Murder Coaster

Today we bring you one of the most bizarre and gruesome tales from the heyday of American crime, a devil-worshipping cult of cannibalistic, necrophiliac serial killers, like something from a nightmare or horror movie, who roamed the streets of Chicago in a death van snatching completely random victims. Prepare yourselves for the story of the horrible, cold-blooded and terrifying, Robin Gecht and h...

Our third and final episode on Eric Harris, Dylan Klebold and the Columbine High School tragedy. If you or someone you know is struggling, you are not alone. You can call or text 988 or use the webchat at 988lifeline.org to connect with the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline — available 24/7, free, and confidential. For listeners outside the U.S., you can find other international hotlines here:  http...

Welcome back to Part Two of our series on Eric Harris, Dylan Klebold and the Columbine High School Massacre. MURDER COASTER PODCAST Hosted by Christa Carmen and Matthew Brockmeyer Website:  www.murdercoasterpodcast.com Facebook:  Murder Coaster Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/murdercoasterpodcast/   Creepy Amusement Park theme by Brandon Fiechter and Derek Fiechter, used by permission and wi...

The Columbine High School Massacre of April 20, 1999 is an incident which ushered in a horrible new normal of school shootings. But it wasn’t the first, and from the beginning the case has been clouded with myths, mistruths and outright lies. Today we seek to uncover the facts about Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, who they were, what they hoped to accomplish, and how two gifted students and compute...

Hans Schmidt was many things, a Catholic priest, a mystic and scholar, a forger and counterfeiter, a necrophiliac and sexual deviant, a convicted murderer and suspected serial killer. He was also the only priest in history to be executed in the United States, having been electrocuted in Sing Sing prison on February 18, 1916. MURDER COASTER PODCAST Hosted by Christa Carmen and Matthew Brockmeyer We...

On Holy Saturday, April 5, 1980, Catholic nun Sister Margaret Ann Pahl was murdered in a chapel in Toledo, Ohio in a ritualistic manner many thought was a human sacrifice to the devil. There was only one suspect, a moody and brooding priest named Father Gerald Robinson; but, in what many considered an elaborate conspiracy involving police, bishops, prosecutors and church officials, no charges were...

17-year-old Tyler Hadley desperately wanted to throw a party in his parents’ house, so on Saturday, July 16, 2011, he ate three hits of ecstasy and bludgeoned his mom and dad to death with the claw end of a 22-inch framing hammer, then posted on Facebook he was having a party. While his parents’ corpses rotted in their locked bedroom, over a hundred teenagers showed up at his house, raging the nig...

Welcome back to our second and final episode on the story of Shasta Groene and the monster Joseph Edward Duncan.   MURDER COASTER PODCAST Hosted by Christa Carmen and Matthew Brockmeyer Website:  www.murdercoasterpodcast.com Facebook:  Murder Coaster Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/murdercoasterpodcast/   Creepy Amusement Park theme by Brandon Fiechter and Derek Fiechter, used by permission...

When Shasta Groene was eight years old, she survived 47 days in the forest with the serial killer and apex child predator who’d killed her family and abducted her: Joseph Edward Duncan. Her tale of survival in the hands of this brutal monster is beyond harrowing and disturbing, but it is also a tale of resilience, hope, and, eventually, healing. Listener discretion is strongly advised.   MURDER CO...

Richard McCroskey was a sad and lonely wannabe rapper, who went by “Syko Sam” in the world of horrorcore hip hop, who found love on the internet when he met sixteen-year-old Emma Niederbrock, who went by “Ragdoll,” on Myspace. But when she broke his heart, he murdered her, her entire family, and her best friend Melanie Wells, in what has become known as the Farmville Murders, earning him the monik...

Border Patrol Agent Juan David Ortiz was a devoutly religious family man with three children.  He was highly educated with a master’s degree in international relations. He was a patriot and Iraq War Veteran. He was also a serial killer targeting the sex workers on Laredo, Texas’s infamous San Bernardo Avenue.   MURDER COASTER PODCAST Hosted by Christa Carmen and Matthew Brockmeyer Website:  www.mu...

Colin Pitchfork, the Footpath Phantom, was a murdering serial rapist who haunted the dark woods and paths of South Leicestershire England, stalking teenage girls like a troll in a fairy tale, and who would become the first killer ever caught and convicted with DNA evidence, a bizarre story with more twists, turns and red herrings than any mystery novel. MURDER COASTER PODCAST Hosted by Christa Car...

