Murder Coaster

In the early nineteen seventies the sleepy college town of Santa Cruz, California, previously famous for surfing and a boardwalk, was plunged into chaos when a mass killer and two separate serial killers began leaving corpses and body parts strewn throughout the beaches and redwoods, earning the town the monicker of The Murder Capital of the World.   Today we take a look at mass murderer John Linl...

On the night of his arrest Jeffrey Dahmer gave a rambling fourteen-hour confession, which we have turned into an audio dramatization, using both the actual interrogation transcripts as well as the memoir of Patrick Kennedy, the homicide detective who conducted the interview.   The Interrogation of Jeffrey Dahmer: A Play Told in Four Acts.   Starring:   Christa Carmen as Jeffrey Dahmer Matthew Broc...

We are delighted to welcome author and journalist Dan Slatter, who is here to discuss his new book, The Incorruptibles.   This riveting work takes a deep dive into the Jewish criminal underworld of New York City in the 1910s, a realm teeming with gambling dens, prostitution, pickpockets, loan sharks, King Pimps and the Queen of Fences. It exposes a world of coke fiends, junkies, horse poisoners, t...

EXTREME CONTENT WARNING!! We’re not kidding around here, folks, it gets extremely disturbing as we delve into the book FINAL TRUTH: The Autobiography of Mass Murderer/Serial Killer Donald 'Pee Wee' Gaskins, one of the most brutal and disgusting books ever put into print.   We will meticulously compare this book to both court records as well as the stories Pee Wee told to Professor James Beaty, sif...

PEE WEE GASKINS, a name infamous in the annals of true crime.   He was called the meanest man in America, and the redneck Charles Manson. He drove a hearse and had his own graveyard where he’d dispose of victims, victims he’d poisoned, shot, stabbed, strangled, drowned bludgeoned, even using explosives to blow a man’s head off in the most unlikely of places. He killed men, he killed women, he even...

In part two of our series on Samuel Little, the most prolific serial killer in American history, we detail how he was captured and brought to justice, then examine the wild story of his confessions, which includes a cast of larger-than-life characters like something out of a thriller novel.   First there’s LAPD detective Mitzy Roberts, a Southern California surfer girl turned crime fighter.   Then...

Today we are thrilled to have author, journalist and true crime legend Jillian Lauren with us.   For over two years Jillian Lauren interviewed murderer Samuel Little, developing a deep relationship with him, through which she was not only able to solve cold homicide cases, but also revealed Little to be the most prolific serial killer in American History, the FBI themselves now confirming over six...

Among all the notorious serial killers who dominated headlines in the 1970s and 1980s, none were as prolific and cunning as Samuel Little, infamously known as the "Choke and Stroke Killer.”   Similar to Joseph DeAngelo, the notorious Golden State Killer, Little continued his reign of terror well into old age, evading capture until the 2010s when advancements in DNA technology finally led to his ap...

Jason Moss was obsessed with serial killers as a teenager, and wrote letters to John Wayne Gacy, Richard Ramirez, Charlie Manson, Jeffrey Dahmer and Henry Lee Lucas, trying to deceive them into telling him their darkest secrets.   These interactions led him to incredibly dark places, both physically and mentally.   Physically, he found himself in the visiting room of death row with John Wayne Gacy...

Today we unravel the harrowing tale of Antares de la Luz and his twisted cult of sex, death and drugs.   The fervent, hippie disciples of Antares de la Luz believed him to be a divine amalgamation of Buddha, Jesus, and Krishna, heralding the impending apocalypse, and when Antares decreed a human sacrifice to thwart evil's advance, his followers willingly offered up an innocent newborn child to be...

A discussion on the intersection of crime and horror with the editor and authors of the book HOWLS FROM THE SCENE OF THE CRIME A Crime Horror Anthology.   Christa and Matthew are joined by editor Jessica Peter, as well as authors Joseph Andre Thomas and Gwendlyn Kiste for a lively take on the nuances, similarities and differences of the horror and crime genres and the many ways the converge in thi...

Welcome back to Part 2 of our deep dive into the life and crimes of the infamous Leonard Lake and Charles Ng, two of the most terrifying serial killers in the history of true crime. Listener discretion is advised.   MURDER COASTER PODCAST Hosted by Christa Carmen and Matthew Brockmeyer Website:  www.murdercoasterpodcast.com Facebook:  Murder Coaster Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/murdercoas...

