilson: Strangled Women Murder Trial | Court TVWade Wilson found guilty on all count...

Send us a Text Message.Utah mother of three, Kouri Richins wrote a children’s book about grief almost a year after her husband Eric Richins passed away in March of 2022. She wrote the book as she wanted to help kids struggling with the loss of a loved one like her own children had. However, a month after her book was published and receiving praise from the local media for helping children deal with their grief, Kouri’s story took a sinister turn, and she was charged with the murder of her hus...

Send us a Text Message.In 2023, Ina Kenoyer, of Minot (mine-it), North Dakota was arrested and charged with the murder of her long-time boyfriend Steven Riley, Jr. Authorities believe that Ina fatally poisoned Steven with antifreeze in order to claim his newly acquired inheritance of thirty million dollars. So, could someone turn sinister enough to kill a person they love for a large sum of money?References:North Dakota woman arrested for allegedly killing boyfriend with poison; police cite "...

Send us a Text Message.Former pig farmer Robert Pickton, also known as the “Pig Farm Killer” or “The Butcher “, is one of Canada’s most prolific serial killers. His case was the largest serial killer investigation in Canadian history and unveiled a wider issue of missing and murdered female sex workers and Indigenous women. In 2001, Robert was charged with six counts murder occurring at his pig farm in Port Coquitlam (co-quilt-lem), Canada, but by 2005, he had been charged with the murder of ...