“Eddie” Heriberto Seda was a serial killer with an uncanny resemblance to Eddie Munster, who was obsessed with sorcery, necromancy, astronomy, magic and spells, and who envisioned himself as a continuation of the infamous Zodiac Killer who’d terrorized San Francisco twenty years earlier. Like the original Zodiac Killer, Eddie wrote bizarre letters to the press and police, plunging New York into a...

Today we bring you a sad tale of punk rock defiance, laid low by a conformist in a Cadillac, and how the verdict of a town without pity shocked the world. It is the story of Brian Deneke and the Death of Sunshine.   Today’s episode is filled with amazing bands from around the world who donated music, you can hear most of them on this Spotify Playlist and find all their links in the notes below. DE...

Welcome back to the second and final episode of Fast Times at Upper Merion High and the story of the Main Line Murders. Get ready for craziness, for today’s episodes has more twists and turns than a python in a pretzel factory, and enough sex and drugs to make a hippie blush. When we last left you things were really heating up in the elite upper-class Philadelphia suburb of Main Line as English te...

Long before high school English teacher Susan Reinert was found dead, naked and beaten in the hatchback of her Plymouth Horizon, it was obvious that the staff of Upper Merion High were out of control and engaged in debauchery of all sorts. The principal, Dr Jay C. Smith, whom staff and students alike referred to as the Prince of Darkness, had a penchant for bestiality, robbery and drug dealing. Th...

Amelia Dyer, the Ogress of Reading, is believed to be responsible for the murder of up to 400 infants, delighting in their struggles as she strangled them to death, in late Victorian England. Amelia, who was part of an underground network of baby farms, left dead babies in her wake everywhere she went, buried in gardens, tossed into weeds, thrown into the river. Happy Holidays! It’s a doozy, liste...

Gary Heidnik, the inspiration behind Buffalo Bill in The Silence of the Lambs, was many things. The bishop of his own church. A savvy financial investor with a genius level IQ.  A cannibal and cult leader trying to create his own perfect race of humans, as well as a murderer and serial rapist and registered nurse. Strap in and prepare for a rough ride, listener discretion advised.   MURDER COASTER...

Welcome back to part two of the story of Ed Gein the Mad Butcher of Plainfield. Last week we discussed the troubled relationship of Eddie’s parents George and Augusta, how his father died a drunken invalid, then the mysterious death of his brother, followed by the tragic death of his beloved mother Augusta, and how loneliness, grief and despair led him to begin exhuming bodies from their graves in...

Get ready, today we bring you one of the darkest and creepiest big daddies of them all, the boogie man that has long haunted the American psyche, the butcher of Plainfield, the Wisconsin Ghoul: Ed Gein. Long a subject rumors, innuendos and outright lies, we bring you the facts about the little man from Wisconsin who’d go on to inspire countless books and films, including PSYCHO, THE TEXAS CHAINSAW...

There are realms of the internet so disturbing they defy comprehension, places literally dedicated to evil, that wish to accelerate the demise of humanity, and most disturbingly, they are often run by bored teenagers. Places like 764, which was created by a fifteen-year-old, high-school drop-out named Bradley Chance Cadenhead, a network so vile and horrendous that the FBI said it was one of the mo...

Welcome back to our third and final episode on Ed and Lorraine Warren: demonologists, ghost hunters and freakshow carnival hucksters. Today we take a hard look at the many scandals that have rocked the Warren family, from the allegations of sexual abuse on a minor to fraud, and the troubling lineage which saw grandson Chris McKinnell, groomed by Ed from youth to be a paranormal investigator and ex...

Welcome back to Part Two of our series on paranormal investigators and carnival sideshow hucksters Ed and Lorraine Warren. Last week we discussed their early lives and the beginnings of their work with the supernatural, today we talk about their shift from ghosts to demons, culminating in the Snedeker haunting and some of the most bonkers and insane moments in television history.   MURDER COASTER...

Happy Halloween! Today we begin a journey into the controversial life and times of the ultimate ghost hunting duo: Ed and Lorraine Warren. Were they valiant paranormal investigators and Christian superheroes battling demons and saving the world from Satan himself? Or were they frauds, nothing more than carnival-sideshow hucksters selling hoaxes for fame and profit? Or even worse . . . sexual preda...

Welcome back to Ghost October Ladies and gentlemen! Today Cohost Christa Carmen, the Bram Stoker-award-winning, Shirly Jackson-award-nominated author of The Daughters of Block Island, Beneath the Poet’s House, and Something Borrowed, Something Blood Soaked, tells us about her newest novel How to Fake a Haunting.   Christa’s Website: Christa Carmen Buy HOW TO FAKE A HAUNTING on Amazon: Amazon.com:...