Leonard Lake and Charles Ng are two of the most infamous and horrible names in all of true crime, the first to document their horrific deeds on video tape. The savagery and inhumanity of these two ex-Marines is soul shattering and evil beyond belief.   Today we document the life of Leonard Lake: his childhood in San Francisco, his time in Vietnam, his exploits as a hippie and pot grower on a commu...

Step right up, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to our three-act sideshow tent! Come and hear three acts of true-crime carnage and terror, yes, three tales of murder and mayhem!   Hear the story that shocked France: the Papin Sisters, servant girls who brutally murdered and sexually mutilated their mistresses. Was it psychosis or class struggle? You be the judge!   Hear the tale of an evil clown, and...

A KILLER IN THE REDWOODS.   On Monday, November 2, 1998 Wayne Adam Ford walked into the Eureka Sherriff’s Department in Humboldt County, California saying he didn’t want to hurt people anymore. In his pocket was a woman’s severed breast.   For years the community had lived in terror as body parts were found in waterways and beaches, and, working as a long haul truck driver, Wayne had left a string...

GHOSTS! DEMONS! MURDER!!   It's a fight to the end with the devil himself with our old friends Ed and Lorraine Warren as we bring you the real story behind THE CONJURING 3: The Devil Made Me Do It!   We uncover the truth, the lies, the scams and hustles, and what really brought on the tragic death of Allan Bono.   Buckle up, for today we are going to shout, shout, shout at the devil!!   MURDER COA...

THE CRAZIEST STORY YOU HAVE EVER HEARD!!   The tale of a serial killer and con artist like no other, a monster whose narcissism and arrogance led him on a twenty-five-year crime spree of deception and brutal inhumanity beyond your wildest dreams. A story too insane to be true, yet too unbelievable to be fiction!   To his wife and loving children and grandchildren he was a loyal family man, hardwor...

Step right up, step right up, ladies and gentlemen, oh, but you must be this tall to ride the Murder Coaster, and we mean that most sincerely, as today we will take you on a journey of torture and sexual depravity that will savage your soul. Buckle up, as we enter the dark mind of David Parker Ray and his Toy Box of depravity and pain. This monster of a man was aided and abetted by not only his fi...

Fifty episodes!!! Whoa hoo! And to celebrate we bring you 50 Tales of True Crime and Suspense! Yes, fifty stories in a single podcast, a feat unheard of before!! Tales of blood-thirsty pirates, the youngest known serial killer, Russian cannibals, mafia drug deals gone bad, medical mysteries, ghosts, demons, haunted houses, and much, much more!!! And we've asked our favorite podcasts to join the pa...

What is evil? Some folks see it as a supernatural force from the devil, whose demonic army rises from the pits of hell to influence and possess, and that only religion and church can stop this demonic force. But in reality, sometimes it’s the ones that profess to love God who are the evil ones, and those that hail Satan who are the innocent and good. Today we bring you a story of a professor and s...

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to Part Two of the Many Tentacled Enigma of Karla Homolka! Like last week, today Matthew is joined by the lovely Cassandra, aka Malformed Malcontent, Christa will be back with us next week. As we examine the complicity of Karla Homolka in the notorious Ken and Barbie abductions, murders and rapes, we’ve studied her ancestry and childhood, catching glimpses of the...

It’s a doozy today as we cover Ken and Barbie killer Karla Homolka! Cohost Christa is on vacation, so the lovely Cassandra, aka Malformed Malcontent, stepped in to join Matthew in this truly gruesome and disturbing episode. Karla Homolka has been described as a diagnostic mystery and to this day we still have no definitive answers on how complicit she was in the horrible and sadistic crimes in whi...

Welcome back to part two of our portrait of literary outlaw William Burroughs. Last week we saw Burroughs go from a shy, introverted child, to a Harvard educated aspiring writer with a wife and child, who was also a petty criminal, drug fiend, heroin addict and proud homosexual with a long arrest record, who, with his friends Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg was forming a new bohemian culture and l...

Today we bring you a tale rife with murder and mayhem, but also something more. We present to you a portrait of an artist and writer, a literary provocateur and countercultural icon whose life and work defied all conventional boundaries: William S. Burroughs. The writing of this elder statesman of the beat generation would challenge societal conventions and shatter censorship laws with its vivid p...

Murderous scumbag Lyndon McLeod found poetic justice on a Denver cross-roads when he came face to face with what he hated most in the world: a powerful and courageous woman. Lyndon McLeod was a product of Generation X culture in the late nineties and early 2000s, moving from a post-modern hippie commune to the medical-marijuana world to tattoos and the back-to-the-land and off-grid community, deve...